I Still Hate You After All

The commotion gradually began to subside.

However, word of what had happened today would surely reach people everywhere.

Fang Li walked quietly down a secluded corridor devoid of people.

Ophelia still followed silently behind him.

Their footsteps rang clearly through the silent space.

Fang Li simply kept walking forward.

Ophelia simply kept following him.

Their relationship was just like this: one never looked back, while the other never walked beside him, like two parallel lines that would never intersect.

Yet what had just happened had not completely faded from either of their minds.

Then Fang Li suddenly spoke.

"Even so, she was your childhood friend, wasn't she?"

Though the question came out of nowhere, Ophelia understood it.

But Ophelia's answer was, as always, sorrowful.

"That is in the past now."

Since it was in the past, it had nothing to do with Ophelia anymore.

Because the girl named Ophelia had long since abandoned everything.

Including the past.

Fang Li curled his lips and spoke.

"I still hate you after all."

Hearing Fang Li's words, Ophelia instead relaxed her tightly furrowed brow.

Then she spoke.

"That is for the best..."

Yes.

That was for the best.

As long as no one liked her and no one had anything to do with her, then when she reached the end of this road of self-destruction, no one would be saddened by it.

The kind girl thought only of others and never of herself.

Perhaps that was why she had abandoned everything so completely?

Therefore, for a girl whose heart had already died, this small wish was the only thing she still held dear.

Whether Fang Li understood the meaning behind Ophelia's words or not, he seemed unwilling to say anything more and fell silent.

Behind Fang Li, Ophelia only continued staring at his