Chapter 39: Hating One’s Own Cowardice

Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Hating One’s Own CowardiceFour years ago, she was seventeen, just an ordinary junior student at Southern County No.1 High School. Back then, she had a complete family, loving parents, and she lived without worries. S~eaʀᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. But all that came to an abrupt end four years ago. When the Golden Era Consortium decided to select the Rainflower District, where her family lived, to build the Golden Era Building, her once complete family started to fall apart. Her mother resolutely refused to move out of the home she was emotionally attached to, but Golden Era relentlessly pressured them. Sophie Smith vividly remembers Asher Land, dressed in a tailored suit, standing in her home’s cramped living room. He was like Lord Asura from Hell, too terrifying to approach. "If you’re not willing, then just die." That was the first thing he said. She hid in a small corner of the living room, her head down, body shaking uncontrollably, yet he didn’t even notice her existence. Sophie never imagined that a week later, her fate would start to change. Her mother, who had always doted on her, shockingly chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building a week later. During that period, she couldn’t think at all. No one could truly empathize with her, understand the feeling of losing the person she loved most. She locked herself in her room for an entire month, unsure of how she survived. Though, sometimes she resented her mother for leaving her in this world, deep down in her heart, she stubbornly believed that Asher Land was the true culprit. If it hadn’t been for his coercion, his cruelty, her mother would never have left her. Absolutely not! She glanced back at the man peacefully asleep behind her, all her emotions slowly building up. During this time, she stayed by his side, and he surely couldn’t imagine how much she was suffering, how much pain she was in. She hated him, hated him to her very core. She slowly turned her body, approaching the bedside. For the first time, her eyes were filled with revenge. Let it end like this. If he dies, he will be free. On the desk, there was a fruit knife. She longed to pick it up and make a cut on his wrist or chest, but she just picked it up then immediately put it down. She couldn’t stand herself being so cowardly and powerless, she painfully ran to the window, curling up to sit on the cold floor. "Sophie, you asked for this, everything you are suffering is your own doing!" She covered her face, crying bitterly. Asher Land slowly opened his cold eyes, he hadn’t ignored the earlier commotion, he even heard the sound of the fruit knife being picked up and then put down... He hadn’t anticipated that this woman hated him so deeply. Of course, he would not give her the chance to kill him, her overestimation of herself would only land her in a more difficult situation. His gaze caught sight of Sophie trembling by the window, and the corner of his mouth lightly curved upwards. Sophie calmly leaned against the corner of the wall, unknowingly falling asleep. Only then did Asher Land sit up from the bed, he walked to her side, looking down at the small figure before him. He lifted her from the floor horizontally, gently placing her on the bed, and took a blanket to cover her thin body. "Heh, this time I’ll be magnanimous and let you go, but if there’s a next time..." If there’s a next time, then what? Punish her severely? Suddenly, the corner of his mouth curled into a self-mocking smile.