"What if you can't?"
She replied without hesitation. "Then this never happened. And I promise to not bother you from then on. What do you think?"
He said with a wicked smile. "Alright, we have a deal. I'll only give you half a month. You know the reason why."
Nelly smiled charmingly.
Of course, she knew. His engagement ceremony with Lana was half a month later.
Even though she was very tired, she still sat up and picked her clothes up.
He pulled her into his arms. "You're leaving?"
"Since we've reached an agreement, I have no reason left to stay."
She broke out of his embrace and put on her clothes.
He raised his eyebrows and looked at her. He had never realized that she was such an interesting woman.
When she was done tidying up and started walking towards the door, he calmly asked, "You sold your body and sacrificed your marriage just to make the Molly Group hate you. Was it worth it?"
She tightened her grip on the doorknob, opened the door and left in silence.
Once Nelly was out of the hotel, she took a taxi and came to the old site of the Crossing Bridge that was near the bay.
The bridge had been sealed six years ago after it had collapsed.
Its vicissitudes, compared with the newly built bridge that was 100 meters away, were quite different.
She crossed the fence and walked to the edge of the Bridge. She gently stroked the remaining ruins then slowly sat down.
She hummed the song she often sang with her father when she was a child, recalling the proud look on her father's face when he brought her here seven years ago.
That day, as she held her father's hand, he said to her. "Nelly look, this bridge will be opened for traffic tomorrow. With this bridge, people from Kangnam to Kangbuk won't need to take half an hour to reach the other side anymore. This is the best achievement in my life."
But a year later, his father stood here again with his back facing the Bridge that had collapsed. He said to her, "Nelly, you have to believe me. I have always been an honest and upstanding person, never have I been corrupt. I have been wronged."
She opened her bag and found an original version of the Bridge design draft.
The data on this blueprint was completely different from the data written by Molly Group six years ago.
Her eyes were red, and her hands were tightly holding the edge of the blueprint. "Dad, don't worry. I have already inherited your torch to become a bridge designer. I will definitely find out who wronged you, whether it was Damine Group or Molly Group. I will avenge you, I will let the whole world know that you were innocent, Dad. Wait for me."
She returned to the Molly family tiredly at 9:30 a.m.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Lana sitting on the couch.
Lana gave her a sidelong glance, then said in a ridiculing tone. "Hello, my dear stepsister. You didn't return home last night, did you meet up with your ex? Didn't Ron just return yesterday? I heard that after I broke up with him, he has been trying to get back with you again."
Nelly looked at her coldly and smiled. "I went to meet my lover last night, but not someone like Ron."
She took out her phone, opened the photo album, and found a thumbnail of a shameful video. She walked towards Lana and showed it to her.
With a single look, Lana recognized the two individuals that were tangled together in the video.
Her face instantly grew red with anger, and she raised her hand to slap Nelly.
"You b*tch, how dare you seduce my man."
Nelly grabbed her wrist and raised her chin. She looked at Lana with a raised eyebrow, "Lana, when you took Ron away from me back then, you said that anything that could be taken away from you does not belong to you. So now, I'm making you eat those words."
"Nelly, you wh*re, I'll tear your face off!"
Lana pounced towards Nelly like a maniac.
Nelly was already taller than Lana to begin with, and she possessed great strength even though she was thin.
She exerted some force and pushed Lana onto the couch.
Lana's roar attracted Susan into the room.
The two sisters started fighting. Susan rushed in and stood in front of Lana, slapping Nelly without any hesitation.
Nelly was stunned and looked at the woman, "Mother..."
"Don't call me that. I don't have a heartless daughter like you."
Nelly was dumbfounded. "I'm heartless?"
"I heard your conversation with Lana, Nelly. Six year ago, your father made a mistake and lost his life, he even left us to endure the scrutiny of others. It was Mr. Molly and Lana who were kind to us. They took us in and protected us.
"As for you, you couldn't even show your gratitude towards them and instead stole your sister's fiance. You knew how much your sister cares about Master Lennon. How could you do that? I... How did I raise such an ungrateful and heartless child like you?"
Hearing her own mother's words, Nelly took a step back and kept a distance from her mother.
"Oh, Mom, I'm just an ungrateful child in your eyes. Alright then, I'll just have to achieve my reputation. I'll move out of the Molly family today and pray that the three of you will be happy."