“This is Olivia and my home.”
“I won’t let anyone else move in again.”
With nowhere else to go, Sophia finally came to the Hayes house.
She stood outside and rang the doorbell.
Ryan came out from inside.
He looked at Sophia with a cold expression.
“Why are you here?”
After saying those words, Ryan was stunned.
He remembered saying the same thing to Olivia when she last came home a few months ago.
10:20 AM
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He remembered saying the same thing to Olivia when she last came home a few months ago.
In just a few short months, the person he said those words to had changed to Sophia.
Sophia’s face was pale, but it gave her a fragile air.
She reached out to hold Ryan’s hand, acting coy.
“Big brother Ryan. I just wanted to come see you all.”
Ryan had never been able to let go of Sophia.
Besides knowing all her secrets, there was another important reason.
Sophia had had several abortions abroad.
The last time, Ryan had quit his job to go see her overseas.
He even slept with Sophia once because of it.
He always felt their relationship was different.
But now he felt Sophia seemed to be stringing him along.
Ryan lowered his eyes.
“Come in.”
After letting Sophia in, Ryan spoke quietly.
“Dad’s health hasn’t been good lately. Watch what you say.”
Frank was sitting in the living room. Seeing Sophia arrive, his expression wasn’t good.
Sophia put on a smile.
“Dad, how have you been lately? These are some supplements I had someone buy.”
Sophia placed the items on the table.
Hearing her words, Frank’s face finally showed some emotion.
After all, Sophia was the only descendant of the Lewis family.
She had lost her child now, which was punishment enough.
Frank had already lost one daughter.
He didn’t want to lose Sophia as a daughter too.
“Mm, the doctor told me not to get angry lately.”
After divorcing Linda, his health had gotten much worse than before.
Only then did he realize Linda’s importance.
But Linda had left very thoroughly.
In that regard, Olivia was most like her.
After some small talk, Sophia got to the point.
“Dad, I remember my mother left me some money when she died.”
10:20 AM
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“Dad, I remember my mother left me some money when she died.”
Hearing Sophia say this, Frank nodded.
“Your mother did leave you some money.”
Sophia continued.
“I’m having financial difficulties now. Can you give me that money?”
Frank was puzzled.
“Sophia, are you so desperate that you need 30,000 dollars?”
“Dad, what are you saying?”
Sophia frowned at him.
“My mom left me 3 million dollars back then!”
Frank was stunned.
3 million?!
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“Sophia, what are you talking about? Your mother was still relying on my financial support when she was sick. How could she have left you 3
million?”
Seeing the situation, Sophia dropped the act.
She leaned back coldly: “Dad, you’re going too far. I clearly remember my mom left me 3 million. You say 30,000 – do you have any proof?”
“You!”
Frank clutched his aching head.
He couldn’t produce any proof.
Sophia had seized on this point.
Sophia threatened,
“Dad, don’t try to deny it. Otherwise I’ll have to find a lawyer. You don’t want to meet in court, do you?”
Looking at the “stepdaughter” he had raised for over 20 years, Frank felt he couldn’t breathe.
He had given Sophia his heart and soul, only to be repaid like this.
“You, I, Frank gasped, “I don’t have the money.”
“How is that possible?”
Sophia didn’t believe him at all.
Due to various issues, the family was no longer what it used to be.
The Hayes family basically had nothing left except this house.
Seeing him silent, Sophia continued,
“This house is worth quite a bit, isn’t it? Even though it’s in the suburbs, it would sell for several million.”
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Frank’s face turned bright red as he slumped back on the sofa.
Seeing his mouth and eyes twitch, Sophia stepped back in disgust.
“Don’t think pretending to be sick will get you out of paying. Dad, looks like we’ll each need to find our own lawyers.”
Frank felt like he was dying.
He looked at the half–bloomed winter jasmine in the yard, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes.
Because Sophia liked winter jasmine,
He had uprooted the camellia flowers Olivia had grown for many years.
Olivia actually liked white camellias.
But because Frank casually said red ones looked better,
Olivia planted red camellias.
The camellias had bloomed year after year, finally dying last year.
Frank tried to reach forward.
He seemed to see Olivia standing in front of the camellias, smiling as she called him.
“Dad.”
“Oli…”
Frank passed out.
“Dad!”
Ryan rushed out of the bathroom to support Frank.
“What’s wrong? Dad?”
“Sophia, quick, call 911!”
But Sophia didn’t respond.
“I just want to know, when will you repay the 3 million you owe me?”
“Sophia Lewis!”
Ryan looked at her in shock.
The Hayes family had given Sophia far more than 3 million.
