Even After Death by Lilting Champ

Olivia smiled. It was an extremely mocking smile.

She pried Ethan’s fingers off her. “Mr. Miller, I’ve never wanted anything from you. I can even let go of the title of Mrs. Miller without any issues.”

Under Ethan’s gleaming gaze, Olivia smiled faintly. She said calmly, “In the past, I thought that nothing could rival you. But then I stood still, waiting

“I waited as leaves budded, then cicadas started crying in the summer. The leaves then turned yellow in fall, and lastly, the wind began to howl in winter.

“I couldn’t wait any longer, so I had no choice but to drag my tired body forward. Then, I realized something.

“The spring breeze, the summer cicadas, the leaves in the fall, and even the winter snow… All those things are better than you.”

She lifted her hands, her slender fingers touching the face she used to love with all her heart.

“Ethan, I admit that I haven’t completely forgotten about you. Maybe I won’t be able to wipe you from memory even after

many years.

“You’ll still affect my mood and change my thoughts, but… I don’t have the energy to miss you anymore.”

In the end, her fingers touched his lips. “Ethan, aren’t you tired of all those grudges? I am. I don’t want to waste more time on you and Marina.

“I don’t want to be upset because of people that don’t matter to me anymore. Let’s just go on our separate paths, alright?”

Her face was reflected in Ethan’s eyes. She was supposed to be familiar, but now, he felt that she was a stranger. He felt like he had never seen her before.

said in a cold voice, “Olivia, are you so desperate

his gaze. At that moment, she wasn’t afraid, nor was

don’t like Marina, and I don’t want to be a second Marina either. I don’t want to get involved with

paper; it’s a decision

released her shoulders. “I hope you don’t regret your decision

thought that she would be

she realized that she was much calmer

thing

past, I was scared of the dark. I was scared that you would leave me and

and block my ears.

But now, I realized that it

the most. But now that I’ve already lost

but in the

could only let his arms fall by his sides. He looked at Olivia with a complicated

truly made

her best to smile. “Ethan, I earnestly tried before. I kept believing this certain

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your dreams, tell yourself to hang on. For one more day, one

with the results from just

this saying, I persisted for two

at home. The moon was already in the sky, and the food was reheated over

someone who would

the Fordhams went bankrupt. When my father got into an accident, and when I lost

I rushed to and from the hospital. When I needed you the