I took two steps back, avoiding my sister's hand and spoke calmly, "I'm not here to force a marriage. Briella's decision to cancel her engagement with me and marry Santiago instead has nothing to do with me."
"I'm here to be the bait to catch the psychopath."
Miranda's face turned pale in an instant.
Before she could say anything, Megan slapped me in the face. Her expression was complicated, with a hint of panic mixed in with anger.
"I warned you not to use a major murder case involving dozens of innocent lives as a trick to manipulate our sympathy!"
She took a deep breath, her face regained its coldness and her voice became even more ruthless.
"You're just like that brother of yours — heartless and immoral!"
"He betrayed Margot and ran away with the money."
"Afraid of being wanted, he secretly gave false testimony, slipped a note into the victim's hand and faked his own death."
"I've already told you, that person is definitely not that bastard Timothy, but that idiot Margot, really took it seriously. She was so drunk that she didn't even bother investigating the case!"
The crowd cheered up.
"Isn't Timothy the scumbag who ran away with the money back then? His passionate videos were all over the second-hand websites and you don't even need a dollar to watch them, hahaha!"
"A despicable man like him disrupted the investigation of a murder case. He deserves to die."
I clenched my hands as my heart ached as if it was being torn apart.
Three years ago, Timothy Arnaut discovered that Santiago was faking amnesia and acting insane.
However, Timothy went missing before he could hand over the evidence to me. Before he went missing, he was drugged and bullied for a whole night. The passionate video of the incident was put on a second-hand website and sold for less than a dollar.
At that time, he begged Margot, his fiancée, with red eyes, to help him with the lawsuit.
But on the day of the trial, Margot, a top and zero-defeated lawyer, sat in the plaintiff's seat, playing with her manicure from beginning to end, without saying a word and soon -- declared to have lost the lawsuit.
On the day she came out of the court, she put away her attitude and sneered, dropping a sentence, "This is what you get for bullying Santiago."
"This time we're just showing your video. Next time, we're going to sell you on the black market to be the Afronia people plaything."
That day, Timothy, who had never shed tears before, hugged me and cried for a long, long time.
The next day, he disappeared.
I spent three years searching for him, but Margot always faced it with ridicule. "He's just playing missing and wants me to find him. He wants to play as he pleases. I wonder how long he will last."
Until ... the victims of the psychopath dismemberment case were discovered in an abandoned basement in Everbloom.
In my mind, the system finally reported Timothy's death.
My brother died at the hands of a psychopath.
And the system also determined my ending.
For ten years, I had been trying to conquer family and love, but failed every time. So, the system asked me to perish and leave to the original world.
But at least, I wanted to use my death to seek justice for that poor victim.
***
Briella walked over with a sullen face and warned me. "Since you insist on going against us, then as you wish, I will cancel our engagement."
I nodded, pulled my phone out of my bag and made a statement.
[I, Sergio Muller, cancel my engagement with Briella Landau.]
I raised my phone and showed them.
"Is this okay?"
Miranda, Megan and Briella were shocked to see my behavior and stood there in a daze.
Briella looked at me in disbelief, then she gritted her teeth and continued. "Okay, then I'll have to abort the baby in my belly, so you don't have to use the baby to bother me later."
