In front of Kiara, she was no match.

"Well, it's getting late. I have to go to the airport. Go home, Girl."

She said, trying to step forward and give Vivianne a comforting hug, but Vivianne burst into anger and pushed her hard. "Get lost! Don't touch me!"

"Ah!" Kiara screamed in surprise.

At the same time, Vivianne was thrown to the ground by another even greater force.

"How are you? Are you okay? Did she hurt you?" Lucas' nervous voice came.

Vivianne looked up in shock, only to see the staggering Kiara being held tightly in the arms of the man who rushed over, with a worried expression on his face.

"It's okay, she wasn't intentional."

"What do you mean it wasn't intentional!"

Lucas' face darkened instantly. He pulled Kiara behind him, turned around, pointed at Vivianne's nose and started yelling.

"I think you are becoming more and more willful! It's snowing hard and she's wearing high heels. What if she slips and rolls down the slope? When will you be more sensible?"

"You're always like this, getting angry at the slightest provocation and running away from home at the slightest provocation! I think you've watched too many low-rate TV dramas and your mind is full of those ridiculous things! Get the hell out of here and go home!"

After saying that, without even glancing at Vivianne who was lying on the ground, he picked up Kiara and walked towards the car.

From beginning to end, there was not even a single explanation for that kiss.

Vivianne laid on the ground, watching the two figures snuggling together go away in despair and the cold wind carried their words to her ears.

"Are you just going to leave her like this? After all, you've watched her grow up, aren't you afraid that she'll run away?"

"This is her home, where can she run to?"

Lucas was right.

Vivianne indeed had nowhere to go.

She was six years younger than Lucas. She always followed him like a tail when she was a child. Then, after her adoptive parents passed away when she was seventeen, he took her to the Cannavale Family and took care of her despite all objections.

At that time, Lucas' parents wanted to adopt Vivianne as their daughter, but Lucas was unwilling to do so. It was not until the day of his high school graduation that he confessed his feelings to her. Then everyone realized that he had fallen in love with her.

Everything that followed came naturally.

During the five years of their love, Lucas treated her gently, affectionately and carefully, as if she were a fragile flower vase, which could break and shatter at any moment.

After Vivianne graduated from university, he opened a bookstore for her to pass the time because he was worried that she would be bullied if she worked in a company. Four months ago, he even proposed to her on an island.

Unexpectedly, just overnight, all the sweetness turned into a knife piercing into Vivianne's heart.

Lucas' car drove away.

Kiara resigned and left California, so he went to see her off in person.

Vivianne knelt in the snow, watching the distant car lights, crying uncontrollably.

As soon as she woke up, she was already in the hospital.

Stellan was sitting in front of her bed, his face full of worry.

"You finally woke up. You almost scared me to death."

"Why am I here?"

"That's what I want to ask you, why did you go out to sleep in the snow instead of staying at home in the middle of the night? If someone passing by hadn't discovered you and called the police in time ...." He sighed, then continued, "the doctor said that if you brought here a minute late, you wouldn't be saved."

Vivianne was taken aback.

She guessed she was too sad last night that she passed out from the cold.

"What? You've been lying down for three days before." Stellan sighed helplessly. When he saw the girl's blank look, he hesitated and said, "Vivianne, there's something I don't know if I should tell you."

"Just tell me."

She even accepted Lucas' cheating, so what else was there that she could not accept?

Stellan hesitated before finally throwing his phone over and saying, "You'd better take a look yourself."

Vivianne's face instantly turned pale as she looked at it.

That was a post on Kiara's social media. There were no caption on it, only a pair of hands clasped together. The hand belonged to her and there was a ring on the ring finger.

As for the other hand, even if it turned into ashes, Vivianne could still recognize it as Lucas!

"They ...." She stared at Stellan in disbelief.

He nodded in awkward and said, "I can't recognize them. It just so happened that the restaurant where they had dinner belonged to my friend. Vivianne, did you break up with Lucas?"

Her throat choked and she did not know how to answer.

All of this happened too unexpectedly and she did not even have a chance to break up. Now it seemed that she was dumped, right?

Her condition was so bad that Stellan did not dare to speak more.

The ward fell into a deathly silence until Vivianne's phone vibrated a few times.

She opened it blankly, but the moment she read the message, her whole body froze.

[Sorry, I regretted it, so I decided to stay.]

[Vivianne, I want to take back the ring Lucas gave you.]

[A renovation team will come to our house in a few days. Orchid Tower No. 7 will be our new house. You should know what to do.]

It was from Kiara.

She used Lucas' WhatsApp to send those messages.

She even thoughtfully sent a photo of her and Lucas kissing under candlelight.

Vivianne's breathing stopped in a while.

She covered her mouth tightly as tears fell down uncontrollably, wetting the screen and her finger.

Stellan was so frightened that he hurriedly handed over the tissue. "What's wrong? What's wrong? If you have something uncomfortable, let's talk about it and deal with it properly. Don't cry," he said.

