Chapter 7
“Rozella. I know I was wrong, but I love you.”
“It’s just that you used to be so quiet. I was momentarily blinded. When I talked about running away from the wedding. I was just humoring her–I never actually planned to abandon you. Really.
“I truly regret it. You used to smile at me all the time. You would always wait for me at home.”
Rozella, you can hit me, scold me–just don’t be so cold to me, okay?”
This was a man whose slightest frown used to make my heart ache.
Now, even his tears disgusted me.
His repulsiveness made me lose even the desire to talk things through properly.
Catherine was despicable, but in my heart, I felt that Adam deserved hell even more.
I let out a cruel laugh. “Do you know what my biggest regret is?”
Seeing my gaze, he realized I was about to say something ruthless.
Panic–stricken, he covered his ears. “Please Rozella, don’t do this to me. I’m begging you.”
The thing I regret most in my life is that, on the day my parents saved you, I didn’t stop them in time.”
“Saying you love me while sleeping with Catherine–was it fun? Tattooing her name on your body and telling me it res a symbol of your love for me–was that fun? Or was it fun to engrave matching wedding ring tattoos with her junder the rings we were supposed to wear?”
“How confident must you be to still expect me to smile at you now?”
“Adam, why wasn’t it you who died back then?”
After speaking. I picked up my phone, and one recording after another poured out like a tide, drowning him completely
His last trace of hope was crushed.
As he wished. I similed at him.
His back besit lower and lower.
Then, almost as if escaping he ran out of the villa
My adoptive father patted my shoulder approvingly
My grandmother pulled me to the kitchen to eat fried chicken wings.
Chapter 7
I thought I had made myself clear enough,
But the next morning. Adam appeared at the villa’s entrance, covered in blood.
In his eyes. I saw the same obsessive determination as when he first made promises to me.
Pale–faced, he lifted his shirt.
The area where Catherine’s name had been tattooed had been gouged out, leaving a raw, bloody wound.
His right ring finger was empty.
His entire body was bruised red from scrubbing.
“Rozella. I’m sorry. I was wrong. I was really wrong. I promised to protect you for a lifetime–not a day less. I’ll repay you a thousand times over for all the pain I caused you. Can you forgive me?”
As he spoke, he gripped two steel needles and stabbed them into his ears.
His screams echoed throughout the entire villa district.
Blood dripped endlessly from his ears.
A crowd began to gather.
This was my private matter, and I didn’t want to disturb others.
Inside the ambulance, he looked at me with hopeful eyes, continuously signing words in sign language.
I didn’t look at him.
I accompanied him to the hospital.
After settling him in, I called his parents.
Adam’s mother cried and apologized to me, yet still begged me to give him another chance.
1 handed them the files 1 had copied from the phone he had hidden.
Over the past ten years, it wasn’t just Catherine.
He had been with at least dozens of women, keeping photos of them all.
Adam’s parents fell silent
After apologizing on lus behalf, they transferred nearly ninety percent of their assets to me as compensation. I gladly accepted.
Then I watched they forcibly took Adam back home.
Adain became deaf, and his mind wasn’t quite right anymore.
Chapter 7
In the end, he married Catherine.
They became a resentful couple–until he discovered that the child wasn’t even his.
Turns out, while he was playing around, so was she. A perfect balance of mutual betrayal.
A video of them screaming at each other outside Watson Corporation’s office went viral online.
In the end, a deranged Adam stabbed Catherine to death while she kept cursing at him.
Since he was mentally unstable and there were extenuating circumstances,
He was committed to a psychiatric hospital.
I didn’t care about any of it
But my adoptive parents and grandmother took pleasure in watching his downfall,
Repeating. “What goes around comes around.”
During the years I was deaf, I had missed so much.
Now, like a dried–up sponge. I greedily soaked up the world again with my restored hearing.
On my birthday. I received an overseas call.
The first thing I heard was the sound of wind.
Adam spoke to himself,
Saying he regretted everything.
Saying he had only strayed a little and had planned to settle down after marriage–he didn’t know how it all turned out like this.
Saying he missed me.
Saying he couldn’t live without me.
I snapped a photo of my candlelit dinner and sent it to him, then set my phone aside to continue chatting with my foreign boyfriend.
On the other end. Adain wailed my name in despair.
Then came a loud splash-
followed by
the panicked cries of a crowd.
I knew what had happened.
Yet I felt nothing
Chapter 7
After all, he had brought this upon himself.
And my new life had only just begun.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
