Chapter 1: Three Stabs in the Heart

1

I was stabbed three times in the abdomen,

but my boyfriend was protecting his ex-girlfriend, a police academy student telling me it was all for the people,

so he protected his ex-girlfriend.

So later I found someone who would do everything for me, yet he kneeled on the ground saying he didn't do anything wrong.

I could only give him the middle finger, "You're right, you and your trashy ex-girlfriend can fool around till death, screw you!"

"Sister, I really had nowhere to go, so my brother said to bring me out for some air, I truly didn't mean to disturb you. I'm sorry."

Julian Ford was half an hour late and brought along this thing.

I smiled at Julian Ford and said, "Julian Ford, do you remember what you said yesterday? Tell me what's on your mind?"

Julian's face changed, and he grabbed my hand, saying,

"Don't be unreasonable. Even if I had something with her before, we weren't together. She's just a little sister from the neighborhood, I have to take care of her both emotionally and logically."

"Sister? A sister you've slept with? How many times have you stood me up because of her?"

"There are reasons for everything, don't act up!"

I pulled my hand back and wiped it with some tissue,

"This is the last time." After this, we'll break up. I'm holding it in so much I'm turning into a ninja turtle.

Julian seemed to think I compromised again and cheerily called Eva Blake over, taking the bag off her, pretending not to see the bag on me.

"Brother, buy a flower for this sister in the white dress, make your lover happy."

2

I, wearing black pants, stood by like a joke,

watching Julian Ford supporting Eva Blake, nervous as if supporting his pregnant wife.

"No, this isn't my girlfriend, that one is." Julian nervously said, as if finally acknowledging my existence, looking at me.

"Oh my, I'm his sister, silly little sister."

The little girl looked at me, then at Julian and Eva Blake,

"So strange, no fate at all...some people are meant to die alone."

3

"Don't move!"

I felt a sharp knife against my waist, for a moment my mind seemed coiled by a snake, incredibly eerie.

I stiffened up, desperately looking to Julian Ford for help,

only to see Eva Blake also being held hostage, Julian rushing to save her, fighting with the assailant.

"Julian, Julian!"

"Lily, wait for me, I'll save you soon."

I laughed, what I had ever wanted was neither waiting nor soon.

"I told you not to move, you damn bitch!"

"You all look down on me, don't listen!"

I could feel the assailant's mood shift, obediently staying still, only hoping the emergency call I made while shouting for Julian would work.

But clearly, Eva Blake didn't want things to go well for me,

shouting loudly at me,

"Sister, don't call the police, they'll hurt people if they're alerted, I don't want to die!"

Julian heard this, turning to look at me with red eyes, blaming me, but turned back to fighting Eva Blake's assailant without saying a word.

In an instant, I felt the assailant behind me erupt,

a sharp knife thrusting forward, stabbing me three times, while a hand clamped my mouth shut.

I couldn't make a sound for help, like a ragdoll thrown to the ground,

bleeding out.

Watching Julian Ford so earnestly protecting Eva Blake made me think of her stopping me from calling the police.

She had someone to protect her, calling the police or not she could still survive, I couldn't.

Even when I could call for help, my boyfriend beside me just told me to wait.

4

I heard the sound of police cars,

Julian Ford, like some hero saving the beauty, was holding Eva Blake, receiving all the praise.

Until a man got out of the police car,

he looked at Julian holding Eva Blake and punched him directly.

It was my brother,

my brother.

"Julian Ford, why the hell are you holding your ex-girlfriend? Where's your decency?"

"Where's Lily? Don't tell me you've been protecting your ex-girlfriend this whole time!"

Hearing the whispers around us, Julian seemed to remember my existence,

his face turned pale in an instant,

"No, I wanted to save her, I told her to wait a bit longer."

The little girl beside us suddenly pointed at me, shouting,

"This sister is bleeding so much, so much!"

In that moment, I seemed to watch Julian's face fill with disbelief and regret.

I looked at my brother, "Brother, brother... I hurt so much."

"Brother, save... save me, brother!"

