However, she was not picking up. All she did was leave behind a signed divorce agreement before vanishing into thin air. What was this? A sign of her disappointment?Simon did not dare think further into this. He picked up his phone again and called his secretary. “Mobilize all of our men and bring Bertha back to me.”He would not be able to relax unless he received news about Bertha. He did not know where she had gotten those photos and videos from. As for those messages, they sounded so provocative and confident. But he had wiped out all possible signs of trouble, so who could have possibly sent those things to Bertha?Right then, he thought of the only person who could have possibly done this—Luna.He turned on the computer again. Just as he had expected, he saw that the profile was the exact same as Luna’s. He had ignored it earlier. “She must have a death wish…”He glared at the woman in the photo and wanted to drag her over to teach her a lesson immediately. He had alr
Reality crushed Simon’s hopes and slapped him viciously in the face. He slumped down on the couch dejectedly and started drinking. Bottles of wine filled the floor, and his cheeks turned red from the alcohol. But it could not hide the dead, despair-filled look in his eyes. He drank until he rushed into the bathroom and puked. When he saw how pathetic he looked, he suddenly remembered the day when he had a date with Bertha in the restaurant. She had looked at him and calmly said, “Simon, do you remember what you said on our wedding day?“You asked me to swear that if you ever made a mistake, I should leave without a word and not give you a chance to apologize because you’d be undeserving of forgiveness.”So, at that moment, she had already discovered that he was cheating on her with Luna, right?She had been dropping hints for him a long time ago!She had given him a chance, but he never treasured it. Even so, he had always loved her. His heart had always been with her. It was
“Simon, I can explain…”However, Luna was panicking so much that she was incoherent. She bit down on her bottom lip. Then, as usual, she tugged on Simon’s shirt to put on a cute show. But this time, Simon tugged his shirt back, and she gulped. “I don’t know what’s going on with all that either…”Simon said nothing and kept glaring at her intimidatingly. She dared not meet his gaze, and her body trembled from fear. She had been with Simon for a year, and he knew all of the meanings behind her actions. Besides, the proof was right before his eyes. No matter what she said, Simon was not going to listen to her. He had just come here to torture her. “Did I give you so many things that you forgot your place? I told you that Bertha’s the most important person to me and if you bothered her, you’d die.”Luna was too afraid to even breathe, and she nervously looked away. Of course she knew that Bertha was the most important person to Simon, but she still wanted to take a risk. After all,
“Simon, I still remember the first time we made love. We did it in your office. You said that you loved my body and that I was a good girl. I’ll be good, and I’ll teach my baby to behave. “Remember that time we made love in the sea of roses? You said that you wanted to keep sleeping with me. I’ll resign right away, and everything in my life will be yours.”Simon’s face remained expressionless, but there was disgust in his eyes. The moment he heard about the sea of roses, he thought of Bertha. She could not hear. Was she ever mistreated while she was outside? Did she eat well and sleep well? He had protected her for so many years, but in the end, he had also hurt her the deepest. He did not care about Luna’s promise to be with him forever. He only wanted to be with Bertha, but Luna had ruined that small wish. “Get lost,” Simon said firmly and left without hesitation. Luna remained kneeling behind him and kept shifting toward him whenever he took a step forward. “I’m begging
When it was almost time for her to go to work, Luna felt that she could no longer sit around and do nothing. As a mother, she could sense her baby’s heartbeat. She could not just watch as her baby died. Since Simon wanted to destroy her, she had to look for a way to survive. Luna caressed her stomach and whispered, “I’ll protect you.”Without hesitation, she got up and grabbed her luggage bag. After picking up some clothes, she stuffed them in the bag. She also took the most expensive handbag Simon gave her and dragged her luggage bag down to hail a cab. She had not slept the entire night, so she fell asleep the moment she got into the car. In her dreams, she heard a baby calling out to her to save it.When she woke up again, she found that two hours had passed. The plane she booked had already taken off, and the cab was parked right in front of City Hospital. Standing outside the cab were a group of men in black. She knew these people; they were Simon’s bodyguards. Right
Bertha’s plane ran into turbulence, and it was forced to land in Germany. But that was fine. She still had some savings and the credit card Simon had given to her. Even so, she was worried that he would discover her whereabouts if he checked the card’s usage records. So, she was not in a hurry to go to Switzerland. Instead, she stayed in Germany and waited for the airline to make arrangements for another flight to Switzerland. In the meantime, she decided to travel around Germany for a while. She never had the chance to truly enjoy life before. Before she was eighteen, her life was centered around her broken family. They drained her youth away, and she had thought that if she contributed enough to the family, her parents and brother would love her a little more. However, the brutal reality destroyed her time and again. When God took her hearing away, he also made her remember the pain forever. She sealed off her heart and decided to never open it up to anyone else ever again.Ye
