“Linda! Are you insane?!”Although Harlow realized something was wrong, Linda’s hysterical accusations and disdainful yells frustrated him to no end. His neck flushed red as he glared at her in anger.Linda tilted her chin and said viciously, “What? Are you going to hit me? I dare you to!” Harlow glared at her, but didn’t dare to make a move on her.Linda sneered in disdain. “Look at the stupid thing you’ve just done! Just you wait, a good show will be coming up soon! I’ll see how you explain things to your grandfather and everyone else in the York family!”Meanwhile, Melanie sighed. She pursed her lips from listening to the couple arguing with each other through the bug.What was the point?Harlow had wanted to hurt her, while Leo wanted to plot against Harlow and Linda. Everyone was a victim of a scheme, and everyone wanted to be the ultimate victor. It just all felt so exhausting.At least, that was how she felt.She removed her heels, and reclined on the couch.Leo seeme
“Let’s go!”Jeffrey pulled Melanie’s arm firmly, turned around, and ran toward the back. He ran past the partition in the study, and started rummaging through the shelf leaning against the wall. He started moving the vase, paintings, and brushes…“What are you doing?” Melanie asked, puzzled.“Finding the switch! To enter the secret passageway!” Jeffrey said, firmly but anxiously.He knew about the secret passageways in the Yorks’ residence?Melanie paused for a moment before jumping into action. Regardless of how he found it, escaping was the most important thing right now!She went on tip-toes, and looked for the switch with him.Outside the partition, the door was opened. Someone led a bunch of people into the lounge.Silence ensued, until Melanie heard someone ask, “Why is there…no one in here?”“Ah…perhaps they are inside?” someone else suggested.Jeffrey and Melanie held their breaths, and moved faster!They had rummaged through all the exotic-looking collectibles on th
Jeffrey arched his brow. She was still that stubborn and sharp-witted woman he was familiar with.“Come with me.”He led the way ahead of her. “If we hurry, we might even arrive earlier than those people.”Melanie caught up with him and asked doubtfully, “How did you know about the secret passageway in the Yorks’ residence?” Leo led them through the secret passageway from the study to the perfume blending room once, but that was within the underground portion of the Yorks’ residence. Aside from that section of the passageway, she was clueless about all other routes.What’s more, Leo said that even the servants of the York household weren’t aware of the passageway routes, hence why he had to lead the way for them. It was evident that only a few key figures of the family knew the map of the secret passageway.However, Jefford looked like he was very familiar with it…“Maximilian told me about it,” Jeffrey said, not wanting to hide anything from her.“Maximilian?” Melanie was s
If Melanie hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, she would never believe it. Using the underground secret passage really was much faster than taking the path above them.She got out from the underground through the elevator. The corridor was silent.All she could hear was the sounds of a fight between a man and a woman.She quickly walked over to Joseph’s bedroom. When she was almost there, a group of today’s guests approached them from the opposite side. Some of them were some of the senior shareholders and had quite some status within the York family.They were chatting as they got closer. When they saw Melanie, they also didn’t forget to greet her.“Shush!”Melanie raised her hand to signal them to be silent.They didn’t know what she wanted, but they all instinctively quieted down. At this time, the sound of the fighting from the bedroom between the man and the woman became even clearer...“All you Yorks are fools! And the most stupid of them all is you, Harlow! If it wasn't be
While the people at the door were showing their backs, they could still feel how awkward everything was inside.They could feel it even without looking at them.About three minutes later, Linda was pulling her tattered shirt tightly around herself with disheveled hair forced open a path among the crowd and ran out!And then, they could hear Harlow’s embarrassing and angry yelling.“Scram!”“What are you looking at?!”“Scram, all of you!”Everyone that was present were all elders among the York family, and some of them were also very important partners for the York family. Status wise, all of them were much higher than Harlow. Which of them could take such verbal abuse from him lying down?During their rage, the elders and partners all turned around without any care and chided him, “Don’t think that you’re immune to consequences just because you’re a York!”“You’re not worthy of your status!”“The Yorks are going to fall into ruins because of you!”All the guests snorted when
“Jefford?”Melanie called out to him again.Her voice echoed in the passage, and she also increased the volume. She waited for a while, but still no one responded. She had no choice but to walk down the stairs to find him. She walked straight ahead, but even when she reached the three-way intersection, she still didn’t see any sign of him.Melanie hesitated when she was at the intersection.She didn’t dare randomly go down one of the passages; the reason that Jefford was so confident when he led her here was that he knew the secret passage’s layout well. But she knew nothing about this place; if she took the wrong road, it would be possible for her to be unable to find the exit and be unable to get help.Just when she was hesitating on what to do, she heard the man’s voice. “You’re finally here.”She turned around and noticed Jefford coming down from another path.“Where did you go?” she asked.“I waited for too long and thought that you weren’t coming back, so I looked aroun
“I’ll do it!”Jeffrey chased after her and stopped Melanie from wanting to touch the candles.She didn’t argue with him. The two of them tacitly avoided the candles’ direction to avoid any traps.Click!The sounds of gears turning could be heard from under the fake candles, but nothing changed around them.Jeffrey tried a few times again and used all his might, but he still couldn’t turn the candle. When Melanie saw how he was frowning, she also gave it a try, but also couldn’t get it to turn.“That’s strange...” she mumbled.If it wasn’t supposed to turn, but it could be turned... The both of them could feel that the bottom part of the candle could be moved, and it let out a mechanical click too.“Is it something that’s already abandoned?” She proposed a theory.Jeffrey shook his head. “It’s possible. But it’s also possible that we didn’t find the right way to open it.”“Let’s go.”Jeffrey paused before saying, “The candles haven’t stopped burning, and they’re all clean,
The voice sounded mechanical. It was obviously speaking through some kind of filter.The voice sounded like it came from right above them, but it also sounded like it came from around them!It sent a chill up their spines.The first reaction when Jeffrey heard the voice was to protect her in his arms!She didn’t refuse and simply let him hold her tightly because she was indeed scared.After pausing a little, Jeffrey looked around and asked, “Who are you?”“Continue onward!” the voice demanded.Jeffrey gulped, and the two of them turned around. They noticed that the entrance they used had already closed without any sound!Jeffrey paused and held Melanie's head and said, “Since there’s only one way out... Let’s go.”“Sure.”She nodded.Since there was no retreat, then the only way left was forward.She was actually much more curious than scared; she wanted to know just how many secrets were buried under the Yorks’ ancient residence!The two of them continued further in front