Lucian was seething with anger. "Asher, if you had listened to me earlier, at least Lemira might not hate us so much. At least we wouldn't be stuck in this deadlock as siblings."

Asher was completely distraught, covering his face and not daring to look at Lucian.

At this moment, he was suffering intensely.

Lemira was right—every single moment from now on would be nothing but torment.

A constant weight of pain and regret pressed on his heart.

And this was only the beginning of his punishment.

Lemira was truly merciless.

After hanging up the phone, Lemira finished her breakfast and went straight to campus.

She headed to her class in the main building, where Oanice had saved a seat for her.

As soon as Lemira sat down, Oanice leaned over and whispered, "How did it go last night?"

"It went well enough," Lemira replied quietly. "Let's talk later."

She didn't want to say anything more in the classroom-if someone overheard, the news would spread in no time.

Oanice understood and didn't press further. She and Stella Waverly hadn't slept well the night before either, both worried about Lemira, but they hadn't dared to text her in case it brought her more trouble.

During class, Lemira received a message from Orion: [I'll pick you up after class.]

[Where are we going?] she replied.

[Take the initiative.]

As soon as Lemira saw those words, she knew exactly what Orion meant.

After everything that happened last night, news would probably reach Mrs. Amelia very soon, so they had to act first.

She just hadn't expected Orion to arrange things so quickly.

Lemira replied with a simple "Okay" and started thinking about what Orion had planned.

No matter how she tried to guess, she couldn't figure out what he was going to do.

As soon as the bell rang, Lemira started gathering her things. "Can you take my stuff back to the dorm? I have to step out for a bit. If anything comes up, let me know in the group chat."

"Sure. Be careful," Oanice said.

Oanice knew what Lemira was up to, but there wasn't much she could do except hope Lemira would stay safe.

Lemira nodded. At this point, whatever it took, she had to get to the bottom of what really happened with that car crash all those years ago.

When she walked out of the classroom, she ran right into a group from the business school.

Susanna Sinclair raised her voice so

everyone could hear. "Well, look

who's here. Last night's wedding at y estate was

the Langston

something else playing video of the bride and the butler together for everyone to see. That was wild."

Lemira's expression didn't change at all.

Oanice spoke up, "That's just the kind of person Evelina is. She had it coming."

At that moment, Dorian stormed over, looking furious, but Lemira stopped him cold and said sharply, "What do you want?"

"Lemira, is what Susanna said true?"

Dorian looked exhausted, eyes bloodshot-he never imagined Evelina would actually marry Evander. What did that make him?

With a half-smile, Lemira replied, “That depends on what you mean. If you mean the wedding last night, it happened. And if you mean the video-yes, that was real too."

After hearing that, Dorian looked like he might collapse. Face dark, he spun on his heel and stormed off.

Susanna burst out laughing. “Lemira, your family's reputation is really something. The Langstons are the joke of our whole circle now. People

cant stop talking about how far

you've all fallen.

Lemira stayed silent, expressionless. Honestly, she didn't care about the Langston name.

If she did, she wouldn't have played that video at the wedding yesterday.

Lemira tried to leave, but Susanna

stepped in front of her. "Hold on, you're the talk of the town-give us the scoop on what happened after. Did Evander really trash Evelina None of us can reach her."

Susanna's eyes glinted with malice.

Right then, Susanna's phone rang, and suddenly her face went pale as she

answered, "What? My mom is missing?"