Let's Get Married

“Melly… died.”

The few words ring in their ears. It is obviously light and weightless, yet everyone is breathless. Even Sally, who has nothing to do with this matter, feels the same.

Rex swallows hard and closes his deep black eyes. Lily hopes he could say something. However, after a while, he asks the question she does not want to hear the most, “Tell me, why did Marina scheme you to kill her last relative?”

If Melly was still alive, there would be room for solution. But now, everything has become a deadlock.

Lily takes two steps backward unsteadily, one hand holding on the desk to keep her legs. She wants to ask for Rex’s trust, but she doesn’t.

Yes, how should she convince him?

It is she who lied, and everything was captured by the camera. This is beyond dispute. She deserved it, for being controlled without even realizing it.

her relative

do this. It is too vicious. A man with humanity will not do such things. However, only she knows that Marina is more terrible than a demon. Marina killed Melly by Lily’s hand. But how could Rex believe

bitterly,

yet fragile, “But it is true. I didn’t kill anyone. Before I came here today, I didn’t even know Melly. Marina is just so malicious that she made me

hear, but he could not stand it. Her voice, Marina’s voice, mixed with Melly’s death… are too dull and

her. There is another deathly silence.

be so desperate. However, he seems to be frozen and unable to bend. He could

his dry palm moves away. The door behind her opens

be drained in the moment. She slides along the table to the

pats Sally on the shoulders, “Console her, I’ll

“Okay.”

Lily and hugs her while feeling distress, “Lily, stop crying. I believe you,