Eris looked around the apartment.Her heart was heavy.
She had just moved in the previous night, and now all her remaining worldly possessions were piled up
in the living room, making the place look like a dump.
This was not a new apartment.It was usually lent out to students of the nearby colleges.
The decoration was simple.
It was dull and drab.
The old-fashioned furniture seemed to belong to the dark ages and all the electric appliances were old
and rusty.
Although the apartment was cleaned up, it still looked very old and decrepit.
The white wall had turned yellowish with age, and cried out for a new coat of paint.
Eris frowned with dissatisfaction, wringing her hands tightly.
The location of the apartment, however, was good.
But the interior was worse than her parents’ apartment.
‘So this is Brian's compensation to me!’ The very thought of Brian filled her with nausea.
Her stomach rumbled and growled with hunger.Eris covered her stomach and felt a little hungry.
If she stepped out of the apartment, there was the risk of being recognized.
It was a chance she could not afford to take.
So the option of going downstairs to buy breakfast was out.She scrounged through the fridge in the
hope of finding something to eat, but the fridge was filled with mildew.
There was nothing to satisfy her growing hunger.
She pressed her belly and drank up a glass of water, followed by many more glasses of water.
After gulping down liters of water, she felt full.Her eyes turned red and glassy again.She had never
suffered such a hopeless situation since she was a child.
Eris gritted her teeth angrily and stared at Brian's face on TV.Her eyes were cold and resentful, as if
she wanted to engrave him in her mind.Then, she picked up the remote control and unconsciously
changed to the entertainment channel.The channel was broadcasting entertainment news.
The news broadcast Wendy's press conference and Brian's interview.
Then she heard the voice of the presenter.
"To date, Eris has not appeared in public.Reporters have been stationed at the door of her company
and her apartment for several hours.However, the staff of Starlight Media informed the reporters that
Eris had moved out of the apartment.Hopefully Eris will come forward and offer her fans a much
needed explanation for her behavior."
‘Fans? Humph!' Eris smiled disparagingly.
She cursed those fans who turned out to be the most hypocritical people ever.
When she was popular and all was well, they loved her and supported her.Now, after she was involved
in scandals and was down and out, they began to taunt and abandon her.
Their comments were humiliating and offensive.
Some of their vitriol was too personal as well.
‘Humph! Is this how fans should behave? How ridiculous and cheap! After going to the bathroom twice,
het stomach was empty again.
The hunger pangs could not be ignored.
She pressed hard on her belly, but the hunger pangs continued.
In order to maintain her hourglass figure, she had followed a rigid diet.
After losing weight over a period of time, she had become hypoglycemic.
She hadn't had breakfast and lunch yet, so naturally she felt dizzy now.
When she came out of the bathroom, she had to lean against the wall in order to support herself.
‘No! I would starve to death here if things went on like this.’ Eris staggered to the living room, struggled
to open her bag and took out her wallet.
There were only a few bank cards in the wallet and nocash at all.
Then it occurred to her that in the past, Ana was in charge of her life and buy everything she needed.
Therefore, Eris rarely had any cash with her.
More importantly, she had no money in her bank accountant.
Although she was an A-lister and made a lot of money, she did not have the wisdom to save some
money for a rainy day.
In addition, she had only acted for a short period of time so she had very little money saved. Then she
remembered that she had generously given her mother two million dollars.
At that time, Eris gave her mother the money, knowing that money would be used to defeat Wendy.
Once Wendy was out of the way, Eris would be able to make more money.
But now, sadly, the company had decided to banish her.
Where else could she make money? She was not suitably qualified to do anything else.Her mind was a
clean slate.
Eris went blank.
How could she live without a penny? She was in dire need of money.
She looked at the messy handbags, luxury clothes and accessories strewn in the living room.
'Do I really have to sell these things to make a living? Am I already reduced to a pauper? No! I don't
want to live such a miserable life!’ Suddenly, she thought of someone.
She adorned her sunglasses, mask and hat to make sure that she wouldn't be recognized.
Then she grabbed her bag and stepped out of the apartment.
Half an hour later, she reached the detention center.
"Dad! Mom!"
Eris had been to hell and back over the past few days.
When she saw Ruben and Cacia, she burst into tears.
She looked haplessly at her parents with tears in her eyes.
As she sat across the table from them, she noticed that they seemed to have aged overnight.
Dressed in bright orange prison uniforms, they looked a total mess, with disheveled hair and dull,
depressing expressions.
Cacia looked especially wretched.
More so than Ruben.
She had been slapped hard four times by Wendy at the press conference.
Her face was still swollen like a football.
"Mom!"
"Eris!"
Cacia was even more excited than Eris at their meeting.
When she saw her daughter, her eyes lit up like the jolly sun.She stood up, with excitement and
expectation scribbled all over her face.
"Sit down!" the prison guard shouted coldly in an authoritative tone.
Cacia trembled and sat down, panic-stricken.
"Mom!"
"Eris! My dear, please save us.This place is a terrible.We can't stay here a minute longer.If we continue
to stay here, we will go crazy! This is a mad house!"
"Save her?’ Eris was shell-shocked.
She had never thought about it.It was not that she was not cold-blooded.Her mother had killed Cassie.
With the video evidence, she could be convicted of intentional homicide and never be a free woman
again.
Moreover, Wendy had released the video at the press conference.
There were a lot of entertainment reporters present there that day.
Now the whole country knew that Cacia was a cold-blooded murderer.
The mistress had ruthlessly killed Ruben's first wife.
She had usurped Cassie's money and tried to murder her two children.
What an insane woman! People cursed Cacia because of her vicious character and for this reason, she
hit the headlines.
The most uncomplimentary news about her did the rounds.
The married women especially, were up in arms.
They wanted to skin Cacia alive! As a result of public interest and input into this case, the police
attached great importance to Cacia's intentional homicide.
It was impossible to save her.
She would definitely be sentenced seriously this time considering the anger of the public.
Although Eris didn't know the laws, she did know that in this case, her mother would be imprisoned for
the rest of her life.
It was almost impossible to help her get out.
"Mom..."
"Eris, you are my only child.I have devoted all my love to you.I have provided you with everything you
ever needed.I love you so much.You must save me."
Cacia had accepted her fate with great difficulty.
In the worst case scenario, she would receive a life sentence.But she had no idea what a hellish place
the prison was.She was put into prison for the crime of intentional homicide.
Those who were locked up with her were people who had committed felonies.
They were all vicious criminals.She suffered so horribly on the first day that the memory was etched in
her mind forever.
Thinking of the means adopted by those people to terrorize her made Cacia tremble all over.She was
handcuffed, crying her eyes out.Her dark eyes were full of fear.
With her red and swollen face, she looked very terrifying.
"Eris..."
"Mom! I'm so sorry!" Cacia's face darkened.
"Eris..."
"Mom, I'm so deep in trouble that I am unable to get myself out of it now."
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