He had also given Sophia all his savings bit by bit.
He never expected her to be so ungrateful.
“Sophia, my family doesn’t owe you anything!”
Ryan quickly called an ambulance.
But Sophia wouldn’t let up.
“What do you mean you don’t owe me? If your family hadn’t sent me abroad, how could I have had so many boyfriends and so many abortions?”
“If it weren’t for your mom pushing me, how could I have lost Ethan’s child? Otherwise I would have married Ethan long ago!”
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Ryan was stunned. He looked up at her.
The woman before him was worldly and vicious.
No longer the pure winter plum blossom willing to die embracing its fragrance.
He paused, then asked.
“Sophia Lewis, did you ever love me?”
Since they had already fallen out, Sophia dropped all pretense.
“Ryan Hayes, I know you like me, but you can forget about it. I could never like you.”
“How could I like someone so useless? Do you think you’re Ethan?”
He had been compared to Ethan since childhood.
So Ryan didn’t like Ethan.
But he never expected to still be compared to Ethan now.
Looking at the unconscious Frank,
He suddenly felt it was all meaningless.
Ryan pounced on Sophia.
Tightly gripping her neck.
“Go to heli-”
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Sophia was terrified. She struggled to breathe.
“Ryan…”
Ryan’s eyes were bloodshot as he grabbed a sharp fruit knife nearby.
Seeing this, Sophia panicked and flailed her limbs.
She cried, trying to evoke Ryan’s feelings for her.
“Big brother Ryan…”
Ryan froze for a moment.
The knife stopped in front of her face.
He gritted his teeth, tears falling onto Sophia’s flushed face.
Ryan loosened his grip on her neck.
Sophia gasped for air.
Then he suddenly plunged the knife into Sophia’s chest.
“Sophia, you go to hell.”
Olivia was dead.
Linda had left.
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Sopnia, you go to nen.
Olivia was dead.
Linda had left.
Frank was on the brink of death.
What reason did he have left to live?
As Sophia stared at him in horror, Ryan stabbed her over and over, crying.
“This is all your fault. You made Olivia leave us. You made Mom leave home. You angered Dad to death!”
“I have nothing left.”
“I have nothing left!!!”
Sophia was gagged by his hand, unable to make a sound.
The neighbors had called the police when they were arguing earlier.
By the time the police arrived, Sophia was barely alive.
Ryan was arrested.
Because he hesitated with the first stab, Sophia’s heart wasn’t pierced.
This saved her life.
But her kidneys and intestines were ruined by Ryan’s stabbing.
Sophia would have to live with a urine bag for the rest of her life.
She was tormented by pain, unable to sleep peacefully.
Day and night she experienced what Olivia had felt.
She deeply regretted her actions.
But regret was all she could do now.
Frank didn’t die.
He had a stroke.
He would never be able to speak again or leave his bed for the rest of his life.
He also deeply regretted his actions.
But it was too late.
At the final trial, Ryan remained silent.
He was ultimately sentenced to life in prison.
This incident made the news and trended online.
Netizens commented:
“This family is truly messed up. They neglected their own good daughter to raise an ungrateful wolf.”
“Isn’t this the woman who had an affair? Wow, she even had a thing with her stepbrother?”
<
“Karma is real. Everyone in this family except the daughter who died of cancer is a bad person. They deserve it.”
“Everyone, never do immoral or illegal things!”
This incident stayed in the local hot search for days.
Everyone in the city learned about the Hayes family.
When the police called Ethan,
He laughed.
He looked at the air, speaking seriously.
“Olivia, they’re dead.”
“Mm, I know. They deserved it.”
“Don’t worry, no one will bully you anymore.”
Ethan was sent to a mental hospital.
Every day he sat by a small flower bed, talking to “Olivia“.
The other patients in the mental hospital all disliked him.
They thought he was crazy.
When Jason learned of this, he was preparing to return to school.
Hearing people around him discuss it,
He didn’t feel any satisfaction.
Olivia wouldn’t come back to life because of this.
And Olivia had never accepted his confession before she died.
She said she only wanted to be his big sister.
If they were fated, let the next life be witness.
How he wished there was a next life.
Jason placed the white camellia in his hand on the beach.
“Olivia, I’m about to go back to school.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely study hard.”
“I chose marine biology as my minor. When I graduate, I’ll go to sea to travel with you.”
As he spoke, tears unconsciously flowed from his eyes.
I’m not crying. It’s just the wind. I will definitely live happily.”
“After all, you loved seeing me smile the most.”
The waves gently washed away the white camellia at his feet.
As if Olivia had given him a gentle response.
