After Her Rise, She Shone Brightly

I twisted my hand even harder.

“Now I know.”

“Elvira! Don’t let your family suffer!”

“Oh, so my mother deserves to be paralyzed?”

I pushed Thora into the pool without mercy.

The blood from the knife smeared onto Shawn’s shirt. In this sudden situation, no one dared to step forward.

Shawn called me crazy, but his eyes were clearly filled with throbbing.

“Crazy? Isn’t this what you want?”

He had been pushing me since I arrived at this party.

I had been fighting Shawn for so long, I had almost forgotten what our love was like in the beginning.

The day Shawn proposed, I sold his company’s official documents.

The day I agreed to marry him, he had someone remove my mother’s oxygen tank.

The day I was in a car accident, I had to go abroad for treatment.

He checked all the tubes on his body.

When he saw me, he personally removed his oxygen mask and bit the corner of my lip.

“Elvira, if I die, in the next life, you marry me. We won’t torture each other anymore, okay?”

He slowly collapsed from lack of oxygen. I looked into his expectant eyes and shook my head. “We don’t have a next life.”

In the hospital, Shawn rolled up his sleeves. “We have the same blood type. Take mine. If it’s not enough, drain it all.”

When he emerged from the blood-drawing room, he was staggering. He pressed my shoulder, desperate to prove himself.

“Elvira, did you see? I know how to love.”

“Shawn, you took too much blood. You’re unconscious. Shawn, I’ll hold you.”

Shawn pushed Jeff away. “Get out! I’m not unconscious yet.”

He looked at me again. “Did you see? I already know how to love. I can find anyone and love them deeply! Don’t you understand?”

Red and blue police lights shone on the sides of my face and his.

I pushed him toward Jeff. My obsessive-compulsive disorder patted the spot he had just touched.

“The police are here. It’s time to take a statement. I’ll pay for her medical expenses.”

“Elvira, I’m begging for mercy. Let’s let each other go.”

I didn’t answer him. I had let him go two years ago. At the police station, we were locked up in two interrogation rooms.

After taking my statement, I sat here. The chatter in the next room grew louder.

“Shawn, you can hide this from others, but not from me? Another new trick of yours, right? You know she doesn’t want to marry you, so you’re determined to marry her and disgust her. What about Thora? She is so obedient, she’d be willing to be your mistress.”

“I’m serious. But I won’t break up with Thora until she agrees. She’s young and if I suddenly proposed, she won’t be able to handle it.”

“Shawn, won’t Elvira hear us?”

After a long moment, Shawn’s voice reached me.

“If she hears, she’ll rush over and slap each of us without mercy. She didn’t come, which means she can’t hear.”

I found it amusing and lowered my head to make a phone call. “Hey, come get me.”

Within ten minutes, the police came calling. “Elvira, your family’s here to pick you up.”

“Okay, thank you.”

“You can go home after you sign.”

Leaving the room, passing by theirs, Jeff asked jokingly, “Family? Doesn’t she only have one mother? Isn’t her mother paralyzed?”

“Friends, perhaps.”

Jeff suddenly couldn’t help but smile and opened the door. “Officer, who was here to pick up Elvira?”