Chapter 10
Life returned to peace.
After dreaming of all that torment and illness, I’d become more concerned about my health.
I set aside a day for a comprehensive medical checkup in the hospital. The report showed I was in perfect health. Even the doctors praised me repeatedly.
During this time, Hugo still hadn’t given up on me. He even declared that if he couldn’t win me over, he’d remain single
forever.
Gradually, my heart began to waver.
Not because I had fallen for him, but it felt like a voice in my mind persistently told me to forget Freddie and start a new life.
Yet, at the same time, another voice deep in my heart told me I couldn’t forget him.
The two voices tangled, leaving me torn.
But in the end, the one in my mind won.
Just when I finally let go of the past and decided to accept Hugo’s confession, I stumbled upon something in Freddie’s
belongings.
I opened an old safe that had been sealed for years.
There were only two things inside a preserved camellia sealed inside a glass box, and a white shirt with one button missing.
The moment I saw them, it felt like something collapsed in my mind.
In that instant, everything went dark, and my head spun.
Before I could even react, tears were already streaming down my face.
I had made that preserved flower when I was 20 years old. The button from the white shirt had also been snipped that same
year.
All of this proved that everything that happened before was real.
