Chapter 154 Since We Can't Continue the Act, Let's End It Here
They accepted the wine, and Jeffrey asked the server to thank York for them.
"Your business partner is so nice!" Mia said, looking at the wine.
Jeffrey smiled. Actually, he didn't know why either.
"Maybe he was won over by my personal charm," Jeffrey finally said with a laugh.
Amelia just glanced at the wine and said nothing.
The others had already opened the wine, and the private room was filled with joy.
Meanwhile, at the Brown Villa.
In that room lit only by moonlight, William's phone on the floor suddenly started vibrating like crazy.
He slowly lifted his head, hesitated slightly, then touched the answer button.
"What is it?" His voice was full of exhaustion.
"Mr. Brown, something's wrong, Ms. Taylor..." came the caregiver's anxious voice from the other end.
The Aston Martin raced through the night streets.
William pressed his lips tightly together, driving all the way to Isabella's apartment building.
He rushed upstairs.
The caregiver opened the door in panic, leading the way while saying anxiously, "She's been in there for almost half an hour. No matter how much I knock, she won't open the door. I checked - a fruit knife is missing from the house!"
William followed the caregiver to the bathroom door.
"Isabella," he called while knocking on the door.
But there was no response from inside.
"Open the door!" William knocked again.
Still no response.
Then William stepped back two paces and kicked at the bathroom door.
With a loud crash, the bathroom door burst open, and William saw Isabella lying in the bathtub, her wrists covered in blood.
"Ms. Taylor!" the caregiver screamed.
"Don't come in!" Isabella seemed not to expect them to enter, crying out.
She was still holding the knife, looking very agitated. The caregiver didn't dare approach easily.
"Why did you come, William..."
William's lips were pressed tightly together. He walked straight over, snatched the knife away, and threw it aside.
"Call 911," William told the caregiver.
The caregiver immediately ran out.
Isabella kept struggling: "William, why won't you let me die?"
"If you all think I'm the one hurting her, why stop me? Wouldn't it be better to let me die to prove my innocence!"
"Isabella!" William tried to calm Isabella down.
But Isabella only cried harder.
"You never loved me!" she screamed hoarsely. "I knew it from the moment you left today."
"All of this was what I asked for, not what you wanted!"
She cried:
"I made you stay by my side!"
"I took your phone and changed how you had me saved in your contacts."
"I made you divorce her."
"I made you go everywhere with me."
"I made you say you loved me."
Her tears kept flowing. While secretly watching William, she cried:
"You never touched me..."
"Even after divorcing her, you still wouldn't marry me."
"The way you look at her is always different from how you look at me..."
She cried hysterically, looking at William with red eyes as he kept his head down.
Seeing he still hadn't comforted her, Isabella frowned and continued struggling, trying to make more blood flow from her hands.
And continued crying:
"If it wasn't because I'm dying, you never would have stayed by my side from the start."
"William..."
"Since we can't keep up the act anymore, let's just end it."
Isabella cried breathlessly, but William remained silent, just pressing on her wrists to stop the bleeding.
Seeing William still hadn't responded, a flash of resentment crossed Isabella's eyes, but she quickly covered it up. Crying, she continued:
"I'm a dying person anyway. Now I'm just dying a bit earlier - what's the difference?"
"Since you love her, go back to her. Don't worry about me."
She cried miserably, tears dripping into the blood, looking very fragile.
"Don't talk nonsense," William finally said.
He kept his head down, his hair covering his eyes, making it impossible to see the expression in them.
And Isabella finally smiled with satisfaction.
When 911 arrived, she successfully "fainted."
Before long, an explosive news story shot to the top of the trending topics - #IsabellaSuicide#
The accompanying video showed William carrying Isabella, her wrists covered in blood, downstairs, with the ambulance rushing to take her.
In the video, you could hear Isabella crying: "Why save me? I'm a dying person anyway. I don't know how to explain. Wouldn't it be better to let me die to prove my innocence?"
In the video, she cried miserably, her whole face pale, her wrists being pressed, covered in bright red blood.
Online discussions became heated.
Carl saw the signal and immediately pushed hard -
"Are they trying to drive someone to death!"
"I said something would happen!"
"Like I said before, Isabella only has a few months to live anyway, and they interrogated her like that. Of course she might not be able to take it."
"Right, actually I think those online speculations make no sense at all. Isabella really didn't know Lika was Amelia, so she went on that show just to bring strength to patients."
"Yeah, she only has a few months to live anyway. Why would she target Amelia? I think her words and actions are consistent."
...
People naturally have reverence for life, and netizens didn't want to be accused of cyberbullying someone to death.
Moreover, there were still many supporters of Isabella, or people who were undecided.
So, under Carl's leadership, the various negative opinions about Isabella online quickly stopped.
People even started reflecting on the harm of cyberbullying.
...
At the same time, at the Brown Villa, Finn and Cleo also saw it.
"Just now seeing him so lost, then rushing out in his car, I thought he'd figured things out and was going to find Amelia. I didn't expect to see him in this news!"
Finn was furious.
"Ezra, get the car ready!" Finn called the butler. "I'll go find him myself and let him know that whether others live or die has nothing to do with him. The only woman who matters to him is his wife, Amelia!"
...
Before long, Amelia saw these messages too.
Actually, Amelia wasn't too concerned, because her goal from the start was to win The Sound of Heaven championship and get resources, so she could develop her career while taking back the Martinez family's old connections.
Fighting the online battle before was just to fight back, not to drive Isabella to death.
But these things kept dragging her in.
Fortunately, netizens were now reflecting on the harm of cyberbullying and didn't dare mention Isabella and her situation again.
Isabella would need time to recover from her injuries and probably wouldn't appear online again in the short term.
At the same time, just now, another entertainment celebrity had new gossip that drew away the attention.
So this online battle could temporarily come to an end.
She could also rest.
However, at this moment, Amelia received a message from Finn -
[Don't be afraid, Amelia, I'll get justice for you!]
Amelia frowned slightly.
William still hadn't told the Brown family about their divorce?