Leap OF Fate

Chapter 87

Crystal racked her brains to find out the person who betrayed her, but to no avail. While she admits to

doing those things out of her own volition, these are things she kept hidden to everyone, including her

family. The people in her kink parties always signed a nondisclosure agreement. The leaked photos

and videos came to her as a surprise. To this day, her team still has not found the person behind the

leak.

And while she continued to search for the culprit, people had a field day tarnishing her reputation. She

became the press’ darling to a PR nightmare overnight. She thought that the news would eventually

just die a natural death as long as she kept to herself and avoided the media, but it had dragged on.

And as time passed, the more vicious they became. Their words did not only sting but slashed her to

bits. Comments ranged from the truth, to an interpretation of the truth, and to utter lies.

The couple of weeks after her scandal broke out were the toughest days of her life. The days she spent

as the Jewelry Heiress where people tiptoed around her and watched their words when talking to her

had been a distant past. It almost felt like it was just a dream and her reality was the hell she lived in

now.

She had never encountered such difficulty in her life. All her life, her family shielded her from all

discomfort the harsh world had. Her father helped her resolve all her problems, no matter how big or

trivial. Even her drug use, he had helped keep it quiet. Nobody knew she had been in rehab twice

already.

However, after the scandal, like a broken dam, she stood in the middle of a deluge of harsh words from

all her social media and news. People cursed her, called her names, and exposed her past misdeeds.

Her pristine image turned to muck overnight.

But this time, it’s different. She never felt so lonely in her life. She stood alone in the flurry of harsh

words, accusations, and judgement. Everyone seemed to have something nasty to say to her.

Everywhere she looked, all she saw were the condescending eyes of people judging her. Whore. Drug

addict. Brat. Slut. People who used to wish her nothing but the best things life offered cursed her and

wished her dead.

Even her family did not treat her kindly. Her father did not even wait for the news to turn cold. He called

the Rain patriarch to apologize and cancel her engagement with Justin out of embarrassment for what

happened. No amount of begging stopped him from deciding.

The people whom she thought were her friends publicly disassociated themselves from her faster than

she could blink her eyes. All the people she called just to have somebody to turn to, either ignored her

or dismissed her.

What hurt the most was Justin, whom she envisioned sharing her life with did not even bother to give

her even an ounce of concern. This was the man she had an unrequited love for as long as she knew

what love meant. She knew he did not love her. He’s an illusion she always wanted to have. His

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affection. He did not even try to ask her how she was after all the undeserved judgement and ridicule

she received from the media.

She couldn’t help but shake her head and smile a bitter smile. No one bothered to ask how she’s doing

but Serene. Of all the people who would go out their way to reach out to her, it had to be her, Justin’s

ex-girlfriend.

She found Justin’s, Dylan’s and Elaina’s reaction when they saw Serene in the studio odd and piqued

her curiosity. She had her investigated right away. That was how she learned about her past

relationship with Justin. The way Justin looked at Serene made her jealous. He never once looked at

her with such longing and passion.

When Serene reached out to her after the scandal, she found her action hypocritical. She expected

Serene to mock her like the rest, but she did not. She sincerely offered a shoulder to cry on and said

she knew how being alone and abandoned by the person you treasured most felt like. Did Justin

abandon her too?

Initially, she wanted to vent out her anger on her, but in the end, Serene’s sincerity won her over. She

even felt a tinge of guilt in her heart. After she learned about Serene’s connection to Justin, and her

own conclusion that her children were his, she had paid people to kidnap her children. However, the

empathy she showed her melted her core.

How ironic her life had been. The people whom she counted on abandoned her and the person she

was bent on hurting embraced her and accompanied her in her sadness. She’s not as despicable as

people painted her to be. In the last minute, she had asked the people she paid to not continue with the

task. How could she hurt her children when they were also victims of Justin’s heart of ice, like her and

Serene?

But then the weight of all the burden she had to carry weighed her down. Her career, which was just

starting, now crushed and did not show signs of recovery. The family she expected would protect her,

cast her away. Her friends, who she thought would help her out like she did before, avoided her like the

plague. And Justin, the man she loved for years, the man she’s supposed to marry, did not even

protest when their engagement got canceled. Was he relieved he’s no longer marrying her?

There was not a day or a night where her heart did not feel pain or her mind not get troubled. She took

a deep breath as she looked at the horizon. The sun is poised to come out, the indigo sky beginning to

see pockets of light at a distance. She smiled and closed her eyes. She felt the chilly wind against her

skin, and heard its whisper to her ears, “It’s over. Now, you can finally have peace.”