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They had agreed not to contact each other again. He shouldn’t have messaged her.
His first instinct was to recall the message-but strangely, he also wanted a reply.
In the midst of that tug-of-war, the recall window passed.
He checked his phone every few seconds, desperate-pathetically so-to see more lines appear in the chat window.
But the whole night passed without a single word.
The message “Lille remained alone on the screen.
After such sweet dreams, Lily woke up the next morning feeling especially refreshed.
She instinctively reached for her phone on the nightstand, intending to scroll through some news. But to her surprise, she saw a message from James.
Just her
“Lillse”
Her heart skipped wildly.
She hadn’t expected him to reach out-not after they’d agreed to go their separate wa
Now that they had finally parted for good, she couldn’t give him even the slightest bit of hope.
After a brief moment of thought, she decided to hit him with the harshest blow-to make sure he’d let go- completely.
James, sorry, I was busy last night with my wedding and didn’t see your message until now, Was there something you needed?”
James hadn’t slept all night.
When the message alert finally sounded, the normally calm and composed man scrambled like an anxious techager to open their chat.
She had replied.
But when James saw the message she had sent, it felt like his heart was being torn apart. Yesterday had been her wedding. He said he’d been too busy that night, but on his wedding night, what else could he possibly have been busy with
In that instant, every word on the screen turned into a barbed arrow, stabbing straight through him. A thousand arrows pierced his heart, leaving him wishing he were dead. Lille… really didn’t want me anymore.
The study window was open, and the air flowed freely through the room, yet he still clutched his chest, gasping for air, a suffocating pressure weighing down on him.
The endless ache and sourness consumed his heart; for a moment, he didn’t even have the strength to hold the phone in his hand. He froze in pain for a long while before finally mustering enough energy to grip the phone again.
His fingers trembled so violently that it took several tries before he could even type.
He didn’t want Leila to get married.
He didn’t want her to take a wife or have children. But seeing her marry and settle down had been his grandfather’s last wish.
And now she had married. She had consummated the marriage. He couldn’t shamelessly interfere and tear them apart.
He couldn’t bear to put her in a difficult spot; he couldn’t bear to make her unhappy.
All he could do was let go and bless her.
Lillse, congratulations on your wedding.”
Normally, he typed quickly. But now, those few words felt like they had drained every last ounce of strength from his body.
Turning his face to the side, away from the searing pain of the message on his screen, he forced himself to continue typing after a long pause.
“Wishing you and your wife a lifetime of joy and a beautiful family.”
The moment he sent the message, it was like his soul had slipped away. He sat there in a daze, staring at the screen as it slowly dimined to black.
He desperately wanted her to reply-but at the same time, he was terrified she actually would.
A few seconds later, Lallse’s reply came,
Thanks
Just that one word was enough to stuff out every last trace of the tenderness and ambiguity that had once existed between them.
It was over, Completely.
He wanted to say one more thing. Lille, please be happy.
But he couldn’t type those words, because deep down, he wanted her happiness to come from him. He wanted to be the one to give it to her.
But now, all he could do was watch from a distance, like a pitiful outsider hiding in the dark, quietly stealing glances at her happiness.
James, from now on, whether in real life or online, let’s not contact each other anymore. Please delete me from your friends list
She wanted them to delete each other. James’ fingers trembled so badly he could barely hold his phone. Still, he forced himself to type: “Okay”
She must’ve already deleted him-she didn’t reply after that. He tapped on her profile picture.
He knew she had started a brand-new life. Deleting each other, never disturbing one another again-that was the right thing to do. The mature thing. But no matter how many times he went back and forth into her profile. he just couldn’t bring himself to press “Delete.”
Almost in despair, he thought. Fine. Let it be. Just delete me
As for him, he would keep her in his friends list forever. Occasionally, he’d glance at her cartoon avatar… sometimes, he’d let himself miss that ugly yet adorable face of hers. That would be enough.
Lillse. I’m sorry…
Thinking about how he couldn’t stop himself from remembering Lily too, James gripped his phone tight, eyes red, whispering through clenched teeth. “I’m sorry…”
He truly felt like there wasn’t a more disgusting man on Earth than him.
His parents had always taught him to be loyal-to love one person with all his heart. He had solemnly promised them that he, James, would never be fickle. Never break someone’s heart.
But in the end, he had failed them and betrayed his own heart.
He loved Leila, only Leila, yet he couldn’t stop the illicit feelings he had for Lily, and that made him feel vile, shameful, and unworthy of anyone’s love. No wonder Leila didn’t want him and his heart felt like it had been torn to pieces,
But James was wrong-Lily hadn’t deleted him from her contacts. She, too, kept going into his profile again and again, but no matter how many times she tried, she just couldn’t bring herself to hit “Delete” After struggling with it for a while, she finally tossed her phone aside and told herself, Fine. Let it be again
She had already lied and told him she was married. With his personality, he would never contact her
And she believed time would dull the pain. He would eventually meet someone he truly loved.
She would bless them…..
The performance was coming up soon, and rehearsals had grown more intense. They were practicing until late nearly every night.
After rehearsal ended that evening. Lily had just gotten into her newly bought car and was about to drive back to the Luke family estate when Ashton called
Ashton had always struck her as cultured, calm, and composed.
It was the first time she’d heard him speak in such a flustered, panicked tone. “Ms. Ginger, the boss is at his villa right now. I’ll send you the location. Can you come over? His condition is really bad, and I don’t know what else to do.”
Lily’s heart jumped into her throat. What happened to James? Is he hurt? Is it serious?”
“It’s not an injury…”
He had accompanied the boss to dinner with the head of a company that night. James had seen potential in that business. Even though he hadn’t given the green light, it was obvious he was willing to work with them.
But the guy didn’t just want to climb the ladder by hitching onto Luke Corp-he also wanted to marry his daughter off to James and tie the knot in every way possible.
That bastard even bribed the servers and tampered with James’s soup.
And he went all in. He spent over a million to get his hands on some vicious, insidious drug.
Ashton had just taken James to the hospital. The doctor said an IV wouldn’t help. The drug was too toxic- if he didn’t get help from a woman, James’s body would literally explode from within.
But even at the brink of death, James refused to lay a finger on that man’s daughter. He forced himself to stay clear-headed and called the police.
James told Ashton not to worry about him.
But if it weren’t for James pulling him out of a living hell back then, Ashton wouldn’t be where he was now.
James had practically given him a second life. There was no way Ashton could just stand by and watch him die
And Ashton knew that Henry and the others had more or less accepted that James and Ms. Ginger were divorcing.
Still, legally speaking, Ms. Ginger was James’s protected spouse. Whether it was finding a woman or a man to help James survive the drug, the decision had to go through her.
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