“I didn’t dare to tell you. I was afraid you would look down on me if you knew my father was a murderer. The family of the deceased threatened to destroy his entire family once they knew who the murderer was. My mother instructed me not to tell anyone, even you. At that time, in order to save my father’s life, I listened to her. My father’s sudden knowledge of this was completely unexpected, and I was in pain and confused. I didn’t know what to do. I asked him to give me three days to think about it before answering him. I was anxious in those three days. I even wanted to die. Abandoning my beloved father or my beloved boyfriend was a fatal blow to me. On the morning of the last day of the three days agreed with your father, you took me to a tattoo shop, and tattooed my name on your chest. I stood on the side and watched quietly, and felt pain in my heart. In the face of a man who loved me so much, how I was willing to give up on you? When I immediately made up my mind to go back and persuade my father to confess his crime, and then keep my love. Although it was very selfish, I could only do so. Because I really couldn’t leave you … ”
“And then things changed. I came home that night and told my mother what was on my mind, and she slapped me hard in return. It was at that time that I learned the secret of my life experience. I was not my father’s daughter. When my mother married him, she was already pregnant, but my father didn’t care about it. For more than 20 years, he regarded me as his own daughter, and loved me more than my mother. He was a loving and righteous man, so kind to me. How can I selfishly disregard his life for my own happiness? I cried the whole night, finally made the most difficult and reluctant choice to give you up. When I met your father, I was desperate. Your father is so cruel. He let me give you up and didn’t allow me to stay in B city, and must leave on our wedding day without a word. Because only then, you can hate me, and completely give me up. In order to be able to save my father’s life, I promised everything…”
Freya was crying so hard she couldn’t hold it, and Kevin was even more heartbroken as he growled hysterically, “Why? Why did you keep all this from me? Why didn’t you just say it and let me fix it for you, instead of foolishly following my father’s order? Don’t you know how much I get hurt when losing you? Don’t you know what a devastating blow it will be for me if you leave? Don’t you know how much I love you?!!!”
“I know, I know it all!!! Do you think I’ll feel better? I was really tired, and your father’s influence is really too strong. Before my father did not hit that person, my mother was lured into the casino gambling, lost money, and she was offered loan sharks. And when we didn’t have the money to pay back, they ran to my house and messed up. And these were all controlled by your father behind his back to force me to leave you. Those who smashed my family openly threatened that if I didn’t break up with you, there would be more terrible acts than this. Your father still has the evidence of my father hitting someone in his hands. So if I tell you, at most, it will only cause your father and son to break up, and as a result your father will put all the fault on me, and will intensify his torture of our family. Compared to a prominent family like yours, it’s a very simple thing for him to kill us!”
Bella was depressed when she heard this. Her father-in-law wouldn’t be the cruel person Freya talked about in any way. But tears don’t lie. Freya’s heartbreaking cries were once her miserable experience as well.
“Do you know all this?”
Bella’s voice was hoarse as she questioned Conrad.
“I didn’t know at first, but I only learned about it the second year after I arrived in France.”
“Why did you leave with her? Did she ask for it, or did you volunteer for it?”
“She asked for it, and I’m willing.”
“And did you ask her why she made the request?”
“I asked, but she didn’t want to talk.”
“She didn’t want to talk so you stopped asking, right?”
“Yes.”
Conrad nodded with conviction, “You may think I’m a fool, but that’s the way I like a person. I’ll be willing to do anything for her unconditionally without asking the reason. Until one day, she’s willing to confess to me.”
“What if she never confesses to you for the rest of her life?”
“It’s okay. She has her reasons for not being honest. It won’t affect my liking for her.”
Bella suddenly envied Freya and was suddenly very impressed that there was such love in the world.
Conrad wasn’t stupid. It was just that the way he loved people was too unique and selfless.
“How did you know I couldn’t solve it? You followed Conrad without saying a word and left without saying goodbye, making me lose face in front of everyone and making my life worse than death for the past three years. Is this what we’ve gotten in return for loving each other for three years?”
“I was so confused that I couldn’t think much at all, and my only thought was to save my father’s life. But how could I have imagined that I would give up my life’s happiness and end up failing to save my father’s life? Even both of them died … ”
Freya was crying again so hard that she could no longer speak. Kevin walked to her side and pressed her shoulder, “What’s going on?”
“Your family owes my parents two lives. I was in France for three years, in order to keep the agreement with your father and dare not set foot in B city. As a result, my parents died a year ago. I did not know until eight months later. What made me even more unacceptable was that it was the parents of the man I loved so much killed my parents. Why were they so cruel?”
“Don’t cry. You calm down. You tell me all the truth and I will surely return justice to you!”
When Kevin saw the woman he loved was heartbroken, he was tearful.
“Back then, the person my father ran over was a terminally ill person bribed by your father. It was a conspiracy that was planned from the beginning. Your father promised to give that person one million dollars, so that he drank at night and hit my father’s car, causing him to be rolled over and killed. That person thought he was going to die sooner or later anyway. If he could get a large sum of money for his children before he died, it would be good. As a result, my father became a sitting duck. Your father was sure that my father would run away, so he beforehand found someone to hide in the accident site, and filmed the scene, in order to force me to leave you. His plan worked. I also left, but your mother even found someone tampered with my father’s car, let them both killed in a car accident! I became an orphan overnight from a child with parents overnight. And now, you still hate me. What about me? Should I go to your house with a knife and try my best to kill your parents to avenge my parents?”
Kevin’s face was instantly pale. After hearing Freya’s accusations, he couldn’t accept the cruel reality at all. If it was still forgivable for his father to break up their love, but it was unforgivable in any way to kill two people.
“Where did you learn about these things?”
“I have not wronged your parents. I have evidence. A godmother I knew in France found the truth for me, and I could bring your parents to justice right now. But I can’t do that because they are your parents, even if they brutally killed my family. Because I love you …”
Her eyes were swollen with weeping. Kevin was heartbroken. The truth was cruel, but the reality was more cruel than the truth.
He slowly picked up Freya who was squatting on the ground crying and choked, “I’m sorry. If my parents have really done such a hurtful thing, I’m sorry for them. I will definitely ask for clarification on this matter. If they really did it, I will definitely bring justice to you.”
“Kevin, you wouldn’t leave me behind, would you? I have nothing left. I only have you. Three years ago, I survived for my parents. Three years later, my parents have died tragically. You are the only living force in my heart. If I even lose you, how am I going to live …”
Freya leaned into his arms and cried hard, her tears soaking into Kevin’s jacket. He was anguished.
“For the past half month, I haven’t been able to sleep a single night. Every time I close my eyes, my parents will appear in front of me, angrily questioning me why I didn’t avenge their deaths. They asked why I didn’t expose all the things when I clearly had the evidence that could sanction the murderer. I didn’t dare to look at them. I was ashamed of them, because I loved you. I failed them for years of their upbringing. I’m the most ungrateful daughter in the whole world, and the most selfish person in the whole world. In order to be able to with you again, I can even ignore my parents’ death …”
Bella quietly pushed the door a little, and from the small doorway, looked woodenly at Kevin hugging the heartbroken Freya. Suddenly, she felt as if she was the fifth wheel.