Chapter 9
“What do you want?” I asked, my voice flat and emotionless.
He reached out, his cold fingers lightly brushing mine, his voice pleading.
“I don’t want a divorce. Come home with me, please?”
“Let’s go back to how we were before. I promise…”
“Like before?” I found it laughable and interrupted him. “Like before, when I had no freedom, was humiliated by you and your women, and served as your beloved’s servant?”
“Am I such a worthless person that you think I’d come back?!”
I would never forget how Ethan had mocked my ignorance and ridiculed my limited
worldview.
But I didn’t blame him.
After all, everything was my choice. Those five years without freedom–I received the
agreed payment.
But just as I made my own choice five year
“It won’t happen again, I promise it wo
ago, I would follow my heart now.
Ethan moved closer, red–eyed, “I thought I always loved Faye, but only when you left me,
when I realized you’d complete.
disappeared from my life, did I understand…”
“I’ve been searching for you everywhere, but couldn’t find you anywhere. I finally experienced the pain of losing everything.”
“I don’t know if this counts as love, but I know I don’t want to lose you. I want to be with you, forever.”
“Come back to me, please? I’ll truly love you.”
I furrowed my brows tightly, yet not a single ripple of emotion stirred within me.
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I told him, “You know what? Before Faye appeared, you were like light to me. To me, you were the deity who rescued me from hell. I even thought about spending my life with you.”
“But Ethan, it took me five years to truly see who you are.”
“When I look at you now, I only feel disgust and hatred, just like how you once looked at
me.”
“Stop sickening me. Without you, I’ll only live better.”
I walked past him toward the building.
Ethan kept calling my name from behind, his voice eventually breaking with emotion.
But my steps never faltered.
By the time I finished work and came out, he was still waiting at the door.
Snow had accumulated thickly on his shoulders, and his face was bloodless from the cold.
The security guard said he’d been waiting a full day without any move.
“Liv…”
“I won’t give up. I’m absolutely certain now that I love you, and I’ll wait until the day you change your mind.”
This time, I didn’t even respond to him.
Ethan truly did as he said, following me to and from work almost every day, like a puppy
trailing behind me.
Some colleagues were moved by his behavior and urged me to reconsider, saying perhaps I could find new happiness if I gave him another chance.
To this, I just smiled.
“If
you a witnessed t probably would
man you liked bringing 199 women home over five years, you
think that way.”
Chapter 9
My colleague fell silent. The next day, her eyes held contempt when she looked at Ethan.
About two weeks later, Ethan disappeared.
Alex told me that Ethan had been imprisoned.
Faye had reported his involvement in certain gray–area businesses, which were all shut down, leaving him with massive debt.
In a rage, Ethan had beaten Faye half to death.
Faye’s face was disfigured, her legs broken. She sobbed in court, and ultimately, Ethan was sentenced to five years.
Another five years.
We seemed to always be caught in this number.
But it didn’t matter. I had moved on, and a colorful future awaited me.
Isaw Ethan again five years later.
I had just held my first personal design exhibition and was walking out of the venue
surrounded by admirers.
In the bustling crowd, I spotted a familiar figure almost immediately.
He hid at the back of the crowd, those once–steady, calm eyes now filled with uncertainty.
When our gazes met, he hurriedly looked away.
Five years.
He was like me from before–rejected by society, left with nothing.
I walked past him wh
a
glance.”
“Liv!”
His urgent call came from behind,
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1 stopped, turned, and looked at him.
“Give me one chance. Can we talk properly, please?”
After a moment, I’smiled mockingly.
“Who’s this beggar? Security? Throw him out. Don’t let just anyone in–he’s soiling my eyes.”
Some wounds never heal.
Some hurts, I could never reconcile with, no matter what price Ethan had paid.
Looking at the giant screen displaying my designs on a nearby skyscraper, I smiled.
Whatever happened to him now was none of my concern.
As for me, I had already begun my new life.
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