Slyvia leaned on Manuel's shoulder with a hidden smile of triumph and said caringly, “Don't worry, I will bring food to my sister and she won't really starve.”

Manuel nodded, “Thank you.”

After Slyvia left, Manuel felt a little sorry for Gloria, so he took a step back and said, “I just said it in anger.

“When Sylvia's depression stabilizes, we will hold the wedding again. Gloria, there is no need for you to be so extreme.”

He looked at the date and continued. “The third day of next month is a good date.”

Gloria felt no emotion at all. She no longer had any expectations for her fiancé.

Her wedding would indeed be on the third day of next month, but the groom would no longer be Manuel.

When Slyvia, who was hiding outside the door, heard Manuel's words, she could not help but grit her teeth and a vicious light suddenly burst out in her eyes.

Slyvia did not expect that after three years of hard work, Manuel still refused to give up on Gloria.

Her nails dug deep into her palms. When she returned to her room, she dialed a number, “Create an accident and kill Gloria!”

At midnight that night, a fire quietly spread.

Gloria did not know that the god of death's scythe was hanging over her head.

In the first twenty years of her life, she was constantly filled with the shadows of her parents and Manuel. 

That tie that they had all been dug out from the bottom of her heart, it felt like there was a hole as big as a bowl in her chest.

She could not help but curl up. Her tears had dried up, but the pain was long and intense and even breathing was heart-wrenchingly painful.

At that moment, she felt disheartened and suddenly felt that there was nothing in the world worth lingering on.

So much so that when she saw the sudden fire, Gloria did not move.

However, the shrill alarm outside woke up everyone in the Huerta Family villa.

“What happened?”

“The garage where Miss Gloria is imprisoned has caught fire!”

Manuel's expression suddenly changed and he quickly rushed towards the garage, but someone was faster than him and kicked open the garage door first, “Sister!”

Seeing Slyvia, Manuel's pupils shrank. “Sylvia, don’t!”

Slyvia rushed into the fire regardless.

Manuel had no choice but to follow her closely.

Seeing Manuel, Gloria, who was staring at the fire with a numb expression, finally had a glimmer of light in her eyes.

But then Slyvia, who was running in front, suddenly smiled and said to Gloria silently, “Sister, do you think he will save you or me?”

After saying that, she let out a scream and fell down.

Manuel subconsciously caught Slyvia, then looked at Gloria with a somewhat conflicted expression.

Finally, he picked up Slyvia and said to Gloria who was in the depths of the sea of fire, “Gloria, I will send Sylvia out first and then come back to save you.”

However, the fire was too big and there was no possibility of entering.

The last glimmer of light in Gloria's eyes was completely extinguished.

She stared blankly at Manuel as he strode away, his back getting farther and farther away.

Seeing his parents running over and anxiously surrounding the unconscious Slyvia, her heart hurt more.

No one remembered her anymore.

In only three years, she became a complete outsider.

Gloria sat down again and watched the burnt beam fall before her eyes with an expressionless face.

“Fine, death may not be a kind of relief,” she muttered.

At the end of my consciousness, the shadows of those people became blurred across the sea of fire.

Gloria raised her head and forced back the tears that were about to fall from her eyes. She hoped that she would never have to see Manuel and that couple again in her next life.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Gloria opened her eyes and saw the white roof of the hospital.

She realized that she seemed to be lucky enough not to die.

A sneer suddenly came from the side.

Gloria turned around and meet Slyvia's undisguised vicious gaze, “You are really lucky. Even such a big fire didn't burn you to death.”

She laughed again, took out the mirror she had prepared and gloated, “But when you see yourself clearly, I'm afraid you won't want to live anymore.”

Only when she looked at herself in the mirror did Gloria understand what Slyvia meant.

Her face from the left forehead to the corner of her eye that was burned.

Gloria's pupils could not help but shrink.

Tears in Gloria's eyes were about to overflow.

For a woman, having her face ruined was probably more painful than death.

Sylvia then leaned closer to Gloria with some sympathy, “Do you think Manuel will still marry you now?”

But the scenes of collapse and madness that Slyvia had imagined did not occur. She narrowed her eyes, forcefully stuffed a scalpel into Gloria's hand and then cut her own face.

By the time Gloria reacted, Slyvia had already shouted, “Ah, sister, don't!”

Just then Manuel came in from outside. 

The next second Slyvia cried and threw herself into his arms. “Manuel!”

Manuel was slightly stunned and asked, “What happened?”

Slyvia could not stop shaking in his arms as she accused Gloria, “Gloria, she... she's going to ruin my face.”

Seeing half of her face covered in blood, Manuel's expression suddenly turned cold. His sharp eyes suddenly shot towards Gloria.

Their eyes met and Gloria picked up the scalpel that had fallen on the bed with an expressionless face, then raised her hand and threw it towards Slyvia.

When the scalpel cut through the air like an arrow and stabbed straight at her, Slyvia's pupils suddenly contracted and she could not help but scream in fear.

Manuel did not expect that Gloria would dare to hurt people in front of him. In a hurry, he quickly raised his arm to block the flying knife that was still coming at him.

There was an inch-long wound on his arm.

“Manuel!” Slyvia grabbed his hand distressedly.

