Chapter 2: Blood-Red Datura (1/2)

Proofread by Peter Gong

“It is you who are unregenerate!” Mandy turns around to Charlie, gritting her teeth, “I have no idea what you like about her! She cheated on you at that time! I saw her with another man! She is setting me up like this because she’s afraid that I will expose her!”

“Set you up? Haha.” Charlie laughs grimly, “Mandy, if you really had seen something before, how come you never told me until today? As I see it, it is you who want to set Vivi up. There’s nothing wrong in saying that you are malicious.”

“I didn’t! Indeed, it was her——”

“Enough!” Charlie interrupts her, “No matter what you say, I will never believe you again. Oh, no. I should say that I’ve never believed you.”

What is so-called grieving to the extent of wis.h.i.+ng to die? She understands it completely now.

It has never occurred to her that Charlie would tear her heart out with his own hands one day.

In her heart, pains spreads without restraint, which she can’t resist at all.

An indefinite period of time later, Mandy lowers her eyes all of a sudden, looking extremely vulnerable. With lips trembling, she murmurs, “Charlie, I wanna go back home.”

“Home? Which one? Residence of Song?”

“Right. I wanna go back to my own home.”

The words are barely out of her mouth when she hears Charlie’s sepulchral voice, “I’m afraid you can’t go back. Because this afternoon, your family enterprise declared bankruptcy, and your father, Hayes Song, has been put in prison because of bribe. You and your family are totally screwed!”

“What did you say?” Mandy looks up at Charlie suddenly, with an unbelievable look on her face, “My father offered a bribe? How could that be?”

“Why is that impossible? You think your father is a man of rect.i.tude and probity? Do you know what he has done to enforce me to marry you? It has been so many years that I have to pretend we are an affectionate couple with so much hatred in my heart. Do you know how sick it makes me?” Charlie’s eyes fill with ridicule, “I have gone to great lengths to catch you tripping.”

“You……you did it?” Mandy stares at Charlie fixedly, her voice trembling.

Charlie looks back at her directly, the most merciless words jumping out of his mouth. “I said, I would let you go down to the h.e.l.l. Of course, your whole family would be with you!”

Mandy can’t believe the man in front of her is the man who she loves from childhood to adulthood……

Her father and she have treated him very well for so many years. Is that fake? Why did he say that? Back in the day when his family encountered financial crisis, she begged her father to help them piteously. Why would it be like this suddenly?