Chapter 4

I received a call from an old classmate just as I was returning from the cemetery.

"Rachel, when did you and Sebastian break up? Why are they saying you're Sebastian's mistress and that you've been harassing him? You came to the class reunion last year, didn't you?"

Hearing this, I froze.

As my roommate for four years of college, she understood immediately.

"Shit, Sebastian cheated?"

"Yeah."

"Check online quickly. I'm so fucking..." My roommate was so angry she started cursing.

I didn't waste time either and quickly checked my phone.

That's when I saw Sophie had started a livestream.

She already ran an account documenting her daily life as a rich kid.

Over the past few years, riding the trend, she'd accumulated quite a few followers.

Her livestream had been running for half an hour, and I was already trending.

Someone had dug up everything about me and posted it.

When netizens learned both my parents had died, they said people like me deserved dead parents.

Seeing my mom had been involved in an infidelity case, they said, "Like mother, like daughter. This is a habitual offender."

Sophie was leading the narrative, and everyone was cursing me.

Seeing my photo turned into a memorial portrait, I felt nothing.

But seeing my parents dragged out and insulted, I couldn't take it.

With trembling hands, I called Sebastian.

"Did you see it?"

"I saw it."

"So you have nothing to say?"

Facing my questioning, Sebastian sighed.

"Why did you make Sophie angry? And you..."

"And what? Didn't you watch the surveillance footage?"

I never imagined Sebastian could be like this.

My questioning made Sebastian somewhat defensive and angry.

"Yes, I watched it. I know Sophie deliberately framed you, but so what? Are you blameless? If you hadn't targeted Sophie, would she have framed you? Would she have exposed you like this?"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh.

In the end, it was all my fault.

I laughed at myself.

"Sebastian, when did we break up?"

"Stop making a scene. We won't break up. You and I have been together ten years. We..." Sebastian stopped here, paused for a while, then sighed. "We'll get married."

How ridiculous.

Watching his ambiguous partner slander me while he did nothing, yet still saying he'd marry me.

At this moment, I felt like I didn't know Sebastian anymore.

"My parents were very good to you. They're already dead. Now that people are insulting them like this, you're just going to watch?"

"Rachel, this kind of heat dies down quickly. As long as Sophie calms down, she won't target you anymore..."

Sebastian kept talking, every word standing on Sophie's side.

I suddenly remembered something my boss said: "People don't become rotten overnight."

It seems I never saw clearly.

I didn't listen to Sebastian continue and hung up directly.

That day my boss said he'd help me fight back, and even my classmates said they'd testify for me.

I was deeply moved that they stood by me, so I asked them to record videos.

Then I also found evidence of my relationship with Sebastian over the years.

Looking at those traces of our time together, my tears still fell uncontrollably.

When I was tired of crying, I laughed at myself.

"Sebastian, I don't love you anymore."

I was hung out online for two days without fighting back.

On the day I left, I posted a video online.

Caption: [Turns out a person can really go from deeply loving you to not loving you at all, and even make cheating sound so refreshingly innocent.]

After doing all this, I boarded the plane to leave.