“Ace, this is Summer.” Before they went, Summer used Casper’s phone to call Ace. Ace did not seem surprised at all. It was like he had been waiting for Summer to call. "Did you know that Jasper and Benjamin have been held captive by Josse?” Summer was not grilling him. She had a hunch that Ace had already known about all this. “Yes, I know.” Ace did not lie. “Help me.” Summer’s voice was a little hoarse. “That maniac asked Mr. Marvin to choose, no matter who he chooses, the other one will die!” Summer was starting to panic. Her voice couldn't help but tremble. “Well, I’m actually quite curious who Marvin would choose. They are both his sons.” Ace chuckled. “Ace, please.” Summer pleaded with a sobbing voice. "Please, Benjamin and Jasper, I can’t lose either of them.” “Summer, don’t you think you are being greedy? I’m not the one who kidnapped them, and yet, you are asking me to save them.” Ace sighed. “Ace, I know you have a way. I know it, help me, I am begging yo
“You wouldn’t dare do so. Else, you’d just let them die and not give us the option to choose over here.” Summer tried to stall for time and glanced at Casper alertly. “Summer, you’re smarter than Marvin. But you don’t know me as well as he does,” Josse said with a deep voice, and his laughter made Summer’s body tremble. “I’ll give you ten minutes to make up your mind, and this will be the last moment for you to catch up with both Benjamin and Jasper. Let’s see who’ll stay?” “You won’t get away with this!” Summer said nervously. “We’ll see!”“The timer will start counting down now!” After hanging up, the leader looked at the time and said, “You only have ten minutes.”“Jasper, you knew this was a scheme, why did you...?” Summer wanted to get closer to Jasper, but she was blocked by that man. “Be careful, Ms. Plath, there’s a bomb!” That man sneered and asked his subordinates to push Summer away. “Do you care even if I die? You hated me so much last night that you wanted to k
“It’s useless. Their bombs were randomly installed. Only one of them is the real bomb and will explode automatically when time is up.” The man with the baseball cap smirked and mocked in the police car. “Either Benjamin or Jasper, one of them must die.”“Who... who has the real bomb?!” Fergus looked at that man warily and yanked him by the shirt. “You lunatic, who is carrying the real bomb?”“The bomb was given by the master, so I have no idea either. What I know is, one of them will explode when the time is up,” that man laughed arrogantly.Bam!Fergus punched that man hard. “Mr. Synder! Quickly bring Ms. Summer away. Only one of the bombs is real and will explode. Keep them apart! Hurry up!”Casper’s hands stiffened around Summer for a while. He stared at Jasper and Benjamin with a frightened look. “Evacuate! Hurry!” The bomb disposal team saw that time was running out and had no time to defuse the bomb. “Damn!” Benjamin cursed and pushed Jasper away. “That mad man! If I’m
Summer was in pain and curled on the ground. She took up the phone after a long time, and she looked at everyone warily. “Don’t come over...”“I already did what you said. What else do you want before you will spare Jasper...?”“What deep love... You’re the most similar to your aunt, Valerie... That’s why I never wanted to hurt you. But unfortunately, Jasper must die.” That man laughed madly. It was clear that he tricked Summer. “Jerk! Imbecile!” Summer cried and threw away the phone. She moved step by step to Jasper while he stood at the edge of the cliff. At that moment, she did not care about anything. She just wanted Jasper to be alive. “You don’t love me, but why are you doing this? Are you a fool?” Jasper looked at Summer’s injured palm and said with a trembling voice, “Don’t come over...”“Can we die together?” Summer smiled. Her face was pale, her lips were in so much pain that they cracked, and her eyes were red and swollen. Summer’s face was wet with tears, and her
“Summer, don’t be like this...” Casper was a little worried. “I did not expect that Jasper would...” Casper could not imagine why a great man like Jasper would fall into a trap like this even though he had known about it. “We’ve interrogated the people we caught. They have never seen the man who plotted all of this. Josse is considered a dead man to the police. Without any evidence... we can only look for his subordinates.” Summer sat quietly without saying anything“Summer, there’s something... I’ve always wanted to tell you.”Casper knew that Summer did not want to talk. But he wanted to say this to Summer now. If he did not say it now, Summer would blame him in the future. “When we were in the hotel, Jasper and Azula did not stay in the same room. Azula purposely made the sounds so that you would misunderstand Jasper.” Casper did not want to tell Summer about this, but he did not expect that Jasper would meet with an accident. Jasper’s accident was too sudden. Forget Summe
