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Seeing the blood stains on the wall, and my pale face connected to a body in a bizarre posture rolled in the corner, Evelyn screamed and threw
herself into Alexander’s arms.
“Don’t be afraid, Evelyn!”
Alexander held her protectively in his arms, his tone softening.
“It’s just a dummy they’re using to put on a show. That bitch Lily! How dare she conspire with these people to try and swallow up our family
business!”
He then glared fiercely at the butler and Dr. James.
“Tomorrow I’ll dissolve my marriage with Lily! The child she gave birth to will never be the heir to the Frost family! As for you lot! If you still want to keep your jobs, persuade Lily to come back immediately and apologize to Evelyn!”
“The person is dead right in front of you! Where do you expect us to find her?!” Dr. James shouted angrily, his neck bulging.
“James, our families have been friends for generations. I don’t want things to get too ugly between us! If you like that bitch Lily, you can have her, but on the condition that she comes back to divorce me!”
Evelyn’s voice was filled with undisguised joy: “Brother Alex, are you really going to divorce sister Lily?”
“Yes! As soon as we find Lily, I’ll divorce her immediately! Evelyn, are you ready to be my new bride?”
Evelyn shyly hid in Alexander’s arms, her voice as small as a mosquito:
“Evelyn has been ready for a long time.””
Dr. James spat in disgust, no longer wanting to participate in this farce.
The butler, for the sake of his job, could only follow Alexander in searching the attic over and over again, trying to find any clues of my escape.
I found it both absurd and laughable!
My corpse was right there in front of him, what else did he want to find!
8:38 AM
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They searched the attic to no avail, even throwing the baby that had been knocked away into the trash bin, thinking it was a doll.
Until Alexander opened the window he had nailed shut with his own hands and saw the bloodstained window lock, he paused for a moment.
Then, he became even angrier.
“You wanted to escape that badly?! You hated being my wife that much?!”
“Fine! Lily! If you’re hiding somewhere watching me make a fool of myself, then let me tell you! I don’t want you anymore! From today on, you’re no longer my wife!”
With that, he smashed the “City–toppling Love” necklace to pieces.
Evelyn timidly skirted around my corpse and stood beside Alexander.
“Brother Alex, this… this couldn’t really be sister Lily, could it…”
Alexander held Evelyn lovingly and declared domineeringly:
“Don’t be afraid, Evelyn! This is all a trap set by Lily! We don’t need to wait for her to come out! I’ll go find a divorce lawyer right away, and next week I’ll hold a press conference to announce our engagement!”
I looked at the shattered pieces of the “City–toppling Love” necklace.
So, the deep love of the past was so easily shattered in Alexander’s eyes.
The day I met him was during a snowy wilderness expedition.
The weather had suddenly turned bad without warning, causing the team to move slowly.
Especially Alexander, who wasn’t a professional explorer, gradually fell to the back of the team.
As the team leader, I had to let the others go ahead while I stayed behind to take care of Alexander.
The heavy snow blocked the mountain, and we took shelter in an abandoned wooden cabin, with no food or water source.
For three whole days, using my excellent survival skills, I successfully led Alexander to rescue.
He said those three days felt like he had lived an entire lifetime.
He fell hopelessly in love with me.
But I thought that when a person encounters a bit of warmth in a moment of crisis, they might mistake it for love.
So initially, I rejected his pursuit.
This man, however, persisted for four years.
For four years, he accompanied me on countless wilderness expeditions.
On the plateau, he would breathe oxygen to stand with me on the highest peak.
In the extreme cold, he fell ill with a high fever but still insisted on searching for me when I returned late to the camp.
I also fell into the same old trap.
In crisis after crisis, I developed genuine feelings of going through thick and thin together with him.
Everyone said I was lucky, that I had caught the eye of the Frost Group’s young master who would marry no one but me.
I always thought so too!
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Until Evelyn returned to the country.
No matter when, with just one call from Evelyn, Alexander would immediately abandon me to accompany her.
“Evelyn grew up with me, she can’t do anything right without me by her side!”
“Evelyn has no one to take care of her, she’s alone at home with a high fever, so I brought her to our house. You take care of her.”
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His heart was split in two, and the half he gave me grew smaller and smaller until it could no longer be felt.
Before Evelyn came back, Lily was worth loving.
After Evelyn returned, it was like the sun overshadowing the moonlight, Lily’s faint glow became insignificant.
But I had already proposed divorce, yet he still wouldn’t let me go!
When he locked me in the attic, there was only endless coldness in his eyes.
“Lily, think it through. If you want a divorce, you can’t take this child with you.”
“You’ll be locked in this attic until the day you give birth.”
I was trapped in an attic room that looked just like the forest cabin from that year.
But this time, what sealed me in wasn’t the heavy snow, but the doors and windows nailed shut by my former lover.
Alexander turned the survival skills I was so proud of into a hopeless situation with no way out.
My corpse was thus left ignored by Alexander to rot in the attic.
For him, the most important thing now was his engagement party with Evelyn.
