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.

precious thing

where she got the strength, but she suddenly broke free from the person pinning her down to

car crash… but I wasn’t drunk when I was driving,

Crush!

left hand. The pain pierced through

looked up strenuously and stared at Zeke, who had just stomped on her. She could never

a deep breath, her voice as raspy as if her throat was filled with sand as she asked, “Have

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

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

next moment, Serenity heard the

***

realizing that she had just dreamt about the

looked down at her coarse calloused hands. After having 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 injury on her

crippled because the bones eventually healed. Unfortunately,

fact, on a particularly cold or damp day, her fingers would be in excruciating pain. Sometimes the pain was so unbearable that she wished

that car crash, she had been accused of drunk driving and killing Mira Hall, who was not only the

family turned their backs on her, and she had been kicked out of the house. She was then sentenced to

picked up the cleaning tools that

flushed slightly red because of the cold weather. Beneath her

high school, but there was no youthful

had just taken a nap in the sanitation station,

scrolling through their phones, reading the news, and saying, “Guys, look! Zeke Shaw and Jenny Hall are getting engaged!

out of the room. Zeke Shaw and Jenny Hall… Those names were like scars of pain

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 the

with it a little longer and it will be over soon,’ she told herself. For a sanitation worker like her, even painkillers

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

molest her in the

the great lawyer, Ms. Lewis?” Travis Dawn mockingly

sweeping the streets, Miss

was still a lawyer!” said the woman beside him

Serenity. “Back

my

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