In the darkness, I could still faintly hear some voices. I could hear Rachel’s cries as well as Zion’s


    and the doctor’s anxious shouts.


    “Stephanie, hang in there…”


    “Stephanie!”


    “Stephie!”


    “She’s been holding on for too long. We found her toote… Maybe, maybe if we were one day


    earlier … Just one day… she would’ve survived.” The doctor’s voice broke, and his eyes turned red.


    “She was pregnant too…”


    As a spectator, he seemed to be unable to believe what had happened to


    1. me.


    “She must have been in such despair.” Phil looked away. “If only we had found her earlier… Two


    lives were lost from this! That animal!”


    “She was tortured so badly that her finger bones were shattered. And just to make her look more


    delicate, he injected her with a huge amount of drugs. Her skin is even paler than a doll’s now.


    “That psycho… disyed her like a piece of art in this ss case!” One of the female officers also


    broke into tears and looked away.


    Sitting on the ground, Michael’s breathing grew heavier. As though he’d gone insane, his eyes were


    bright red. “She won’t die… She won’t die. She’s lying to me! She won’t die! Didn’t she want me to


    marry her…? I’ll marry her, soe back! Don’t die!‘


    “If you


    and Yasmin hadn’t obstructed the police’s investigation, Stephie wouldn’t have died!” Rachel


    sobbed while hitting Michael. She wanted to kill him.


    The female officer tried to stop her, but Zion held her back.


    Zion also resented Michael.


    Stephanie could have lived.


    “Even if we were earlier by just one day…” Rachel cried weakly, kneeling on the ground.


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    Just one day would have been fine.


    “You and Rachel are the reason she’s dead. Go to hell, Michael! Just die!”


    “She’s not dead… She won’t die!” Michael suddenly lost his mind, like he didn’t believe that the


    person in the ss case was me. He ran away as quickly as he could.


    Howughable. Didn’t he wish I was dead all this while? Now that I was, what was he going crazy


    for?


    “Officer Landon, we found a lead! Stephanie’s parents were the phnthropists funding this


    orphanage back then. The day they died in a car ident was the day when they were on the way


    to


    attend a celebration at the orphanage!


    “Also… on the same day, there was a huge fire at the orphanage that ended with a lot of


    casualties.” An officer jogged over into the basement. He was holding a photo of me and my


    parents at the


    orphanage.


    “The orphanage…”


    Suddenly, my head hurt. The memories of the car ident flooded my mind. The face of the person


    frantically trying to save my life at the scene slowly changed from Michael’s face to another


    person’s. “Steve…” Why was I suddenly thinking about that murderer? Wasn’t it Michael who saved


    me?


    Did I lose that many memories from that ident as I thought?


    “This can’t be a coincidence. The death of Stephanie and her parents might not have been an


    ident! “Zion mmed his fist against the wall. “I’ll catch that bastard for sure… I won’t let


    Stephanie’s death be in vain!”


    My consciousness was fading. I slowly stopped being able to hear…


    It turned out that my parents‘ deaths weren’t an ident! It was orchestrated! It was definitely tied


    to the murderer who killed me.


    The moment death came, a roaring wave of hatred and thirst for the truth nearly tore me apart.


    The Grim Reaper gave me time but not the chance to leave behind any regrets.


    My life was just beginning!


    I was so unsatisfied. Why did I have to go through all this pain? Why did I have to lose my parents


    at 18 years old and live under someone else’s roof?


    I lived apliant life, yet I couldn’t escape the fate of being tortured and killed by a murderer, I


    was abandoned by my childhood friend and harmed by a wicked woman!


    I was unsatisfied! If I could get another chance, I definitely wouldn’t livepliantly anymore. “Dad,


    Mom.” After the darkness came a sh of white light. I didn’t know how long I was out. I didn’t know


    what time it was. I didn’t know anything. “I’m not satisfied. I want to live. I want revenge. I want to


    know the truth!”


    “Stephie, it’s time to wake up, youzy piglet.”


    “Mom and Dad will always protect you.”


    After Stephanie died, the killer was not caught.


    The Lincoln family bailed Steve out once again. Since he had proof of his mental illness diagnosis


    and an alibi, the police had no choice but to release him again.


    “You bastard, I’m telling you, if you don’t birth an heir to the Lincoln heir soon, don’t even think


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    Faintly, I heard a fierce voice. It yanked me back to reality.