Serenity could feel her heart pounding heavily in her chest.

Goodness, what had gotten into her?!

She blushed and quickly withdrew her hand.

“Okay, let’s… eat before it gets cold.”

With that, she concentrated on her food and started eating voraciously.

Jackson smiled faintly as he watched her face almost disappear into her bowl of soup, and the amusement in his eyes seemed to deepen.

“Then, do you like me, Sis?”

“Yes, I do,” Serenity replied without hesitation.

“I like you very much too,” Jackson said, his lips curling up into a smile.

It seemed like it had been a long time since someone had captured his interest like this.

***

After the City Council inspection ended, Janice said to Serenity, “Serenity, our high school classmates are planning a class reunion this weekend. You should come too.”

A class reunion?

Serenity laughed inwardly. Given her current situation, attending a class reunion would only invite more ridicule.

“No, I have something else on that day, so I won’t go,” Serenity replied.

“Come on, we rarely gather. What could you possibly have to do that you can’t skip? Join us, okay?” Janice urged, clearly eager for Serenity to turn up at the reunion.

If the former class valedictorian and class beauty were to show up in her current state, it would surely astonish everyone. Janice couldn’t wait to show their former classmates the state Serenity was in.

“I have to work this weekend. Did you think my job included weekends as regular days off?” Serenity replied.

Janice was momentarily speechless. She had indeed forgotten about that.

“But…”

“I have to go pick up rubbish now. Let’s talk another time if anything comes up,” Serenity interrupted Janice and walked away without waiting for the other woman to finish speaking.

Serenity wasn’t an idiot. She could clearly see what Janice’s intentions were.

However, she didn’t expect that even though she had deliberately tried to avoid it, the deputy director specifically instructed her to deliver a document to someone at the City Council on Sunday who was at a luxurious club in Solaria City.

Ordinary sanitation workers couldn’t even dream of entering an establishment like this, but when she arrived at the club entrance, staff members were waiting there as if they had already known she was coming, and they led her through a side entrance into the club.

One of the staff members pushed open the door to a private room that was filled with people.

As soon as Serenity entered the room, a familiar voice called out, “Hey, look! Guess who’s here!”

Serenity looked up to see Janice, Amanda, and a group of her former high school classmates.

The person who had called out was Janice.

Instantly, Serenity knew Janice had set her up. Janice was affiliated with the City Council, and the leader of the Sanitation Office branch Serenity was working at would naturally want to establish a good relationship with her. So, if Janice mentioned a seemingly insignificant document that needed to be delivered and specified who she wanted it to be delivered by, the deputy director would naturally comply with her request.

is now working as a sanitation worker!” Amanda chimed in with

uniform stood

if it isn’t our class’s former academic genius and beauty? I almost didn’t recognize you after you spent three years in prison. Didn’t Zeke use to dote on you excessively? And yet, you’re now working as

name. Every time she heard his name, a

realized it was William Sanders. He came from a well-known family in Solaria and had once pursued

even attempted to assault her. After Zeke had taught him a lesson, he had become

ignored William and walked up directly to Janice, handing over the document and saying, “This should be the

fake, hypocritical smile and took the

sorry for

suddenly grabbed her arm from behind and said, “What’s the rush to leave? It’s a class reunion, after all. Let’s

he spoke, he held a glass of red wine to

a drink. You got charged for drunk driving

turned her head to avoid the

red wine splashed all over his

now! You really don’t know what’s good even if it landed in your

he grabbed a nearby bottle of wine and poured it

chilled wine drenched her body, leaving

and said, “Serenity, you should apologize to William. Perhaps he’ll forgive you if

Apologize?

the one being insulted here,

eyes. No matter how wretched

only

think you were still Zeke’s girlfriend? I’m asking you to apologize

tearing sound echoed in the room, and

she exclaimed in

to speak up for her, let alone step forward to

with hardly any exposure to sunlight, her skin was fairer than an average person’s, but it

of the scars had yet to fade,

these were remnants from her

hand. Wincing in pain, she turned to see that Amanda was currently stepping

a hurry to leave? You haven’t even

desire was only to see Serenity’s

her hand made Serenity feel as if she were back

and could only accept her fate like the powerless ant

But now…

yanked her left hand from William’s grasp. Then, she shoved

had

suddenly, a tremendous force struck her from

It hurt!

It was so painful!

like it was

escape? Haven’t you heard about this

William abruptly stopped talking.

painfully familiar voice, “William? What are

Serenity stiffened.

That was… Zeke.

but in the end, he had casually discarded her like an unwanted

encounter Zeke again after her release, much less in such

today? What a coincidence! Your ex-girlfriend is here with me for a meal too. However, she doesn’t know what’s good for her even if it fell into her lap, you

spoke, he grabbed Serenity’s hair and

fell on Zeke’s familiar face

a man who used to feel extremely distressed every time she was in pain, but now, he merely furrowed his brows in

when he had coldly agreed

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