Chapter 12 Rebirth Changes Nothing
I visited Vivian Bennett in prison.
She was frail, her eyes sunken, wearing prison clothes, but I could still see numerous scars on her body.
I guessed she wasn’t doing well in there.
After all, the one she had hurt was someone with power.
Even if she didn’t die, she would still face consequences.
When she saw me, her dazed expression suddenly turned sharp, and she stared at me intently.
Then, just like in my past life, she began cursing at me. If it weren’t for the guards stopping her, I would’ve thought she was about to charge at me and rip me to shreds.
Once she calmed down, she finally spoke, her voice filled with venom: “Sophie, you’ve reborn, haven’t you? Did you deliberately not stop me?”
“You’re doing this to get revenge on me, aren’t you?”
“You just can’t stand to see me doing well, can you?”
“If it weren’t for you, I would have been with Mark by now. If it weren’t for you, I would be married. I wouldn’t have turned into the rat that everyone despises, hiding in the shadows, spying on other people’s happiness. Why didn’t you die in the previous life?”
I looked at her face, now so different from mine, and could only sigh.
At this point, she was still suffering from paranoid delusions, shifting all the blame onto me, instead of looking inward for the cause of her misery.
In my past life, I had deleted that text, keeping her away from a life that wasn’t meant for her, stopping her from being with Chadwick Carter, keeping her from being consumed by desire. She hated me for it.
In this life, I didn’t interfere with her decisions and let her choose her own path. Yet, she still blamed me.
She even accused me of not advising her.
“Didn’t I try to advise you, Vivian Bennett?”
“What was my ending? I was pushed off a high building by you. Do you know what it feels like to fall from such a height? It hurts. It hurts so much. I was so young, my research had finally yielded results, but I had no future anymore. All because of a message. How did I end up like this!”
Remembering the agony from my past life, the suppressed emotions in my chest finally surfaced.
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My chest heaved violently: “I apologized, I begged for forgiveness. I even became your punching bag, holding everything in, because I knew I deserved it. I shouldn’t have taken the decision to delete that message. And how did you treat me? You wished for my death!”
“This time, I didn’t interfere with your decisions. I let you choose your own life. Yet you still want me dead. You slandered me, you hired people to defile me, and you even tried to ruin me with cyberbullying. Vivian Bennett, you’re the poisonous one! Not me! So the one who deserves to die is you, because every path you’ve
taken leads to a dead end!”
After saying all of this, I felt a sense of relief.
I was also convinced that Vivian Bennett had also been reborn like me.
She muttered to herself, “Why didn’t I come back sooner? Why?”
Seeing that she couldn’t blame me anymore, she started blaming the timing of her rebirth.
But I knew that even if she had been reborn earlier, she would have still made the same choices.
Because she was selfish. A vain person.
She wouldn’t miss an opportunity to be admired by others.
Before being kept, everyone always thinks they’ll be the exception.
Vivian Bennett thought so, too.
But the odds of that happening were slimmer than a comet hitting Earth.
The relationship between the powerful and the ones being kept is inherently unequal. The inequality in status meant they were just playing a game.
And Vivian Bennett never achieved equality in her soul, always placing herself in the position of a servile
admirer.
Because of that, she would never be able to hold her head up again.
And how could anyone choose her as a partner?
Looking at her, I said one last thing: “You’ve had your share of happiness. You’ve had your parents’ love, the bond with your friends, a husband who loves you, and loving in-laws. But you destroyed it all yourself.”
The most tragic thing in life is realizing that you once had happiness, but you destroyed it with your own
hands.
That’s why Vivian Bennett went mad. She couldn’t face reality, so she tried to place all the blame on me.
As if doing that would bring her some comfort.
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But by this point, she still hadn’t seen through the truth: “Sophie, you just want to watch me fall. You saw Chadwick Carter’s message and couldn’t wait for me to go. You’ve been playing me like a fool, watching me spiral into hell. You’re truly malicious.”
I didn’t want to say anything more to her, nor did I want to explain.
Because she wouldn’t listen. So I stood up to leave and said, “Vivian Bennett, I didn’t force you to make a choice. You eagerly threw yourself into the arms of desire. This is the life you chose. You need to pay the price for your choices.”
In this life, Vivian Bennett lost everything.
Mark Hernandez distanced himself from her.
Her parents distanced themselves from her.
She lost everything.
And the powerful ones didn’t face any consequences. She, however, paid with the freedom of her future.
When Chadwick Carter, just like in the past life, publicly married his so-called Cinderella, she was in prison, using a sharpened toothbrush to stab herself in the throat.
I don’t know if she regretted it in her final moments.
But it’s hard to save a soul that has already gone too far.
In this life, I didn’t interfere with her karma, so she had to bear the consequences herself.
And I started my life again, moving forward in the field of research.
Later, my biological research technology helped society and helped more and more people.
I stayed at the university and became a doctoral advisor.
I always remind my students that life will bring different people into their journey-families, lovers, and friends. But no matter who they meet, I hope they stay clear-headed and never make decisions for others under any pretext. Otherwise, mark my words, they’ll only end up hurting themselves.
