25
Meras
I chuckled lightly.
“What good did his love do? He still cheated. He hid it, his friends hid it, and perhaps you were hiding it too.” Ever since Liam and I had married, she had pressured us relentlessly to have children. Liam couldn’t, and he refused to pressure me, which only fueled her animosity toward me. When she discovered Chloe’s pregnancy, she abandoned all pretense of propriety. Infidelity, once a disgrace in the Sterling family, was conveniently overlooked in her desperation for a grandchild.
My gaze sharpened. She’d condoned his affair, yet she pleaded with me, someone utterly disillusioned. “Mrs. Sterling, tell him this. He’s not only hurting himself, but me. The damage he’s done isn’t enough; he wants to break me completely.” I dismissed her. She left, defeated.
At the hospital, seeing Mrs. Sterling alone, the last light in Liam’s eyes died. He didn’t speak, simply waving her away. He picked up their wedding photo; tears of regret fell onto my smiling face.
He knew that if he’d resisted, Chloe wouldn’t have slept with him. He convinced himself he’d done it to spare me childbirth. But his heart had fallen for Chloe.
The man who’d vowed eternal fidelity at our wedding, who’d claimed divine punishment for infidelity, who’d sworn his love was only for me… had cheated.
He set down the photo, his lifeless eyes settling on a fruit knife. I’d asked him what he’d do if his heart was the problem. He could finally
answer.
He would kill himself.
“Aah!”
“Someone’s dead!”
A night nurse screamed at the bloody scene. Mrs. Sterling, approaching, dropped her food container. I pushed past the horrified nurse, collapsing to the floor.
Liam lay in bed, a fruit knife plunged into his chest.
Upon hearing of his death, I stood there, numb. A tear escaped. Wiping it away, I grabbed my suitcase and left. Boarding the plane, I looked back at the city. I would never return.
Years passed. I lay on a hospital bed, awaiting death. Then, I opened my eyes, staring at a
A mechanical voice echoed,
“Welcome back to the Time Travel Bureau.”
vast expanse of stars
A warm energy enveloped me. Memories flooded back–memories of countless lifetimes, trying to save my past self. Each alteration brought back pieces of my lost soul.
Before
appeared me
a transparent
screen,
shimmering
like
a
portal. Across
it glowed
a
single
word:
“Begin.”
I reached out, my hand trembling slightly, and pressed the button. Data spun across the screen in intricate patterns, emitting a soft white light.
Another chance awaited.
Another beginning.
At both ends of the Earth, they continue the trajectory of their lives, seemingly calm days but hidden under the dark surge of fate. However, life never stops making waves, in a distant foreign land, a mysterious opportunity quietly comes, like the faint stars twinkling in the night sky, gradually converging into a powerful force that changes everything.
Whether it is an unknown challenge or an unexpected reunion, the new story is already quietly dormant at the crossroads of fate, waiting for the moment to be opened, and their lives are about to be pulled by this force to a new, full of unknown and possible direction, the past love and
hate
in this grand
destiny
narrative,
but the prelude,
A new journey is about to begin, a different identity, a different story…
the real movement,
has just
played.
