loved her…”
I watched coldly, only feeling my heart sink
more and more.
You hate me because you love me?
I never want that kind of love.
Lily went completely crazy when she heard
him confess his true feelings to me.
She got up, picked up the knife from the
floor, and rushed at me again.
Г
Jason protected me and kicked Lily away.
Like my mother, like Ashley back then, she
fell down the stairs.
Lily was paralyzed, and her vocal cords were
also cut by the knife.
In the corridor of the hospital, Jason looked
soulless.
“Do you believe in karma?”
He suddenly said.
I knew what he was going to say and quietly
turned on the phone recording.
“Ashley’s mother was killed by Lily.”
r
“She was angry that Jason and Ashley were
together, and took her anger out on Ashley’s
mother, pushing her down the stairs. Mrs.
Miller died on the spot.”
“I was blinded by greed and thought I should
protect Lily, and was worried that Ashley
would investigate the truth. I hastily handled
Mrs. Miller’s funeral, and used marriage to
distract Ashley…”
I couldn’t hear what Jason said later. I just
felt cold from head to toe.
I saved the recording, backed it up to a USB
drive, and asked someone to send it to the
police station.
A few days later, Lily was taken back to
Г
She was placed in a dark storage room, left
to fend for herself.
When I went to see her, she was lying in
excrement, like a pile of rotten meat.
“Lily, if I give you another chance, would you
still kill my mother?”
I asked her with a smile.
She looked at me, her confusion turning to
horror, then to resentment.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Why
aren’t you happy to see an old friend?”
“You must be very curious why I didn’t die,
right?”
I reached out and touched her scarred face,
then leaned closer to her.
“Lily, I’m dead. I was forced to death by you
and Jason six months ago.”
“The me now is a devil who crawled back
from hell, and I’m back to find you!”
Lily’s eyes were bloodshot, and she let out a
hoarse howl.
I watched her smiling like that until she was
scared to death.
“Lily, our karma is now clear.”
When I turned around, I found that Jason was
standing behind me.
Г
“You and her karma is clear, but what about
ours? Ashley?”
Chapter 10
I looked at Jason calmly, without any panic of
being recognized.
It didn’t matter. Even if he knew I was Ashley,
it didn’t matter.
The evidence that he was protecting the
murderer had been sent to the police station
by me.
Someone would settle the score between me
and him.
“Ashley, why aren’t you talking?”
Г
“Whether it’s hate or resentment, you can hit
me or scold me, but don’t ignore me.”
Jason stepped forward, grabbed my hand,
and pressed it to his face, tears streaming
through my fingers.
“When did you know it was me?”
“The first time you came home.”
Jason smiled bitterly.
I looked at him in confusion, not
understanding where I had given myself away.
“It was that tea. I put salt in the peppermint
ginger tea, but you weren’t surprised at all.”
Г
I paused, and then realized.
Other than me, almost no one liked to drink
tea with salt.
When Jason and I first met, he thought my
taste was very strange.
I didn’t expect that it would be the loophole
that allowed him to recognize me.
I pulled my hand away and said nothing.
“Ashley, everything I said later was the truth,
not to deceive you.”
“There’s no way to undo what happened to
your mother and child. I know there’s nothing
I can say to fix things.”
“But Ashley, I still want you to know that I
love you. Even if I didn’t see my heart in the
past, I’m now certain that the person I love
has always been…”
“Jason, don’t say it.”
I interrupted him.
“This relationship between us started with a
deception, and nothing can change that.”
“You said you really fell in love with me after
you married me, but what happened?”
“Just a few lies from Lily made you want to
kill my child. You didn’t even ask me if it was
true.”
Г
“Admit it, Jason, your love for me was never
pure.”
I looked at him without any extra expression.
He opened his mouth, wanting to explain with
a sad expression, but ultimately said nothing.
We stood in silence in front of Lily’s bed until
the sound of sirens rang out outside the villa.
The police confirmed that Lily was dead and
were preparing to take away Jason, who was
protecting the murderer.
Before we got on the police car, Jason’s
elders rushed over.
Jason’s mother paused when she saw me,
then cursed at me as a jinx and rushed over.
Jason’s father didn’t stop her and watched as
she took out a knife from her pocket and
stabbed me.
The knife pierced my chest, and blood
splattered everywhere.
Jason blocked the knife and fell in front of
- me.
“Ashley, I always said that people should
apologize for what they did wrong, but I did
too many wrong things, and apologizing is
meaningless.”
“I owe you, and I’ll pay you back with this
life.”
Г
Jason died.
Jason’s mother cried and screamed while
hugging her son who had fallen in a pool of
blood, but was still pulled up by the police
and taken to the police car.
The mother’s killer and the person who
protected the killer had already paid the price
with their lives.
Jason’s mother was also sentenced for
intentional injury.
A month later, everything was settled.
I went to the cemetery again to see my
mother, chatting with her about what had
happened these days.
Г
A month later, everything was settled.
I went to the cemetery again to see my
mother, chatting with her about what had
happened these days.
When I mentioned the child who didn’t have a
chance to come into this world, I choked up a
little.
On the way home, I felt like I had had a
dream.
When I woke up, the people in the dream
were like a gust of wind, never to be heard
from again.
