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    an instant.


    Out of habit, I walked to my study and looked at the various case files spread across the desk. A bitter feeling welled up in my heart. It felt as if all the documents I had pored over night after night for the past week suddenly turned into snowkes, falling from the sky. As the snowkes fell on me, they seemed to carry infinite weight. I felt my body sink. I copsed powerlessly to the ground until they buried me. Laying in a pile of ruins, I was utterly bewildered.


    Why? What did Nichs want? Why was he doing this to me?


    The conflict between Nichs and me always involved that one person. He would only go to such lengths because of udia.


    If his goal was to make me disappear from the public eye, then any unfavorable information I might release about udia in the future would not receive much attention or be believed! Only this could satisfy his motives and achieve his goals. Sopared to udia, what did I even mean to him?


    I had epted that he did not give me a perfect marriage, so I turned my focus on rekindling my career instead. But now, he was not even going to spare my fledgling career.


    I had even once fantasized that he actually had a little feelings for me. I had to be truly, hopelessly crazy.


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    Though my hands were warmed up my heart remained cold. Staring at his falsely gentle face, I smiled a little. I then suddenly bit down hard on the back of his hand.