The chapter is a bit triggering tbh, but real world ain't cute or fully pink, there are tons of pain and suffering in our journeys to become the ones that we want to be, or to do what we want to do. So this is not unlikely to happen and we must overcome it for ourselves.
Elena is ruthless and I won't cheer on her this time, she was such a jerk, but we know already that she obviously won't care for him (just as she won't care for almost everone else). She just cares for her revenge and even tho not surprising, this is a downside of that.
I feel kinda sorry for him, he prolly will be the greatest artist as he's supposed to, but I feel that Elena will leave a big mark on him, but she'll never give him anything else than being treated as a tool *sigh*.