An unspeakable disappointment in Manuel's eyes.

“Before you always said that we wronged you and sided with Sylvia,” he said in a deep voice, “Then, how do you explain it now?”

Gloria did not want to explain at all. After having walked the line between life and death, she had become more open-minded about many things. She looked at the two people hugging each other with a cold look in her eyes.

“Didn’t you want to blame me for her ruined face? That’s why I did it. Besides, no matter how I defend myself, I’ll still be the one to blame for her false accusations against me.”

“Gloria!” Manuel's expression became even more gloomy and he felt that Gloria was simply unreasonable at that moment.

Gloria’s father and mother, who followed closely, also felt as if they had never known their daughter.

Slyvia also said in a weak voice, “Sister, I know you are so angry because Manuel saved me but not you last night.

“I should be the one who got disfigured. Don't even mention you cutting me. As long as you don't hate him, I'll do anything you ask me to do.”

Manuel frowned upon hearing that and said, “You are not wrong, Sylvia. You broke into the garage to save her, so if I want to save someone, I'll save you first. And I can save whoever I want to save and it's not up to others to interfere.”

At the end of his speech, his voice sounded like it had been chilled by ice and there was no trace of warmth on his face.

Gloria remained calm from beginning to end.

No matter how many reasons there were, no matter how good the excuses were, if they did not care anymore, they would always find reasons.

After thinking that through, Gloria suddenly felt extremely bored. When she heard Slyvia's words, she even smiled good-naturedly as she muttered, “I don't blame you. On the contrary, I want to thank you.”

‘Thank you for making me realize that people’s hearts are fickle,’ she continued in her heart.

Everyone present was a little surprised to hear that.

“I think she still hasn't admitted her fault,” Gloria’s father also said, “From today on, you must reflect on your mistakes in this ward and don't leave!”

After saying that, several people escorted Slyvia away.

Gloria’s father left two bodyguards to watch over Gloria. After the door of the ward was closed, Gloria contacted another hospital again.

At that time, she was currently working under the Norton Group and she did not want to have anything to do with Manuel and those biased parents anymore.

After contacting the hospital, Gloria changed out of her hospital gown and quietly left while the bodyguard at the door went to eat.

However, at the corner of the hospital corridor, an argument between her father and Slyvia was heard.

Gloria paused.

“Sylvia, you are too impatient. It is easy to find someone to set the fire. Fortunately, I stopped Manuel and did not let him pursue the matter. 

“Otherwise, I can’t protect you anymore once he knows the person behind the scenes is you. Don't be so reckless next time,” Gloria’s father advised in an angry tone.

“Humph, it's because you are too incompetent! You promised my mother that you would give me everything in the Huerta Family, but what happened? Are you reluctant to part with your daughter? You should know that not only Gloria is your biological daughter, but me too!” Sylvia sneered.

“How can I be reluctant? If I was really reluctant, why would I have personally designed that car accident three years ago? Sylvia, you have to know that I will always love you and your mother.”

A satisfied chuckle finally rang out from the corner, “And Manuel, I want his people and I also want the Norton Family behind him.”

The conversation between the two was like thunder exploding in Gloria's ears.

For a moment, she felt the blood in her body stagnate.

The truth was too shocking.

Gloria could not help but take a step back, her nails digging into her palms.

She seemed like a frozen sculpture with only her pupils trembling and expanding and contracting.

Her biological father actually wanted to kill her for Silvya, her father’s illegitimate daughter.

Gloria suddenly found that she seemed to have never known her sanctimonious father.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew through the hall. Gloria could not help but shiver and suddenly realized she should leave the hospital quickly.

The next second, she rushed towards home.

Gloria’s mother and Manuel at home were both stunned when they saw her.

Then Gloria’s mother's expression quickly turned cold as she asked, “Why did you come back?”

Manuel also frowned.

Gloria tightly grasped her mother's hand and said in a trembling voice, “Mom, Manuel, I just heard the conversation between Dad and Slyvia. It turns out that Dad planned our car accident three years ago and Slyvia is his illegitimate daughter!”

The expressions of Gloria’s mother and Manuel both changed.

“Are you telling the truth?”

Gloria nodded. Even though she was disheartened, when she knew the truth, she subconsciously wanted to remind them not to be fooled.

But behind him came Slyvia's collapsed voice, “Sister?”

Gloria's heart tightened and she turned around to meet the gaze of her father and Slyvia.

Slyvia shook her head in disbelief, as if she was finally completely disappointed in her. She looked at Gloria with tears of pain in her eyes.

“I didn't expect you could make up such a lie. Isn't your father's love for you enough? Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, let alone your father!

“And me, I know that I was accepted into the Huerta Family as your substitute because I look like you. If it weren't for this face, I would never have the chance to have a father, mother and brother who loves me so much.

“But you can't slander me just because I look like you, sister!”

Hearing her words, Gloria’s mother, who was originally in doubt, immediately threw away her doubts and quickly told Slyvia, “No, I never doubt you and my husband. So, please don’t worry, okay?”

Manuel also looked at Gloria and said, “You can even come up with such a childish way of alienating us, Gloria.”

It was like a bucket of ice water was poured over her head.

Gloria moved her lips. After calming down, she felt that it was a mistake for her to run back.