Chapter 54


    Anastasia’s hands were shaking as she picked up stor’s phone.


    Despite the low quality of the photos in the album, her face and features were still discernible.


    “Who


    gave them to you?” Anastasia asked with a trembling voice.


    She wanted to know who was behind the malicious nder against her.


    The photos were clearly digitally manipted. With the current advancement of the AI face swap


    technique, she expected stor to understand that they were fake.


    However, stor’s expression showed that he seemed to believe it.


    Anastasia didn’t exin herself because she knew she could never convince a person who believed in


    what he wanted to believe.


    Besides, there was no way she could ever rify the nder thrown at her.


    Most importantly, stor didn’t trust her.


    Smiling sarcastically, stor asked, “Is that important?”


    “You’re using me of not trusting you, but have you ever trusted me?” As she looked at stor,


    Anastasia breathed heavily and was on the verge of breaking down. “Tell me, who gave you these


    photos? Was it Xavier or Felicia?”


    “Anastasia, I would believe you if only one person criticized you, but have you ever introspected and


    looked at your actions when everyone around you, including your closest friends and family, are saying


    negative things about you?” Without disclosing the photos’ origin, stor took his phone and turned to


    leave.


    Anastasia sat stiffly on the chair, looking at the four agreements in front of her that seemed ridiculous


    and pitiful.


    She resembled a scheming woman who was trying to use every means possible against stor. She


    used the evidence of his infidelity to force him to leave their marriage with nothing and write a will, and


    shepelled him not to grant any status or inheritance rights to his mistress and their children.


    Anastasia’s ears buzzed loudly. When she stood up, she instantly copsed.


    As a sharp pain filled Anastasia’s chest, breathing became difficult for her. Her heart throbbed


    intensely, and she called out, “stor…”


    Anastasia came to the realization that she might have sustained a fracture from the fall.


    Her bone density had deteriorated significantly, making her prone to fractures from minor external


    impacts. This was something the doctor had cautioned her about.


    “Please… Call the ambnce for me, pleaded Anastasia. She didn’t want to die at that moment.


    She thought she had fully grasped the concept of life and death, but when death was looming, she


    realized she still had many regrets and unfinished matters.


    “Please…” Anastasia begged in a weak voice.


    She was in so much pain.


    Standing by the door, stor frowned at what he saw. He clearly didn’t believe that Anastasia was in


    difort. “Call the ambnce yourself,” he said coldly.


    With that, he closed the door and left.


    Curled on the ground in despair, Anastasia felt her body grow numb from the pain.


    She believed that she had given her whole heart to stor in the past four years, but even so, she had


    not received any sincerity and trust in return.


    stor didn’t believe in her.


    Considering their blitz marriage as strangers, it was understandable for stor to be cautious and


    guarded toward her. In this rtionship, she was the only one foolish enough to give her wholehearted


    devotion because he promised her a


    home.


    As her vision grew increasingly blurry, Anastasia no longer had the strength to call for an ambnce,


    She


    didn’t mind dying like this as nothing mattered anymore.


    Unfortunately, things didn’t go her way.


    Anastasia woke up from pain in the middle of the night.


    Struggling to get up, Anastasia managed to grab the phone on the table before falling back to the


    ground again.


    This time, she seemed to have fractured her wrist.


    Anastasia didn’t know who she could trust, and she alsocked the strength to speak.


    The first person she called was Kimberly, but thetter didn’t hear the call since her phone was in sleep


    mode at this time of the night.


    Anastasia’s fingers fell weakly as she gazed at the ceiling with a blurry vision.


    She wondered, “Is there still a need to stay alive? Nobody really cares about my well-being, anyway.”


    “Meow! Meow!”


    Snowball snuggled up in Anastasia’s arms, whimpering in fear.


    Tears poured out of Anastasia’s eyes. Remembering that she still hadn’t found a good owner for


    Snowball, she realized she could not die yet and had to save herself.


    “Anastasia? Did something happen, Anastasia?”


    With a feeble attempt, Anastasia dialed Jason’s number. Subconsciously, she believed that the young


    man would stille


    to her rescue.


    “Anastasia?”


    Jason calling her name was thest thing Anastasia heard before she lost consciousness.


    Darkness consumed her, and no matter how desperately she ran, she couldn’t escape from the


    endless darkness.


    “Annie,e to me. Come with me, okay? I can’t bear to let you suffer alone in this world. How can a


    child survive without their mother? Annie…”


    In a trance, Anastasia seemed to hear her mother calling out for her.


    Time and time again, the voice tried to pull her into the abyss.


    Anastasia used to hate her mother for almost killing her.


    However, she suddenly understood everything when she got pregnant.


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    She was dying, and nobody in this world cared about her well-being. In the future, no one would care


    about her child as


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    “Is keeping the child really the right choice? Is it justifiable to make the child repeat my suffering and


    live a life akin to hell?” Anastasia wondered.