For Summer, Ace always held himself aloft and seemed unreal to her when compared to Jasper. “Sum, be good. Don’t disobey me and stop being wilful. Isn’t it fine to just stay beside me?” Ace’s gaze darkened a little and he touched Summer’s back to comfort her. “Jasper is dead. Time and I... can heal everything.”“Yes, I’ll forget about him. It’s just a matter of time.” Summer smiled, and her tears fell on Ace’s arms.“You still have a daughter. We can raise Little Chestnut together, isn’t that good? We can have just one child. Be good. I can make sure she grows up well in her life...”Ace’s words were always filled with a threatening and tempting tone. He always acted like this. He believed that he could control someone using their weaknesses. “Little Chestnut... she does not only belong to me.” Summer smiled and went beside the bed quietly. “You haven’t rested for some time, right? Go back and sleep. Maybe after you wake up, we can return to the life we used to have.”Ace clen
“Casper.” At the smoking area, Azula lit up a woman’s cigarette. The slim white cigarette looked beautiful, like her fingers. “What are you doing here?” Casper frowned, took out a cigarette, and borrowed the lighter Azula was using. Azula narrowed her eyes and smiled. She put the cigarette between her lips and tried to light Casper’s cigarette with hers.This position was too seducing. When they had sex last time... Azula lit the cigarette for him this way too. Casper’s body stiffened, and he moved back instinctively. Azula was truly a demon. No man could resist such temptation from this sort of woman.“Jasper is dead, and I’m only his fiancee. I can’t get any of his inheritance. The rich man that I finally got my claws into is now gone. So, I’m just looking for my old lover to comfort me.” Azula leaned in Casper’s embrace and did not feel anything for Jasper’s death. That was right. She did not love Jasper at all. Why did Jasper’s death have anything to do with her? She ju
Of course, Azula did not want to admit that she could not establish contact with Ace these days. If she had not heard that Ace was here with Summer, she would not have come… ‘But how can this man be so resolute?’In fact, Ace made it very clear from the beginning that the deal between them would end when she successfully got close to Jasper. She used the news about Ace to cooperate with Jasper. She let Jasper help her to get back at that person… But Jasper died after he promised her. Oh well… “Stop deceiving yourself, Azula.” Casper shook his head. At that moment, he felt that he was similar to her. They fell in love with someone out of their league, someone they should not have fallen in love with. “Other than Jasper and Ace, there are two more people in Sea City who are equal to him…” Azula pushed Casper aside. She looked down and smiled. “Gilbert of Coleman Corporation and Samson of Ardly Corporation…”“Are you out of your mind? You must not provoke any of them!” Casper
“I just find it hard to accept the truth. I don’t actually hate you…” After staying silent for a long time, Summer spoke again. “It was… too sudden for me. Give me some time to process this.”Mabel looked at her in shock and covered her mouth. “Sum…”Summer smiled at her and said, “Before I’m able to completely accept it, can I continue to call you Madam?”Mabel covered her mouth in panic and nodded vigorously. “Sure… Call me anything you want…”She actually never cared what Summer called her. It was good enough for her as long as she did not try to avoid her. “Can I hug you?” Summer took the initiative and stretched out her arms. Jasper had told Summer quite a lot about Mabel’s family. Her family was in a very scary place. They started falling into decadence in the later years. In fact, they started showing signs of having a lack of sons. Every leader of the family became anxious about who the next leader would be. They were so worried about who would be the head of the family
Without realizing it, Summer had subconsciously returned to the Miller family’s mansion. “Wifey…” Jasper rushed over to her, wanting to give her a surprise. But instead, she did not react. Her face looked pale too. “Wifey?” He panicked and knelt in front of her. “Sum…”He truly panicked this time. ‘Did she find out about something that I did in the past and is now mad at me?’“Jasper, do you care who my mother is?” Summer asked softly. His heart stopped beating for a second. He felt both distressed and relieved. “No, I don’t. I only care about you.”“Why do I care so much, then…” Summer smiled and hugged him tightly. “I shouldn’t care about it too…”“Everyone has something that they don’t have control over. Sum, go easy on yourself.”Summer lay on top of him, picked up the glass of red wine on the table, and drank it.Jasper just realized that she smelled strongly of alcohol.“Sum…” He was a little worried. His heart ached for her too, but he also wanted to let her be.
