Just as I turned to leave, Sophia suddenly ran toward me.
She no longer looked pitiful or fragile. Her face was twisted with malice and resentment, her hair a mess, and her eyes wild with rage.
“Hannah! You ruined everything for me!”
She screamed as she lunged at me, only to be stopped by Daniel, who grabbed her firmly.
“You think I ruined your life?” I sneered. “Sophia, you trapped yourself.”
“I could have been Daniel’s wife! I could have had endless wealth!”
Her eyes were crazed. “And it’s all because of you!”
“If you hadn’t exposed me, I’d be a rich heiress right now, someone everyone admired!”
Daniel tightened his grip on her, his face dark as thunder. “That’s enough, Sophia!”
“That’s enough?” she laughed maniacally.
“Now you want to protect her, Daniel?”
“Then why did you believe me before?”
“Why did you make her kneel in the rain?”
“Why did you burn her necklace?”
“You regret it now, don’t you?”
“You really think kneeling for a few days will earn her forgiveness?”
Daniel’s face turned from pale to green, her words hitting every raw nerve.
I stood silently to the side, coldly watching the spectacle unfold.
“Sophia.”
Daniel’s voice was tight with fury. “Get out of here.”
“Get out?”
Sophia let out a shrill, ugly laugh. “Why should I leave? I’m the victim!”
“You two teamed up and tricked me, left me with nothing!”
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“Victim?” I couldn’t help speaking up “Sophila, you’re incredible at twisting the truth, “.
“You’re the one who drugged Daniel. You’re the one who got pregnant with someone else’s child and tried to marry him.”
“And now that you’ve been exposed, you claim you’re the victim?”
Sophia shrieked at me like a madwoman. “It’s all your fault!”
Daniel’s face grew uglier by the second. He looked at Sophia as if seeing her for the first time
“Enough!”
With a loud slap, he struck Sophia across the face. “You venomo
She stumbled back, her cheek immediately swelling with a red im
“You hit me? You actually hit me for her?”
She clutched her cheek, eyes burning with hatred.
“You’re the one who got me into this. You’re the one I tricked, and still I watched you hate
Hannah.”
She was briefly stunned by his words, but her expression soon twisted with renewed venom
“So what? She doesn’t love you anymore anyway!”
She smiled cruelly. “Look at the way she looks at you–it’s like she’s looking at a stranger.”
“She doesn’t want you anymore, Daniel!”
“You’ll never be together again, not in this life!”
“Even if you kneel here until you die, she’ll never forgive you!!
Daniel’s face went ghostly pale. He turned to look at me,
I looked back at them calmly. My heart felt nothing.
This dog–eat–dog show was honestly entertaining.
“Sophia’s right,” I said flatly. “I won’t forgive you.”
eyes full of desperate pleading.
his eyes
“The man standing in front of me now… is just a stranger.”
The light in Daniel’s eyes vanished, like his soul had been hollowed out.
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Sophia grinned in triumph. “You hear that? She doesn’t love you anymore!”
“She doesn’t want you, Daniel. Come back with me. We can still-
“Get out!”
Daniel roared, his voice thunderous. “I’ll never lay a finger on you again!”
“You disgusting woman–you destroyed me and Hannali!”
“I wish I could kill you!”
Sophia froze, startled by his fury, and took several steps back.
“I regret it. I regret ever believing you. I regret letting Hannah sul
much.”
“But what I regret even more,” his voice trembled, “is not seeing your true face sooner in our last
life.”
Sophia’s expression darkened further. She looked at Daniel’s devastated state and suddenly
laughed.
“Well then, let’s just destroy everything together.”
A flash of viciousness crossed her eyes.
“Daniel, if I can’t have something, no one can.
“You really think begging for forgiveness will work now?”
“I’m telling you–it never will!”
“The wound in her heart will never heal!”
With that, she turned and walked away, leaving Daniel kneeling alone on the ground.
I looked at his broken figure and felt not a shred of sympathy.
