Chapter 4

The moment I shut the door, it felt as if the last of my strength had been drained away.

I slid down the door until I sat on the floor.

The cold tiles stung my nerves.

My phone vibrated in my pocket. Olivia had uploaded a livestream link to the group chat.

[Entire Family Moves Out To Teach The Drama-Queen Sister A Lesson!]

I did not even have the strength to turn it on any longer.

A muffled sound that resembled something being torn came from the depths of my throat.

I hurriedly covered my mouth.

Black and foul blood gushed out, slipped through the cracks between my fingers, and fell in huge splats on the floor.

It also stained my blouse and skirt.

My alveoli were dying in large quantities.

I gasped for breath.

The footsteps outside were getting closer.

Clark’s voice came through the door. He was giving me a warning, and there was an impatient note in it. “Open the door, Ninian. Olivia has one hundred thousand viewers on her channel right now. Don’t make things too ugly.”

I lay in my blood, and my eyes had stopped focusing.

The lights on the ceiling spun until they turned into countless blotches.

“Come out and apologize to your mom, and I’ll pretend that you never removed your ring. If you continue with your tantrum, you’re going to hurt our feelings.”

Then, my mother started pounding on the door. “You stupid girl, are you only going to be satisfied after tearing the family apart? I gave birth to you and brought you up. We only pulled a prank on you, and we have to put up with your attitude?

“Open the door!”

I opened my mouth, but black blood kept spilling out of my mouth and blocked my airway.

I could not say a single thing and could only listen to them voice their displeasure outside.

Olivia was even chatting with her viewers with a sweet voice. “Exactly. My sister has always been so petty. She has been like that since she was a kid. We let her have her way, and she takes advantage of it.

“Once she opens the door, I’m going to make her apologize to all of you.”

The ruckus outside grew louder, but the voices were fading away from my ears.

Pain spread from my stomach to my limbs.

I knew that my end had come.

At the end of paraquat poisoning, the victim would feel suffocated while still conscious.

I turned my head slowly to stare at the light from the crack under the door.

My tears finally spilled down, along with my blood.

If I had another chance at life, I no longer wanted to be Ninian.

I did not want to be the puppet who was treated like trash, even though I worked tirelessly for these people.

My hands fell limp, and my phone fell into the pool of blood.

Finally, I breathed my last.

Clark and my family’s patience finally ran out.

Seth kicked the door. “Ninian, if you continue playing dead, I’m going to break the door down! Don’t go thinking that you don’t have to apologize just because you’re hiding in there!”

There was only silence.

Clark frowned, and his voice turned cold. “Break it down. She wants to control us through this method. If you let her get away with this, she’s going to push her luck. Once you break the door down, she won’t be able to get out of this mess.”

After a few loud crashes, the old lock shattered with a crack.

The door was shoved open.

I had been leaning against the door. Without it as my support, my stiff body fell to the side due to the inertia and crashed by their feet.

The camera pointed at the floor.

The large pool of black blood stunned everyone.

Clark’s impatient expression froze on his face.

My mother went inside and started yelling, “What are you trying to do on the floor—”

Her voice came to a screeching halt when she saw the blood flowing down the door until it reached the floor.

Then, she saw my wide-open, lusterless eyes.