I watched his retreating figure and laughed.
Wait for you?
I won’t wait.
I’ve already finished everything I needed to do.
Ethan, this chess piece, is no longer useful.
13
I broke my SIM card and bought a ticket for the earliest flight. I was ready to leave this place.
Before leaving, I went to see my mother.
I told her everything that had happened to me over these years.
“Are you disappointed in me? Disappointed that I couldn’t grow up to be the person you hoped for?”
Q
8:42 AM G
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In the quiet cemetery, there was only the sound of the wind.
The cold tombstone couldn’t speak. My mother must be disappointed in me.
On the way to the airport, I got stuck in traffic. By the time I arrived, the plane had already taken off.
My life has been just like this missed flight, always one step away from happiness.
I found a hotel, planning to leave the next day.
But that night, I received news that the plane had crashed. Over a hundred people, no survivors. It was the very flight I had missed.
The relief of having narrowly escaped death made me start to believe that my mother wasn’t disappointed in me after all.
14
With conclusive evidence, my father was sentenced to death.
The video of Lily being beaten in the hospital was leaked online, and netizens tore her apart.
It turned out that Lily had married another man years ago. This man was the one who had saved her from the sea, a bachelor in his fifties.
The child in her belly wasn’t Ethan’s, but the old man’s.
Lily had originally planned to abort the child and frame me, but Ethan had already posted the surveillance video online.
Public opinion was condemning Lily, and people were curious about how the old man knew about Lily’s pregnancy, and why he had agreed to let Lily leave his side.
As I scrolled through the comments section, reading the various theories from netizens, I almost laughed myself silly behind the screen.
There weren’t so many coincidences and mysteries. It was all arranged by me.
After getting together with Ethan, I started inquiring about Lily’s whereabouts. Since they never found her body after she fell into the water, I boldly guessed that she might not have died at all.
Sure enough, I found out that she had been rescued shortly after falling into the water.
So I paid off the old bachelor to let Lily go. He didn’t agree at first, but after I showed him Ethan’s personal information, he started to waver.
Lily didn’t disappoint. She found out about the bar Ethan frequented, but she didn’t rush to reunite with him.
Instead, she applied for a job as a waitress and lurked in the bar, waiting for the right moment to reveal herself.
But what she didn’t know was that her smooth entry into the bar and becoming a VIP room waitress were all orchestrated by me behind the
scenes.
As for the text messages revealing my address, the first one was indeed from Lily, but the one to my father was sent by me.
Seven years ago, I used Ethan to put my father in prison. Seven years later, I used Lily to escape from Ethan.
Everyone was just a chess piece in my hand.
Not a single step I’ve taken has been a coincidence.
I planned everything, except for Ethan falling in love with me.
15
The next time I saw Ethan was at a mental hospital. His parents had contacted me, asking me to visit him.
I hadn’t left this city. I had stayed.
