"What you’re saying is unbearable, and it’s also unbearable for me to watch."
Lisha Alcock looked at her in confusion, and after a few seconds, her face darkened, "Joanna, are you really not going to let me off the hook?"
Joanna spoke coldly, "I’d like to let you go, but I can’t betray myself."
"So you insist on pushing things to the extreme?" Lisha seemed to be provoked, and her emotions got a bit out of control as she roared furiously, "Ruining my career and my life, would that satisfy you? Joanna, how could you be so cruel!"
"I’m cruel?" Joanna found it amusing, "Miss Alcock should know the saying, ’If people do not offend me, I do not offend them.’ I originally had no grudges with Miss Alcock. Today’s development is all because of Miss Alcock’s own doings. You think I’m cruel, but didn’t you feel the same way when you tried to ruin me?"
"It’s nothing more than a tit for tat."
Lisha clenched her teeth, "So, no matter what, you won’t let me go, right?"
Joanna raised the corner of her lips, "Miss Alcock is joking. It’s not that I won’t let you go, but you didn’t leave yourself a way out. If you hadn’t done some things, people wouldn’t have been able to dig up those so-called scandals. So, instead of saying that I won’t let you go, it’s more like you brought it upon yourself."
"I have to work later. If Miss Alcock doesn’t have anything else, then I shall take my leave."
After Joanna finished speaking, she didn’t want to entangle with her any further and turned to leave.
Watching Joanna’s departing back, Lisha’s last glimmer of hope was crushed, and despair, anger, and hatred filled her heart simultaneously.
If Joanna didn’t let her off the hook, she would lose her last chance to turn things around.
She would be completely plunged into the abyss of despair.
From then on, there would be no turning back.
All her glory and honor would be gone.
She would become a laughingstock, pitied by everyone.
She would become a complete tragedy.
Her life would be void of any light, forever trapped in endless darkness.
She could imagine just how tragic, terrifying, and desperate such a life would be.
Something she couldn’t endure for a moment longer.
Since Joanna was determined to ruin her life and make her suffer, Lisha couldn’t let Joanna have her way either.
Her life was destined to be destroyed.
If she couldn’t escape death, why not drag someone down with her?
If she must die, let everyone die together.
"Joanna, you forced me into this. Since I can’t live a good life, don’t expect to have it easy either. You want to ruin me, huh? Fine, let’s all go down together!" After Lisha said these words through gritted teeth, she pulled out a blue bottle from her bag, opened the cap, and charged at Joanna.
Her eyes were filled with intense hatred, "You want to ruin me, right? No matter how I beg you, you won’t let me go. You forced me into this, you made me do it!"
By the time Joanna realized what was happening, Lisha was already in front of her.
Raising her hand, she splashed the contents of the blue bottle onto Joanna’s face.
For a moment, Joanna’s mind went blank, and she instinctively raised her hand to shield her face.
Someone was even faster than her.
As Lisha raised her hand to splash the liquid onto Joanna’s face, she was forcefully pushed away. The expected pain didn’t come, as she stumbled back a couple of steps. Just as she moved her hand away, she heard a sharp scream.