HER SIN, FILTHY LOVERS

door, and a clear sapp

girl exclaimed, "Elizabeth

.

ce stealing the bracelet quickly s

er for her eighteenth birthday. It was auctioned at Ston's Auction House f

k, Alice would likely spend the rest of her life behind

to inform the police, taking Char

ored student, she had been by Charles's side for eight years. Everyone knew

, and board members questioned

ssly, but no one bel

, said, "Alice, the women's changing room has no

e all saw the bracelet fall out of

ner of the bracelet, graciously said, "I believe she didn't do it on purpose. It was probably just a mome

to look at Ali

a school uniform just like Elizabeth,

lly tied up into a small bun,

ce was

e been trembling with fear at such a s

ortitude was

..

ssible for Alice not

a one-sided trial. She explai

they immediately push

t she could not let them

police, and with that, media attention. The

admitting the theft, and she might

he poor, crime-ridden fishing village, where every night she would be watche

own and admit to som

round and calmly gazed at them. "I won'

ldn't show weakness, or s

ell out of your locker. How do

s, "I have no way to prove it, so we should

nged glances. They didn'

e school's reputation and the relationship be

seemed to re

ssly at the owner of t

ere's no need to involve the police. Since Alice insists she didn't steal it, I'll believe her. M

aciousness, the matter w

till muttered b

designer clothes, why would she steal something?" "She's probably too shallow." "She's l

round her, fully aware that here, s

counselor informed Alice that t

e school-a cradle for entrepreneurs,

would never allow a "rotten a

nce before the punishment was ha

hard to prove her innoc

nship with Charles but still didn't want to investigate the truth thoroughly

behind the scenes, scheming to

e to be easil

..

Elizabeth in the Du

it weren't for your generosity, I

e, adamantly denying the theft and insisting on proving her innocence. But

ys been good at ac

e shoulder, smiling. "It's all over

ow did you realize the

ds mocked. "You stole Elizabeth's bracelet and now you're

arnestly looking at Elizabeth. "E

uring dance class. I took off the bracelet and put it in

t fell out and someo

t to return it, it's fine. I won't pursue the matter," Elizabeth said with a pit

indeed different from stealing, but Alice didn

ne it, she would

et in your pocket and before you not

ing ignorance," Elizabeth's face turned colder.

it. T

commented, "Elizabeth, she stole your jewelr

r wrist. "One mistake can lead to a lifetime of regre

friends sneered. "I still don't understand how

..

hingto

ok out his phone and saw the

office, pale and thin, with flawless skin and sharp, delicat

re b

les had truly "raise

asing, "Brother Charles, your little follo

a while." Charle

very time she's been in trouble, haven't

n, its shape barely visible through the haze of sunset, and said in a calm voice, "If

..

ly, the streets dark, and raindrops sc

of the time when she first

d, who had been taken in and rai

e of Charl

ent, she had encountered

clear her name, she might be sent back to that

entrance of the "Be

ramed her didn't have the courage t

ell out, was picked up by s

articularly c

ed to have happ

to access the surveillance footage

althy students at Heaton Academy just to

the drink shop

ft important exam materials behind and

p staff

n pounds, but the staff remained unmoved, almost

s str

r, it must have been offered at

erything she had was earned thro

clothes and bags, but her al

k of other things, but in terms of living exp

outbid those who

without leaving immediately, in

destrians walked in small

e at her oddly. She didn't carry an umb

hood, but she gave off a vulnerable, harmless vibe, o

over and asked if s

decl

eded wasn't

g her. Seeing her come out of the drink shop, they would l

do was wait for

treet to the park, and stepped into the lush

meters away, a girl holding a knife, t

s trembling

uicide here? Not a b

them made e

op her, but Alice simply blin

.

tle a

t caring about the rain soaking her ski

girl again, as though urging her to h

ring herself to cut her wrist. Instead, she

ete those videos, I'll di

almost no one

ite light of the

and dismissive, came from