Mabel was cooking in the kitchen of the Plath family's mansion. “Madam, stop cooking. Come and eat,” Summer called out to her softly. Mabel smiled at Summer as she emerged with her favorite dish, cinnamon-spiced beef stroganoff.“Sum, let’s eat.” Mabel treated her really well. She helped her with the dishes.Summer was also already used to it. She no longer felt shy. It was natural to her already. Alaric looked at Summer and smiled plainly. “Sum, follow me.” After dinner was over, he asked her to go to the study room. “Is Jasper treating you well?” Alaric asked. “Yes, he’s treating me well.” She smiled. ‘If Jasper hadn't been busy and gone to Mountain City, he would be sticking around, bothering me.’“He pushed back too much work to get ready for the wedding. He wants to finish making work arrangements as soon as possible and go on a honeymoon with me.”“Sum, there’s something that I’ve been hiding from you. You’ve always wanted to know your biological mother, right?” A
“Mr. Jasper Miller, do you take Summer Plath as your lawful wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish until death do you part?”“I do,” Jasper said the two words confidently.‘I’m willing to take care of her and be by her side forever.‘I’ll always love her.‘She’ll always be my number one.’“Ms. Summer Plath, do you take Jasper Miller as your lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish until death do you part?”“… I do.”She purposely hesitated for a long time. Jasper was so scared that his face turned pale.After she chuckled and said ‘I do’, he gritted his teeth, pulled her into his embrace, and kissed her.He kissed Summer even before the officiant had asked him to kiss the bride.She was so embarrassed by the kiss that her ears turned red.“Jasper!”Jas
Benjamin rolled his eyes at Aaron. “I belong to the bride's side. You should go to Jasper’s side.”“He doesn’t deserve it,” Aaron said stubbornly.Summer covered her mouth and chuckled. Everyone was immersed in the festive atmosphere of the wedding. ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if we could stay this happy all the time?’“Hey, should we play a prank on the groom tomorrow? Let’s spice things up a little!” The bridesmaids started planning something.“You guys better be careful. You’re all pregnant. Don’t stir up too much chaos,” Summer said with a smile. “Seriously, it’s as they say: women always side with their husbands once they’re married. Look at you, you’re already siding with him.” A few of them teased Summer. Summer blushed so hard that she could not say anything in response. “Congratulations, Sum.”Hers and Jasper’s friends and relatives came one after another. All of them would be attending the wedding ceremony tomorrow afternoon. Edward would be there with Trent too.
After all, this matter was related to Edward’s mother because of her meeting with Hanna’s mother.She sat on the sofa and thought a lot. Would they get a divorce? Would Edward’s father hate her because of this?Edward sat on the sofa and quietly accompanied his mother. “About this matter... Let's not tell Jen first. She may not be able to handle it.”Edward’s mother nodded, in tears. Then, she shook her head. “It was all my fault.”Edward’s father finally came out of the study. Edward looked at his father nervously. He was afraid that his father would blame his mother.“I... I really did not know anything about it. I just thought she lived a difficult life. I felt guilty, so I asked someone to send her some money. I did not know what happened to her after that!” Edward’s mother panicked and started crying. Edward’s father walked to her side. He did not blame her, but passed her a tissue. “Is this how you should behave in front of your son? Stop crying.”Edward’s mother sobb
“I deserve it!”Nieva was brought away by the police. She should have expected that this was the consequence of offending Jasper.Jasper was busy with the wedding and he did not care much about her. Otherwise, she might have gone through worse than being arrested.…… At the Reeves family house in Mountain City...“Are you Hanna Delacruz? Let’s talk.”Edward’s father asked Hanna to go into the study, leaving Edward and his mother in the living room.“Edward, I already know about the issue concerning your father.”“Mom...” Edward felt a little guilty. “I know about everything.” Edward’s mother shook her head. “This matter is related to your father and me. This is what owed Hanna’s mother, but if you two have to pay for our mistakes. We...”“Mom, this is no one’s fault.” Edward shook his head. In the study...Edward’s father asked Hanna to go into the room. His expression was dreary. “Are you Venus’ daughter?”“Do you still remember my mother?” Hanna smiled and kept a stra
Samson nodded as he watched Rose leaving.Charlie ran out of the courtyard and stood still. He looked a little distressed.He was just a child...Perhaps it was because he had a mother who set up a scheme against him and used him as a chess piece that he was more mature than other children.In the past, he wanted to live. He wanted not just to live but to prevent his mother from setting up a scheme against him.He was still Rose’s son, even if Rose had used a despicable way to give birth to him.“Let’s go home...” Samson walked toward Charlie and rubbed his head.“Samson...” Charlie lifted his head, and his eyes were red.“From now on, you have not just me, but your friends, younger brothers and sisters, and many older brothers and sisters who love you.” Samson smiled at Charlie.Everyone could be redemption for other people, and other people could be their redemption, too.Charlie nodded and ran back to the Miller family’s mansion.Melody was carrying her grandchildren and
Jasper did not care whether Thomas intended to hurt Summer or not.As long as Summer was shocked, he would not allow it.“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Do you know Aiden, who is always with Thomas?” He was Summer’s childhood friend. Summer did not know that Aiden was secretly protecting her. He was seriously injured and almost lost his life many times because of Summer.”Jasper frowned. “Since he did not want to let Summer know about this, why is he making Summer more distressed?”Jasper admired Aiden a lot because he never showed his love for Summer, but he had silently done many things for Summer.“Jasper, you can just confess if you’re scared. You don’t have to put yourself in a higher status.” Keane rolled his eyes.“Fine, you will go to Country T for a business trip.” Jasper was threatening Keane.“Jasper, I’m sorry, it’s my fault...”…...The wedding was getting closer. Everyone was busy helping Jasper and Summer with their wedding.“Look at the dresses and gowns for my grandchildren.