“Where am I?” Madeline parted her lips and asked the man who had his back toward her.The man slowed down and turned his face slightly. His resolute and perfect jaw looked even more exceptional under the light.“It’s not important where you are. If you still want to go home, then stop your tears.” His voice was also as cold as his aura.Madeline clutched the handkerchief tightly. “Were you the one who saved me?”“I was just passing by.” His answer was straightforward.Madeline remembered that she did see another yacht heading toward her before the yacht Ryan was on exploded.Perhaps this man was on that yacht and coincidentally, he witnessed the yacht exploding so he saved her.“Thank you.” Madeline looked at the man’s back and thanked him. At the same time, she remembered Ryan who was still on the yacht. “Did you save my friend too?”“Friend?” The man sounded puzzled. Then, he turned around. “Do you mean the man who was chasing you on the other yacht?”When she heard this, Ma
Madeline had a bad feeling in her heart when she heard that.However, when she remembered what had happened to Jeremy after the yacht exploded, she found a glimmer of hope amidst the restless beating of her heart.“What are you thinking about? If you want to know, then follow me. Stop dilly-dallying.” The man urged coldly and impatiently.Madeline took a step forward sluggishly. Due to the impact of the yacht explosion that day, she was still weak and feeble all over.She walked slowly while the two maids followed behind her considerately as they were worried that she would fall all of a sudden.Madeline was touched by this meticulous care. She felt that she was extremely lucky to have been saved.The place was huge, and the decorations and renovations all had English influences. Everything here exuded a low profile yet elegant sentiment, from the small trinkets to the tables and chairs.Madeline felt that the man who saved her had an extraordinary status. However, she could not
However, he was the one who chose this ending.Madeline looked at the urn silently. Then, she heard the man’s cold voice behind her.“Feeling sad is the most useless thing. Swallow back your tears and properly tend to your wounds.”Madeline turned around and lifted her clear, beautiful eyes. “Did you see me cry?” she asked calmly and looked quietly at the urn that was placed on the coffee table. “This is the path he chose.” After she said that, Madeline went back the way she came from.The man did not expect Madeline to answer him so calmly and carefreely. For a moment, the man seemed to be lost in thought while absent-minded.He lifted his head to see Madeline who had already decisively left. Suddenly, he was curious. With that pair of eyes filled with determination and stubbornness, what would this woman’s personality be like? Plus, how did she look before she disfigured her face?Madeline went back to her room and sat on the bed quietly. She would be lying if she said that s
After she heard that, Madeline retracted her outstretched foot back.‘Jeremy?‘Is that man watching a video related to Jeremy?‘Why is he watching that?’Madeline was curious, and an uneasy feeling surged from the bottom of her heart.When she was trying to figure out why this man was watching a video on Jeremy, she noticed that the man had spotted her.His narrow black eyes stared straight at her like the moon in the night. They looked so cold yet so deep.“Come and sit here.” The man parted his lips and invited her over.Madeline wanted to understand more of what was going on, so she went over to sit down.The maid who was serving the man poured Madeline a cup of tea and handed it to her politely with a smile.Madeline held the teacup in her hands and felt the warmth spreading from her palms to her heart.To be frank, she was pretty lucky. At least her life was saved.As for Ryan…Madeline’s eyes became bleak. At the end of the day, a life was lost in front of her and sh
The man lowered his head and flipped through the photos one by one.Madeline could not endure this. She got up to go over so that she could have a look at the photos.The man was looking at the photos when he lifted his head to look at Madeline. When he saw the sharpness in Madeline’s eyes, he said coldly, “Why are you so excited?”Madeline suppressed the sharpness in her eyes and answered as if it was nothing. “I’m just curious what the person with the same name as me looks like.”The reason sounded reasonable, so the man did not suspect a thing. Then, he turned his eyes back to the photos.“What do you think about this woman with the same name as you? Do you think she’s good-looking?”Madeline looked at the woman in the photo who had undergone plastic surgery to look like her. There was a hint of disdain in her eyes. “So-so.”“So-so?” The man had no expression on her face, but there was a hint of playfulness in his eyes. “Then, I guess your true face must be out of this world.
Madeline raised her slightly trembling fingers and stroked her cheek.The smoothness from the past no longer existed. What was left were just bumpy and ugly scars.Except for the small wound on her forehead and her eyes that were intact, the other parts, especially the sides of her cheeks, were damaged to the extent that it was unbearable to look at.Madeline squeezed the handle of the mirror and forced herself to calm down. However, no woman in the world could accept their initially flawless face getting ruined like this—neither could Madeline.“It's still in a preliminary state. Your face will heal after some treatments.” The doctor beside Madeline gave her some hope.“Thank you, I’ll cooperate with the treatment.” Madeline put on a smile and thanked him.Back then when she laughed, there were sweet dimples. Now, there was not an inch of intact skin on her face, let alone dimples. Madeline put down the mirror and clenched the ring on her ring finger before casting her eyes do
She clenched the fork and knife tightly in her hands, trying hard to suppress her emotions. After she took a deep breath, she said, “Can I go to Glendale with you?”The man lifted his head to look at her after he heard that.Madeline looked confidently into those deep and cold obsidian eyes. “My home is in Glendale. I miss my home.”“You want to go home looking like this?”“No, I just want to go back to take a look.” Madeline knew her current condition. She did not want to stand in front of Jeremy while looking like this.Perhaps he would not mind that she was disfigured.However, Madeline did not dare to find out. She was scared that Jeremy might not even recognize her if she were to stand in front of him like this.When she thought about that scene, she felt as if her heart had been stabbed by needles.She did not have the courage to try.“You’re from Glendale, so you should know about a lot of things in Glendale, right? If that’s the case, you should’ve heard about Jeremy W
She was always imagining the scene of her reunion with Jeremy. However, she did not expect to see the man she loved and the woman impersonating her in such a situation. They had just picked the children up from school and were wandering in the busy streets happily.Madeline felt as if her heart had been slashed open and the cold autumn wind was penetrating through it.When she saw Jeremy and that woman holding Jackson and Lillian’s hands to cross the road, Madeline suddenly lifted her hand and rolled down the window.“Jeremy.”She could not help but call out his name. However, the voice that came out of her lips sounded as hoarse as the voice of a heavy smoker. At that moment, she was completely stunned.Even so, it was as if Jeremy had sensed something or heard something. He looked in Madeline’s direction, but at that instant, Madeline shifted her gaze in a panic and quickly rolled up the window.They were separated by the window but Madeline could feel her face heating up as if