Brother's eyes immediately reddened,

behind him, a few policemen with red-rimmed eyes carried a stretcher over to transport me, but moving me made the bleeding worse,

brother clenched his fist and moved me to the stretcher himself,

I cried as I looked at my brother, "Brother, it hurts so much..."

Brother's eyes seemed to be unable to open, turning and delivering a powerful punch to Julian's stomach.

Eva Blake softly tried to approach and block my brother,

my brother slapped her across the face, "I don't hit women, but I'll hit a bitch. Seducing an ex-boyfriend who has a girlfriend, is that how your family raised you?"

Julian held his stomach but still tried to shield Eva Blake,

"Brother, don't drag others into this."

"Don't call me brother! Others, you damn took your ex-girlfriend on a date with my sister, during a violent injury incident you protected your ex-girlfriend, while my sister bleeds out on the spot?"

"Where's your decency?"

Julian gasped, shaking his head fiercely,

"No, Lily is my girlfriend, as a future policeman, I should protect the people more."

"I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, Brother, shouldn't I protect the people first?"

Brother was about to follow the ambulance to the hospital,

hearing this, he sneered, "The people? There are so many people here, why were you only protecting your ex-girlfriend? Why didn't you care about the others? It's really bad luck being your girlfriend."

The people around, injured and stabbed, looked at Julian with red eyes,

shouting, "Trash!"

Because on the scene only he could fight but only protected his ex-girlfriend,

even stopped calling the police, just afraid the perpetrator would hurt Eva Blake.

It's really funny.

5

I woke up two days later,

with my brother and parents sitting by the bed, looking travel-worn as if they rushed from the police station.

"Mom, dad, brother..."

Brother reacted first, his eyes red as he held my hand,

"You finally woke up, you worried us sick."

"What did you see in Julian, to be with him? If I hadn't gone, by the time he realized you would've been long gone."

Mom nudged brother, he instantly shut up.

"Lily, you really scared us this time, truly, seeing you lying in a pool of blood..."

I held mom's hand tightly, just like when she used to comfort me to sleep as a child.

"I hate him so much, what the hell is Julian Ford, daring to torment me like this."

"Brother, did you know, at first the knife was against my back, I called for his help, and he said to wait."

"Eva said not to call the police; only then did the assailant realize I had called them, and he stabbed me three times in the abdomen."

My brother kept his head down, buttoning his shirt, not sparing me a glance.

"I managed to stop that bastard; he's probably just outside the ward. Do you want to see him?"

I shook my head,

looking at the bit of clothing by the door, "I hate him; these three stab wounds are enough to make me remember him for a lifetime."

6

Eva came,

when my brother and parents were all at work, during the time I was recuperating.

She wasn't hurt at all, wearing orange lipstick, she said to me:

"Thank you, if you hadn't taken those three stabs, who knows if I might've been stabbed. Honestly."

"But sister, can't you see? Julian has always loved me; he was only with you because he was too lonely."

"It's the one who isn't loved that's the third wheel. Julian's always protected me, no matter what he's doing, one call from me and he'd come running, right?"

Indeed, ever since Eva returned, within less than half a month, Julian had ditched me five times, and every time Eva was there.

Julian's first choice is never me, it's disgusting.

I remember that time when Julian and I went back to meet my parents, he sat upright at the table,

everything was so harmonious, and then he took a call, said nothing, and walked away from my family's dinner table.

I heard Eva say she had cut her hand, and Julian told her to wait for him.

So funny, how come their "wait for me" is so different from mine?

What kind of people need to yank someone away from their date's parents' table just for a small cut?

I looked at my phone which had been recording for a long time,

"Eva, if you love Julian so much, why did you split up? Do you like snatching someone's partner?"

Eva fiddled with her pretty nails, chuckling lightly,

"Obviously, it's because I've played enough. Julian has neither money nor power, just a heart that loves me. But look, after I'm done playing, doesn't he still love me?"

"But, it's really quite fun. Look, your boyfriend still saved me, didn't he?"

I nodded,

"Well, you two really are trash then. One loves others' partners, the other only saves the 'people.'"

7

I rang the bell, the nurse came,

"Sis, please get this mistress out of here. I didn't ask for her; she came to flaunt."

