A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Emily left the hotel by herself and took a taxi back to Tyrone Mansion. On her way back, she wept silently.

After returning to her room, she went to the bathroom and took off her clothes. Then she turned on the hot shower and stood under it. The hot water kissed her body, soon filling the bathroom with steam.

Emily slumped into a state of torpor as if nothing could cheer her up. The hot water flowed through her whole body, scouring every inch of her skin.

Emily was a traditional woman, and she had thought that she would be committed to Jacob only. However, after being tricked by Jack into believing that she had sex with him, her world came crashing down around her. She felt eternally stained, as if nothing in the world could wash away the filth off of her body.

"We both know that the thing Jacob hates the most is betrayal, be it mental or physical. If he finds out that you've slept with me, do you think he will still love you?" Jack's words reverberated in her ears. Every word was like a hammer hitting at Emily's heart.

Emily's mind scrambled, wondering when Jacob would come back, and how she would explain to him, and what she could do to deal with all of this.

Emily kept washing herself over and over until her skin turned red due to the heat of the hot water. When her body went numb, she went out of the bathroom and slowly put on her clothes.

Although she didn't want to break up with Jacob, Jack blackmailed her with a picture he had on his phone that could easily cause a misunderstanding between her and Jacob. Jack threatened to send it to Jacob if she did not comply with his demands. Moreover, since she couldn't come up with any reasonable explanation to give to Jacob, she decided to hide away in shame before he was back.

Emily knew that running away from her problems would only make things worse, but at this moment, she just wanted to lock herself away from the rest of the world. She didn't want Jacob to know about the horrendous incident she had suffered.

After taking a bath, Emily packed up her clothes and moved back to her previous apartment. While she stayed there, she did not receive any calls from Jacob, so she assumed that he must have been too angry to call her, but on the other hand, she also felt relieved.

Although Emily left Tyrone Mansion quietly and there were only a handful of people who knew this, soon Jack learned about it from an informer, as did the Tao clan and Emily's foster parents.

Andrew and Debby were the first two people who came to visit her.

After all, they had raised her. Emily could not go against her conscience to shut the door on her foster parents. She opened the door and let them in.

showed no inclination to take care of her and her husband, made Debby sad, but she never complained about her biological daughter. Instead, she changed her mind

bottom of her heart, she

a weak voice, "Dad, Mom, I've broken up with him. I'll find you another house. Just

scold her, "Are you out of your mind? How can you break up with Mr. Gu? He is so rich

days! You'd better get along well with Mr.

burst into laughter and asked in a sarcastic tone, "What's wrong?

Debby spoke with a lot of confidence, without the trace of doubt on her face, as if she

with a greedy expression on his face. "The least he could do is pay you a large sum of money as alimony!" he added. Andrew's lack of legal knowledge

temper, and not let loose a torrent of abuse towards her parents. After a pause, she said, "Please go back home. I will deal with

her mother by simple walking away. She ran to her room, and shut

to talk to you!" Andrew and Debby yelled from the

floor, frustrated and exhausted. Her joyless eyes were a pitiful sight. Hearing her foster parents yelling outside the door, drove tears out of her eyes, like pearls from a broken string.

had a complete family, a lover and her own career. But now, her life was so different she could barely remember what was

daughter more. Moreover, she had been forced by Jack to break up with Jacob, whom she had loved more than any other person in the world. Emily had become the living embodiment of the

in your life to ashes?' she asked herself, feeling alone and despondent.

and Debby grew tired for hammering and shouting. Finally, they decided to leave her

over the atmosphere. Emily's loneliness was consuming her, like a hungry, merciless monster, eating away at her soul, piece by piece.

light was obliterated by the rapidly falling night sky. Soon she was surrounded by the darkness, as her breathing sped up rapidly. The eerie darkness of her nightmares seemed to be taking shape again, as if it had never really

a rush of panic, she stood up abruptly. Since she was leaning awkwardly the whole time, when she got up

from screaming. Pain stabbed at her knees and she wondered at the extent of her injuries. She braced herself and drove upward, as her body shook with the effort. With

overhead, with tears in her eyes, her nose

from Jacob, she

devastating blow—she had had sex with Jack, albeit, it was only her mere conjecture, but she was totally convinced by Jack's deception. So when Jack coerced her into breaking up with Jacob, she compromised. Soon after, everything in her life had spiralled