"Brother Lucian, are you truly abandoning me?"
Cold rain pelted down on the young girl’s pale face. Serena’s lips trembled, her eyes bloodshot and swollen as she knelt on the muddy ground, pleading toward the dark-haired youth standing inside the luxury villa.
"Lucian! Over ten years of devotion—do you truly no longer love me?!" she shrieked, her voice hoarse and desperate.
From the third-floor balcony, Lucian watched her with icy indifference. He stubbed out his cigarette, idly tossing down an umbrella. It tumbled through the mud, coming to a rest right beside Serena’s bruised, swollen knees.
Serena shuddered. Looking up, she saw a beautiful, graceful figure wrapped in the young man's arm. Lucian tilted his chin up, his tone frost-bitten and contemptuous. "Don't be so pathetic, Serena. Go home."
"Lucian, I..."
"You aren't worth a single hair on Clara's head," Lucian spat without a trace of emotion.
Ironically, half a year ago, Lucian had uttered a nearly identical line—except back then, Serena was his cherished first love, and he had claimed that no woman in the world could ever compare to a single strand of her hair.
The air grew suffocatingly still. Rain spilled into her eyes, but Serena simply bit her lip. "Fine, Lucian. I will voluntarily break off our engagement. Anyone who dares harass the woman you love, I will personally discipline. For the sake of our past, please... spare my family."
*Clack.*
The window slammed shut. The only warm light in the stormy night vanished.
The faint glimmer of hope in Serena's eyes died out. After an agonizing silence, she dragged herself up from the mud. Suddenly, she began shouting Lucian's name toward the closed window over and over again. As he impatiently threw the window open once more, Serena lunged forward, slamming her head violently against the stone wall.
With a sickening *thud*, blood blossomed across the stone like crimson begonias.
Through this final act, she delivered her silent message: do not drag down her family; she would take every ounce of his wrath to her grave.
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