Chapter 703 - The Illusion

"Love You?"

Mike seemed to be hearing a terrible joke. He slowly approached Leila, and gave her a disgusted look. "How can you still think this way? Looks like I gave you an illusion. My effort isn't in vain." 

In one sentence, Leila's last hope was thrown to hell.

She shook her head frantically, crying and laughing. "You lied to me! Mike, you love me, but you dare not admit it. Have you forgotten how many nights we have spent together?! I can still feel it! You must love me, there's no way I can misjudge your feelings!"

When those words fell, several sighs came from the banquet hall.

What a shameless woman!

The Austin family's eyes were on Mike.

This is just too absurd!

The people present saw so much evidence that no matter what Mike's aim was, they couldn't take it in stride.

At this moment, Mike smiled, turned his head and glanced at the big screen. "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten. Take a good look, that person with you, does he still love you?"

As Mike moved, the video immediately appeared on the big screen.

His voice was muted due to the presence of many elders.

Even though the light was pretty dark, they could still see clearly that two people were in the same bed, and one of them was Leila.

The man who made love to her was a stranger they knew nothing about. Meanwhile, Mike stood aside and watched everything with cold eyes.

This video proved that Mike did not touch Leila.

There are a lot of videos to play, and in each one, the same man continues to appear.

Mike was always in the frame, but he never left  the side and kept standing by the wall.

"Is it clear enough for you now?" Mike stepped forward, grabbed Leila's neck with one hand, and pointed at the screen. "I was there, can you see it? You're so sick, how can I stand around you? Leila, when you were still recognized by the Irwan family, I was always annoyed whenever I saw you. Now you are useless trash, how could I fall in love with you?"

"Are you feeling hopeless now? Do you feel hurt? Do you want to kill me? Let me tell you that all the feelings you felt were the first gift I gave you. Did you like it?" He added, mocking the girl further.

Leila stares at the video on the LED screen languidly. Even though she doesn't make any sound, it is clear that she is still calling Mike's name in her mouth as she makes love to the mysterious man.

How could this happen to her?

All the pictures in her memory were different from the ones in the video.

Obviously, the person she saw was Mike. But how could the man be such a weird and ugly guy she didn't know?!

She forced a few words out of her mouth. "I can't believe it! This is fake! You were with me!"

"I'm not surprised that you're confused now, do you want to know why?"

Mike loosened his grip on her neck, as if touching something dirty. Then he grabbed a wet tissue from the dining table.

He carefully rubbed his fingers, raised his eyebrows and his eyes were filled with a grin. "Because I've been adding LSD to your water every day since I treated your stomach."

LSD?

Leila is briefly confused, while Mike leans over to her, and says, "LSD, also called hallucinogens, makes it easy for you to believe that I love you. All these shows do require hallucinogens to run smoothly."

Mike is a devil!

This was Leila's first thought after hearing this explanation.

At this moment, Mike's cold eyes were blank, then he flashed a satisfied smile. "You fled to Malaysia with the help of other people, exactly the same as how I got the hallucinogens. Actually, your escape to Malaysia was very helpful because I didn't buy it in Indonesia. Also, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have spent a lot of money buying that stuff."

"All this money and my efforts I dedicate to you, are you touched? And the wound on your stomach... Obviously it is the work of my messengers. I thought that after you get hurt, you must need someone to take care of you. That's where I entered your life and started all my plans. Even if you call it beautiful days full of love, I always made sure that you would be suffering from the wounds on your stomach. I did it every day, so how's the pain now? Do you like it? When Chris kicked you, I could only protect you, but I didn't really do it because I wanted it to keep bleeding!"

"Once you fell asleep, I opened the window only to let the wound get infected and harder to cure. In the bathroom, you fell, it's all because I have given a layer of wax on the floor. But after that, I thought that I shouldn't cut you to death. If not, who will take my revenge? Leila, I always treat you very well, do you still love me after knowing all this?"

Mike finally revealed all the irrational deeds he'd done in the past.

What he was doing, while tormenting Leila, was actually torturing himself.

Of course he had thought about the consequences, but even if his family cursed and kicked him out, at best, he would only live alone for a long time.

In this life, he loved Mellisa more than his own life.

Even if there was no chance to be together, he would still have to seek justice for her.

At the expense of himself, he acted as if he loved Leila.

No one knew how much effort he had put in to contain his true feelings, and no one would understand how much he wanted to hug her when Mellisa was standing in front of him.

But no, he had a mission to complete!

After Mike said it all, his eyes were red like blood.

He gritted his teeth and looked at Leila, then breathed tremblingly. He reached out to choke her neck once again. "Leila, I want you to feel the most desperate pain in the world, to calm my hatred for you. Do you think it's over? I invited the three heads of the family to come and witness today's wedding, just to reveal your true face and the fact that you have schizophrenia!!"

Leila really doesn't know what to say.

Now she realized what despair was.

Perhaps, if she hadn't been so greedy in life, none of this would've happened.

She loved Mike so much, but she had to lose herself in the illusion she created in her own mind.

Leila really thought Mike was sincere with his feelings, especially when he protected and saved her from problems. Loving her as if she was the most precious treasure...

But in the end, everything was a well-designed scam.

Leila never thought that her defeat was caused by love.

She looked at Mike in a daze. In front of her, there was still a handsome face that remained in her mind with a dream of a million stars, but his mouth was telling the cruelest story in the world.

She suddenly burst out laughing. "Hahaha, Mike, what ridiculous story are you telling me? I'm not schizophrenic, I'm a normal person. You say you've given me hallucinogens. Everyone here has heard what you've said! If you want to finish me off, I'll certainly drag you to hell with me! But if you let me go now, I will not sue you and pretend all of this never happened!"