Why Did You Leave Me?Chapter 2

The next morning, I dragged my suitcase and slid out the door. Everett saw the suitcase in my hand, his brows furrowing sharply.

“Where are you going?”

I didn’t look at him, just replied calmly:

“I’m staying at a hotel for two days.”

Everett stared at me, as if trying to see through me, then suddenly scoffed.

“Selene, you’re just jealous because you saw Joanna and me filming together. I already told you Joanna is just a colleague; you’re my girlfriend. Stop overthinking things.”

He slowly stood up, reaching out to pull me, but I subtly shifted to avoid him. His hand hung in mid-air, his face instantly darkening.

“Getting bold now, are we? If you step one foot out that door today, don’t even think about coming back.”

I ignored him, unlocked the door, and walked straight out with my suitcase. A loud crash echoed from behind, like a glass breaking on the floor. I didn’t stop.

Taking a taxi, booking a hotel, checking in – by the time everything was arranged, it was already afternoon. My phone vibrated. It was a message from the director. Tonight was the celebration party for the show topping the charts, and he invited me, the original author, to attend. He was a good friend of my mother’s, so I couldn't refuse.

As I reached the private room door, I heard cheers from inside.

“Everett and Joanna have been together since college, they were each other’s first loves!”

My hand, about to push open the door, froze. Everett’s girlfriend from college… was Joanna?

Everett and I met at the orphanage. That year, when I was seventeen, my mother took me home. When I reunited with Everett, all I knew was that he had a girlfriend in college whom he loved but couldn't have. Joanna put on a coy act.

“Oh, you guys, stop spreading rumors! Everett has a girlfriend, what if she misunderstands?”

The moment she finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

“Everett doesn’t have a girlfriend! We’ve all seen it clearly this past half-year, his heart only has room for you!”

“I also heard that Everett specifically requested Joanna to be the female lead in this show!”

I stood there stunned, my heart feeling like it was being fiercely squeezed. When my mother gave the director the novel I wrote, he immediately decided to film it. As for Joanna, she clearly didn’t fit the female lead’s character at all. I always thought it was the director’s decision. It was Everett.

I looked at him. He was gazing at Joanna indulgently, silently confirming it. Joanna’s gaze swept around the room, then suddenly landed on me.

“Oh dear, who’s standing at the door? I thought it was some beggar, you startled me.”

Seeing me, Everett frowned slightly, hesitating for two seconds before looking at Joanna beside him.

“An old friend I knew. She probably saw me passing by and came over to say hello.”

Joanna’s lips slowly curled into a meaningful smile. She deliberately raised her voice.

“Oh, I remember her. That day, Everett specially drove halfway across the city to buy me bubble tea, and she was standing in the shade of a tree diagonally across from the tea shop, staring at us for a long time. Her eyes were red like a rabbit’s, almost crying. What? You like Everett?”

A female assistant with a bun suddenly spoke up.

“I remember now! That was the day Joanna misunderstood and got a little mad at Everett. Everett later explained that she was a girl whose father abandoned her at an orphanage, and who tried to get into her teacher’s bed in middle school.”

Another grip looked at me, shaking his head and clucking.

“Can’t believe she looks so innocent but is so promiscuous behind the scenes? She really is an uncultured person without parents to teach her. No wonder she dared to come here, trying the same old tricks to cling to Everett?”

At these words, the surroundings instantly fell silent for a few seconds, and their gazes at me were filled with undisguised contempt.