Mr. Kane Got Blacklisted

Stella was shocked. She had talked to Keegan about this before, but he never mentioned his role in helping her. She always thought her salary was recovered because the organizers were reasonable and knew it wasn’t her fault. Now, looking back, she realized how naive that was.

For such a big event, why would the organizers care about a small etiquette girl like her? They wouldn’t care about right or wrong; they’d just choose the easiest way to handle the situation.

It turned out Keegan had helped her… It was him all along…

“Keegan is really smart. He had his eye on you even back then,” Alexis said with a sigh, but Stella smiled, “Brother, I’m sure Keegan had no selfish motives when he helped me. He would’ve helped anyone in that situation.”

Keegan never called her or mentioned it, and even years later, when she brought it up, he didn’t take credit for it. She was confident his help was purely out of kindness.

Alexis laughed, “Selfish or not, it doesn’t matter. The red string of fate between you two is as strong as steel. You’re destined to be together.”

Stella couldn’t agree more.

If they hadn’t been separated by mistake, they would’ve been childhood sweethearts. But even after all the twists and turns, fate still brought them together.

Meanwhile, Joe started his run strong, with Keegan nearly two kilometers behind. But in the second lap, Joe slowed down while Keegan kept a steady pace. By the end of the second lap, the gap had shrunk to less than a kilometer.

As Stella handed Keegan an energy bar, she felt a pang of concern seeing his sweaty face.

Keegan took the bar, tapped it on his palm, and bit into it as he continued running.

It wasn’t even 10 a.m., but the sun was already scorching. Alexis, always one to enjoy life, had someone set up a sunshade over their heads and was lounging under it, sipping watermelon juice.

By the third lap, the distance between Joe and Keegan was just a few hundred meters.

Alexis suddenly sat up, removing his sunglasses, “Keegan is going to overtake him.”

Though he loved running, he

he could barely maintain his pace. At 15 kilometers, his lungs burned with every breath, and his legs felt like they were weighed down with lead, too heavy to

pushed himself to keep going. He thought if

never imagined Keegan could speed up in the

saw Keegan pass

at this point, he could barely

his hair, stinging his eyes,

he heard Stella’s

turned his head and saw Alexis driving her in a trolley, keeping pace with him. Alexis also cheered him on,

of feeling like he’d already lost and should give up, he didn’t want to embarrass himself in front of his idols. At

his teeth and kept running, even though his legs

to Keegan by

he crossed the finish line, Keegan had

finish, his legs gave out, and he wanted to collapse on the ground. But Keegan helped him up, “Stand and

handed Joe a bottle of room temperature water, “Drink it slowly, in small

had been upset about losing and underestimating

from Keegan,

water and asked softly, “How are

his

run

at Joe, who looked defeated, like he was about

so excited to meet his idol before, but now he was too downcast to even talk to

take a break and then

going to humiliate me just because you