Maureen stared at Gianna at length in a daze.
She did not understand what exactly had gone wrong.
Just then in the car, a specific phone ringtone suddenly rang.
The phone continued to ring for a long while.
Maureen could not endure it anymore and she reminded, “Gina, your phone’s ringing.”
She wanted to see how Gianna would explain to Caesar.
Gianna looked down. She really had to try her best to control herself to speak calmly to him. “Hi,
Caesar.”
“Did you have fun today?” Caesar’s gentle voice was heard.
Gianna let out a sarcastic smile.
Caesar was going to participate in a selection of “outstanding and influential youths” a few days later;
therefore she had specially gone there to pray for his success.
She had used to make him her priority for everything.
She could stand at the top, yet she had given up everything for him!
“Gina?” Without receiving her reply, Caesar asked more gently.
“I’m fine,” Gianna replied blandly and continued, “I got you an amulet for success.”
“Didn’t you get an amulet for having kids?” he joked.
She did.
Yet when she saw the amulet before her, she felt utmost disgusted.
She only knew the moment she died that the reason she was not pregnant for ten years was because
Caesar had been adulterating her food with contraceptive pills.
Ironically, she had suffered the Kennedy family’s infinite contempt and humiliation because of that.
“Why, are you tired?” Caesar seemed to have sensed her aberrancy and he quickly asked with care.
“I’ve gone to the hill with Maureen in the early morning and I do feel a little tired. I’m on my way home
now.”
“I’m sorry that I can’t accompany you today because of work.” He sounded regretful.
Gianna felt that she was just wasting her energy when she let out a grim smile.
She used to be so naïve to think that he really was busy with work back then.
However, it turned out that he was just busy sleeping with other women.
“Be careful on the road,” Caesar reminded her.
Gianna hung up the call straight away.
Seeing Gianna’s cold expression, Maureen swallowed her words.
She felt that Gianna had changed.
She looked like a complete stranger to her.
Maybe she would become normal the next day after having a goodnight sleep.
They returned to the urban district and Gianna dropped Maureen at the Torres’s Villa.
“Maureen,” Gianna suddenly called her.
Maureen turned back.
She met Gianna’s uncanny look.
Gianna only wanted to make sure whether Maureen was still alive or not.
She was still alive.
Maureen was still alive too.
Maureen felt goosebumps from her stare and she asked, “Are you alright? I heard that the fengshui on
the Charmed Hills was weird and creepy, could you possibly get possessed by something?”
[Note: fengshui, also known as Chinese geomancy, is a pseudoscientific traditional practice originating
from ancient China, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding
environment.]
Maureen was still that amusing and innocent woman. Those disasters had not landed on her.
Gianna smiled.
That was the first sincere smile she had after being reborn.
She said, “Luckily, you’re still alive.”
“You’ve really gone nuts!” Maureen was speechless. “My dad said a jinx like me would live for thousand
years, so a small car accident can’t take my life away!”
Gianna once thought too, that Maureen who was living a reckless and carefree life would not die that
easily. It was impossible for her to commit suicide. Yet Maureen had jumped from the 28th floor and her
dead body was too tragic to look at.
That was the trauma that haunted Gianna and the pain rooted in her heart forever.
She was glad.
She had returned to the present once again, and everything was just perfect.
It was perfect that nothing had happened, and she could take vengeance at any time!
She calmed herself down and digressed, “Don’t tell anyone about what happened today.”
“What?”
“The promise with Kingsley Walker.”
Maureen rolled her eyes. “I won’t, you’ll get normal tomorrow anyway.”
She would only get more determined the next day.
“I’m leaving.”
“Mind your safety on the road,” Maureen said with worry.
Gianna nodded and drove steadily all the way back home.
She returned to the Morris’ Villa, the place which was her home ten years ago.
She felt familiar and strange with it at the same time.
She was flooded with emotions.
The rim of her eyes went red the moment she walked into the main hall and saw her parents.
If it was not because she met the wrong person in her previous life, her parents would not die in a car
accident. She was protected by her parents with their flesh under that planned accident, and because
of that, she was lucky to survive.
She no longer wanted to recall, and would never experience those bloody scenes and tragic calamities
anymore!
“Gina, didn’t you mention praying for Caesar’s luck at the Charmed Hills? Coming back so soon?”
Gianna’s mother, Fiona Ross, greeted her.
Gianna held back her tears and let out a smile, walking towards them.
Everything would change from now onwards.
She would be the one to torture Caesar and destroy the Kennedy’s. No one could lay a single finger on
her family again!
“Why are your eyes red?” Fiona asked with worry as Gianna approached her.
“My eyes were a bit dry, so I rubbed them.”
“The Kennedy’s called just now. They want to talk about your wedding with us…” Fiona said.
Gianna took a deep breath and said, “Mom, I want to cancel the marriage. I don’t want to marry Caesar
anymore.”
“Huh?” Fiona was filled with surprise.
Gianna’s father, Alexander Morris who was sitting beside Fiona looked up from his newspaper. “Did
you fight with Caesar?”
“Caesar Kennedy is not a good guy. The reason he marries me is just to seize our family property, and
use our family as his stepping stone to enhance his family.” Gianna could clearly sense that her parents
did not believe her, she then continued, “I don’t have any evidence to prove what I said is true now, but
please give me some time, I’ll make you believe!”
Alexander and Fiona fell into silence when they saw their own daughter being that assertive so
suddenly.
Gianna was not a child that would make them worry since little.
Her grandfather had arranged the marriage for her since she was little. Not only Gianna did not reject,
but she had also even abode by her duty, reluctant to come into contact with other male friends except
Caesar. She had had her heart all set on Caesar.
Not to mention they had had good relationships since young. Why did she suddenly say that?
Gianna could see their confusion. “Dad, I’ve never done anything that caused you trouble. I understand
how many benefits the marriage would bring to us, but even so, I still want to stick to my decision.”
“You’re my daughter, I certainly believe you.” Alexander could only concede when he saw her being
that assertive. “It’s just that, if we cancel the marriage now, let’s not say it would bring us benefits, it
would bring our family extremely negative impacts. How would the Morris’s be able to have a foothold
in Kouby City in the future?”
He still sounded a little frustrated.
“It won’t happen,” Gianna said firmly. “After cancelling the marriage, it would be the Kennedy’s who
face all the consequences!”
Alexander was slightly shocked.
He was impressed by his daughter’s aura.
He felt that she was not the usually gentle and docile her anymore.
“We’ll see, it’s the Kennedy’s getting embarrassed during the wedding next month!” she said
emphatically.
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