Gloria could not help but bend down, tears suddenly rolled down her eyes and finally, under the surprised gazes of passers-by, she fled back home in embarrassment.

But home was not a harbor, all that awaited her was violent storms.

As soon as she entered the door, my father slapped me hard.

Gloria felt a burning pain on her face and her head was buzzing. She saw her father's livid face and the deep disappointment in her mother's eyes.

“Sylvia cut her wrists because of you, are you satisfied now?!”

“You know Sylvia also likes Manuel, but you insist on marrying him. What do you want Sylvia to do in the future?”

“I'm so disappointed in you!”

“Gloria, you are too selfish. You were not like this before.”

As Gloria listened, she started to laugh, but her eyes were filled with tears.

She looked at her parents who had loved her for many years but then seemed like her enemies and wanted to ask, how did you become like that?

Were you still my parents?

It was Slyvia who stole her fiancé, so why should they blame her?

But she knew that once she asked, all she would get in return would be shocked and puzzled looks from her parents and deeper disappointment.

Gloria did not ask any more questions. She calmed down despite the extreme pain.

“What do you want me to do?” she asked instead.

“Give Manuel to Sylvia. It was Slyvia who accompanied us during the three years you were in a coma. She has done a great favor to our Huerta Family. You can't be so ungrateful!”

Just as her father finished speaking, Manuel and Slyvia walked in. Gloria looked at the two holding hands and her eyes turned cold.

Without her parents telling her, she no longer wanted Manuel.

As Slyvia came back, her parents stopped scolding her and immediately went to greet Sylvia, surrounding her and asking about her well-being.

“Are you okay, Sylvia? Silly child, why are you so desperate to do such a stupid thing? If anything happens to you, how will your parents live?”

The scene was dazzling. Gloria did not want to watch it, so she covered her painful face and turned to go outside, but Manuel held her hand.

“Gloria, what happened today…."

“I know what you're going to say.” Gloria turned around and interrupted him, “but I don't want to hear it.”

It was nothing more than a bland apology and a promise to prepare a more grand wedding for her next time.

However, Gloria did not see the grand wedding. Instead, she became the only bride in the city who was abandoned three times in a row.

“Manuel, people are all made of flesh and blood.”

She was not made of steel and that time the passionate love that filled her heart for Manuel had completely cooled down.

Manuel thought that Gloria would lose her temper and make a scene like before, but after hearing those sentences, he could not help but be stunned, trying to see the emotions in Gloria's eyes.

However, Gloria had already shaken off his hand and walked out.

“Gloria.” Manuel panicked and subconsciously wanted to chase after her. 

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from behind him, “Manuel, come quickly, Slyvia has fainted!”

The pursuer suddenly changed direction and ran towards Slyvia anxiously.

A hint of sarcasm flashed across Gloria's eyes.

She came to the garden alone.

A long time later, she received a message from Slyvia.

[Sister, look how pitiful you are. As long as I wave my hand, your parents and Manuel will come around me, but you are just a bunch of air at home that no one cares about.]

[But it's still a bit of an eyesore to have you at home. So, don't worry, sooner or later, I will make you get out of here like a dog!]

Then, Manuel fed Slyvia soup and her parents looked at the video of Slyvia with distressed eyes.

In the past, Gloria would have rushed back in a rage to tear Slyvia apart without caring about anything else.

That time she just put the name Slyvia into the blacklist with an expressionless face.

After Gloria woke up, she found out that after she became a vegetable, her parents fell into great grief. In order to cheer them up, Manuel found Slyvia, who looked like her, to comfort them.

Slyvia was sweet-talking and good at coaxing people and soon won their favor.

Gloria was also very grateful to Slyvia. When she learned that her parents had adopted Slyvia as their daughter, she was very happy that she had a new sister.

But Gloria soon discovered that things were not as she had imagined and Slyvia replaced her as the center of attention.

Slyvia liked her room, so her parents asked Gloria to give the room to the other party.

When her parents bought her a necklace, she should give it to Sylvia since her adopted sister said it was beautiful.

In summary, she should have passed everything she had for Sylvia. Even her fiancé Manuel's gaze always lingered on Sylvia for a long time with doting.

He stood her up on her birthday for Slyvia, left her alone on the top of the mountain in the middle of the night for Slyvia and gave up the grand wedding he had promised her for Slyvia.

And Slyvia, that seemingly innocent sister, was actually very scheming.

Since she woke up, Slyvia had repeatedly tried to alienate the relationship between her and her parents' fiancé.

The other party was very skilled and Gloria was no match for her. After only two years, her parents became estranged from Gloria and Manuel repeatedly embarrassed her because of Slyvia.

Gloria had argued and quarreled before, but it only pushed them further and further away.

Later she realized that the reason why Slyvia was able to succeed again and again was that those people who were once closest to her no longer cared about her.

