All Chapters of When the Wind Brought Clarity: Chapter 21 - Chapter 27

By the time Lucine returned to her senses, she was clutching Zachary's arm tightly.She pleaded desperately, "My parents don't want me anymore, Zach! You're the only one I have now. If you don't want me either, I might as well die!"Zachary's eyes were filled with disappointment. He clearly remembered the day he'd left Selena on the side of a deserted road for Lucine's sake. He had even caused a pack of wolves to almost feed on her. She ended up falling off a cliff that day.His original intention had been to teach Selena a lesson so that she wouldn't carelessly abandon Lucine again.However, he now realized that he had been terribly mistaken. Lucine had been acting out her play from the beginning, and Selena was the one who had been silently enduring her grievances all along.As he turned to look at Selena, he felt a lump in his throat, and tears started flowing uncontrollably down his cheeks before he could say anything.There was a scar on Selena's left hand from when she had

Zachary and Lucine instantly lapsed back into calm silence, and they just looked at each other.Then, Zachary stumbled upright and started walking away.Lucine hurriedly grabbed his hand and asked, "Where are you going, Zach?"He shook off her hand, but she stubbornly stuck to his side again. "I'm going wherever you are, Zach.""Go away!" he yelled.He pushed her hard, causing her to fall onto the sand. Sand and sharp gravel cut into her hand, and blood started flowing out uncontrollably. However, Zachary walked off without a second thought, as if he hadn't seen her get hurt.He left Lucine where she was, crying miserably.As he walked and walked, he came upon a bar. He proceeded to order a few glasses of hard liquor and downed a glass in one gulp.The bartender was a little worried for him and offered him a kind reminder. "The liquor you ordered has high alcohol content, sir. It's not good for your health to drink it like this. How about I swap them out for some lighter drinks

"What's this?" asked Lucine.Zachary replied, "This is why I asked you to come. I wanted to take you abroad for some fresh air, so I need you to sign an insurance policy."Lucine was overjoyed. "Really? Okay, I'll sign it right away!"After she signed the first page, Zachary turned a few more pages and said, "You have to sign here as well."A hint of suspicion crossed Lucine's eyes. "Why do I need to sign so many pages for an insurance policy?"Just as she was about to look through the document more carefully, Zachary stopped her and asked, "Do you not trust me, Lucy?"Ever since Selena married into the Chiton family, Zachary had very rarely called her Lucy. He would usually either address her absentmindedly or call her Lucine.Hearing him call her "Lucy" again made her lose all rationality, and she stopped trying to flip through the document. "Of course not! You're the person I trust the most."Zachary flashed her a pleased smile and put away the document after Lucine finished

When Zachary regained consciousness, he didn't see any sign of Selena and laughed self-deprecatingly.It looked like she did hate him, he lamented.Selena walked into the hospital ward a second later with a lunchbox in her hand. She was a little shocked to see him awake."You're awake so soon? Hurry up and have some food, then."He said uncertainly, "I thought… you'd have left long ago…"Selena chuckled softly. "You were hurt because of me, after all, so I wouldn't have left before you woke up."She then changed the topic. "However, I won't show you any gratitude for this, because these incidents were all undeserved calamities that you brought upon me in the first place."Zachary lowered his head. He had indeed been the cause of everything.After a moment, he asked quietly, "Is it impossible for us to return to how we were in the past, Selena? No matter how much I apologize or make amends, I won't be able to bring you back anymore. Is that it?"Selena nodded. "The relationship