He Burned Me Alive, Now I Shine Like the StarsChapter 1
The day before the model competition, I found myself locked inside my house as it went up in flames. By the time they rescued me, my face was torn and scorched and most of my body was severely burned. Outside the operating room, my mother was crying like her heart had shattered, blaming herself over and over for accidentally locking the door. My fiancé pulled every string he could, rallying all the top dermatologists in the city, swearing he'd restore my face to the way it was.
However, just as I was being wheeled into surgery, I heard my mother's hesitant voice through the door. "Jacob, even if it's to help Kimmy win the modeling contest, wasn't it too cruel to set the fire and lock the door, leaving Lily disfigured like that?"
Jacob Todd let out a cold laugh. "If Lily weren't so vain and selfish, I wouldn't have had to go this far. She knew Kimmy had depression, but she kept flaunting her perfect figure in front of her. All she lost was her face and skin. Meanwhile, Kimmy lost her happiness. Lily owed her. Don't worry, I'll still marry Lily. Once she has the title of Mrs. Todd, even if she looks like a monster, no one will dare talk. I'm being so good to her; she should be grateful."
Is destroying my health and career being "good" to me? I gritted my teeth, a mix of coldness and pain tearing through my heart. The man I loved deeply, the mother who doted on me—I wanted neither of them anymore.
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"Hold off on the surgery. Get all the specialists out of the room. Let them wait," Jacob ordered.
The doctor, who had just put on his gloves, looked surprised. "Mr. Todd, Miss Stewart's burns are too severe. Her trachea has also been damaged by the smoke. If we don't operate immediately, she'll not only become mute, but her face and skin will be completely ruined."
Hearing this, my mother seemed to soften. "Jacob, Lily is so badly hurt; she definitely can't participate in the model competition tomorrow. Why not just let her have the surgery … "
"If she's ruined, so be it. Suppose we operate now with her vain and selfish personality, even if she can't win. In that case, she'll find a way to sabotage Kimmy. The only way to stop her is to break her spirit completely. This is for her own good. She needs to be taught a lesson."