Chapter 39 Try That Slap Again I Dare You
Lily yanked her hand out of his grasp, cold and firm. “I don’t want my boyfriend to be someone arrogant and blind to right and wrong either.”
“So John, you don’t deserve to be my boyfriend–let alone deserve my love.”
“Lily!”
Frustration clouded John’s face.
Clearly, he preferred the obedient side of Lily, not this fierce, defiant version that always challenged him and pushed his buttons.
But Lily ignored the disapproval and warning in his eyes. Unhurried, she unlocked her phone and pulled up the video she had secretly recorded earlier.
She hadn’t been holding a phone when everything happened today.
But the girl who had gotten into Chrivaria University of Media at fifteen–ranking first in both academics and her major- was no fool.
Elsa and the others clearly harbored malicious intentions toward her, of course she had come prepared.
She had worn a mini spy cam, linked to her phone.
Every second of Yvonne framing her–grabbing the bracelet and smashing it–had been captured without a hitch.
She tapped the video and held the screen up in front of John and Simon. “If you’ve got eyes, then use them. Look closely. who really smashed Elsa’s bracelet?”
As Lily finished speaking, John and Simon saw it clearly on the screen–Yvonne suddenly yanking the bracelet off Elsa’s wrist and hurling it to the ground.
It was obvious–they had wronged Lily again.
John’s eyes snapped upward.
Meeting Lily’s gaze, full of cold sarcasm, he felt once more that she was slipping further and further away from him.
He hated that feeling; he couldn’t stand it.
He stepped forward and grabbed her hand tightly. “Lily, I shouldn’t have-
“Let go.”
Lily pried each of his fingers off hers with force, putting distance between them.
“What you should or shouldn’t do has nothing to do with me anymore. I just hope that after watching this video, the rest of you stop bothering me.”
She was still drawing a line between them….
John didn’t appreciate her still being stubborn after he’d given her a way out. He didn’t coax her anymore; his face went cold. “Move back in tonight.”
Lily couldn’t even be bothered to respond to that.
She lifted her eyes and shot Simon a cool, mocking glare. “Did your eyes see clearly now? Still want to say I smashed Lizzy’s bracelet? Still want to drag me to the police station?”
Simon had always favored and cherished Elsa because of their life–and–death bond as children, but he wasn’t someone completely blind to truth and reason.
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Chapter 39 Try That Slap Again I Dare You
Now that he’d seen the truth, a rare flicker of guilt rose in his chest.
Finished
But the moment Lily had the audacity to call like that, those sharp eyes of his filled with frost once again.
“Lily, what the heck are you talking about? Don’t push your luck!”
Cold air radiated off him, his voice laced with threat.
But Lily’s conscience was clear; she wasn’t afraid of him.
She stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar.
Simon hadn’t expected her to make a move like that, especially in public.
She was way too close.
With her chin tilted up like that, it looked like she was about to rise on tiptoe and–shamelessly–kiss him.
His whole body tensed. His ears felt like they were burning, turning beet red.
Even his voice came out lower and raspier, tinged with a strange tension. “You crazy woman—what are you trying to do?”
Back off! Before he could get the words out, Lily tightened her grip on his collar and shoved him hard.
“You can’t tell right from wrong, can’t see black from white; your brain’s useless, your eyes are beyond saving. You don’t just need a new brain, Simon–you need a new pair of eyes!”
Simon’s handsome face darkened instantly, like the bottom of a scorched pan.
So that’s why she’d grabbed his collar–not to do something bold or provocative–but to tell him to go to the hospital and get his brain and eyes replaced! Was she tired of living?
And yet… the way her red lips parted, the way she glared at him with that fire–it was kind of attractive.
For a moment, he was so thrown off he forgot to lash back.
Watching the whole thing unfold, Ivan couldn’t stop grinning.
He’d originally thought Lily was just gifted at voice acting–but now he realized she was also sharp, clever, and fierce.
She and his brother were meant for each other.
He was sure that once his brother woke up, he’d fall for Lily completely.
And Simon—he had to call his brother “cousin.”
Back when they were kids, his big brother used to discipline Simon all the time.
Lily and his brother were a team–if she wanted to put Simon in his place, she had every right to.
“You wench! You actually recorded me? When did you do it?”
Yvonne had thought she had it all under control, but now that Lily had exposed everything, she was fuming.
She glared at Lily with venom, like she wanted to tear her apart, “Answer me! How could you be so sneaky–so shameless?”
Of course, Lily wasn’t about to spill that she’d worn a micro camera and give away her secret.
She simply gave a cool laugh and met Yvonne’s glare, her voice sharp enough to kill. “See? That’s what happens when your skip your rabies shots–your rabies comes right back.”
