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Danielle didn't know how to feel when she was faced with so many sympathetic gazes, as if she was some pitiful creature abandoned by its owner.
Clearly, everything had been going well for her before. She was engaged to the boy she liked so much, she got admitted to the best high school in the country, and even the prospects of her parents' company looked brighter than ever, with their increasing ties with the Black Tiger.
But the moment she saw those visions… she knew it was all fake. The momentary high before the deep, dark chasm of suffering, the instant of numb pleasure before the excruciating pain set in... the calm before the storm.
In the future, she would lose it all, and would be so thoroughly ruined that even her parents and big sister wouldn't be spared.
