Chapter 635: The Moment Truth Was Twisted
Life had a way of twisting things until they no longer resembled what they had once been. It was, in simple terms, cruel.
Or perhaps it was not life itself that was cruel, but the people within it—the ones who looked at something simple and reshaped it into something else entirely. A glance could become an accusation. A word could be sharpened until it cut deeper than any blade. Intentions could be stripped apart and rebuilt into something unrecognizable, something convenient.
Sophia did not understand that at first.
She had not known that something so small could become something so irreversible.
She had not seduced him.
The thought alone felt foreign, distant, like something that did not belong to her at all. She had not even realized he had been looking at her. She had not known there was anything to notice.
She had only been passing through.
She had gone to the kitchen.
