"At least those people will know it isn't you," Bill insisted.
Cixi looked at him, yet her unease did not soften. "Will that stop those men from looking at me in ways I never wanted? After it is revealed… will things truly become better for me?" Her fingers tightened faintly around each other. "What if it only makes everything worse?"
Bill said nothing and let her continue.
"Officer Bill, I don't trust my fate." Her voice trembled, and for a moment, she appeared to be holding herself together through sheer willpower. "What if they start searching for more about me? I… I am so confused that I don't even know what I am supposed to do here. Why is that video still circulating? Why couldn't that video simply vanish and never surface?... I desperately want to know who created it! Until now, I thought I could ignore it and move on, but it keeps haunting me over and over. I need to understand who hated me so much that they would go to such lengths to destroy my life."
