Chapter b61 /bWilted

“Hm? You’re admitting you were wrong–wait, what?”

Eugene’s expression shifted.

“You…”

He thought for a second he was hearing things.

“What did you just say?”

Scarlett shoved the wilted sunflowers back into his hands with clear disgust.

“Mr. Eugene, I appreciate the gesture, but maybe save it for someone else. I can’t ept it.”

“Scarlett? You’re actually rejecting these flowers? Do you know how hard I worked to find them?”

Sunflowers were oddly rare today. He’d gone to several flower shops before one finally had a few bleft/b.

He bought them without a second thought.

Wasn’t that enough to show his sincerity?

As her brother, he had already taken a step back. And instead of meeting him halfway, she was calling him

out?

Back in the day, since he was a doctor and Scarlett was studying medicine, they’d had a lot inmon.

Even when he needed live subjects for experiments, Scarlett would volunteer without hesitation.

And those experiments could easily be fatal if anything went wrong.

His friends even joked-

iYou /iididn’t /iiget /iia /iisister/i. iYou /iigot /iia /iisuicide /iisquad /iimember/i.

Among his whole social circle, Scarlett was the only one brave enough to risk her life for him. And she still regrly won awards at school.

It gave him major bragging rights.

So when he took her out, he’d act a little nicer than usual.

That only made Scarlett work even harder to support his medical career.

Over time, it gave him the feeling that even if he told Scarlett to die for him, she’d go without question.

She used to be so obedient. So submissive. What changed overnight?

iNo/i–noi, /iithat’s /iinot /iit.

She was doing this on purpose./

She must think he came here today to ask her for something.

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bThat’s /bbwhy /bbshe /bbkept /bbdisrespecting /bhimb. /b

bHer /bbgoal/bb… /b

His bgaze /bdarkened.

bHer /bgoal must be to get him to agree to some conditions. Probably to earn better btreatment /bbthan /bReba once bthey /bwere both back with the Joyner family.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt the flowers weren’t the problem bat /ball. bIt /bbwas /bbScarlett/b–btoo /bvain. Too ambitious.

“Scarlett.”

His face was filled with annoyance.

Even contempt.

“You always pull these little stunts. No wonder no one likes you.”

Scarlett was confused.

What did she say that was so offensive?

No wonder the old saying goes: if the words don’tnd, even one sentence is too much.

She never should’ve said anything to Eugene.

Before she could reply, Eugene went on.

“I don’t know what tricks you pulled to impress John.”

“But out of respect for him, you can still use my resources.”

Scarlett almostughed.

His resources?

He meant using her as a test subject and then, maybe if he felt generous, letting her observe how medicine was processed in the hospital.

Back in college, many programs would organize visits to hospitals, with senior professors exining the whole process.

There was nothing secret about it.

She used to think Eugene was just helping her learn more. Now she realized he was just brushing her off.

“You should keep your resources. What crows consider treasure might not suit a swan.”

Eugene’s face darkened. “You’re still not satisfied? Still ying hard to getb?/b”

Scarlett realized they weren’t even operating in the same universe–conversation was pointles

Fine. Dust to dust, trash to trash. Time to wave goodbye to this fool.

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She waved him off and turned to leave.

“Scarlett, stop right there!”

Eugene saw that she was clearly annoyed and didn’t want to deal with him.

His pride took a massive hit.

He wanted to drag her back to a dark room and lock her up until she remembered her ce.

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But just as he was about to act, he remembered how John had spoken about Scarlett–with such admiration.

He clenched his jaw and forced himself to stay put.

“You better remember–the Joyner family is not a ce where you can do whatever you want!”

With that, he shoved the wilted sunflowers back into her arms and stormed off.

Scarlett went quiet.

Fine, leave–why drop this eyesore on her?

She no longer saw Eugene through the filter of family.

At this point, he was worse than some random loser off the inte.

People who had been watching started to leave now that the scene was over.

She spotted a trash can nearby and walked over.

In the past, she would’ve treated anything from the Joyner family like a treasure.

Now all she thought was-

iYeah/i.

iTrash /iibelongs /iiin /iithe /iitrash/i.

“Scully?”

A voice called from under a nearby streemp. Connor walked over quickly.

When he saw the bouquet in her hands, the smile on his face froze.

He was holding a fiery red bouquet of roses.

“You epted someone else’s gift?”

His voice sounded hurt, but he still hurried over to her.

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