Love would not disappear, it would only shift. Gloria did not believe it before, but then she did.

Just like that moment, even if she showed these chat records in front of everyone, her parents and Manuel would still believe that she had fabricated them to frame Slyvia.

In the end, she was the only one who suffered.

Gloria put down her phone and sat on the swing. There was no place for her in this house anymore. Even if Slyvia did not drive her away, she would leave.

Suddenly, a bloody thing was thrown at her from the side. Gloria was startled and realized that it was the ragdoll cat that Slyvia usually kept at home.

However, the cat was at that moment covered in blood and was obviously dead.

Gloria could not help but cover her mouth.

Manuel, who happened to come over, was also stunned.

“What happened?” he asked.

“It, it..."

Before she finished her words, she heard a scream. Slyvia ran over and picked up the cat on the ground, asking in a crying voice, “Sister, why did you hurt Kitty?”

Gloria was stunned. “What did you say?”

“Sister, I know you resent me for ruining your wedding. But you should not take it out on Kitty.”

Slyvia's tears fell and Gloria realized that that was another frame-up. Since that had happened countless times.

But Gloria did not expect Slyvia to frame her by abusing and killing her own pet.

If she remembered correctly, that cat was left by her mother.

Gloria could not help but shudder. In the past, everyone would stand on Slyvia's side, but she still defended herself, “It wasn't me. Someone just threw it here.”

“But the cuts on Kitty's body were obviously made by a professional,” Slyvia said with tears in her eyes. “You are the only one in our family who studies medicine. Apart from you, I don't know who else I can suspect.”

Manuel frowned when he heard that, waved to the servant and gave him a few instructions.

Soon a doctor in a white coat came over, took the cat's body and began to examine it.

“It was indeed cut out with a knife and the technique was very professional. The cat was slowly bled to death in pain.”

Then another security guard came running to report, “We just checked the surveillance and only Miss Gloria came to the garden in the afternoon.”

Manuel's expression suddenly darkened and he looked down at Gloria, “Do you have anything else to say?”

Gloria moved her lips but said nothing. She knew that that kind of thing would be the result.

Finally, she whispered, “What can I say? You never believed me. What else can I say?”

Manuel hesitated when he heard that.

“Sister, are you saying that I deliberately framed you?” Slyvia shook her head and cried even more sadly, “Kitty is the only thing my mother left. Even if it's a false accusation, how could I bear to use its life to frame you?”

As Slyvia said that, she could not bear the shock and fainted.

Manuel quickly supported her, his expression becoming cold and hard again, “Gloria, I didn't expect you to be so vicious now.

“I was the one who abandoned you at the wedding. If you want to blame someone, you should blame me. Why are you taking it out on Slyvia's cat?”

His eyes were full of disappointment as he continued, “We in the Norton Family don't want a young lady who is so mean and cruel. So, why not cancel the engagement?”

“Okay,” Gloria said calmly.

Manuel's anger suddenly froze and then his face became even gloomier. “I'm not kidding you, don't regret it.”

Just as he opened his mouth, Gloria’s parents hurried over.

Without further ado, Gloria’s father slapped Gloria in the face, “How could I raise such a vicious daughter like you?!”

Gloria's face was already swollen from the previous beating and that time blood was oozing out.

Gloria’s father was still furious and raised his hand again when he yelled, “If you can kill a cat today, I think you can kill a person tomorrow. So, I won’t let you free from now on.

“I don’t know why since you woke up, you have always disturbed the whole family. If I had known you would become like this, I would rather you died in that car accident!

“Someone, lock her up for me. No one is allowed to bring her food. We'll talk about it when she's done reflecting on her actions.”

There was a needle-like pain on her face and her head was aching and she felt nauseous. Gloria could not help but dry heave a few times, but the pain in her body could not compare to the pain in her heart.

What had happened that year was that she was the one who dragged her parents and Manuel out of the car that was about to explode one by one.

Because she was saving them, she was hit by the explosion and suffered a head injury, becoming a vegetable and lying there for three years.

But then she was blamed for not dying in that car accident.

Gloria could not tell whether the red fluid on her face was blood or tears. She raised her head and looked at those people who were originally closest to her.

At that moment, their faces looked more unfamiliar than ever before.

Gloria smiled, but her eyes gradually became dead silent and at that moment something completely left her.

Manuel and Gloria’s mother panicked and felt like they had lost something forever. They could not help but plead for Gloria at the same time.

Slyvia stopped them, “Manuel, although I don't want my sister to be locked up, my father's approach is not unreasonable. It's better for my sister to learn a lesson now than for her to get into bigger trouble outside in the future and not be able to deal with it.

“After all, people could only protect her as long as she is at home.”

Hearing Sylvia’s words, Gloria’s mother withdrew her hand.

Manuel also nodded, “I was inconsiderate, it would be good for her to learn a lesson from this.”

Gloria was locked up in an abandoned garage.