They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 629

Chapter 629: We All Knew

Nothing she could say would stop him from taking care of her.

"There’s something I... I need to tell you," Nnenna began, her words slow and raw.

"Where’s Arthur?" she asked without turning.

"I’m here," Arthur’s voice answered from right behind her, calm, flat, a guard at her back.

"We should go inside first," Arthur suggested.

"No." Nnenna’s reply was sharp, sudden. "I can’t keep carrying this."

"Carrying what?" Carl asked, voice low and steady, trying to read her through the rain.

Nnenna swallowed hard, the words dragging through her. "What happened at the cliff..." she started.

"That’s in the past," Arthur interrupted, the way he always tried to close a wound before it bled more. "No need to revisit it."

"No!" Nnenna snapped, more desperate than angry. The rain pattered against their umbrellas, like a metronome counting down her confession. "You don’t know everything."

"It doesn’t matter—" Arthur began.

"It does," Carl cut in gently, looking straight at Arthur. "It matters to her."

Arthur’s jaw tightened. He nodded, the silence stretching as he gave her the space she needed.

on," Carl urged softly.

to the armrests until her fingers ached. Her voice came out small and honest. "When that thing was trying to kill me on the cliff, I tried to stop it. I don’t know how or why, but the wind I caused... it swept Somto and

The world narrowed to just those words, the confession sitting

Nnenna’s voice broke the rain. "I went after Athena even when he told me not to. I wanted to find out about my past, about what happened to my parents, by any means. I was selfish.

herself. The words tumbled out raw and painful. "The love system warned me again and again to

look, the question "What’s a love system?" written on both their faces. They swallowed it down. They didn’t interrupt. Whatever she

better choices, used my resources more efficiently, thought, he would be here. But I failed. And now, he’ll never know, and he’ll never forgive me. I don’t even deserve

meet her eyes, not caring that the rain soaked him, Nnenna was covered, and that mattered more. His tone was

to me," Carl said. "Going after Athena was reckless. That’s true. But reckless doesn’t equal murder. There are so many possibilities that don’t end with someone dying." He paused, searching for the right words. "... In fact your overall

let’s set the wind aside. Even if you did something strange in that moment, you couldn’t have known the outcome. You didn’t see Somto or

tried to fight," he added, voice rough. "Not proud because of

sure you never forget this—" his voice softened but carried weight, "—we could never hate you. For anything. Even if you picked up

flinch. "I—we, know you. You care about people, even those who hate you. Somto told us what you did in Lionara, how you turned things around when no

listen to yourself. Somto, never forgive you? Nnenna—" he

that. His jaw set, his gaze heavy, but he stayed

had cared, but what she had always longed for was beyond sibling love, the kind she

in a steadying breath. "On the night of his coronation, he called me. We talked, about some feelings he had started noticing...

her heart

advised him to wait until she

of her in disbelief. Her

to let go, knowing he was gone forever. The guilt of his death was already crushing her. But to hear that he had died with someone else in

a hand as if to stop her from

"I don’t want to hear this anymore. I would

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