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After leaving the police station, I comforted Ivy and said, "Ryan is a lost dog now. There is no need to take his words to heart." Ivy shed tears and choked up and said, "I didn't expect he would be such a bad person." After that, she looked at me and moved her lips as if she wanted to say something, but she finally lowered her head and said only one sentence: "Send me home!"

"Okay!" I agreed.

On the day Lara's gym opened, she invited me to cut the ribbon. In the crowd, I saw Ivy. She was wearing the dress I wore when I proposed to her, and had light makeup on her face. When I cut the ribbon in front of me, she clapped as hard as the people around her and laughed happily. I smiled at her and then held Lara 's hand beside me.