Chapter 16

The cold breeze from the river blew directly at her, penetrating to her bones like a knife’s edge, but Aveline managed to get up and continue her pursuit.

However, she had underestimated the current state of her body. She hadn’t run more than a few meters before she fell to the ground hard. The car door opened again, and a pair of shiny handmade leather shoes came to a halt in front of her.

She followed the crisp pant leg of the man as it slowly moved up, and her gaze met Alexander’s icy eyes.

“Alexander…” Aveline weakly began.

A pair of knuckle–defined hands came down above her, and for a moment, Aveline seemed to see the white–clad youth who had once fascinated her in her youth. She instinctively reached her hand toward

him.

The moment their hands touched, Alexander withdrew his hand abruptly, giving her a glimpse of hope and then mercilessly taking it away, causing her body to fall hard again.

She hadn’t been injured before, but this time, her palms landed right on broken glass shards, and the glaring bloodstains dripped down from her palm.

His black pupils hesitated, but he didn’t make a move.

Aveline felt a bit dazed for a moment. She thought of how, in the past, he had taken her to the hospital in the middle of the night just for a small cut on her finger.

The duty doctor had even jokingly said, “This gentleman arrived early; if he had come any later, the

wound would have healed.”

The man in her memory and the one before her now seemed to overlap. His eyes, though ruthless as ever, were no different from the past, except now, they were filled with frost.

Alexander’s voice was cold and indifferent. “Aveline, others might not understand me, but now I don’t know you either. Someone who can somersault a thousand times at the gym can’t walk a few steps?”

His gaze at her was filled with contempt, cutting through her like a knife.

Aveline bit her pale lips and tried to explain, “No, I didn’t lie to you. I’m just ill, and 1-”

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up her chin, and his rough fingers brushed over her dry lips. “Indeed, it seems that like father, like daughter. Willing to put on such a

cut deeper than the chilling wind, stabbing into her

“My father is an upright and honorable man, and I’m sure he’d never do anything that goes against his conscience for a little money!”

out a check from his wallet. He casually wrote a

want

million dollars, a substantial sum that would ensure she didn’t have to worry about her

being that generous, and Aveline didn’t take it.

“Under one condition.”

say that Anthony is a wretched scoundrel who’s not

slap him but was swiftly caught by his wrist. In the struggle, her injured hand hit his shirt, leaving a

sternly, “Don’t want to say it? Then let him die in the hospital,

this?” Aveline questioned through her tears.

her from crying seemed like

face lacked warmth; it was

of Aveline and tore up the

with indifference,

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pieces of paper shattered her hopes, finally turning into a flurry of butterflies that fell

her.

tried to pick up the shattered pieces, and her tears fell onto the ground

by one.

child, in a panic, and feeling helpless after losing

to leave. As he was about to get into his car, he heard a dull thud. He

on

seems that Madam has fainted. Should

“You seem to care about her a

when Mr. Sterling used to care deeply about Madam. However, since he returned from identifying a corpse, Mr. Sterling had completely

to ask more. He

car moved further away, Alexander looked at the woman who never got up through the

she seemed to have become better at acting.

up in a pampered environment, Anthony had made her practice various physical activities from a young age so that she wouldn’t be bullied.

a woman as strong as a bull, with a black belt in taekwondo and a seventh–degree in sanda,

his eyes, Aveline was just acting

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