Without sparing him another glance, seeing him barely holding himself together, I turned and walked away without hesitation.
Maybe he finally realized that there was no hope left for us.
After that day, I never saw Ryan again.
But occasionally, I’d receive a message from an unknown number.
Sometimes it was a photo, sometimes a simple greeting.
1/2
Then one day, a video surfaced online, shaking up my peaceful life once again.
It turned out that Miranda had been bullying newcomers in the orchestra, confident that with the backing of the Menzies, she could get away with anything.
What she didn’t know was that sometimes, there were people who even the Menzies couldn’t challenge.
As the video went viral, some netizens dug deeper and uncovered the truth about how Ryan had deliberately broken my hands so that Miranda could get into the orchestra.
[Miranda is awful! Just because she has connections, she thinks she can slap around the new recruits like that?]
[I’ve been a victim of hers too…]
[She actually looks pretty decent, but who knew she could be so cruel?]
As public opinion snowballed, Miranda’s reputation was completely destroyed.
The orchestra fired her, and due to the severity of her actions, her career as a pianist came to a grinding halt.
Soon after, Menzie Corporation’s stock plummeted to rock bottom.
No one expected Menzie Corporation, once at its peak, to crash so suddenly.
Then, Ryan was arrested by the police on charges of bribery and abuse of power.
At the time, I had just won first place in a piano competition.
After so long, I finally gathered the courage to take that first step forward again.
I truly believed that the past was dark and unreachable, but the road ahead was still full of hope.
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