Chapter 1

Her emaciated body was ruthlessly pinned to the ground, her hands stained with blood.

“Look at you,” she heard a voice full of contempt say from above her. “The former most promising up-and-coming lawyer is now nothing but a worthless pile of dirt!”

Serenity Lewis raised her head with great effort and stared at the cold, exquisite face in front of her. Who would have thought that the most popular star in the entertainment industry who was as pure and innocent as white snow in the public’s eye could be so vicious in real life?

“Jenny Hall,” she spoke with a weak and trembling voice. “Why?”

“Why?” Jenny sneered. Her lips curled up in biting scorn as her sinister eyes glinted. “You killed my sister, and you dare to ask me why?!”

“It wasn’t me!” Serenity denied, frantically shaking her head. “I was wrongly accused!”

She laboriously tried to get up on her feet, and her eyes were fixed on the man standing next to Jenny Hall.

That man… was her boyfriend! That was the man who had promised to protect her for the rest of her life!

In the past, he would get distressed for a whole day even when a needle merely pricked her finger, yet now, all he did was watch silently as another woman tortured her.

“Z-Zeke…!”

Serenity shouted with all her might and pleaded, “I beg you… Please believe me…”

Outwardly, he was exactly the same as he always was—dressed in a smart suit and a pair of leather shoes—yet his eyes were icy cold as he stared at her. Gone was all the warmth. The only thing left was cold indifference.

“Zeke,” Jenny affectionately grabbed the man’s arm. Her ruthless expression changed as she faced him, and she now turned into an innocent woman who had been wronged. “You’re not feeling sorry for this woman, are you? I’m only doing this so my sister can rest in peace.”

“She brought this upon herself,” Zeke replied, gently stroking Jenny’s smooth silky hair as he continued, “She’s not worth any sympathy. Do whatever you like.”

Serenity’s eyes widened.

who used to treasure her as if she was the most precious thing in the world to him had nothing more to

from the person pinning her down

know what actually happened in that car crash… but I wasn’t drunk when I was driving, and it was definitely Mira Hall’s

Crush!

down on the back of her left hand. The pain pierced through her bones, but it was nothing compared to the agony that wrecked her

at Zeke, who had just stomped on her. She could never believe

breath, her voice as raspy as if her throat was filled

the most in my life,” Zeke replied in the coldest voice, “is

hands!” Jenny interrupted. “Just destroy them, Zeke! Those are the hands that killed my sister!”

the man’s voice reply,

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eyes opened violently, realizing that she had just dreamt about the incident in prison

spent three years in prison, her hands would never be as smooth and delicate as they used to be anymore. Although the nails on all of her ten fingers had grown back, there were still some lingering effects of the

incident, they had broken all the bones in her fingers, but she was ultimately not crippled because the bones eventually healed. Unfortunately, her joints were now crooked, and

fact, on a particularly cold or damp day, her fingers would be in excruciating pain. Sometimes the pain was so unbearable that she wished she could cut off her hands just to get rid of the

accused of drunk driving and killing Mira Hall, who was not only the eldest daughter of the wealthy Hall family,

and she had been kicked

her feet and picked up the cleaning tools that were lying beside her.

because of the cold weather. Beneath her almond-shaped eyes were a dainty nose and soft pink lips, and her hair was

many would assume that she was a college student fresh out of high school, but there

had just taken a nap in the sanitation

the news, and saying, “Guys, look! Zeke Shaw and Jenny Hall are getting engaged! What a lucky woman! She’s a

Hall… Those names were like scars of pain carved

cold January night, but Serenity still held firmly to the broom in her hands and swept the streets. The joints of her fingers throbbed in pain unceasingly because of

be over soon,’ she told herself. For a sanitation worker like her, even painkillers had become a luxury now.

Ferrari suddenly came to a screeching halt in front of her, and out came a man and a woman. Serenity quickly

man came from a rich family and had tried to molest her in the past,

the great lawyer, Ms. Lewis?” Travis Dawn

doing here sweeping the streets, Miss

she was still a lawyer!” said the

Travis while leering at Serenity. “Back then, she used to

get engaged with Jenny Hall? How about reconsidering my offer? You know you can get way more

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