Rewrite Her Thrilling Life (Lillian and Sebastian) novel Chapter 1139

Uriel frowned slightly. "This can't go on. I'm going to talk to him." With that, she stood up abruptly.

Derrick paused, setting down his cutlery. He wiped the corners of his mouth and said flatly, "Leave him be. It's not necessarily a bad thing for him to bury himself in work right now. At least it keeps his mind occupied. In time, he might slowly come around. Lilian only just vanished, and with her fate completely up in the air, it's bound to be a lot for him to process. If enough time passes and there's still no sign of her, he might finally learn to let go."

Uriel looked at him, her eyes flashing with anger. "Do you honestly think that's possible? Lilian means more to Sebastian than his own life. Now she's missing and her life is on the line all because of him. Do you truly believe he can just move on? I can tell you right now, if Sebastian never finds her, he will never get over this for the rest of his life. Letting go is completely out of the question. Don't you know your own son? Once he sets his heart on someone, that's it. He'll sooner spend the rest of his days entirely alone."

"But going up there to reason with him won't change anything either. He won't listen to a single word from anyone right now," Derrick said quietly.

Anxiety clouded Uriel's eyes. "Even so, we can't just let him run himself into the ground like this. He'll collapse before we even find her." Without another word, she turned and headed straight for the stairs.

The moment she reached the second floor and pushed open the study door, her heart ached terribly.

The man was leaning back in his chair with his eyes tightly shut. He was dangerously pale, and in just a few short days, he had grown incredibly gaunt, looking entirely devoid of life. Watching her son in this state, she couldn't help but wonder if he would simply live out the remainder of his days as a hollow shell if Lilian really was gone for good.

Seeing her son remain entirely unmoved, Uriel said agonizingly, "You know perfectly well she can't come find you. Sebastian, I'm begging you, face reality. Lilian is highly likely dead. Since she went to such lengths to arrange everything ahead of time, she must have anticipated the final outcome. She chose to leave precisely to spare you from the immediate shock. Do you really not understand any of this?"

"She's not dead," Sebastian said, his voice dropping into a chilling coldness. "Lilian is not dead, and it's impossible for her to die. She promised me that she would marry me in a year, and she will definitely not break her word. So, Mom, I don't want to hear another word of this from now on. I will find her, even if I have to search to the absolute ends of the earth."

He firmly believed that Lilian was alive, yet as the days dragged on, the terror tightly gripping his heart grew heavier and heavier, suffocating him. This was especially true every single day when he looked around the empty bedroom, realizing the girl's familiar scent in the air was growing fainter and fainter. He was terrified, utterly terrified that she might truly vanish from his world forever.