"It's because you are stubborn and refuse to listen to advice… Face your mistakes and change your ways, okay?" Aurum said.

Natalie gritted her teeth hard, and the smell of blood filled her mouth.

She looked at Aurum intently.

Aurum asked softly, "Would you do it? You only need to do this one thing, admit your mistake. Leave the rest to me."

Natalie still looked at him.

After a long while, she asked, "If Shawn lets me go, after I am free, can I still be with you?"

"Natalie..."

She interrupted irritably, just wanting to hear what he had to say. "You tell me whether I can or I can't!"

"It's impossible. It's impossible for us to be together anymore," Aurum said.

Natalie nodded. "Okay, I understand."

In her mind, she had already sketched out her life after regaining her new life…

She would leave Sea City. Her mother would be Heather; Matthew would lose Yarn Group, and Matthew, Heather, and she would become a family of three.

They would live a life of poverty, ordinaryness, and s