Chapter 19
Speak of the devil. After I finished my speech as an outstanding Ph.D. graduate, I saw James backstage.
He grabbed my wrist: “Emily.”
“I’m sorry, can you just hear me out?”
I pulled my hand away, looking at him with nothing but coldness in my eyes: “Does it matter?”
His face fell, his voice choked with emotion: “Emily, you can’t do this to me. Even criminals get a chance to testify. Your
can’t just sentence me to death like this
I calmly gazed at the face I once loved: “A predetermined ending won’t change just because you say sorry, nor will I forgive you just because you offer an explanation”
Ho still wouldn’t give up: “Do I really have no chance to make amends?”
“What’s the point? The moment you said that disgusting line about Kevin only pursuing me, we had no future.”
I thought for a moment and continued, “Maybe I initially played along with you out of a desire for revenge, helping create those happy memories you talked about. Maybe I hold out hope for you those few days. But you still weren’t satisfied, you just wanted to leave me at the altor to humiliate me. James, what else is there to say? I don’t owe you anything.”
Towe you,” James explained urgently, the red in his eyes more pronounced. “I’m the one who owes you, that’s why I came to find you. I wasn’t going to run away that day, I only ever sow you as my bride”
“The only bride for me, for life.”
Back when I used to read novels. I’d always look forward to the port where the female lead, having had enough disappointment, would leave, and the male lead would desparately try to win her back. I thought the male lead’s regret and guilt, his roolization of the female lead’s importance, was the greatest punishment.
But now that it’s happening to me, it doesn’t feel as vindicating as I imagined.
Perhaps it’s because their feelings of regret, compared to the genuine emotions I once invested, are truly insignificant. “Our relationship ended three years ago. You should go
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