Vivian sneered coldly. "Done nothing? Then what about her! Why is she here today? Zachary, you know perfectly well that I don't want to see her, yet you brought her to a day that has special meaning to me."
"What I hope you understand is that the only reason I came to this party is because she's here too," Zachary said with particular coldness.
Vivian froze. She hadn't expected him to be so blunt.
"Zachary, I thought that even if you don't like me, since we grew up together, you would at least sincerely wish me well."
Zachary said gravely, "If those things hadn't happened between us, I would have sincerely wished you well."
Those things?
Vivian laughed self-mockingly. "Even without those things, just the fact that I like you would make it impossible for us to sit together peacefully. Liking you is wrong."
Zachary neither confirmed nor denied it, but in some sense, he and Vivian had indeed grown up together.
"Vivian, you're too arrogant. I can never understand why you would hurt Mia."
"Hurting her wasn't my intention. At first I just wanted to teach Sarah a lesson, but it always went wrong and ended up hurting her," Vivian explained.
But Zachary denied this. "Maybe it was an accident at first, but you were the one who repeatedly tried to trigger Mia's episodes afterward."
Vivian was stunned. She wanted to argue but couldn't. Zachary was right.
To win Zachary back, she would have killed Sarah without hesitation, at any cost, including hurting innocent people.
"That incident wasn't caused by me! You can't pin those mistakes on me!"
Zachary looked into the distance, his thoughts drifting far away, as if floating to that abandoned factory thousands of miles away.
His thin lips parted slightly. "Vivian, you're not innocent. Everything you have was created by Wilson Corporation, carrying the hatred of those who died in that explosion. Until the truth comes to light, they'll remain buried in dust in that abandoned factory, their bones turned to ash, while the living are still lost in the fog. I don't just want revenge—I want to give them justice."
"But I..."
"Vivian, you'd better watch yourself."
This was the first time he had said so much to Vivian. Though cold, every word pierced her heart like a needle.

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