"Do you really...hate me this much?"Vicky jolted awake and was drenched in sweat. She grabbed her phone to check the time and noticed that she had only slept for an hour.After reading the last message she received from the mysterious man, she wiped her sweat away and made a call to Harvey."Vicky?" Harvey answered the call.Vicky cut to the chase and said, "Gloria didn't leave on her own. She's been kidnapped.""Did Tyler do this?""Yeah."Harvey did not seem surprised. "Do you know where she is?"Vicky provided him with the address, and Harvey blurted out asking, "How do you know this, Vicky?"Vicky hesitated for a moment before informing Harvey about the mysterious man.He chuckled bitterly and said, "Even after all these years, you still trust him with everything."Vicky stayed quiet for a while before saying, "I'm sorry for misunderstanding you.""It wasn't a misunderstanding. I was at fault, and I—" He paused in realization and asked excitedly, "Vicky, have you regai
After the call with Harvey, Vicky's head started to hurt again, and she went back to sleep.The next time she woke up was when the sky had turned dark. The lights in the room were not turned on, so the room was pitch dark.She fumbled to grab her phone, and after a while, her fingers came into contact with a human's hand.Anyone would be startled by that, and Vicky shrieked. "Ah!"Click! The lights by the nightstand were switched on.The faint light did not blind her and revealed a familiar face.Tyler was staring at her with a shadow looming over his face.Her eyes widened, and her heart threatened to stop beating.For a moment, she seemed to have traveled back to that week-long hellish experience of the time when she was kidnapped by Tyler.He thought that she was corresponding with Monty in secret and that she was plotting an escape, so he chained her up in a dark room and continued to ask repeatedly why she betrayed him.He would sometimes be gentle, only to act extremely
Halfway through, someone knocked on Vicky's door, and Tyler strolled in with a glass of familiar-looking liquid.The scent of herbs filled the air.Tyler had been busy lately and had ordered someone else to deliver her the tea instead of watching her drink it himself.'He's making me the tea himself again tonight... Is he suspecting something?' she thought.Vicky had regained 90% of her memories, so the tea no longer had any effect on her.She accepted the glass and drank the tea in one smooth motion before handing the glass back to Tyler.He placed it on the table and stared at her lips unblinkingly.She instinctively looked away, and he simply lowered his head to kiss away the tea that was left on her lips.She tensed and wanted to turn away, but he simply placed a hand at the back of her hand and pressed her closer toward his chest.Vicky started shivering, which was unusual.She would resist, obey, or simply lay limp, but she rarely shivered in his arms.Tyler stopped an
To distract Tyler, Vicky said, "I asked Alex when Gloria was kidnapped, and he said he didn't do it. I know him, and he wouldn't deny his involvement if he was responsible.""You've only met him a few times, and you claim to know him?" Tyler mocked.Vicky wanted to argue that she knew Alex since they were children, but that only made sense if she did not lose her memories.Ever since she suffered from amnesia, she had only met with Alex a few times.Noticing her silence, Tyler said, "When Gloria comes back, I'll let her do whatever she wants with Alex. According to what I know about Gloria, she wouldn't go too far. I don't want to hear any more of this."His mood was seemingly affected by the mention of Alex, and he was distracted from the earlier discussion, so he simply picked Vicky up and carried her back to the bedroom...."Vicky, are you afraid of me?""Why are you running away? Have I not treated you well?""Vicky, don't go. I won't hurt you...""Ah!" Vicky jolted awak
Vicky remembered almost everything but knew nothing about the mysterious man.A part of her memories remained lost, but that was related to the reason why she broke up with Tyler. She did not think that it concerned the mysterious man.'Can the man I ran into be the mysterious man who's been helping me?' she thought.Just as she considered whether she should text or call the man she met before, her phone vibrated.The man she met always contacted her with unknown caller identification, while the mysterious man who helped her multiple times had an actual phone number.Though Vicky suspected that they were the same person, she decided to treat them like two separate individuals until she had proof.Vicky opened the text message and jolted in shock as it was not from an unknown number but from the number she remembered to belong to the mysterious man.[I thought you were never going to text me again.][What makes you think that?] Vicky replied.[You've forgotten about everything,
Vicky glanced at the driver and took out her phone quietly. Her expression darkened when she noticed that she received no signal on her phone."Ms. Shaw," said the driver. "Don't worry. We won't hurt you. We're only inviting you over because Old Mister wants to see you.""Old Mister?""There's a signal blocker here on the car, so don't try anything, Ms. Shaw," added the driver monotonously.Vicky gazed down and confirmed that she could not make any phone calls.10 minutes later, the taxi arrived at a mansion where someone was already waiting by the door.It was none other than Magnus."We meet again, Ms. Shaw," Magnus said.She glanced at him and said, "I'm sorry, but I've suffered from amnesia and don't remember who you are."Magnus was not at all offended and smiled patiently. "Allow me to introduce myself again, then. My name is Magnus Hawthorne."Vicky nodded wordlessly, and Magnus proceeded to guide her into the mansion.The mansion exuded a quintessential oriental styl
Senior Hart did not like her, so Vicky rarely visited him."I'm Tyler's biological grandfather. The one you met before isn't related to Tyler.""Biological grandfather?" Vicky studied the elderly before her, feeling as though she had seen him before.There was still a piece of the puzzle missing in her memories, and she had a feeling that Old Mister Hart might have something to do with her lost memories.She recalled Magnus but had no memories of how she came to know him."You knew about Tyler's background before you lost your memories. I don't know if you've actually lost your memories or if you're simply faking it, but I don't mind explaining it to you again," Old Mister Hart continued.Vicky widened her eyes at the realization that she did not know about Tyler's actual family background as Tyler had never told her anything about it."Does he...have another identity?" she asked hoarsely.Old Mister Hart poured two cups of tea and said, "Ever since Tyler took over Hart Corpora
A contemptuous look appeared on Old Mister Hart. "That Hart Family wasn't doing so badly in Stoneford City but was hardly significant when you look at the entire country. They weren't even comparable to the power Tyler possesses in the present, let alone being compared to our family. If they send their son into our family and their son manages to inherit a part of the wealth..."He paused and continued, "Even if it was just a one percent share, that'll give them more than they had ever owned. Who wouldn't want that?"What Old Mister Hart said seemed to make sense, but Vicky remained skeptical. "That's just your theory. What if the nurses actually made a careless mistake?"Old Mister Hart took a sip of tea. "First of all, the doctors and nurses involved in the incident had all gone missing or died. We couldn't find a single witness. Don't you think that's odd? Also, I've already found the truth about the car accident Tyler's adoptive parents ran into."Vicky's heart sank. "I thought