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    Natasha had ire tie her jacket around her lower body, took her out, and then gave her spare tampons and painkillers to ire.


    The entire time, she acted very indifferently and spoke very little, as if she were just casually solving a problem.


    Once she saw rie take care of herself and change into clean clothes, Natasha left.


    Natasha seemed reluctant to talk to ric, her pretty face constantly frowning.


    Others thought ire had displeased Natasha, and they pointed fingers at the two.


    From their expressions, it was clear that they were saying that Natasha was bullying ire.


    Because of their sympathy for ire, no one ordered her around afterward.


    ire, who had finally found a moment of peace, discovered a te of warm roasted meat in front of her tent not long after Natasha left.


    She stood stunned for a long time, then pursed her lips and took it into the tent.


    Around eleven o’clock at night, when a group of people gathered around the bonfire waiting for shooting stars, everyone came out wrapped in thick clothes.


    Natasha’s jacket had already been dirtied by her. ire hesitated for a moment, then decided to give her cheap jacket to Natasha.


    Then, she saw that Natasha was wearing a boy’s jacket.


    Olivia, who had juste out of another tent, also noticed this.


    From her cold expression, ire figured out the owner of the jacket.


    The next day, when going down the mountain, ire, walking in the middle, realized someone was missing.


    “Natasha didn’t keep up,” she said nervously.


    However, Olivia just casually nced at her. “Natasha said she wanted to stay a bit longer and for us to go first.”


    ire thought, ‘Is it possible for a teenage girl to voluntarily leave the group and stay in the dangerous wilderness by herself?‘


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    Her heart pounded uneasily. She eventually made her way to Lucas’s group.


    They were childhood friends. So she felt that he should know Natasha well.


    Sure enough, as soon as Lucas heard it, he was about to rush back.


    On the way, Olivia stopped him. “Don’t you know acting alone is very dangerous?


    “Lucas, don’t be impulsive. Your parents wouldn’t want you to take risks.”


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    However, Lucas just coldly pushed her away, gave her a dangerous nce, and then ran back in the direction they came from without looking back.


    Olivia stood there awkwardly, with mes flickering in her dark eyes.


    ire was startled by her expression and shrank back into the crowd.


    That day, they waited for a long time at the foot of the mountain, but Lucas and Natasha never returned.


    They only heard news of the two near dusk.


    Natasha was told Lucas was looking for her, but when she went to find him, she was pushed from behind and fell into a hole.


    When Lucas found her, Natasha had just climbed out of the pit. Her hands were covered in scratches, and her ankle sprained.


    She had many injuries, yet she didn’t.shed a single tear.


    If Lucas hadn’te, she might have managed to get out or found another way to get help.


    Lucas, however, was <i>so </i>distressed his eyes turned red, and he carried her down the mountain on his back.


    After descending the mountain, everyone realized that because he had searched so frantically, Lucas also had many deep cuts on his arms and legs.


    Both injured individuals were taken to the hospital.


    Even though many people objected, Natasha still insisted on calling the police.


    It waster discovered that the person who pushed her was a girl from another ss with an ordinary family background.


    The girl imed she sought revenge because Natasha had bullied her, but only intended to


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    As the perpetrator was underage, and the rk family had heard Natasha was in the wrong first, they let her off easily under Olivia’s persuasion.


    The girl apologized to Natasha in public, transferred schools, and that was the end of the


    matter.


    Under the heavy pressure of adult authority, the anger of an underage girl seemed like a joke.


    ire only then realized that Olivia and Natasha were not rtives, but sisters from the same family.


    She found it strange that everyone knew Olivia was the daughter of the rk family, yet Natasha was often mistaken for their rtive, who was freeloading from them.


    Moreover, the rk family didn’t seem much better than her parents, who favored the son over the daughter.


    ire couldn’t help but feel sympathy for Natasha.


    Thomas, feeling both heartbroken and annoyed, lectured Natasha about being low–key at school and not bullying ssmates.


    At the same time, ire saw the light in Natasha’s eyes gradually dimming, reced by detachment and a certain resolve.


