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Olivia thought about it for a moment. “I wanna see my best friend.
“No need to bid farewell. It’s enough to see her from afar.”
Everly had turned into a corporate slave recently. She was working overtime every day.
Olivia supposed that Everly had been searching for her everywhere after watching the news.
She didn’t have the courage to bid Everly farewell.
Besides, Olivia had guessed that there had been a lot of people spying on her.
It wasn’t easy coming this far. She didn’t want anyone to disrupt the plan.
“Okay. I’ll help you with that.” Colin was always agreeable to her requests.
On the same day, Olivia saw Everly during lunchtime.
Everly was clad in working attire, which she once complained about to Olivia.
She walked to the café like a lifeless doll.
After making her order, she rested her head and arms on the table.
Whenever her phone vibrated, she quickly checked the incoming notification. Then, disappointment appeared all over her face.
She didn’t seem to be enjoying her meal either. She kept stuffing food into her mouth.
It was as though the taste didn’t matter at all as long as it could fill her stomach.
She didn’t even notice that she had eaten celery, the food she hated the most.
She took a few spoonfuls of the food before picking her phone up again.
Olivia faced the back of Everly.
The latter was looking at Olivia’s picture during their schooling days.
Some of the pictures were taken during embarra*sing times in her life.
Previously, Everly even claimed that she would display them on a loop at Olivia’s wedding.
Unfortunately, Olivia didn’t hold a wedding. Neither did she marry the man she loved and became a housewife like what she had dreamt of in high school.
Tears dripped onto the phone screen.
Olivia could hear Everly’s trembling voice, “Liv…”
Olivia burst into tears upon hearing that one word.
Everly wiped her tears clumsily. She footed the bill before leaving the café in a gloomy mood.
Before this, she was always observant of her surroundings. Olivia’s presence wouldn’t have gone unnoticed by her.
However, Everly was overwhelmed by the news of Olivia going missing
That was how she had been living recently.
At first, she didn’t have the appetite to consume anything.
Later, when she slowly accepted reality, she became a lifeless zombie.
It was a mere friendship, but their bond was rooted deeper than kinship.
Olivia looked at the sky, which suddenly turned cloudy.
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She quickly bought an umbrella and dashed out onto the street.
Everly was walking in the heavy rain in high heels. A pa*serby accidentally bumped into her as he was in a rush.
In the past, she once joked that she would seize the chance to fall onto the ground and demand compensation.
Yet, she was now looking ahead of her with empty eyes.
Water droplets kept running down her cheeks. No one knew whether it was because of the rain or because she was crying.
Perhaps that was the only way she could finally vent her emotions.
“Liv, oh, Liv. Didn’t we promise to get old together? Why did you abandon me?”
She slapped herself. “It’s all my fault. Why did I have to be on a business trip that day?
“I could’ve been by your side. Just how afraid you must’ve been at that time, Liv?”
An umbrella sheltered her. Sensing something, she quickly raised her head to look at the incoming person.
The person holding the umbrella was an old woman.
She helped Everly up. “Miss, it’s getting cold. Get up. You’re still young.
“What is there in life that you cannot surmount? Don’t cry.”
Everly cried like a kid who lost her toy. “Granny, I lost my best friend. I can’t find her.”
The old woman pa*sed her the umbrella. “Life is full of farewells.
“Miss, a departure isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All parting is for a better reunion.”
“Liv…”
An epiphany struck upon Everly. When she lifted her head, she thought she saw a crying Olivia in the midst of the crowd.
It seems Ethan only ever married Olivia to take revenge for what happened to his little sister. While Olivia is plagued by her sickness, he holds her chin and says coldly, “This is what your family owes me.” Now, she has no family and no future.
Her father becomes comatose after a car accident, leaving her with nothing to live for. Thus, she hurls herself from a building. “The life my family owes will now be repaid.” At this, Ethan, who’s usually calm, panics while begging for Olivia to come back as if he’s in a state of frenzy …
