Chapter 102 Everything Comes Crashing Down
Chapter 102 Everything Comes Crashing Down
After being adopted by the wealthiest couple in the country, Lily wasn’t just a rich girl–she <b>became </b><b>part </b>of high society with three insanely talented older brothers. Everyone assumed she must be living a <b>dream </b>life.
Luna only wanted to adopt Lily because she had lost her own daughter and was trying to fill that void.
Lily had brought healing to people like Luna. And yet after they found their biological daughter, they threw Lily out like she never mattered, trashing her name in the process….
It was the textbook definition of using someone and tossing them aside.
The Ginger family hadn’t just robbed Lily of a chance to be the real daughter of the country’s richest family–they let their biological daughter nder and hurt her. What had Lily ever done to deserve that?
Did she murder their whole family in a past life?
One by one,izens began apologizing to Lily.
After apologizing, they turned around and demanded that Mathilda apologize too..
As more people called her fake, shameless, and cruel, Mathilda could barely hold it together.
<i>I </i><i>thought </i><i>releasing </i><i>the </i><i>video </i><i>of </i><i>Lily </i><i>pping </i><i>me </i><i>would </i><i>be </i><i>enough </i><i>to </i><i>turn </i><i>the </i><i>tide</i>. And <i>the </i><i>Luke </i><i>family </i>grows to <i>despise </i><i>Lily</i>, <i>pushing </i><i>James </i><i>to divorce </i><i>her</i>.
<i>Then </i><i>I </i><i>can </i><i>finally </i><i>take Lily’s </i><i>ce </i><i>and </i><i>be </i><i>Mrs. </i><i>Luke</i>.
<i>Who </i><i>could </i><i>have </i><i>guessed </i><i>that </i><i>someone </i><i>would </i><i>upload </i><i>the </i><i>full</i><i>, </i><i>unedited </i><i>video </i>online<i>? </i>
<i>And </i><i>Nancy</i><i>–</i><ipletely </i><i>ignoring </i><i>my past </i><i>friendship </i>with <i>Luna</i><i>–</i><i>released </i><i>footage </i><i>from </i>16 <i>years </i><i>ago </i><i>when </i><i>she </i><i>nearly </i><i>adopted </i><i>Lily</i><i>, </i><i>all </i><i>to </i><i>defend </i><i>that </i><i>bitch</i>.
<i>Why </i><i>does </i><i>Lily </i><i>get </i><i>to be </i><i>so </i><i>lucky</i><i>? </i>
“Mathilda, apologize!”
“Say you’re sorry!”
More and more people were flooding into Mathilda’s livestream.
They were furious. They wanted justice for <i>Lily </i>and were ready <i>to </i>tear the mask off Mathilda.
“I…”
Mathilda’s face turned ghostly pale.
<i>There </i><i>is </i><i>no </i><i>way </i><i>I </i><i>can </i><i>bring </i><i>myself </i><i>to </i><i>publicly </i><i>apologize </i><i>to </i><i>Lily </i>
<i>If </i><i>I </i><i>did</i><i>, </i><i>it </i><i>would </i><i>be </i><i>the </i><i>same </i><i>as </i><i>admitting </i><i>I </i><i>had </i><i>framed </i><i>and </i><i>smeared </i><i>her</i>. <i>That </i><i>would </i><i>be </i><b><i>total </i></b><b><i>humiliation</i></b><b><i>, </i></b><b><i>and </i></b><b><i>I </i></b><b><i>just </i></b><i>couldn’t </i><i>ept </i><i>that</i><i>. </i>
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“Mathilda, did you actually bully Lily?”
Still frozen in fear, Mathilda suddenly heard her bedroom door swing open.
It was her three brothers–Bodger, Taylor, and Mergan.
“The three sons of the Ginger family were fooled by Mathilda too?”
“She’s honestly more disgusting than a cockroach.”
“I need a ten–minute break just to stop gagging…”
Meeting the furious, disappointed stares in Bodger, Taylor, and Mergan’s eyes, Mathilda’s eyelids twitched hard.
Worried that things would spiral out of control and make her look even worse, she quickly ended the livestream.
“Bodger, Taylor, Mergan…”
She backed away with a pale face, just about to speak when Bodger snapped coldly, “You kept saying Lily bullied you…
Was it you who bullied Lily, or the other way around? Answer me!”
Taylor and Mergan looked just as grim.
<i>After </i><i>Lily </i><i>joined </i><i>our </i><i>family</i>, <i>she brought </i><i>us </i>so <i>much </i><i>warmth</i>.
<i>She </i><i>was </i>like <i>a </i><i>little </i><i>sun</i><i>–</i><i>her </i><i>presence </i><i>pulled </i><i>us </i><i>out </i><i>of </i><i>the </i><i>storm </i><i>that </i><i>had </i><i>consumed </i><i>the </i><i>family </i>after losing <i>Mathilda</i>. <i>She </i><i>gave </i><i>us </i><i>hope</i><i>. </i><i>She </i><i>made </i><i>the </i><i>house </i><i>feel </i><i>like </i><i>home </i><i>again</i>.
