Chapter 4

"Vivienne! Have I ever deprived you of food or clothes? Yet you make such bland meals. What, haven't I given you enough money? Are you too stingy to use oil when cooking? You're just like your mother, cheap to the core!"

"Clearly, you can't change what's in your blood! How could someone like you ever raise my children properly?"

He was the one who had said that with all his business dinners, he wanted lighter meals to balance out the rich food.

As former lovers who were once so close, we knew each other's deepest, darkest secrets.

My shameful secret was my mother.

My dysfunctional childhood left me with many character flaws.

I had no one to confide in, and I didn't dare seek anyone out.

Kellan was the exception. He used to hold me, comfort me, and let me cry my heart out, bidding farewell to my past.

He said, "I'll give you a perfect home in the future."

But now, because of one comment from Sarah, Kellan publicly exposed my greatest shame.

"Kellan, you don't need to worry about future children. Your kids won't have anything to do with me."

"Who else would want you now, besides me? Do you really think you're still some young girl in her twenties?"

I didn't answer. I just turned and walked away.I didn't leave the company right away. Instead, I went to the rooftop greenhouse.

Inside were the tulips I had once planted with my own hands.

Kellan and I had planted them together. Now, it was time for me to go, and for them to go too.

But the scene before me pierced my eyes painfully.

All the tulips in the greenhouse had been destroyed, with broken stems and fallen leaves scattered everywhere.

"Sis, this greenhouse is about to become mine. Your tulips were really ugly, it's scary to keep them around."

Sarah had appeared behind me at some point, without her usual pitiful act. Her face was full of cunning and calculation.

"Vivienne, Kellan's heart left you long ago. Look at yourself now - fat, disgusting, lifeless. Where's any trace of a woman left in you?"

There was a time when everyone was full of life.

I had been taking ovulation shots for a month for egg retrieval.

Under the hormonal stimulation, I started gaining weight. Unable to bear my changing figure, I became irritable and even insecure.

Add to that Sarah's appearance, and we started arguing frequently.

I recklessly tried to provoke him, anger him, curse at Sarah, all just to get his attention.

But now, I'm tired.

"Sis, why are you treating me like this?Your flowers, I'll replace them for you!"

Sarah's gaze was unusually fierce, yet her words came out frail and weak.

I became wary, and in the next second, Sarah grabbed my wrist and fell to the ground.

"Sarah! Sarah, are you okay?" Kellan came rushing in from some corner, alerted by the commotion.

"Sister, even if your flowers were ruined, you shouldn't take out your anger on me like this. I'm truly innocent~"

"It's fine, if it makes sister happy, then what does it matter if you use me as a punching bag~ As long as sister is happy~"

So this is where she was waiting for me.