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Shaking with cold, Lily didn’t hesitate. She seized the bucket in front of her with all her strength and slammed it down onto Yulia’s head.
-B*tch!”
Yulia flew into a rage.
Her crew of friends were just as furious.
Lily wanted nothing more than to grab every one of those buckets and dump them right over their heads.
But she knew full well-two fists couldn’t win against a whole crowd. If she picked a fight now, she’d only off end up worse
While the others were busy helping Yulia get the bucket off her head, Lily took her chance. She broke into a full sprint, bolting toward her car like she was in a hundred-meter dash.
Simon had seen the news too.
Someone online had even posted Lily’s current location.
Almost like he was under a spell, he found himself driving to the recording studio after work.
And just as he turned his head, he saw it through the car window-several girls were dumping ice water over Lily.
Chunks of ice mixed with freezing water poured over her head. Her long hair and coat were instantly soaked through,
The wind was biting. Her lips were pale, and her body shook uncontrollably like a leaf in a storm.
His chest tightened painfully
He instinctively reached for the door, ready to get out and pull her into his car.
But then he remembered Elsa had just called him. She’d said Lily had bullied her too.
He couldn’t protect someone who’d hurt Elsa.
Forcing himself to look away, he turned the car around and left her behind, refusing to care whether she lived or died.
Lily had barely started driving away when her phone rang again, sharp and shrill.
The number on the screen was unfamiliar. She guessed it was probably a director calling to terminate her contract.
One way or another, this was something she had to face. She answered the call.
“Lily.”
It wasn’t a director.
It was John.
His voice held that same calm authority and cold detachment. “I saw the news online. You really shouldn’t have bullied Mathilda. I’ll take care of the media for you. Also, you shouldn’t have hit Elsa yesterday. Come to the hospital and apologize to her. Then come back to our place with me tonight. I’ll make sure all the negative press gets taken down.”
“Ha!”
Lily actually laughed.
It was just too absurd. She laughed so hard that tears came to her eyes.
She’d once fallen for him-thrown herself at him like a moth to a flame-because he was the one who had pulled her out of the darkness when she was being bullied.
Even after they got together, she had told him clearly the ones who led the bullying were Bodger and the others, and it had all been orchestrated by Mathilda.
But clearly, he had never believed her.
He actually thought she had been the one bullying Mathilda all along.
And now he wanted her to apologize to Elsa?
Keep dreaming.
“Lily, what’s so funny?”
John had seen with his own eyes how Bodger and the others used to target her. But after seeing the news today, it all suddenly made sense to him.
He figured she must’ve done something terrible to Mathilda first, and that’s why they’d treated her that way.
He truly believed she had been in the wrong. That she needed to change.
But something about the way she laughed-so bitter, so hollow-it made him uneasy in a way he couldn’t explain.
“I’m laughing at how blind I was. Laughing at how four years of real love got flushed down the drain.”
Lily thought John was really something.
He had this talent for kicking her when she was already bleeding out.
Luckily, after being burned so many times by him, her heart had become bulletproof.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, and I will never apologize to Elsa. I’m married, I’m never going back to you. John, go live your toxic little love story with Elsa. Just stay the hell away from me.”
With that, Lily hung up-and without missing a beat, blocked his number.
She still refused to admit her mistakes…
Even had the nerve to say he was being pathetic..
John’s face darkened. He was about to call her back and tell her to stop making trouble-but saw she’d already hung up.
He instinctively wanted to call her back.
But the moment he dialed her number, he hung up again.
She was getting more and more out of control lately.
Not only was she refusing to admit any wrongdoing, she kept using that fake marriage of hers as leverage. He couldn’t keep letting her off the hook.
She’d gone so far as to fake a marriage certificate just to make him jealous. Did she really have it in her to completely cut ties with him?
This whole bullying scandal had gotten too big for her to handle alone.
She had no family, no friends, no connections…
Once she hit rock bottom, where else could she go but back to him for help?
She would come back to their little home and find him again.
And when that happened-if she sincerely apologized to Elsa and promised never to bring up breaking up again-he’d have all the negative press wiped from the internet and even go register their marriage.
At some point, rain had started pouring outside. Thunder rumbled and lightning lit up the sky.
Being soaked to the bone was miserable. Lily was freezing.
Even with the heat on in the car, she still felt like she was trapped in an ice cave.
She didn’t go back to the Luke family. Instead, she drove to her parents’ grave.
She truly adored Grace, Nancy, and the others. Even though they’d only lived together for a short while, it felt like they were family who had stood by her side for years.
And the more she cared, the more afraid she became of losing them.
She was terrified of seeing disappointment-or even hatred-in their eyes.
“Mom, Dad… I miss you so much…”
As night fell, Lily clung to their tombstone, tears streaming silently down her face, blending into the falling rain.
Many years ago, on a stormy night like this, she’d been locked in a box by the illegitimate son of the Pei family and left in a strange cemetery. Surrounded by darkness and deafening thunder, she had felt helpless and terrified.
But now, with her parents’ gravestone right in front of her, she didn’t feel afraid at all.
All she felt was deep, aching longing and attachment.
Most people feared ghosts.
But Lily wished they were real.
If they were, she could see her parents again.
She could throw herself into their arms and whine and cry, pour out all her hurt without holding anything back.
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