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He shook his head. It made her relieved.

"I have been so selfish because I was so engrossed in my own pain, I forgot that she went through so much like me...if not worse. She was broken to pieces, and yet she was so strong even after slavery, because she made me the center of her world.

She buried all the memories of her life, and channeled all her energy and her whole life to being with me. That was the reality she used to escaped her past, and that was also why she held onto that reality for so long because she knows that if it goes, she has nothing else to hold on to. Nothing else to escape to. I didn't realize this one time."

"Oh, Lucien...."

"I was so engrossed in myself, I did not see what was happening beneath my nose. If I didn't neglect her so much, I would have realized what she was doing on time and try to stop her.