<i>She </i><i>is </i><i>our </i><i>light</i>. <i>Our </i><i>redemption</i>.
<i>But </i><i>then</i><i>… </i><i>We </i><i>kept </i><i>hearing </i><i>about </i><i>how </i><i>she </i><i>was </i><i>hurting </i><i>Mathilda</i><i>. </i><i>We </i><i>thought </i><i>we </i><i>owed </i><i>Mathilda </i>too <i>much</i><i>, </i><i>and </i><i>every </i><i>time </i><i>Lily </i><i>denied </i><i>the </i><i>usations</i>, it <i>only </i><i>made </i><b><i>us </i></b><i>more disappointed </i><i>in </i><i>her</i>.
<i>So </i><i>we </i><i>stood </i><i>by </i><i>Mathilda </i><i>and </i><i>kept </i><i>putting </i><i>Lily </i>down.
<i>But </i>now… what <i>if </i><i>everything </i><i>Mathilda </i><i>said </i><i>had </i><i>been </i><i>a </i><i>lie</i>?
<i>What </i><i>did </i><i>that </i><i>make </i><i>all </i><i>those </i><i>punishments </i><i>and </i><i>humiliations </i><i>we </i><i>had </i><i>thrown </i><i>at </i><i>Lily</i><i>? </i>
As Mathilda stood there silently, tears rolling down her face, Taylor–usually the softest with her–finally let some frustration slip into his voice.
“Mathilda, I want the truth. Now.“/
As he said that, his fingers instinctively tightened around the rosary Lily had made for him.
<i>When </i>I <i>was </i>16, <i>I </i><i>was </i><i>in </i><i>a </i><i>devastating </i>car <b><i>crash</i></b>.
<i>Lily cried </i><i>so </i><i>hard </i><i>her </i><i>eyes </i><i>were </i><i>swollen</i>.
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<i>She </i><i>heard </i><i>rosaries </i><i>could </i><i>bring </i><i>protection</i>, so <i>she </i><i>went </i><i>to </i><i>an </i><i>antique </i><i>district</i>, <i>bought </i><i>the </i><i>materials </i>herself<i>, </i><i>and </i>carved <i>one </i><i>by </i>hand <i>just </i><i>for </i>me.
She wanted it <i>to </i><i>keep </i>me safe, <i>give </i>me <i>peace</i><i>, </i>and <i>protect </i><i>me </i><i>from </i><i>fear </i><i>for </i><i>the </i>rest of my <i>life</i><i>. </i>
I remember <i>those </i>cuts <i>all </i><i>over </i><i>her </i><i>hands </i><i>from </i><i>the </i><i>carving </i><i>knife</i><i>… </i><i>She </i><i>bled </i><i>for </i><i>that </i>gift<i>. </i>
His eyes reddened.
I had always <i>cared </i>about <i>Lily</i>.
But <i>because </i>Mathilda’s disappearance had <i>involved </i><i>all </i><i>three </i><i>brothers</i>, <i>we </i><i>carried </i><i>guilt</i>. <i>And </i><i>because </i>we believed Lily <i>kept </i>hurting Mathilda, we ended up turning <i>on </i><i>her</i>.
Mathilda was still sobbing, almost choking on her own breath..
Mergan, usually the most reserved, finally showed a rare sh of impatience.
His aùra had always been a little dark, but now, with those cold, piercing eyes, he looked downright merciless.
“Mathilda, what’s the story behind that video? Speak.”
As he spoke, his fingers tightened around the Cross Ne in his hand.
Eight <i>years </i><i>ago</i>, <i>I’d </i><i>been </i><i>deathly </i><i>ill</i><i>–</i><i>so </i><i>close </i><i>to </i><i>never </i>waking <i>up </i><i>again</i>.
<i>Lily </i><i>heard a </i><i>monastery </i><i>in </i><i>a </i><i>nearby </i><i>city </i><i>had </i><i>a </i><i>legendary </i><i>Cross </i><i>Ne</i>.
<i>She </i><i>rushed </i><i>there </i><i>alone</i><i>, </i><i>desperate </i><i>to </i>find <i>it </i><i>for </i><i>him</i>.
The <i>legend </i><i>said </i><i>if </i><i>you </i><i>wanted </i>it <i>to </i><i>work</i><i>, </i><i>you </i><i>had </i><i>to climb </i><i>to </i><i>the </i><i>top </i><i>of </i><i>the </i><i>mountain </i><i>on </i><i>your </i><i>knees</i>–<i>one </i>step, <i>one </i>kneel.
And <i>she </i>did it.
<i>She </i><i>climbed </i><i>all </i><i>the </i><i>way </i><i>to </i><i>the </i><i>top</i><i>, </i><i>kneeling </i><i>the </i><i>entire </i><i>path</i><i>, </i><i>just </i><i>to </i><i>bring me </i><i>that </i><i>ne</i>.