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Back then, when Maya was 15, her voice held a trace of excitement as she shared the news with her younger brother.Â
“Then what about me? If you’re going with him later, are you just going to leave me behind?” Lawrence moved closer to her, his voice tense.Â
“Of course not.” Maya shook her head and put an arm around his thin shoulders. “You’re the most important one. We already promised we’d stay alive together and leave this place together!Â
“But if someone can help us, it’d be easier to get out…Â
“A pampered little prince like you, who can’t even take care of himself, definitely isn’t cooking. But later on, you’ll have to clean and wash the dishes.Â
“As for tuition…”Â
Maya kept imagining what their future life would be like.Â
But reality hit her like a bucket of ice water not long after.Â
“I don’t want her. Kaia is my real fiancĂ©e.Â
“I want to break off the engagement.”Â
Jonathan’s voice was firm and cold.Â
At that moment, everything turned into a complete mess.Â
Jonathan was punished, and both families were humiliated.Â
After that, Maya stayed quiet for a long time. So long that Lawrence thought she was about to cry.Â
But in the end, she only patted his head and let out a sigh. “Just like I expected. You can’t depend on other people. We should depend on ourselves.”Â
When Lawrence heard this, anger almost overwhelmed him.Â
He muttered under his breath, “A coward like Jonathan deserves to die.”Â
Maya let out a small gasp, as if he had learned something bad.Â
Then she roughly messed up his hair. “No swearing. And getting upset over this isn’t worth it.”Â
After all, she had only intended to make use of him a little from the start.Â
It was just that Jonathan hadn’t fallen for it.Â
“You’ll get used to things like this,” Maya said. She could tell he had a tendency to trap himself in his thoughts, so she pinched his cheek and smiled. “Anyway, I’ve never been the one people pick. Don’t be angry. Boys don’t look good when they’re mad.”Â
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But those words hurt Lawrence deeply. He shrank a little, his fingers slowly clenching.Â
“Please don’t say that. It hurts me,” Lawrence said, sounding close to tears. “I would choose you.”Â
I would choose you.Â
No matter how many times, I would always choose only you.Â
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“Let’s talk, Lawrence?”Â
Thomas tapped the desk in front of him.Â
The sound brought Lawrence back from his thoughts.Â
He swallowed his irritation and put on a calm, obedient expression, as polite as ever. “What do you want to talk about, Dad?”Â
“About your sister…”Â
Thomas looked at him. The doubt in his heart only deepened. He rubbed his forehead before speaking. “I saw a little girl at Harmony International School who looks a lot like you.”Â
Lawrence’s breathing paused for a brief moment. Even his fingers curled without him noticing.Â
But he kept his expression under control. He still appeared to be listening attentively.Â
“Her name is Maya.”Â
The moment those words were spoken…Â
The study fell into a silence so heavy it felt suffocating.Â
The light spread quietly, flickering over Lawrence’s face.Â
Maya, Maya, Maya.Â
He kept repeating the name in his mind.Â
His sister’s name was Maya.Â
At first, she was supposed to be called Kaia.Â
But when she first arrived, she firmly refused to change her name.Â
“My name is Maya. I don’t want to change it.”Â
She had always felt distant from family. She was stubborn to the core.Â
The moment she saw Kaia in the house, she placed herself among the outsiders, and no matter what, she refused to call Thomas “Dad”.Â
And she refused to use that name as well.Â
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When he heard the name Maya, he bit the back of his hand. His voice trembled in a way that was almost unnoticeable. “Do you have a picture?”Â
Lawrence needed to confirm if the information was true.Â
Seeing his strong reaction, Thomas immediately showed him the school enrollment photo he had already checked.Â
“This is the girl. Her father works at an import-export company, and her mother is a housewife.Â
“She also has an older brother.”Â
But after that, Lawrence could hardly hear anything Thomas said.Â
A layer of tears quickly filled his eyes.Â
He bit his lower lip hard, trying to hold back the rising emotions, but tears still streamed down uncontrollably.Â
He forced down every sob that almost escaped, then lifted his head and asked in a shaky voice, “Is… is she doing okay?”Â
“She’s doing very well.” When Thomas said that, his feelings were complicated as well.Â
Even though Raymond seemed like a lazy good-for-nothing who just slept all day, from what he saw when he visited Maya.Â
That child was actually very lively.Â
In fact… maybe a bit too lively.Â
“Really?” Even after hearing it from his father, he still found it hard to believe.Â
He couldn’t help it.Â
His sister had always been slow and easy to bully.Â
Living under someone else’s roof must have been painful.Â
The moment he received news of Maya, Lawrence felt an overwhelming urge to run to her. In the end, his reason suppressed that impulse.Â
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