登入Vera Quinn and I spent seven years tearing each other apart in the corporate world. When we first started, she sabotaged my presentation slides, hoping to watch me humiliate myself in front of the board. I retaliated by flagging her fraudulent expense reports to HR, making sure her name was dragged through every department in the company. When we were both up for the director position, she locked me in a supply closet to make me miss the final interview. The moment I got out, I poached a major client she had been pursuing for six months, leaving her at the very bottom of the year-end performance rankings. In our industry, we were fire and water—completely incompatible. Then three years ago, the endless scheming finally felt hollow. I handed in my resignation and walked away from the industry for good. The day I packed my desk and left, Vera was leaning against the elevator door, her eyes full of mockery. "Giving up already? Mylo, a cowardly deserter like you deserves to starve on the streets". I hit the "close" button, swearing I never wanted to see her face again as long as I lived. Three years later, we crossed paths again at the industry’s annual gala. Vera was now the youngest partner in the industry. She looked at me as I stood there, humbling myself to pour drinks for an executive, and let out a sharp laugh. "It’s been a few years, and you’ve fallen this far? Working as a glorified escort to scrounge up some investments? What happened to that pride you used to fight me with?" But I wasn't there to secure any investment. I was there to beg that executive for a few more days to pay off the predatory loans my father had left behind. I just needed enough time to sign the consent form for my stomach cancer surgery with a clear conscience.
查看更多Vera stood by the sea, her eyes hollow as she watched the ashes scatter in the wind.She returned to the company and announced her retirement at the board meeting. She sold all her shares and real estate, using the proceeds to establish a cancer relief fund named the "Mylo Foundation."Vera moved out of her luxury villa and into the cramped, dilapidated apartment Mylo had once rented. Just like Mylo used to, she woke up early every day to squeeze onto the bus and buy a burrito from the corner stand. She wanted to experience the hardships Mylo had endured over those three years, searching for any trace he might have left behind in the mundane details of everyday life.Every morning, Vera brought a bouquet of fresh red roses to his gravestone."Mylo, today's burrito was a little salty. It’s not as good as the place you used to take me to.""Mylo, Cole isn't doing well in prison. See? I’ve avenged everyone who ever bullied you."She spoke to Mylo’s photo, sitting there for the ent
Vera’s eyes turned red. She pulled a velvet box from her pocket and slowly opened it in front of me.Inside was a brilliant diamond ring, reflecting the sun light."But Mylo, what’s the point of all this fame and fortune if you aren’t here to see it?" She dropped to one knee, her voice breaking so hard it was barely audible."I bought this ring three years ago. I wanted to give it to you at the victory party, but instead, you handed me your resignation."I was so angry. I felt like you had betrayed our promise. That’s why I said those horrible things."She slid the ring onto my ring finger. The ring was large, making my skeletal, withered finger look even thinner."In the next life, let me be the one chasing you, okay? I won’t fight you for over clients. I won’t mess with your presentation. And I’ll never lock you in a supply closet again."She rested her head on my knees, sobbing like a child who had lost their entire world. "In the next life, you can be the director and I’ll
Vera snapped, standing up with a look of obsessive madness in her eyes. "I won’t let you say that! I have money! I have more than enough!"If it means saving you, I’d sell all of Quinn Corp without a second thought! Mylo, didn’t you love competing with me?"You won. You won every single game we played over the last seven years. Just stay alive. I’ll give you the partner position. I’ll be your assistant. You can humiliate me however you want!"I looked at her, but I didn’t feel a single spark of satisfaction. All I felt was a deep, heavy exhaustion."Vera, in these seven years, what were we even fighting for?" I closed my eyes, weak."Fighting over whose strategy was more perfect. Fighting over whose performance reviews were higher. Fighting to see who could stomp the other into the dirt first. But in the end, I lost my life, and you lost your soul."Is winning like this actually worth anything?"Vera froze. She slowly knelt by my bed and buried her face in my palm, her scalding
I woke up to the stinging smell of Lysol.Through my blurred vision, I saw Vera sitting by my bed. She looked completely broken. Her usually perfect makeup was gone, and her eyes, once sharp and calculating, were bloodshot."You're awake," she said, her voice incredibly raspy.I didn’t say anything. I just turned my head to look out the window."Mylo, why didn't you tell me?" Vera suddenly grabbed my hand, her voice trembling. "Late-stage stomach cancer... how could you keep this from me for so long?"I let out a weak, self-deprecating laugh. "Tell you for what? So you’d have one more excuse to humiliate me?"Vera’s body trembled violently.Just then, the door to the room opened and my attending physician walked in. The doctor looked at Vera with a face full of disgust and anger. "Are you the family? Do you have any idea that he had a perforated stomach when he was brought in?"In his physical condition, he was working at high intensity and even drinking massive amounts of hard






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