Boat Against the Current

She could not win the argument against him, and she was running late, so she had to take his car. Halfway to the destination, however, he suddenly made a detour, saying he had to pick up someone else.

Lucille paused when she saw Sophia. She wanted to ask, Why did they have to bring someone completely unrelated to pick up her father’s ashes? Were he and Sophia that inseparable?

However, time was running short. She swallowed her words.

On the way to the new cemetery, Lucille walked ahead of the others wordlessly, holding the urn. Everything was ready. Just as they were about to bury the urn, River’s phone.

He glanced at the number, frowned, and left the gravesite.

Lucille did not ask where he was going. She bent down to put down the urn, but Sophia stopped her with a smirk.

“River agreed to watch the sunset with me today. He only brought you here because it was along the way. I bet you didn’t know that!”

Lucille did not know that, but she also did not care. All she cared about was letting her father rest in peace.

That was why she ignored Sophia’s taunts and did not even look at her. She just wanted to put the ashes down.

Sophia had never been ignored like that before. She grabbed Lucille in a huff. “Stop pretending, Lucille. I’m talking to you!”

When she saw how carefully Lucille was holding the urn, she made a split-second decision. She snatched the urn from Lucille’s hands and smashed it to the ground!

It shattered into pieces on the steps, the grey ashes spilling all over the floor.

Lucille’s mind finally snapped. “Dad!”

She ran down the steps, sobbing as she knelt and tried to pick up the ashes. However, a gust of wind blew the last of her hopes away.

She could only watch as her father’s ashes were blown away by the wind. No matter how desperately she tried to retain them, she could not keep hold of a single speck.

That was her father! All that remained of him after he died was his ashes, but now she could not hold on to even that!

She was furious, and she could not hold it back anymore. She stormed back to Sophia and slapped her with all her strength.

“Sophia Song! Those were my father’s ashes! The last thing he left to me in this world! And now he’ll never rest in peace!”

Sophia’s fair face swelled up in an instant. She was stunned. Just as she was about to fight back, she suddenly saw River heading back this way.

She quickly regained her senses and fell backward, tumbling down the stairs.

River had no idea what was going on. When he saw Sophia falling, he hurriedly helped her back up. “What are you doing, Lucille?”

“What am I doing?! Why don’t you ask what the hell she did?!”

River had never seen Lucille so hysterical. He looked at her tear-stained face, his fury freezing in an instant. The next moment, Sophia wept in his arms.

“I accidentally knocked over Lucy’s father’s urn, River. The wind picked up, and now the ashes are all gone. Lucy shoved me down the stairs in anger. Look, I’m bleeding so much! Shouldn’t that count as punishment…?”

River’s heart tightened in his chest when he saw the remains of the urn. He wanted to comfort her, but the words came out differently. “Sophia didn’t mean to…”

“Get lost!” Lucille used up all her energy to roar those words.

River still wanted to explain, but Sophia tugged at his sleeve, sobbing. “River, it really hurts! Is my leg broken?”

River glanced at Lucille… but in the end, he chose to leave with Sophia in his arms!