Thorns of White Rose

College girl from a middle class family got a scholarship in Stallion. She was careful in making friends, she doesn't want to get involved in complicated lives of rich people around her. She never believed in love. For her, it was an illusion that lonely people create to depend on others. Since she was young, she saw the dark side of life through the ill fate of her parents' marriage. They have been annulled for almost 10 years, but continuously torturing each other and even her. The trauma she experienced became her ground to every relationship she had in her youth. Until she met this college professor who made her realize that love indeed exists. It collapses confide truth that she held on for so long. That thing urges people to be silly, to cross the line to dumbness; she learned that it was the unconscious decision that everyone makes. So many things associated to it, but nothing really explains love. It varies for every person, and it is beyond all the beautiful and terrifying word there is. She was afraid to take a chance, but it feels like she will never find more happiness than love can offer her. It was a conscious decision of her to choose love, but it's not as easy as that. Fame, influence, wealth, status... Those things slapped her, made her feel like she was a little garbage in a mansion. The only man she left her guard down for betrayed her. And that's about it. She left Stallion. Without second thoughts, she dumped her scholarship, didn't finish the semester, didn't say a thing to anyone. For a moment, she let her guard down and fall in love, but life stabs her like that. New York became her escape, it was her safe space. After many years of establishing herself, she came back looking cold as ever with everything society respects. A well-known author who has connections everywhere, she was able to make it big by depending only to herself. She finished her degree, got a corporate job for 2 years then built her own website that eventually turned into a successful publishing company. With the help of her friends in New York, she was able to invest in the right companies and learned how stocks work. Now, everyone wants her. They want her gaze, they want her attention; she bacame significant. But she doesn't care about anyone else, she only wanted to see regret in her former professor's eyes when they meet again. "How dare you? If you have a little decency in your body, you should have apologized first, kneel if you must. How can you look me in the eye with no remorse and ask if --" "When you left, I've lost all decency and self-respect. How can a woman be so cold and heartless? You only believe in what you think and never tried to hear me out. I couldn't do anything then because you're a minor, but now..." The fiery look in his eyes were sending tension to her nerves. The way he talks is loathing her. Back then, it's true that she only listened to herself... to the pain that embraced her when she knew she was being cheated on. Due to the broken foundation her parents provided her, she was scared to love to the extent that at first shake, she flew away to escape. Right at that moment, she wanted to go back to her safe place, but Kale won't let her..not for the second time around.