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After destroying the oil painting, Amanda found the piano worth eight million.I stood there, cold and numb, as she approached it. She ran her fingers along the piano’s polished body, then swept her hand across the keys. A haunting melody filled the room.
She turned around with a ferocious expression and came to me,grabbing my hair and punching and kicking me.
“You bitch!”she spat. “This is my piano! Henry promised to buy it for me, and now it’s here, in your trashy apartment!”
I fell to the ground,and her high heels kicked me one after another.I instinctively curled up.
I gritted my teeth and thought to myself that Amanda,this shrew,would be shocked if she knew that she was smashing her own wedding house and piano.
But she didn't need the wedding house anymore.I swear that she,Amanda,would never be able to step foot in the Henry family.
“How does it feel, mistress?” the woman holding the live-stream camera sneered. “Watching your life implode?” She turned to the audience. “Remember this name, folks—Lucy. Dig into her dirt. She deserves it.”
I thought I was already in a very embarrassing state after being beaten,but I didn't expect that after they smashed the piano,they found the most precious thing to me upstairs.
" Amanda,look at this ?"When I saw the carved sandalwood box they took out,I forgot the pain entirely.
I was so nervous that I couldn't speak.
Amanda opened the wooden box,lifted the velvet cloth,and took out the glass trophy that I usually cleaned very carefully.
"First prize in Information Science.What's so precious about this lousy trophy?It's even in such a delicate box.Smash it,"she said.
"No,don't !"I shouted.
Seeing that Amanda was about to raise her hand to smash the trophy,I cried out and stood up,ignoring the pain in my body.
"You can smash anything you want,but please give this back to me."
This trophy was won by my parents when they worked together and received the country's highest scientific research award.
Later,my parents divorced because of their differences in academic research and different attitudes towards the family and their relationship.
My father took my brother and dove into business, riding a golden wave to found the Henry Group.
When my mother divorced,she took this trophy with her and went to Beijing to devote herself to the science.
My mother would take out this trophy and stroke it whenever she had time.II knew she was remembering my father—and the love they’d once shared.
She never remarried. Alone, she raised me while pioneering breakthroughs. By the time I reached college, illness claimed her.
This trophy is not only an affirmation of my parents' scientific research achievements but also a symbol of their love and a keepsake left to me by my mother.
Amanda looked at the trophy in her hand and then at my nervous and trembling appearance.She said viciously,"Oh?You care so much about it?Then I have to destroy it."
Seeing her raise her hand again,I didn't care about anything else."Amanda,this is the most precious thing to Henry.If you smash it,Henry will kill you."
Amanda hesitated for a moment and then looked down at the trophy again.
"Henry, a scientist?You were just lying to everyone when you said you were Henry's sister earlier.Now you’re pulling the same crap?”the live streaming woman said with interest.
Amanda frowned."You almost got me again, you lying cow."
"I beg you.As long as you don't smash it,I'll do anything,"I thought of countless ways in an instant,but there was no way to stop this crazy woman in front of me.
Amanda weighed the trophy in her hand and a sneer curled the corners of her mouth.
"Anything?
"Okay,then kneel down for me and bark like a dog ."
