They Sabotaged My Future, Then Begged Me to Come Back When I Built a Better One Chapter 10

They Sabotaged My Future, Then Begged Me to Come Back When I Built a Better One Chapter 10

I saved the video with satisfaction. 

It was the final nail in Vivian’s coffin. Once she saw Soren humiliating her like that, she would lose her mind completely. 

I put my phone away. 

Under Soren’s expectant gaze, I let go of the crutch in my 

hand. 

Then, right in front of him, I stood up steadily. 

My leg had already mostly recovered during this period of 

silent endurance. 

Soren looked up in shock. “Brielle… your leg–how?” 

I didn’t answer. 

I picked up the diamond ring and threw it straight at his face. 

The sharp edge of the diamond cut his eye corner, drawing 

blood. 

“Soren, your love is disgusting.” 

I looked down at him from above, my voice completely cold. 

“You really thought you could get away with just finding a scapegoat?” 

“That offshore transfer record from your computer and the full evidence of you bribing the exam committee…” 

“I’ve already submitted it all. Under my own name. To the 

authorities.” 

Outside, sirens wailed through the night, closing in. The lights washed over Soren’s ashen face. 

“Fifteen years of sentiment between us. Today, I’m paying it all back. With interest.” 

The evidence I submitted was complete enough to ensure his 

conviction. 

To protect its stock price, the Cross family held an emergency 

board meeting overnight. 

They stripped Soren of his inheritance rights and publicly 

announced his expulsion from the family. 

The once untouchable heir of the Cross empire was going to 

prison. 

As for the Harrington family, their ending was even more 

brutal. 

I casually sent Vivian the video of Soren kneeling and 

insulting her. 

The moment she saw the man she loved humiliating her like 

that, her last thread of sanity snapped completely. 

She truly went insane. 

She locked herself away, shrieking day and night that she got a 

perfect score. Anyone who got too close–she’d bite. 

The Harrington company had already been boycotted 

nationwide due to the scandal. Its capital chain collapsed, and 

it declared bankruptcy. 

Robert and Margaret sold off the estate and the cars. 

Buried under mountains of debt, they ended up in a dank, sunless basement with their deranged daughter. 

Robert got his leg broken trying to run from loan sharks. 

Margaret scavenged for wilted scraps at the market, enduring the scornful stares of every passerby. 

At last, they tasted the despair I’d known–the night I was left in the rain outside the rusted gates of Silver Pines. 

As for me, I went abroad and underwent the best orthopedic reconstructive surgery. 

After half a year of painful rehabilitation, I finally learned to run like a normal person again. 

I returned to Westbrook High School and applied to repeat my studies. 

Free from Vivian’s poison and Soren’s grip, I consumed knowledge with a hunger I’d never known. 

The following summer, I walked into the SAT exam hall. 

When the results came out, I had one of the highest scores in 

the state. 

Soon after, I received an acceptance letter from an Ivy League 

school. 

Finally, I had pulled myself out of that hell. With my own two 

hands. 

Three years later. 

Outside the Ivy League university campus, under the shade of the sycamore trees. 

A man in a cheap, worn shirt stood hunched over, his body thin and broken, staring fixedly at the school gate. 

It was Soren, freshly released from prison. 

Three years behind bars had gutted him of every last shred of 

pride. 

Every single day inside, he had survived on memories of how I 

once treated him well. 

What a fool. He believed that if he served his time and begged, everything would go back to the way it was. 

But when he saw me walking out of the gate, books in my arms, laughing with classmates, something inside him. 

shattered. 

I stood in the sunlight, confident and bright, so radiant that it only made him feel ashamed. 

“Brielle…” Eyes rimmed red, he staggered toward me. 

My classmates flinched, stepping forward to shield me. But 

Soren didn’t care. 

“Brielle, I was wrong…” He looked up at me, utterly humbled. 

“I thought about you every single day. For three years.” 

“I regret all of it. Please. Just forgive me.” 

His trembling hand reached out, trying to touch the hem of my skirt. 

I took a step back and avoided him. 

“Soren. Fifteen years ago, in winter, you pulled me out of the 

hell.” 

“Fifteen years later, in summer, I shoved your face back down into it. With my own foot.” 

I looked at his pale face and gave a faint smile. “We’re even now.” 

“You’re not even worth my time.” 

With that, I didn’t look at him again. 

I turned and walked away with my classmates, side by side. 

Behind me, Soren collapsed onto the ground. 

His tears had long dried, but they could never bring back the girl who once looked at him like he was her whole world. 

The sunlight settled on my shoulders, soft and warm. 

I breathed in the scent of summer blossoms and walked into 

my future.