    Because of that incident, ire faced Olivia’s retaliation.


    But because she was so submissive, they found no satisfaction in bullying her and soon stopped.


    ire had no regrets about tipping Lucas off.


    Moreover, if it hadn’t been for Natashater, she wouldn’t have been able to sessfully escape her suffocating family.


    She pushed away the painful memories from her mind and wondered if Natasha and Lucas had finally gotten together after she had been gone for years.


    Natasha treated Lucas and Sadie the same back then.


    However, ire could clearly see that Lucas had a fervent love for Natasha.


    Although they remained friends until high school graduation, ire never doubted that Lcuas and Natasha would even get together.


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    She thought, ‘Can this pair of young lovers make it?‘


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    Lucas was pure–hearted and optimistic as a teenager. He would forge ahead fearlessly, ready to defy the world for the one he loved.


    After adulthood, however, various concerns transformed him into a selfish adult, leading him to gradually drift apart from the girl he used to love.


    When Lucas saw David blocking ire’s car on the mountain road, he suddenly remembered that he used to intensely dislike Olivia.


    He had known Natasha for longer, and had liked this beautiful, doll–like girl since childhood.


    Later, the rk family experienced an upheaval, and because of Olivia and her mother, Natasha’s life was turned upside down.


    At that time, Lucas felt Olivia was a shameful person who had stolen Natasha’s ce in her family.


    Moreover, because of Olivia, Natasha suffered a great deal.


    Every time Lucas visited them, Olivia would insist on meddling.


    Even at school, people like Matthew and David would annoy him all the time.


    Lucas consequently redirected his anger towards Olivia.


    He wondered why did his feelings change.


    It seemed that when Natasha left the rk family at 18, the constant friction and shifting dynamics between her and Olivia gradually subsided due to the distance.


    Olivia no longer made every effort to contact Lucas as she had before. Instead, she apologized to him and exined that her past actions stemmed from the insecurity she felt living alone with the rk family.


    It asionally led her to do irrational things in an attempt to secure more.


    Olivia also proactively suggested wanting to reconcile with Natasha, offering to speak favorably of her to her parents.


    At the time, Lucas was pleased that Natasha had escaped her painful and oppressive family,


    However, his parents‘ constant nagging made him worry that if Natasha alienated her family,


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    it would create many more obstacles for them to be together.


    Olivia’s suggestion struck a chord with him.


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    Subsequently, Lucas and Roderick became good friends. Olivia then entered his life from apletely new perspective, as Roderick’s girlfriend.


    With those prejudices gone, and Roderick acting as a mediator, Lucas discovered Olivia was not the deeply maniptive viin he had imagined.


    He even found her quite pitiable since she lost both parents at a young age.


    When Natasha turned 20, Olivia, unable to bear their hesitation, proactively encouraged Lucas to confess his feelings to Natasha.


    Unfortunately, the beauty of their mutual affection was fleeting. Things did not go the way Lucas wanted after he confessed.


    After Roderick died saving him, Lucas repeatedly hurt Natasha against his will due to Olivia’s illness. Even though they became a couple, they gradually drifted apart.


    Lucas rubbed his temples, a headache throbbing.


    Since he knew what Natasha cared about, he naturally wouldn’t help anyone associated with Olivia again.


    He continued to drive up the mountain, leaving David, who had failed to get a ride again, fuming with rage.


    Lucas gazed resolutely towards Mount Misty Hotel.


    Even if he had contact with Olivia for her treatment, he could guarantee their rtionship was strictly tonic.


    The so–called hug and kiss at the birthday party was merely a trick of the angle, deliberately manipted by a sneaky photographer.


    No matter how confused he was, he still knew who he loved and was well aware of Natasha’s boundaries.


    There were too many misunderstandings between them.


    Now, Lucas had the chance to revisit this ce with the people who witnessed their rtionship at its best.


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    He thought, ‘Alexei and Natasha have only known each other for a few months. How could that possibly rival the fact that I have spent two decades with Natasha?‘


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