บททั้งหมดของ Seven Years of Rage: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Esther pushed me away. She turned around and kicked the wall covered with sticky notes in my house. "Go on, keep on acting. What are these? Your new script to tease women?"She reached out and began tearing the sticky notes off the wall. "Get up. Brush your teeth. Eat. Don't forget to breathe."With each note she ripped off, she read it out loud, her voice full of mockery. "Colin, you really are a genius. You even came up with such a trick to gain sympathy."Those sticky notes were to help with my survival. I slid down from the chair and tried to stop her, but my legs had no strength, and I fell to the ground. "Don't... Don't tear them up..."I knelt and crawled over to pick up the scattered papers.Esther watched me crawl on the ground and stepped on one of the notes. She bent down and picked up the note, which read: [Esther, happy birthday.]She paused. "What? You can't bear to tear this one? This must be the one you wrote back then. What's it for? To remind me how stupid I was

I could not understand what Muriel's words meant and the relationships she referred to, but I could sense those gazes on me. They were unkind and nosy.Flynn came over and put his arm around my shoulder. "Muriel, don't say that. Those things from the past are over. Colin's current state is heartwrenching."He said and glanced at the camera, indicating that they should film more of this 'conflict'.I pushed his hand away and stood up, trying to avoid all this."Stop filming... Go away..." My voice trembled.Esther grabbed me again. "Colin, everyone is helping you. Why are you so ungrateful? Don't you like money the most? After this program airs, many people will be donating to you. You won't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life. "Or are you just acting? Trying to make me feel sorry for you? You should cry, make a fuss, and curse me as you did seven years ago!"Her words drew a burst of suppressed laughter from the crowd.My head started to hurt, and my voice a

Elle looked at Flynn on the ground and the anxious-looking Esther. She was so angry that she could not speak. "Esther, you're just an idiot!"Esther paused for a moment, but Flynn's groaning made her come to her senses."I'm going to sober you up today!" Elle wanted to rush forward again.Several staff members held her firmly."Calm down! Calm down! We've called the doctor and security!"Esther picked up Flynn and was about to leave when she stopped past my hospital bed. She lowered her head and whispered in my ear in a voice only audible to us, "Colin, you and your sister are the perfect match. One's a sleazebag, the other's a shrew. Just wait, I'll make you pay for this with the rest of your life."With that said, she helped the still-groaning Flynn up and left without looking back. The cameras also quickly moved away with them.The ward finally quieted down, leaving only Elle and me.Elle was livid as she came to my bedside. She saw the tear stains on my face and tenderly wi

One hand reached in and pulled me out of the water.It was Elle. She burst onto the stage from nowhere, her eyes red as if they were about to drip with blood. She held me in her arms, wrapping my soaked body with her coat."Colin! Colin!" She kept calling my name.I coughed up a few mouthfuls of water and opened my eyes weakly, my mind still confused. "Elle..."She saw that I was fine, so she turned around and rushed toward Esther like a furious lion. "Esther! I'll kill you!"The stage once again fell into a frenzied chaos. This time, my heart was left numb with desolation as I watched everything unfold. I seemed to have done many wrong things, but I could not remember exactly what I had done wrong.The farce in the square eventually ended with Elle being taken away by the police on charges of intentional injury and disturbing public order.I was sent back home by Frank's people. They threw me onto the cold and damp floor, like throwing a broken tool."Mr. Smith, Esther said th

"Hello, I'm Colin Smith. Sitting here today, I want to sincerely apologize for the mistakes I made in the past to Ms. Logan, Mr. Raymont, and all those who have been concerned about this matter. "With each sentence I spoke, the camera flashes grew brighter.I saw the corner of Esther's mouth curl up, revealing an imperceptible curve. That was the posture of a victor.I continued reading the script, my voice without a trace of fluctuation. I mentioned how I was blinded by money and how I had heartlessly abandoned Esther, whom I loved deeply back then. I said I was so impoverished now, all because of my mistake.I elaborated how much I was grateful to Esther for forgetting past grievances and giving me a chance to start anew.Halfway through my speech, reporters began to ask questions."Mr. Smith, who was the businesswoman you were associated with back then? Why did she dump you?""Mr. Smith, I heard that you later developed mental problems. Was it a result of the trauma from bei