Chapter 5
Although I like Oliver, I had no intention of being someone else’s mistress. Seeing Oliver use their photo together as his profile picture, with Anne appearing in every Instagram post and the two of them always standing together whenever they appear, I feel that if I were to get involved, I would definitely be an eyesore, so I let go.
But I never expected to catch Anne holding hands with another man, hugging and finally kissing him. The two of them were entangled in each other’s arms, while Oliver stood quietly nearby, watching the scene with reddened eyes. At that moment, I thought, if this kind of love came my way, I would die with happiness.
I approached him, pulling him close and saying, “Oliver, stop watching. Let me take you away okay?”
It was just like the first time I met him, I was being held at knife-point, forced to hand over the pearl necklace around my neck. He kicked them with his foot and the teenager wielding a baseball bat knocked down several people before pulling me away.
“Run! I can’t fight so many people!”
He pulled me along and I stared blankly at the teenager in front of me. Before that, my only impression of him was that he was the school heartthrob, admired by many girls for his good looks.
After that day… I became one of those girls.
I wanted his eyes to turn toward me. I started chasing after him, using the excuse of “you owe me” to force him to hang out with me and introducing him to all my friends.
When we finally got together, Oliver and I took tons of romantic couple photos. He said he wanted the whole world to know he had such an adorable girlfriend. And I thought… this was happiness
My friends called me a love-struck fool, shaking their heads at me in frustration. I just laughed. They didn’t know how much effort it took for me to win this man’s love. They didn’t know how proud I was of the way he loved me.
But looking back now, I realize that all the good I saw in Oliver was just my own imagination. The only reason he chose me was because the woman he loved had left him for her career.
Now, in my eyes, Oliver had completely lost his charm
When I thought about what they had said, that Oliver had already wanted to break up with me for a long while and only stayed because of my family’s money I could not help but wonder whether my parents’ accident had something to do with him.
….
Of course, that was not the case, but I could not interact with him properly anymore either. Luckily, I was dead.
I thought my death would end the entanglement between Oliver and me and I even started to let go. The moment I felt that relief, my body seemed to grow lighter, more transparent, as if I might soon fade away.
However, when I tried to leave…. I could not stay away for more than ten meters of Oliver. I gave
a bitter smile. Even after death, I had to be stuck in this world because of him. I guessed Oliver and I were really incompatible.
The next moment, Oliver, who had been hugging Anne, suddenly pushed her away violently. Anne was startled and hurriedly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Oliver could not explain it. He clutched his chest tightly, feeling an intense pain, as though something was about to vanish ….
He shook his head, unwilling to continue being affectionate with Anne and asked the new assistant irritably, “Have you found any trace of Isabel yet?”
He looked at the assistant with a scrutinizing gaze. “I specifically replaced the last guy with you because you had no connection to her. If you start protecting her too, you’d better think abou your whole family’s jobs!”
The assistant was usually cold and indifferent, but at that moment he couldn’t help feeling an odd pang of sympathy for Oliver.
