The next morning, Lila arrived at the hospital with various concoctions with her. She knocked on the door and entered the ward. Both Janet and her parents were genuinely taken aback at her appearance. They hadn’t expected her, of all people, to pay a visit. 

After hearing everything from Ethan just the day before, Beal and Johanna just couldn’t bring themselves to be amicable with Lila now.

 “What are you doing here?” Beal asked. 

Contrary to his characteristic disposition as a loving father, he now pulled a long face to show his disgruntlement. Johanna didn’t even afford Lila a cursory glance and kept her gaze averted from the offending woman. 

Lila really didn’t expect the two of them to be so openly cold towards her. According to what Charis had told her, she started to cry bitterly in front of her parents and Janet.

“Dad, Mom! I am so sorry!” 

got down on her knees before them

the fact that Lila didn’t achieve good grades at school and also didn’t have any ambitious inclination, they never cared about it in the least bit.

looked at Lila with a frown creased across her forehead. She felt crestfallen. Lila cried with

that there was something wrong with Janet’s parachute, but I deliberately

her bawling. She even cowered in a subservient, apologetic manner before Janet. Janet was also frightened by this uncharacteristic behavior. She hadn’t imagined

regretful emotion. Lila wiped her tears away and said, “Before Janet came into my life, Dad and Mom only loved me. I felt sad and couldn’t accept the sudden change, so

about her actions and genuinely seemed overcome by guilt. But in actuality, her apology was coming from a place purely of fear and not sincere regret. Why hadn’t Janet died in the accident? Why did

suffered an injury. The wound was open and bleeding. The droplets of blood dripped down her forehead into her eyes. Both Beal and Johanna couldn’t help but feel compassion and forgiveness

her tone became more gentle and she said, “You are not utterly

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