Since Simon never saw Bertha’s body, he did not believe that the person who died in the car crash was her. His instincts told him that Bertha was alive and somewhere in the world. He refused to believe that Bertha would leave him alone. Even though her information had been wiped and his family kept pressuring him to tell the world about her death, he never relented. He still told everyone that Bertha was out on a trip. Meanwhile, he paid all of the private detectives in the country handsomely to look for Bertha. If they could not find her in the country, they were to look for her abroad. He was going to scour every inch of the world until he found her and brought her back.His efforts were not in vain. Two months later, his secretary told him that he had received information about Bertha. A driver from a ride-hailing service mentioned that he had met Bertha and she had left a deep impression on him. It was the first time he had ever gotten a passenger from a residential villa. I
Upon landing in Switzerland, Bertha headed to the apartment that the fake death agency had gotten for her to put her luggage down. She loved the scenery here. It was as beautiful as a fairy tale, and it would provide her with an endless stream of inspiration. Even though many years had passed, her passion for design had not faded in the slightest. With pen and paper in hand, she went to all of Switzerland’s cafes. The people here really knew how to enjoy life. Half a month after she arrived, Bertha became close friends with her neighbors, and they invited her to go on a trip with them to Paris. After Bertha lost her hearing, she stopped attending any fashion shows, so she nodded. She packed up that very night and took all of her drafts with her. Just when she was about to forget about Simon, she suddenly received a notification from her bank. Someone had transferred ten thousand dollars to her account. While the bank account was registered under her name, Simon could see wh
The road was covered in snow a long time ago. When she came over earlier, she felt cold, but on her way back, the winter no longer seemed as scary. Samuel was holding her hand, and his palm was warm. The street was full of people, but they said nothing to each other. Occasionally, Bertha would look up and meet Samuel’s gaze. She could tell that his gaze was different from before. In the past, it was as fierce as fire, but at present, it was as calm as water. “You were in the third year of high school, and it was the winter holidays when we walked together like this as well. At that time, the snow landed on your eyes, and you cried. You even held my hand and asked me to blow it away for you.”Bertha remembered it too. These memories were the few moments in the first half of her life when she felt alive. However, she remained quiet, and Samuel knew why she was acting this way. She was still angry at him for leaving without a word. “I didn’t lie to you on purpose. At that time, m
Once they walked a distance away, Bertha let go of Samuel’s hand. He did not understand why and wanted to hold her hand again, but one question from Bertha made him stop. “Why did you lie to me in the past?”Samuel was stunned. He bowed his head and dared not meet Bertha’s eyes. He just whispered, “It’s pretty late. Should I send you back to your hotel?”“Just feigning ignorance, huh? Tell me. Why did you lie to me?!” Bertha shouted at the top of her lungs. Samuel could tell that she was crying. Her tears fell on his wrist, and he looked up in a panic. It was only then that he realized Bertha’s face was covered in tears. Feeling anxious, he hurried to comfort her, but he refused to talk about what had happened in the past. Honestly, he was not trying to hide it. He simply did not know where to start and what to say. Was he supposed to tell her that his family was ruined because of a painting, or tell her that he left the country from disappointment, or that he had been crushe
The first to lose her patience was Bertha. “Enough, Simon. I have no time to argue with you. Do you really think that you love me that much? If you truly did, you wouldn’t have cheated on me. The essence of love is loyalty, but ours was full of lies. Everyone in our friend group knew about your relationship with Luna, but they kept it from me. What am I, then?“You said that I didn’t give you a chance? Can you swear you never noticed that anything was off whenever I acted strangely? You ignored my feelings all the time, so how can you call that love? You’re the one who slept with Luna in the hospital in the name of seeking treatment for me. You’re the one who slept with Luna in the car on my birthday. You could even talk about all the dirty things you did with Luna while peeling grapes for me. “If you had even considered my feelings for one second from the get-go, would you have done those things? Even now, you haven’t tried to offer me an explanation.“Simon, I don’t need anyone
