Karin doesn't know how she leaves the coffee shop later, nor what Stanley says to her later. She doesn’t know anything. The only thing she knows is to find Troy and let him confirm that it's not true...
Karin goes to his company. When she stands in front of him, Troy sees the despair in her eyes, a despair that makes him panic.
"Karin, what's the matter?"
"Are you going to marry Mia?"
She asks with a blank expression. He is in a panic in an instant, "Who told you that?"
"It’s not important. Just tell me, yes or no!"
Troy closes his eyes in pain. What he fears most comes after all.
"Yes."
A simple word makes Karin hear the sound of the collapse of her world...
How desperately she hopes that he would say no. How desperately she hopes that he would say it is still the same as last time, it is just a rumor. However, she is disappointed, she is desperate. Her carefully planned future collapses instantly.
... A heavy slap falls on his cheek. Her tears rolled down, "The same encounter does not mean the same fate. Troy, tell me what the fate you give me now is."
"Sorry."
He stretches out his hand tremblingly, trying to hug her. But she avoids it in disgust, "Don't touch me!" She backs away and mutters, "Don't touch me, don't touch me..."
"Karin, calm down, listen to me."
"I don't want to listen. I don't want to listen to anything! Troy, you let me down, you let me down!"
She couldn't help crying anymore. Her heart breaks. She can't afford to lose this bet of love. She can't afford to lose at all.
"Sorry, Karin, don't be sad, sorry..."
"Don't keep saying sorry. What's the use of being sorry? Not every sentence of sorry can be exchanged for ‘it's okay’. Troy, I hate you. I give up everything for you. I've left my home and come all the way to you. However, that’s all I’ve got from you. You are going to marry another woman and everyone knows it. I’m the only one in the dark. You make me the most ridiculous fool in the world. This is the love you give me, the love that all women in the world look up to!"
"Karin! It’s not true!"
Troy steps forward and takes her into his arms domineeringly. No matter how she struggles, he refuses to let her go, "It's just my last resort to marry Mia. My love for you has never changed. I was so afraid of you will leave me. So, I didn't tell you that. I lost you once ten years ago. I don't want to lose you again after ten years. The pain of losing the most important person is enough. Even if I am an indomitable man, I can't guarantee that I can bear it again. Karin, believe me. The person I don't want to hurt in this world is you..."
"You have hurt me, and you still want me to believe you? I won't believe you anymore. The consequence of believing in you is to make me fall into the abyss of immortality. The promises you give are as many as stars, but I can't get even one of them!"
Karin leans over and bites on the back of his hand. The blood oozes out, like her tears, drops one by one. She casts him a last look in despair, and leaves, "Troy, we're over…"
Karin turns around. She walks out step by step away from his sight.
"No!" Troy resists the pain in his hand and hugs her tightly from behind, "We are never over, and we can't be over. You promised me that you will never leave me!"
"You remember what I promised you, but what about your promise? Why did you forget it!"
Love is a domineering, but fate is more domineering than love.
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