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
“I found him!”Melanie repeated it one more time, her tone sterner than earlier.As she said that, she raised her arm and pointed at the picture with the smoking pipe that didn’t have smoke coming out of it.Jeffrey looked at it, and at the same time, a huge “whoom” sounded in the room!It repeated over and over again.Each of the pictures on the wall started to flip and disappear together, and the walls of the room turned back to white, only leaving behind the picture that Melanie had pointed out on the wall.All the pictures that were haunting them just now seemed to be just part of a hallucination.“What? You found the exit?!” the mechanical voice asked eagerly.“That’s right,” Melanie answered.Because she saw it; in the middle of the room, a hidden door had risen up. That was probably the exit.“Other than the exit? Why is my lock still secured?!” The mechanical voice became anxious.What lock?Both Melanie and Jeffrey exchanged a glance.After a while, the mechanical
“He has been waiting... for us?” Melanie repeated.“Correct. The Master has ordered us to prepare supper for Mistress Yelena and Master Leo. They have been waiting for a long time,” the servants answered. “Please come with us.”The servant turned and led the way. Melanie and Jeffrey exchanged a glance. They figured that Joseph knew everything...Otherwise, even if Joseph had something to discuss and waited for one of them, how did he know that they were together and even which exit they used?The servants led them to the dining room on the first floor.Only to see Yelena and Leo were sitting at the sides while Joseph was sitting at the host’s seat. When he saw that they had arrived, he simply looked at them and said coldly...“Sit!”The two exchanged another glance before sitting down as well.Then, the servants hurriedly prepared the dishes.The mood was extremely awkward.Melanie wanted to break the silence and asked, “Why aren’t you asleep at this time?”Before she headed