It felt like a vivid and painful slap in Amanda’s face.

She was so furious that she turned around and quickly left the place in embarrassment with Janice following close behind.

Serenity felt like she had just watched a drama unfold before her eyes. As soon as they exited the mall, they had witnessed someone smashing a car, which turned out to be Amanda’s.

“What happened? Did she offend someone and that was their revenge?” Serenity wondered.

“Who knows?” Jackson replied, his eyes flickering slightly as he pursed his lips.

“Anyway, it’s none of our business,” Serenity said as she grabbed Jackson’s arm and headed toward the bus stop.

Suddenly, Jackson stopped abruptly. Serenity turned to look at him only to find that he had turned pale, and there was a shocked look on his face.

He was also staring unblinkingly at the bus stop.

“What’s wrong?” Serenity asked.

“It’s… nothing,” Jackson replied as his expression gradually returned to normal.

That had been a mistake, right? He thought the woman who had just boarded the bus looked like a certain other woman he knew…

A woman who had once abandoned her husband and child.

But it was impossible for her to be here.

***

“Jack, don’t be like me, okay? Don’t give them all your heart even if you want to love someone.”

“As it turns out, love is the cheapest thing in this world. When she stops caring about you anymore, it’s useless even if you kneel and beg her.”

“Jack, maybe one day when you truly love someone, you’ll understand that in this world, there’s someone who can control the joy and sorrow you feel, who can make you feel alive or dead… But if possible, Daddy hopes you never experience that.”

it? Who was

here anymore! It’s cold… so cold… I don’t want to stay here… I’ll

I’m leaving. I don’t want your father to repeatedly say he loves me but can’t give me the life I want! I’ve already done everything I could

was that? Who

“Don’t… go…”

Who was that?

it was… him,

the woman, begging her not to go. If she left,

Don’t go! Please!

nothing happened. His surroundings got increasingly darker like he was drowning,

desperately at the air, trying to grab something… He didn’t care, even if it

enveloped him, and a gentle voice rang out faintly in

anywhere. I’m not leaving! Don’t be

The

a petite face with delicate features entered his sight. Her

telling me not

that Jackson had opened his eyes, Serenity finally let out a

happened? Was it a

him and his father, and seeing his father

a nightmare,” Jackson

gripping her hand as if he had been clinging to

had clung to the warmth that had enveloped him when he felt like he was drowning like it was a lifeline, and now, he realized

muddle-headed that he had mistaken someone for a

his face gradually paled. He curled up where he lay, covering his

again. “Do you feel

was shoving down his discomfort. “Just…

his nightmare? When he was younger, he would often experience stomach cramps due to stress, but he had hardly had any relapses

at Jackson’s increasingly pale face and noticed a thin layer of sweat forming on his

of warm

he would grind his teeth as

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