hapter 102 Everything Comes Crashing Down
Chapter 102 Everything Comes Crashing Down
After being adopted by the wealthiest couple in the country, Lily wasn’t just a rich girl–she became part of high society with three insanely talented older brothers. Everyone assumed she must be living a dream life.
Luna only wanted to adopt Lily because she had lost her own daughter and was trying to fill that void.
Lily had brought healing to people like Luna. And yet after they found their biological daughter, they threw Lily out like she never mattered, trashing her name in the process….
It was the textbook definition of using someone and tossing them aside.
The Ginger family hadn’t just robbed Lily of a chance to be the real daughter of the country’s richest family–they let their biological daughter slander and hurt her. What had Lily ever done to deserve that?
Did she murder their whole family in a past life?
One by one, netizens began apologizing to Lily.
After apologizing, they turned around and demanded that Mathilda apologize too..
As more people called her fake, shameless, and cruel, Mathilda could barely hold it together.
I thought releasing the video of Lily slapping me would be enough to turn the tide. And the Luke family grows to despise Lily, pushing James to divorce her.
Then I can finally take Lily’s place and become Mrs. Luke.
Who could have guessed that someone would upload the full, unedited video online?
And Nancy–completely ignoring my past friendship with Luna–released footage from 16 years ago when she nearly adopted Lily, all to defend that bitch.
Why does Lily get to be so lucky?
“Mathilda, apologize!”
“Say you’re sorry!”
More and more people were flooding into Mathilda’s livestream.
They were furious. They wanted justice for Lily and were ready to tear the mask off Mathilda.
“I…”
Mathilda’s face turned ghostly pale.
There is no way I can bring myself to publicly apologize to Lily
If I did, it would be the same as admitting I had framed and smeared her. That would be total humiliation, and I just couldn’t accept that.
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“Mathilda, did you actually bully Lily?”
Still frozen in fear, Mathilda suddenly heard her bedroom door swing open.
It was her three brothers–Bodger, Taylor, and Mergan.
“The three sons of the Ginger family were fooled by Mathilda too?”
“She’s honestly more disgusting than a cockroach.”
“I need a ten–minute break just to stop gagging…”
Meeting the furious, disappointed stares in Bodger, Taylor, and Mergan’s eyes, Mathilda’s eyelids twitched hard.
Worried that things would spiral out of control and make her look even worse, she quickly ended the livestream.
“Bodger, Taylor, Mergan…”
She backed away with a pale face, just about to speak when Bodger snapped coldly, “You kept saying Lily bullied you…
Was it you who bullied Lily, or the other way around? Answer me!”
Taylor and Mergan looked just as grim.
After Lily joined our family, she brought us so much warmth.
She was like a little sun–her presence pulled us out of the storm that had consumed the family after losing Mathilda. She gave us hope. She made the house feel like home again.
She is our light. Our redemption.
But then… We kept hearing about how she was hurting Mathilda. We thought we owed Mathilda too much, and every time Lily denied the accusations, it only made us more disappointed in her.
So we stood by Mathilda and kept putting Lily down.
But now… what if everything Mathilda said had been a lie?
What did that make all those punishments and humiliations we had thrown at Lily?
As Mathilda stood there silently, tears rolling down her face, Taylor–usually the softest with her–finally let some frustration slip into his voice.
“Mathilda, I want the truth. Now.“/
As he said that, his fingers instinctively tightened around the rosary Lily had made for him.
When I was 16, I was in a devastating car crash.
Lily cried so hard her eyes were swollen.
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She heard rosaries could bring protection, so she went to an antique district, bought the materials herself, and carved one by hand just for me.
She wanted it to keep me safe, give me peace, and protect me from fear for the rest of my life.
I remember those cuts all over her hands from the carving knife… She bled for that gift.
His eyes reddened.
I had always cared about Lily.
But because Mathilda’s disappearance had involved all three brothers, we carried guilt. And because we believed Lily kept hurting Mathilda, we ended up turning on her.
Mathilda was still sobbing, almost choking on her own breath..
Mergan, usually the most reserved, finally showed a rare flash of impatience.
His aùra had always been a little dark, but now, with those cold, piercing eyes, he looked downright merciless.
“Mathilda, what’s the story behind that video? Speak.”
As he spoke, his fingers tightened around the Cross Necklace in his hand.
Eight years ago, I’d been deathly ill–so close to never waking up again.
Lily heard a monastery in a nearby city had a legendary Cross Necklace.
She rushed there alone, desperate to find it for him.
The legend said if you wanted it to work, you had to climb to the top of the mountain on your knees–one step, one kneel.
And she did it.
She climbed all the way to the top, kneeling the entire path, just to bring me that necklace.
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