Just then, the phone rang suddenly, breaking the tense silence between the two of them.
Celine looked at the screen. It was her brother, Eleanor.
She took a deep breath and answered the call.
"Hello, Celine!"
Eleanor's voice came through, full of excitement and a little pride.
"Hahaha, I just helped you get even with that jerk!"
"That Lorenzo guy will probably have to stay locked up for a few days to calm down and think about what he did."
Celine was surprised for a moment, then realized Eleanor was talking about Lorenzo getting taken away by the police just now.
Before she could ask anything, Eleanor started talking quickly without stopping.
"After I dropped you all off at the station, I still had some time, so I decided to check out the car shop in the city and see if there were any good cars."
"Guess who I saw?"
He paused, his voice filled with disgust.
"That Lorenzo guy."
"He didn't know who I was. He bumped into me, then acted like I was something dirty, brushed off his clothes, and kept cursing."
Even through the phone, Celine could hear how angry Eleanor was.
"Looks like what happened with Ziro last time didn't teach him a thing."
"If he still dares to act tough in front of me, I'll have to teach him another lesson."
"I looked around and spotted a young guy, probably in his twenties. He had this sneaky look on his face. You could tell he's been doing bad stuff for a long time."
"I walked over, gave him two hundred yuan, didn't say much. Just told him one thing."
Eleanor's voice turned cheerful.
"Take Lorenzo's phone and wallet and throw them in the river where no one can see."
"That guy worked fast. He waited for Lorenzo to go to the restroom, followed him in, grabbed his things, and disappeared."
Eleanor described everything in detail.
"I just wanted him to lose his phone and money. He wouldn't be able to contact anyone or buy a ticket. I wanted him to be stuck, panicking, nothing serious."
"But that guy's just bad luck."
"No ID, no phone, and then he even got into a fight. The train police thought he was causing trouble and arrested him on the spot."
"Hahaha, Celine, you should've seen the way he looked getting pushed into the police car. His face turned pale, like he lost everything. It felt so good to watch."
As Eleanor laughed happily through the phone, all the pressure in Celine's heart started to loosen.
Her body relaxed completely.
Her eyes filled with tears, and without any warning, they fell down her cheeks.
Because Eleanor stood up for her, even going as far as asking a thief to steal Lorenzo's things, it reminded her of her past life.
In her past life, Eleanor had also protected her like this, without caring about anything else. In the end, that loyalty got him killed, and not even his body was found.
Back then, when Celine found out that Lorenzo was cheating on her with Vanissa, she was shocked and sad, but she didn't cry.
She just made up her mind to leave him.
Before breaking up, Celine wanted to do one thing. She wanted to get back the fifty thousand yuan that Lorenzo had borrowed from her.
But before Celine could even ask, Lorenzo blocked all her contact methods and disappeared.
Celine became anxious. She could let go of the man, but she had to get the money back. She needed the money to save up for her brother Shenan's leg treatment.
To get the money, Celine had no choice but to use the internet and public pressure to force Lorenzo to show up and pay her back. Vanissa was involved in this. She was not only rich but also a small internet celebrity.
In the end, Celine got her money back. But it made Vanissa furious.
Because of the money incident, people started digging into Vanissa's background. They found out she was the daughter of a mistress. Her mother had become a mistress to someone else's husband. To take the man for herself, her mother kept upsetting the legal wife, who already had postpartum depression. One day, the legal wife's depression became so bad that she jumped off a building with her newborn son. They both died.
After that truth came out, Vanissa's name was ruined. She was hated online and got banned from all platforms.
Vanissa blamed Celine. She believed Celine destroyed her. So she swore to destroy Celine too.
The first person she targeted was Celine's older brother, Shenan.
At that time, Shenan was already skilled at copying ancient paintings. Vanissa had already done her research and knew about this. So she sent someone to approach Shenan with an offer. She gave him fifty thousand yuan and handed him a fake painting of "Autumn Landscape with Apes and Deer" and asked him to copy it.
Shenan was happy to earn so much money. He didn't think much and accepted the job.
But the night he brought the painting home, it got stolen.
Shenan didn't know it was a fake. He thought it was a real one and got very scared. He called the police, but there was no result. They couldn't find anything.
The painting was said to be worth more than a hundred million yuan. Now it had disappeared, and Shenan suddenly had a huge debt on his back.
To protect his family, Shenan had thought about ending his life. But in the end, he died from a violent debt collection.
It happened in a remote mountain area. There were no cameras and no witnesses. No one could catch the killer.
That same day, Celine received a message from Vanissa. It said, "The show is just getting started."
A few days later, Celine's second brother, Nimuel, was accused online of seducing a female student. He was attacked by the internet. He couldn't take it and jumped off the school building.
Celine took the message on her phone and went to the police. But just one message was not enough to open a case.
There was no justice. So Celine decided to find justice herself. She took a knife and went to find Vanissa. She was ready to die together with her.
But Eleanor found out before she could do it.
He stopped Celine and secretly went to find Vanissa himself.
But he couldn't even get close. Vanissa's family had already sent her out of the country.
What waited for Eleanor was brake failure and a fall into a cliff. His body was broken into pieces.