"You're beginning to sound like the person you vowed never to become."
This is the story where one wrong decision leads to a dozen of others. Even if Scarlett tries to compensate for everything she's done, it all spirals downward.
author's note : i know this is long overdue so i apologise for the delay. it's just that i'm getting a little distracted from the ideas that i have on a new story that i'm planning ;). regardless, i hope you guys vote and comment if you liked it. thank you so much for all of your support <3
[for Eli, your advice has truly been rooted deep inside of me as I wrote this chapter. You inspired me to write this chapter and urged me to continue what I'm doing. Thank you, Eli, for showing (or telling) me what it means to be a writer.]
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07 : yù yī
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"Because even if we were struggling, we had goals.
It didn't matter that we weren't there yet.
What mattered is that we both experienced setbacks,
and full-blown failures, but we got up,
brushed ourselves off, and kept going — and
were making the best of it."
— Jamie McGuire, 'Beautiful Oblivion'
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yù yī (n) :
The desire to see everything with fresh eyes.
[this is when all you want to do is see things
in a different manner and perhaps, look
at them in a more positive light.]
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I STARED BACK AT THE PERSON WHO I triedto be deeply, irrevocably and fervently in love with, the person who had thrown me to the wolves because of his debauched ulterior motives.
So, yes, if you must know, all the pretending had been thrown right in front of my face. If anything, we were both using each other.
I was supposed to be propelled by my contempt for him and what he had done, but all I could do was stare into his crystal blue eyes that once had icy shards embedded to them, eyes that were so aloof. These were the eyes that deceived me.
"Braden?" I whispered in incredulity, my eyebrows knitting together as I gazed upon the person who took everything away from me, when I thought all along that he could be my everything. "What are you doing here?"