Samuel was older than Bertha by three years. When Bertha became a high school student, he had already gotten into the university of his dreams. His teachers in high school described him as a bona fide model student. They were supposed to have nothing to do with each other, but during the semester break of his first year in university, Samuel went back to visit his teacher. He got there just in time to see Bertha getting cornered in the washroom and being bullied. Since he was a boy, he was not supposed to barge into the ladies’ washroom. But for some reason, perhaps out of a sense of justice, he charged in shamelessly and yelled at her bullies. Even after so many years had passed, Samuel could still remember the first time he met Bertha. Her head was covered in smelly toilet paper as she cowered in the dirty washroom. She was wearing ill-fitting sportswear, but her eyes were bright, like water. When he reached out to her, Bertha grabbed his hand hesitantly but tightly. From then on
Since they were both men, Simon could quickly sense that Samuel’s gaze on Bertha was not pure. There was even a hint of possessiveness in it. Despite that, Bertha was not averse to it when she stood beside him. Simon had spent years trying to break down the walls to Bertha’s heart, and he even broke a leg in the process! But with just a smile, Samuel managed to get Bertha to look at him with a soft gaze?! Simon clenched his fists tightly. Jealousy burned in his heart so wildly that it made him lose his mind, but he still put on a calm front as he greeted Bertha.“Bertha, is that your friend?”He had been apart from Bertha for a year. When the person he missed dearly finally appeared before him, even his voice trembled. He dared not speak loudly because he was worried that he would scare her, and he was also worried that this was all a dream. However, the moment Bertha saw Simon’s face, she took a step back. She was scowling, and she seemed wary. When she noticed that he was abo
After Bertha left Paris, she did not return to Switzerland. Instead, she went to Germany to look for Emma. At the same time, Simon saw Bertha’s designs in Centville. Since he knew Bertha’s handwriting by heart and knew all the details she loved to put in her designs, he knew that she was the designer. The sight of the buttercup after the name, “Daffodil,” further strengthened his belief. He ordered his secretary to hire a hacker to locate the IP address of the person who had uploaded the designs online. “Mr. Zimmer, the designs came from Germany.”Once the secretary found the location, he was really excited. After all, ever since Bertha left, Simon had constantly been listless. He knew that Bertha did not like the smell of alcohol, so he destroyed all the wine cellars at home. He also worked day and night to numb himself. He had passed out a few times from working nonstop overnight, and the secretary only realized he was unconscious when he came to work the following day. They
Upon landing in Switzerland, Bertha headed to the apartment that the fake death agency had gotten for her to put her luggage down. She loved the scenery here. It was as beautiful as a fairy tale, and it would provide her with an endless stream of inspiration. Even though many years had passed, her passion for design had not faded in the slightest. With pen and paper in hand, she went to all of Switzerland’s cafes. The people here really knew how to enjoy life. Half a month after she arrived, Bertha became close friends with her neighbors, and they invited her to go on a trip with them to Paris. After Bertha lost her hearing, she stopped attending any fashion shows, so she nodded. She packed up that very night and took all of her drafts with her. Just when she was about to forget about Simon, she suddenly received a notification from her bank. Someone had transferred ten thousand dollars to her account. While the bank account was registered under her name, Simon could see wh
Since Simon never saw Bertha’s body, he did not believe that the person who died in the car crash was her. His instincts told him that Bertha was alive and somewhere in the world. He refused to believe that Bertha would leave him alone. Even though her information had been wiped and his family kept pressuring him to tell the world about her death, he never relented. He still told everyone that Bertha was out on a trip. Meanwhile, he paid all of the private detectives in the country handsomely to look for Bertha. If they could not find her in the country, they were to look for her abroad. He was going to scour every inch of the world until he found her and brought her back.His efforts were not in vain. Two months later, his secretary told him that he had received information about Bertha. A driver from a ride-hailing service mentioned that he had met Bertha and she had left a deep impression on him. It was the first time he had ever gotten a passenger from a residential villa. I
Bertha’s plane ran into turbulence, and it was forced to land in Germany. But that was fine. She still had some savings and the credit card Simon had given to her. Even so, she was worried that he would discover her whereabouts if he checked the card’s usage records. So, she was not in a hurry to go to Switzerland. Instead, she stayed in Germany and waited for the airline to make arrangements for another flight to Switzerland. In the meantime, she decided to travel around Germany for a while. She never had the chance to truly enjoy life before. Before she was eighteen, her life was centered around her broken family. They drained her youth away, and she had thought that if she contributed enough to the family, her parents and brother would love her a little more. However, the brutal reality destroyed her time and again. When God took her hearing away, he also made her remember the pain forever. She sealed off her heart and decided to never open it up to anyone else ever again.Ye