“If not for marrying her, why risk your life taking on the hardest mission, nearly dying for it?”
“Lila waited five long years for you—how can you forget her?”
But by now, I understood.
Adrian truly had lost his memory.
He had forgotten his promise to marry me, and instead had fallen for someone else.
The room was tense with silence.
Everyone watched me closely, fearful of my reaction—
after all, the last person who crossed me now lay beneath a mound of weeds on his grave.
Adrian, oblivious to the danger in the air, pressed his forehead to the cold floor.
“Please, Master, grant us your blessing.”
My father gave a chilling laugh. “Blessing?”
“Then who will bless my daughter, who waited five years?”
Before anyone could respond, I had already cocked the gun and pressed it to Adrian’s forehead.
His eyes softened with pain as he looked at me.
“Lila, should I kill him for you?” my father asked.
“If Adrian dies, your five wasted years won’t become a laughingstock in others’ mouths.”
Gasps echoed through the hall.
Everyone knew my father wasn’t joking.
For his treasured daughter, the jewel of his eye,
he would truly kill Adrian without hesitation.
But I only smiled, pushing my father’s hand away.
“Forget it.”