Semua Bab Play My Heart Like A Fiddle: Bab 11 - Bab 20

Bradley insisted on seeing Rosalie, so Stanley had no choice but to send someone to pass the message.At that moment, Rosalie sat cross-legged in an annex hall as she softly chanted scripture. Her face was serene and full of devotion, and it seemed nothing could distract her. She looked every bit the Sacred Goddess she was."Perhaps you should go see him," Tom Smith, the monk passing the message, said. "Mr. Wakefield said he's not leaving until he sees his Rosalie."Rosalie smiled at that and opened her eyes. She said indifferently, "There's no Rosalie here. There's only Lyra Jewel, the Sacred Goddess."Then, she shut her eyes again and continued chanting. Tom tried to persuade her, but she kept her eyes shut, focusing on chanting scripture. She didn't respond to him anymore.Left with no choice, he sighed and left. He ran to the main hall where Bradley was, panting as he said, "You should go, Mr. Wakefield. She doesn't want to see you."Even though Bradley had already left the S

Lyra looked at Bradley calmly. Whenever they'd met at the monastery in the past, he would wear a white monastic robe and hold a rosary. On the other hand, she would wear regular clothes and follow him everywhere he went like his shadow.But now, things were reversed. Bradley was the one in regular clothes, while Rosalie wore a monastic robe and held a rosary. She praised Sandhara with everything she said and did."Peace be to you." Lyra then asked, "Sir, why put yourself through this?"She didn't even utter his name. All she did was address him stoically as "sir".Bradley suddenly remembered saying the same thing a long time ago. Rosalie had professed her love for him repeatedly, and he'd rejected her each time. In the end, it had irritated him so much that he'd said, "Peace be to you. Miss, why put yourself through this?"Now, she had returned the words to him. Why put himself through this?Bradley wanted to laugh. So, this was karma—it had come full circle. Evil deeds indeed re

Bradley admitted his mistakes. He'd sinned before Sandhara—he'd pushed Lola forward to take Rosalie's place as the new Sacred Goddess.However, Lola didn't like scriptures, nor did she want to join the Sandharan Order. Each time Frank forced her to chant scriptures and understand Sandhara's teachings, she would end up in tears. "I don't want to do this! I don't want to be the Sacred Goddess! I want to go home!"It's so hard to memorize scripture. I can't do it. Save me, Brad. I don't want to be a woman of the monastery, but my family is forcing me into this. If I'd known… if I'd known things would turn out like this, I would never have visited Rosie with you that day…"Bradley's guilt deepened when he saw how miserable Lola was. He'd forced this on her because of his selfish desires. He gradually began to dote on her, perhaps because he wanted to alleviate his guilt.In an effort to foster Lola's interest in Sandhara's teachings, he even tutored her personally, explaining the scrip

"I hated you for distracting me from my devotion, yet I was also guilty that I'd severed your ties to Sandhara. Every day has been agony for me since leaving the Sandharan Order five years ago." Bradley finally came clean about his feelings under the watchful eye of the statue of Sandhara, as well as Rosalie.He continued, "I repented before Sandhara, and I stayed by Lola's side to atone for my sins. The three-year journey around the world with her was also a means for me to find my path to salvation."In that moment, there was no more pretense and hiding—Bradley finally faced his heart with complete honesty."Sometimes, I couldn't even be sure whether you genuinely loved me or whether you were just drawn to me because of my so-called identity as Sandhara's reincarnation. Was that why you loved me so desperately?" He looked at Rosalie, his eyes bloodshot. "After all, you are the destined Sacred Goddess. You're fated to be drawn to Sandhara's teachings."That was why I couldn't st

Lyra didn't renounce the Sandharan Order because of Bradley's confession. On the contrary, she was even more sure she'd chosen the right path after learning the truth.She'd never been Lola's replacement—she was the true Sacred Goddess that Sandhara had chosen. She'd given her all when loving Bradley, so she didn't resent or regret that experience. It was precisely because of the suffering she'd been through that her devotion to the Sandharan Order was so intense.Her heart and path were no longer clouded after learning the truth from Bradley. She'd loved him with all her heart—that wasn't something she would deny. At the same time, it was also true that she'd let him go. She had found peace.It was all destined. Lyra had passed Sandhara's test, and her heart had reached "the other shore", a place described in the scriptures as one that brought clarity and release.Ultimately, Bradley failed to bring Rosalie back with him. He kneeled before the gigantic statue of Sandhara for a who