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He begged pitifully, his previous arrogance and domineering attitude completely disappeared.
“Make up? All you’ve ever wanted is to shatter my pride and reshape me as you please. If I fall for your tricks again this time, how long do you plan to pretend?”
Two years? Five years? Or ten years?
Kathy had long seen through his disguise.
How can one expect someone who doesn’t understand love to truly repent and make amends.
She has made a mistake once, there won’t be a second time.
“No, Kathy, believe me, this time it really won’t happen again.”
Justin explained in vain.
His heart grew more and more anxious, even more panicked than when he heard the news of her death.
Irreversible loss and ongoing loss, which one is more heartbreaking? He only understands now.
I didn’t know what to do to slightly ease Kathy’s hatred towards him.
Justin’s knees went weak and he knelt in front of her, knocking his head against the ground with a “thud” sound.
“I’m sorry, I was confused, but I really love you. Everything I did to you
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was because I didn’t want to lose you.”
Kathy, don’t be so cruel, don’t even give a chance for repentance.”
“Justin, do you know what this is?”
Kathy suddenly pointed to the glass bottle pendant and asked him.
The sound of knocking abruptly stopped.
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Justin rested his forehead against the cold ground, not lifting it for a long time.
The answer was on the tip of his tongue, but suddenly he lost the courage to say it.
Watching him avoid the question, Kathy helped him reveal the answer.
“This is our son, Mike!”
My darling, it was kidnapped and killed by you to blackmail me.
My darling, you kicked the ashes apart with your feet, treating them like garbage to be cleaned up.
This is all he had left, and you still expect me to let go and forgive?
Yes, give me back my baby and I will let it go. Give him back to me!
Kathy’s tearful accusations made Justin unable to stand any longer, and he fell to his knees in front of her.
Can’t get through.
There is a chasm of life that can never be crossed.
His Kathy would never look back again, would never forgive.
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Kathy didn’t even look at him, she walked straight past him.
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“The sound of knocking and incessant apologies echoed in the bathroom for a long time.”
Just like the words Justin once said to Luciana, Kathy also left him with the final sentence.
“Live well, our business is not finished. Every day that remains, I will do my best to retaliate, and repay you for the evil you have done to me and Mike, a hundred fold.”
You try and see if I can do it.
After the party ended, Justin returned to New York in a daze.
He tried again to find a breakthrough that would allow him to bring Kathy
back.
But what he got was Kathy’s revenge as promised.
She reopened her social media account and uploaded a photo of hands interlocked.
No need for explanation, Justin knew exactly what that meant.
The pain of gaining and losing, and the jealousy of not getting what he wanted, gnawed at him every moment.
He stayed awake all night, drinking heavily non–stop.
Despite being warned by doctors of the life–threatening risks, I continued to drink to the point of causing stomach bleeding several times.
Half a year after faking his death and leaving, Kathy and Jovan got engaged.
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The grand engagement ceremony was live–streamed across the internet, and within a day, it almost dominated all the trending topics.
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Before the ceremony, there were reports of someone attempting to break into the venue and take away the bride–to–be, which even made headlines on social media, staying in the top ten for a whole week.
Someone dug up the troublemaker at the Garrett Group in New York, Justin, the head of the group. Subsequently, the groom–to–be, Jovan, released a statement, stating that he would investigate the matter thoroughly and would no longer be working with the Garrett Group or any related businesses in the future.
The bride–to–be, in her capacity as the latest AI intelligence patent holder, announced that all related technology patents would not be open for licensing to the Garrett Group in the future.
A series of heavy news directly caused the stock of the Garrett Group to plummet.
By the time the stock market closed that day, nearly billions of market value had evaporated directly due to the limit–down.
Faced with various unfavorable situations, the Garrett Group did not make any response.
Like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, allowing the other party to slowly torture and kill oneself.
Justin has not appeared in public again, and all affairs are now fully handled by his assistant.
He was like a wandering soul, enclosing himself in darkness.
The only thing that made him slightly angry was seeing Luciana kneeling at the stairway, being forced to kowtow repeatedly.
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And every month, Luciana would have 400CC of blood drawn, all stored in a special freezer.
She was emaciated, standing there like a human skeleton.
In her eyes was a vast and dead silence, not even the pain could elicit any response from her.
In the long and desperate torment, she had become so numb that only this walking corpse–like body was left.
The Spring Festival had not arrived yet when another piece of news shocked the entire internet.
The Garrett Group filed for bankruptcy, and the CEO Justin disappeared without a trace.
At the same time, Kathy, who was in Los Angeles, received a property transfer document from a top law firm.
Justin transferred all his wealth to her, along with a small note.
The only unfinished sentence above was: If everything could start over…
Time is irreversible, the past cannot be chased.
Even if given another chance, Justin would still be the monster who doesn’t understand love and can’t love.
But this time, there would never be a second Kathy to lead him out of the nightmare, willing to teach him how to love.
Kathy scoffed at the astronomical wealth and immediately donated it all to a charity fund.
Two years later, a rumor spread in a mountainous area of West Virginia.
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There was a man who lived like a wild man, hidden away in the vast
mountains.
He chopped wood non–stop. Built one forest cabin after another.
No matter how simple the appearance was, the wooden door of the cottage was exceptionally sturdy.
Someone once encountered him in the deep mountains, and when they got closer, they could hear him muttering to himself constantly.
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“Kathy, look, I fixed the door of the cabin, Mike is safe. Forgive me, come back to me, and let’s start over, okay?”
Time flies, no one ever encountered that wild man again.
All the rumors about him have also been lost in the river of time, never to be mentioned again.