She did not want others to see her miserable appearance, so she buried herself in the blanket and gritted her teeth to surpress her sadness and disappointment.

Her fiancé proposed to someone else without her knowing ....

Was there anything more absurd and ridiculous than this?

It took Vivianne a long time to calm down. She asked Stellan to help with the discharge procedures and asked him to contact her biological parents as soon as possible. Then, she took a taxi home.

To be precise, to the Cannavale manor.

The new hostess had come in person to chase everyone away. No matter how thick-skinned Vivianne was, she could not stay there any longer. She had to go back immediately to pack up her things and move out.

The manor was empty.

Lucas' father, Hendry Cannavale, was hospitalized due to a sudden heart attack a few days ago. Lucas' mother, Lilliana Cannavale and the caregiver went to the hospital to accompany and take care of him.

In the room, Vivianne sat on her bed in a daze, feeling her heart broken into pieces.

There were traces of Lucas in every corner of this house.

In the small garden, he planted her favorite flowers and swing set by himself.

The living room was covered with a long rabbit velvet carpet because she loved to go barefoot.

When she first lost her adoptive parents, she could not sleep well, so Lucas gave up his room and communicated with the designer about the details of the decoration, then every night thereafter was sweet for her.

The more beautiful the past was, the more piercing the reality was.

She did not know how long she had been sitting there before she got up and decided to leave. She did not have much stuff with her, only some documents related to going abroad and a few sets of clothes to change into.

Just like coming to this house alone, when she left, she should also be clean and tidy.

As soon as Vivianne reached the staircase, she heard the sound of a car driving in from the yard and the door was pushed open from outside.

Her breath caught in her throat and she just stared helplessly as Lucas and Kiaraa walked in hand in hand.

The living room was so quiet.

Until Lucas' indifferent voice rang out. "Why are you here?"

Vivianne almost burst into tears.

This house was the place where she lived for eight years and the room upstairs was the place Lucas decorated for her personally.

Even, in order to prevent her from feeling inferior because of living under someone else's roof, on Vivianne's birthday that year, Lucas and his parents personally took her to witness her name being engraved on the house book of this family!

Now he was asking her why she was here.

"I ~"

Vivianne wanted to question him why she could not be here and they had not officially broken up yet, she wanted to question him why he brought another woman into this house so openly.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Kiara.

"It's okay, Lucas, I've finally decided to stay. So don't get angry over such a small matter, okay?" Kiara smiled gently and took his hand to sit on the sofa. "Besides, Vivianne is also your sister. Don't treat her like this."

Sister?

Vivianne looked at the man in disbelief, only to see him frowning in disgust.

"Okay, stop speaking up for her! Even if she's my sister, she can't be so willful! I've spoiled her too much over the years and she has become so spoiled now!"

So, he thought of me as his little sister now?

Vivianne felt like she was falling into an icy cave.

But it was clearly him who confessed his love first, he was the one who refused to let Vivianne be his adopted daughter and he was the one who announced in front of all the relatives that Vivianne was his girlfriend and the girl he was going to marry in the future.

Now he said she was his little sister?

So what exactly were the past eight years?

Vivianne could no longer control her emotions and rushed to Lucas with tears in her eyes. "Explain it to me clearly! What do you mean by 'even if she's my sister'? What do you mean by 'I become so spoiled'? Explain it to me word by word!"

"And these, this photo, this information, the ring you asked your secretary to order, the wedding banquet you asked the hotel to cancel, the wedding dress you asked your manager to re-order, you asked me to, what do you want me to do?"

When it came to the last sentence, her voice was already hoarse.

She must have a fever again and her head hurt so much that it felt like it was about to explode.

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Lucas' face. He was silent for a long time, then walked forward and took Vivianne's hand. "I'm sorry, Vivianne. I have struggled and hesitated, but I really didn't expect that I would fall in love with two women at the same time."

"What did you say ...."

"No matter what, this is your home and I will be your family for life. Kiara will still leave after a while. Later, she will be abroad and you will be here. Let's get along well together, okay?"

Vivianne's whole body trembled and she could not believe what she had just heard.

She looked at Kiara next to her helplessly, but she saw her spreading her hands casually and responded, "I don't mind, open marriage, no one needs to be tied up."

Vivianne felt that the two of them must be crazy, otherwise how could they say such things?

She shook off Lucas' hand and yelled at him, pointing at his face.

"You bastard!"

"You were the one who chased me in the first place! You brought me to this house! We were already engaged, we didn't break up and now you not only shamelessly brought this woman into the house, but you also humiliated me like this and you still -"

A piercing slap sounded.

Vivianne had always been pampered.

In the past, it was her adoptive parents who held her in their hands and later it was Lucas' parents who treated her as their own daughter and Lucas, who had known her for more than twenty years and had never said a harsh word to her.

Now he hit her for a mistress!

The slap was so hard that Vivianne, who was still weak, was pushed and hit the wine cabinet.