The nurse immediately went to kick that idiot out,

Eva shouted loudly, "I'm from ## ward, you be careful or I'll file a complaint against you."

After hearing this, the nurse's look towards Eva became even stranger,

because I was the one paying for that private ward.

"Get out!"

8

The moment the door closed, I felt at ease.

I picked up the phone and called my brother to cancel the ## ward card,

my brother asked in puzzlement what happened.

"Julian put an unscathed Eva in there, using my card."

"Eva just came to show off to me."

On the other end of the phone, my brother fell silent for a moment,

"I've never seen someone so shameless, I'll sort it out right away."

"Okay, brother, today I feel like having corn pork ribs soup."

"Alright, you just order your brother around then."

"You are my brother, after all—Bro!"

9

After Eva was kicked out,

Julian seemed to finally have the face to call me,

but I had blocked him, so he started texting me incessantly, changing one card after another.

I remember one message was like this:

"Lily, it's all my fault, but there's no wrong in protecting the people, why are you taking it out on Eva and throwing her out."

"She's not doing well mentally, listen to me, I'm apologizing, okay? Hurry up and let Eva back in!"

I replied word by word:

"You feel for your ex-girlfriend, then use your money to spoil her. This is my card, my money, what right do you have to allocate it?"

"Do you still think you're not wrong? Why don't you go feel for all those homeless people out on the street? You piece of trash!"

There's always an idiot asking me to be understanding; I'll be understanding when he dies and needs to be buried without being cursed out.

10

On the day I was discharged, Julian came,

I knew he had been in the hospital all along, even wanting to come and see me.

But my brother had driven him away, so these days he was busy arranging a place for Eva, even trying to use my card.

I sat in a wheelchair, my brother behind, crossing his fingers, afraid he'd end up in jail for Julian.

Julian looked at me nervously, eyes filled with remorse and fear,

"Lily, I'm sorry. I really didn't expect you to get hurt so badly, I was wrong..."

"I originally wanted to place Eva there to save you, but the assailant was always targeting her, I had no choice."

"I thought of you as my girlfriend, Eva had nothing; me taking extra care of her was what I should do, truly, I didn't want to hurt you like this."

I looked down at Julian, my right hand touched my wound,

"I was stabbed three times in the abdomen, almost didn't wake up, and you had no choice but to protect Eva, yet you could watch me being held and stabbed by the assailant."

"What karma did I have to be your girlfriend? Do you deserve it? Do you have any shame?"

Julian murmured,

"I didn't mean it, I was wrong..."

"Can you forgive me...?"

11

"No way, let's break up, stop harming me."

Julian listened, his face turning ashen, even his body trembled,

"Can't you really forgive me? Clearly, I just saved someone..."

"I was wrong, truly."

My brother pointed at a woman begging by the roadside, missing a leg and half her face ruined.

He said, "Look, isn't this person more pitiful? Why don't you embrace her at night and coax her to sleep? Find her a place to stay for the rest of her life too?"

Julian's eyes reddened, he said nothing.

"What? Can't you? Isn't she also the 'people'? How come you can't treat all the people the same? Be a man and stop disgustingly!"

"And haven't you forgotten how your mother was abandoned by your father? Before marrying your mom, he kept a 'white moonlight,' driving your mother into depression; how are you different from your dad now?"

"Turns out, genes are trash."

Julian clenched his fists, shaking his head, murmuring, "No, it's not like that."

I looked at the white dress behind the big tree,

"Eva, come out. Take your trash with you, don't dirty my sight."

Eva suddenly rushed out and knelt before my wheelchair,

"Sister, really, don't blame Julian, it's me who's shamelessly pestering him."

"It's deserved if you reclaim the house and not let me be hospitalized."

Hearing this, Julian again looked at me with dark eyes,

as if looking at a naive child,

"Lily, it's all my fault, how can you take it out on Eva? There's long been no possibility for us."

"Be a good girl, I will treat you well from now on, you only went after her because you still love me, right?"

Eva banged her head twice on the ground, I laughed,

"The house was bought by me in full because Julian has no money for a house, and the ward was charged on my card. What qualifications do you two idiots have to spend my money after hurting me?"

"Julian, have some shame, we've broken up!"

"You know me."

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