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And then came his voice again, colder than ice, “If you don’t, don’t expect another cent of your allowance.”
Yvonne’s tears fell harder, fat and fast, burning with shame.
She hated bowing her head to someone she saw as beneath her. But she was used to blowing through money like water, she couldn’t handle going broke.
Gritting her teeth, she finally muttered, “Lily, I’m sorry.”
“Sorry for what? I can’t hear you.”
Lily knew that even if she said nothing, Yvonne, the parasite she was, would never stop coming after her. So why let this slide like it was nothing?
Hearing that, Yvonne trembled with rage and cried harder.
But for the sake of her allowance, she still shouted through sobs, “I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have framed you! I was wrong!”
“Yvonne, don’t cry.”
Elsa knew how to play the part of the gentle, kind soul. After softly comforting Yvonne, she turned to John. “John, don’t be too hard on Yvonne,. She’s just immature-not malicious.”
Ivan hadn’t planned on coming to Elsa.
But hearing that sickly sweet act, he couldn’t help but turn to her. “Elsa, Yvonne pulled a stunt that low, and you still want to claim she doesn’t have a bad heart? And you-what’s your deal? Is it your eyes or your mouth that’s broken? You were right there. You saw everything. So when Yvonne dragged Lily through the mud, you just stood there looking all sad and helpless, playing the victim while egging her on? Come on. Let’s be real. You and Yvonne were in it together. Don’t you think you owe Lily an apology too? For always pretending you’re some innocent saint while throwing her under the bus? Elsa. Apologize.”
The blood drained from Elsa’s face.
Five years ago, she had accidentally learned that Simon had been searching for a girl named Lizzy.
He had given that girl a finely crafted marble pendant, with the initial of his name engraved on the inside.
Back in college, she and Lily had both been part of the drama club.
During one performance, they’d been changing clothes together, and she’d noticed Lily wearing that exact pendant.
Because no accessories were allowed onstage, Lily had left it in the dressing room. Elsa had snuck over to check it and confirmed the initial was Simon’s.
That day, only she and Lily had changed in that room. She hadn’t been stupid enough to steal it right then.
But later, when the time was right, she’d quietly taken the pendant-and used it to reconnect with Simon.
Simon’s ties to the Luke family were incredibly close.
He had taken her to dinner with them several times. The powerful couple who led the family treated her warmly, and Ivan had always shown her respect and gratitude.
She never imagined he’d turn on her for Lily-accuse her of being a manipulative wench and demand she apologize.
The pride in her bones couldn’t take Ivan’s accusations. And there was no way she’d lower her head to someone as low-born as Lily.
She lifted her chin, eyes cool and laced with pain, as if she refused to be tainted by the filth of the world.
Seeing her like that, both John and Simon’s expressions darkened.
“Ivan, are you insane? How could you say that to Lizzy?
“Ivan, apologize to her!”
But Ivan wasn’t fazed at all by their pressure. He still wore that lazy, mocking grin.
“She has the guts to pull this kind of filth, but no one’s allowed to call her on it? You’ve done plenty for Elsa all these years. Whatever you owed her, you’ve paid it back. I suggest you start showing some restraint. Or when my brother wakes up, he might just break your legs.”
After scoffing at Simon, he turned to John with a cold smirk. “No wonder Lily insisted on breaking up with you.”
“You treat the other woman like a treasure but make your own girlfriend suffer-of course you don’t deserve Lily!”
Elsa absolutely hated being called the other woman.
In her eyes, it was Lily who had no shame; she was the real intruder.
But the Luke family held immense power, and she couldn’t afford to offend Ivan. Even though she was seething inside, she couldn’t afford to lose composure in front of him.
She simply let a tear fall, her expression proud and aloof. “I didn’t collude with Yvonne to frame Lily.”
“I didn’t expect Yvonne to suddenly yank off my bracelet.”
“I kept quiet earlier only because I didn’t want you all to blame Yvonne.”
“That bracelet was a gift from Simon when we first met, it’s incredibly important to me. Why would I destroy something so precious just to frame someone?”
With that, she turned her face away, cold and distant; her shoulders trembled slightly, as though she’d just endured some grave injustice.
“Yeah, I didn’t want Lily to have it easy-but what does that have to do with Lizzy?”
“Lizzy’s elegant, kind, and amazing. She’d never stoop to framing someone like Lily-some worn-out castoff!”
“You’re the castoff!”
Lily didn’t hold back-she slapped Yvonne hard across the face. The sting made Yvonne cry out in pain.
She wanted nothing more than to claw Lily’s face to pieces, but when John glanced at her with icy indifference, she didn’t dare move.
Lily knew-so long as John and Simon kept coddling and shielding Elsa, there was no way Elsa would ever apologize to her.
She wasn’t going to waste another second on them. Calling Ivan, she turned and headed back to the studio to continue working.
Ivan’s open support made John uneasy.
But then again, Ivan was always fiercely protective of his people. Back when one of his employees was treated unfairly, he personally stepped in to defend them and made sure justice was served. Thinking of that, John let it go.
He glanced over at Elsa, who was standing off to the side, icy and aloof, her eyes rimmed red, the tip of her nose flushed,
He didn’t want Elsa to be unhappy in what little time she had left; he turned his gaze away from Lily and began gently coaxing her again.
Lily wanted nothing more to do with John or the others.
They were a complete waste of time-and honestly, just bad luck. Still, from a distance, she could hear John and Simon’s voices.
“Lizzy, don’t overthink it. I believe you had nothing to do with Yvonne framing Lily. There are a few beautiful bracelets up for auction tonight. I’ll take you-pick whichever one you like.”
“Lizzy, I believe you too. I’m going tonight as well. Whatever you want, I’ll bid on it for you!”
Hearing John say he believed Elsa chilled Lily to the bone.
The video she’d taken was crystal clear.
In it, you could see that when Yvonne took off Elsa’s bracelet, Elsa had allowed it-encouraged it, even.
John was an incredibly smart man. After taking over Jones Corp during its decline, he brought it roaring back to life.
With that kind of intellect, it wouldn’t take much for him to figure out that Elsa wasn’t innocent.
Men didn’t fail to see through manipulative women like her.
When they didn’t see it, it was only because they didn’t want to-they cared too much; they chose not to see.
He loved Elsa too deeply. So deeply, he would rather shut his eyes to the truth and call black white.
All of Lily’s past devotion was laughable, really.
Before Jones Corp’s official statement declared that Elsa wasn’t the other woman, Elsa never dared flaunt her relationship with John in public. She’d only post cryptic little things on social media that only Lily could see.
Now that nearly the entire internet supported her and John being together, Elsa began flaunting their love openly, staking her claim over John.
Lily hadn’t gone out of her way to keep tabs on Elsa.
But lately, she’d blown up online; every time Lily opened Douyin, she’d end up stumbling across some update about her.
That night, after her shower, she once again saw a video of Elsa showing off her relationship.
In the video, Elsa wore a red bracelet on her left wrist and a green one on her right. She smiled into the camera-vivid, confident, and glowing.
“Left hand for the one I love, right hand for family. I’m so lucky to have you both.”
Big data really was terrifying. One second, Lily saw Elsa’s bracelet video; the next, she got served a media pundit’s commentary on those exact same bracelets.
Apparently, the red bracelet on Elsa’s left wrist was made from an extremely rare red marbleite.
The piece was called “Nirvana Fire Rebirth”, had a starting bid of 10 million dollars.
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