Hearing his question, Cynthia trembled for only just a second as she watched Mason breathing heavily while standing in the rain with a glint of confusion and sadness in his eyes. Her eyes glistened with shock for only just a second and then she sighed and opened her mouth.

“I’m sorry Mason but…I just don’t think our relationship can work anymore.”

Rumble.

The lightning lit up the sky like it was the day for only a brief second to reveal Mason’s face of disbelief before reverting to its state of darkness.

“W-What...What do you mean?…” Mason’s voice became weak almost as if he had lost all strength. “You don’t mean what you’re saying…what did he tell you? Is he blackmailing you?! Tell me and I’ll make him pay!”

“Mason, no...It’s not that. It’s just that…Derrick said he loves me and I love him too so we started dating.” Cynthia said with a nervous but adamant voice.

“What?”

Mason just didn’t want to believe what he was currently hearing at the moment. Is this the Cynthia he knows that’s currently talking? How can she say she loves Derrick of all people?! Derrick was among those who humiliated her on campus.

If Cynthia was now admitting that she loves Derrick then what about him?! Cynthia had told him the same thing so many times during their relationship. Mason was sure that he had demonstrated his love by standing at her side during her lowest low and because of this, he felt that he and Cynthia were inseparable so what Cynthia was currently doing right now was shattering his heart piece by piece.

Although Mason’s physical health was okay, Mason could tell that he was beginning to feel this great deal of pain in his chest. The pain was too much that he held his chest with his right hand while finding it hard to breathe.

“Cynthia. Why..” A voice filled with sadness escaped Mason’s mouth as he looked at Cynthia with pleading eyes.

“Alright, that’s enough,” Derrick said as he turned Cynthia’s head and have her look at his face to face, and then he leaned in closer until both their lips were already touching each other and they both started kissing.

Derrick went as far as grabbing Cynthia’s ass in between the kiss.

Seeing this it was then Mason’s eyes flashed with anger.

“YOU BASTARD!”

Mason let out a bellow of anger as he did not realize when he suddenly moved from where he was standing.

Mason could count the number of times he had kissed Cynthia with his fingers in both hands and never had his kisses with Cynthia been this intense so seeing Derrick grabbing Cynthia's ass like that caused something in him to snap.

“I WILL KILL YOU!”

Mason clenched his fist tight as he ran forward in a clear attempt of starting a fight with Derrick, however, what he saw next was a fist getting bigger and bigger before his eyes and then the next thing everything became black.

Bang!

Mason was sent falling and rolling back on the wet ground with a growl of pain escaping from his mouth. One of the bodyguards in a rain suit had quickly reacted to counteract Mason before he reached Derrick. Derrick didn’t have to move out from his kiss with Cynthia because he trusted his bodyguards to do the dirty work for him.

Derrick chuckled after breaking out from his kiss with Cynthia and turned to look at Mason who was now lying weak on the ground in a pitiful state.

It was true that the blow Mason had just received had practically made every bone in his body tremble but he currently wasn’t lying on the ground weak due to the blow from the bodyguard because that was not the blow that took away all his will to fight.

The blow that took away all his will to fight was the one Cynthia gave him by breaking his heart.

Derrick took a few steps forward with the umbrella still over him thanks to one of his bodyguards accompanying him as he walked and then he stopped only five steps away from Mason who was lying on the wet ground. Standing before Mason, Derrick looked at him with contempt in his eyes.

Mason currently had a bleeding mouth and anybody seeing him at the moment will be able to tell that he had lost all will to fight, however, Derrick wasn’t so good to let him be.

“You tried to attack me, a known Griffith. You deserved to be punished. Beat him.” Derrick instructed his guards with no remorse on his face as he walked away toward Cynthia.

He didn’t even bother to look back as he heard the scream of pain right behind him along with the sounds of his bodyguards pounding Mason’s body all over.

“Keok!” Mason grunted in pain as the two bodyguards landed several blows on him.

“Let’s go.” Derrick took Cynthia by her hand and they both got into the expensive limo elegantly.

After a full minute of a constant beating from both bodyguards Derrick instructed them to stop, however, Mason had been left almost unrecognizable at this point. The right side of his face was already swollen and there was a cut on his lip which was evident due to the bleeding.

Derrick saw this and laughed with pride. From the glint in his eyes, he was feeling so big of himself, and once more he had proven to the world that money does have the power to do anything.

He waited for a few more minutes so that his cameraman currently streaming live can get a good view of Mason.

With Mason streaming live, comments started to flood in.

“Lol. Now that’s what you get for not knowing your place!”

“Yeah. Lol. Look at him. He looks so pitiful. My belly is beginning to hurt me from too much laughter.”

“The slut got stolen from her Boyfriend.”

“The whole poor should just accept their fates and stay away from Sycamore university. They shouldn’t even think about education and just accept the fact that they are all slaves!”

There were a lot of negative comments online about what was going on. Almost everybody in their dorm was making all sorts of comments. It was almost as if all the rich students at the Sycamore university hated the poor. However, right inside a dorm room, there was someone that had a worried look on his face as he watched all that was going on live on his phone.

‘Shit! Mason, what’s wrong with you? Do you want to get yourself killed?’ Eddy complained inwardly.

Eddy was Mason’s only friend at the Sycamore university and also Mason’s dorm roommate. Although he was also from a rich family like everybody else, never in his life had he ever looked at Mason with contempt and right now, he was worried about Mason. He was so worried that he couldn’t continue watching the stream.

Eddy stood up from his bed and instantly grabbed a coat and an umbrella and rushed out of the room.

***

Mason on the other hand felt nothing except pains all over his body and cold but all these were nothing compared to the pain he was currently feeling in his heart. His heart had been shattered into too many pieces.

Mason just lay on the wet ground under the rain as he tried to wonder where he had gone wrong to deserve such a fate. All his life he had been a poor orphan trying to survive in a middle-class town. He worked his whole ass off just to get into the infamous Sycamore university to believe that all his suffering would lighten a little instead it only got worst. He got constantly reminded of how his life sucked and just when he thought he saw a little light to fight for after falling in love he was defeated once more.

This life isn’t worth it…

That was all Mason thought as a tear slid down from the corner of his eyes under the constant beat of the heavy rain.

Rumble!

The lightning crackled in the sky yet again and then Mason closed his eyes almost as if he was accepting his fate to give up.

Exactly midnight was supposed to be the mark of his 21-year-old birthday. How unfortunate…That he wouldn’t get to see the next day as a 21-year-old.

Mason felt his consciousness slipping away until the only thing he heard was his phone ringing out loud.

Ring!

Who could be calling him at this time of the night was what Mason thought. However, he didn’t even care to answer because everything will be over soon but to his shock, he suddenly heard a peculiar voice beside him.

“Happy Birthday Master Gray.” The sweet voice of a beautiful lady entered his ears and as if the lightning was reacting to this voice it crackled again.

Mason who was already feeling his consciousness slipping away had to fight with all his willpower to see the owner of that voice.

However, upon opening his eyes again, both his eyes flickered greatly.