Chapter 13
The documents fell on the bedside table with a loud thud, startling the lawyer next to it, causing him to shake a few times.
He saw his pale face reflected in the floor–to–ceiling window opposite, with an empty half of the wardrobe behind him. Her most frequently worn red dress was missing, leaving only the hanger swaying lightly in the night breeze.
A sudden warmth spread through my fingertips as I turned to the inner page, revealing the registration date: May 23rd.
It was the day when Carla’s plane crashed.
That day, Jason handed the plane ticket to Carla himself, telling her that he would send her abroad and asking her to calm down.
That day, Carla had just boarded the plane when the courthouse stamped their divorce certificate on this side.
Both Carla as a person and Carla’s marriage have completely left him.
Jason’s retina began to whiten, and the divorce certificate twisted into a burning red iron block in his line of sight.
His palm stung, and when he looked down, he realized he was clutching the documents tightly, just like he had held Carla’s hand in their previous life, begging her not to go find Liam.
Jason’s throat was filled with a taste of rust, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. His vision began to darken in waves.
In the darkness, a sharp ringing suddenly sounded, as if a tsunami pierced through the eardrums. The steel stamp date on the identification card was
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echoing continuously in the ear canal: May 23, 2025, 23rd…
He lost Carla again.
Three days later, the cemetery.
In the pouring rain, the square formation of black umbrellas resembled moving cages.
Jason’s divorce certificate in the inner pocket of his suit was soaked by the rain, and the signatures of the two people on the paper were dissolving and dispersing in the rainwater.
Jason stared blankly at the photo of Carla on the tombstone, the scenes just now playing over and over in his mind.
He got off the black funeral car holding Carla’s urn, then walked along the winding mountain road to the cemetery. He knelt down on both knees, slowly placing Carla’s urn inside, and then personally used his hands to scoop up handfuls of soil, slowly covering Carla’s urn.
Finally, he stood up again and watched as the staff used cement to completely separate his and Carla’s urns.
Jason slowly squatted down and reached out to wipe Carla’s tombstone, but his fingertips passed through the damp emptiness, returning to that year when he was eighteen.
That year, Jason saw Carla for the first time on campus, and from that moment on, he couldn’t see anyone else in his eyes.
From then on, he was deeply trapped in a bitter unrequited love.
He wrote love poems for Carla, played the piano for Carla passing by the piano classroom in the sunset, and sweated freely when Carla and her friends passed by the basketball court.
Unfortunately, Carla never had him in her eyes, only Liam.
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It’s not true to say that Jason wasn’t disappointed, but he didn’t give up because of it.
Later, the Quinn and Collins families intermarried, and he successfully married the woman he loved.
Jason vowed to treat Carla well in the future, but in Carla’s eyes, there was only Liam.
He tried hard, he struggled, but in the end, it all resulted in Carla eloping with him and both of them perishing in a fire.
In this life, the two of them were reborn. Originally, they could understand each other’s hearts and live a happy life again.
But because of his own selfish thoughts, he gradually pushed Carla into a corner, and eventually killed her.
The light in Jason’s eyes gradually dimmed and faded into silence.
In the previous life, he died holding Carla and then he was reborn.
If he died in front of Carla’s tombstone this time, could he be reborn again?
Does this mean he can win Carla back?
Thinking of this, Jason stiffly took the knife out of his pocket like a puppet on strings.
Then slowly moved towards the heart.
Just as he was about to plunge the knife into his own heart, a sudden, urgent ringing interrupted his movement.
“Mr. Quinn, Sir Quinn woke up!”
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