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She had no idea that when he asked her to move in, he wanted to satisfy his sick desires alongside the other two disgusting men in the house.
That so–called walk–in closet was actually a place for storing various “outfits” and “toys.”
I hoped she’d get exactly what she wished for.
Sure enough, within three days, she called me. The moment I picked up, she launched into hysterical cursing. “Rhett, you bitch! Did you know all along that he was a pervert? Why didn’t you tell me!”
I handed the organized materials to my advisor, nodded at him, and walked out of the office.
Alone in the empty classroom, listening to Maria’s breakdown on the other end of the line, I felt nothing but pure satisfaction.
“You know what? In my past life, I almost sent all three of those perverts to prison.
“I could have saved not only myself, but countless other girls just like me.
“That day at the wedding, we had prepared all the evidence. We were going to expose the training academy and all three men
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from the Evren family in front of everyone, and send them to jail.
“But you killed me with that knife, and everything was ruined.
“You didn’t just kill me—you killed so many others too.”
At this point, I choked up so badly I could barely breathe.
That day, more than a dozen of us girls decided to stand together against the powerful forces behind it all. We gathered evidence of our abuse, tore open our deepest wounds, and prepared for everything. We were just waiting for that moment in the spotlight to drag those monsters down to hell.
But we were too weak to fight against such power.
This was the only way we could think of.
But no one expected that sudden twist of fate would destroy everything.
I took a deep breath and forced myself to say it: “Maria, you chose this path yourself. You can’t blame anyone else. The Evren family will fall, and you won’t fare any better.”
Two years later, I finally put on my judicial robes and sat in the courtroom.
The Wynn family was completely brought down for tax evasion,
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and when their empire crumbled, Martha came forward with over a dozen girls, submitting all the video evidence they’d collected over the years to the police.
Of course, the tax evasion records were also evidence that Martha had painstakingly gathered and hidden over several
years.
Martha was the one who had sent me those warning messages from a fake account back then. She was Evren’s assistant, but he had drugged and filmed her, then used the footage to blackmail her into becoming his plaything.
When Evren proposed to me that year, she was afraid I’d end up like her, so she risked everything to warn me.
From her, I learned that Evren hadn’t just abused her–he had abused over a dozen other young actresses just like her.
Those girls wanted to report him to the police, but they couldn’t shake the web of power behind Evren.
That’s why we came up with that one method of saving ourselves.
When I first heard all this, my first reaction wasn’t to run—it was to hate myself for being born a woman.
My parents had shoved me into that “socialite training academy” so I could be picked by men and turned into their toy.
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But those actresses just wanted to act and work, and they still ended up as playthings for those men to manipulate.
I broke down and cried, and only then did I see the truth clearly.
We shouldn’t be the ones at fault, and we definitely shouldn’t blame ourselves.
It was these disgusting people who created this trap.
Why should we accept it?
I told Martha we needed to collect evidence and send these people to hell.
Martha reached out to those young actresses who were too scared to speak up, and I contacted the girls from the training academy who hadn’t been chosen.
Maybe some people used the training academy to rise to success, but far more were just stepping stones for those people, bones for them to climb on.
In the end, you can only rely on yourself.
Collecting evidence was incredibly difficult in my past life, but in this life, with my memories and Martha’s help, everything moved much faster.
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When I stood in that courtroom, sitting beside those girls as their defense attorney, I felt steady on my feet for the first time.
My advisor and fellow students were all in the gallery, backing
me up.
The media’s camera flashes were all focused on me as I read out Evren’s crimes one by one, listening to those girls sobbing in the
seats.
The gavel fell. Evren was sentenced to ten years in prison.
In that moment, the dark clouds weighing on my heart seemed to be blown away by the wind.
When I walked out of the courthouse, the sunlight was brilliant, like a rebirth.
Suddenly, Maria blocked my path with a knife. I wasn’t
surprised at all. She was pressed to the ground by armed police like a rabid dog, screaming, “Rhett Lancaster, you bitch! Why do you get to live so gloriously? Why is my life completely ruined? I’m going to kill you and be reborn again! I’ll be ten thousand times better than you!”
Her collapsed nose and inflamed, festering face made her look like a horror doll, yet her waist was still unnaturally cinched into an hourglass shape.
The armed police controlled her, and the knife fell to the
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ground.
In the end, she was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
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Only then did my parents realize they had thrown all their money at Maria and hadn’t saved a penny for their retirement.
I only sent them the minimum legal support payment each month and never looked back.
They had never loved me, so naturally they couldn’t expect me to love them.
I became a top–tier lawyer, taking on cases exclusively related to women’s safety.
This was my greatest wish in this lifetime, and I had finally
fulfilled it.
