All the men stared in fear at the man that stood behind the man who was beating Huron. The man was dressed in a navy blue trench-coat and was as powerful as a king. The almighty man was squatting down in front of the woman who looked no different than an actual dog, his clean and big hands touching her filthy, chained wrists."How is it, Alex? Is… Is this fun enough for you?" Jane retracted her arms in chains abruptly. Her expression was still blank with no sign of tears in her eyes. She simply stared at Alex and continued with a tone so calm that it sounded as though she was discussing the matters of some other people. "I… You probably couldn't imagine that in a civilized society, humans would still be treated this way, could you? I've already gotten used to it. When I was little, my siblings all had their beds and rooms, while I had to sleep in the corridor. When they simply couldn't think of a game they were interested in, they would tie me up and force me to bark like a dog on the
"Jane, I'm not toying with you. I never did. Do you believe me?" Alex said regretfully.Jane snorted after a pause. "Is… Is that even possible?" She lifted her head to look at Alex with her blank eyes before looking back at herself. "The two of us might as well be as different as the sky and the ground. I was just taken to you, all chained up like a dog as some sort of trophy, and now you are asking me to go home with you? This time, it is dog chains. What's going to be next? Oh, right, where is your wife, Lily Parker? She… She isn't here with you?""Mrs. Poole, you are the Mrs. Poole," Garrett, who had just cut off the chains on Jane, said as he choked back his tears.Jane slowly turned to look at Garrett."Mrs. Poole, it's Garrett. You remember me, don't you? That time on the mountain, I was the one who let you and Mr. Hill go. I'm the same Garrett whose wife and house you once visited in Master Alex’s stead, Mrs. Poole," he said.Jane's expression remained blank, with much rese
"You might not believe me, but twenty days ago, I did leave you to live your life with Noah in the northeastern region for the sake of your happiness," Alex explained slowly and sincerely, "You know, Jane, you've been by my side for so long and it's you who has always been giving; it's you who had always been considerate for my feeling when I've never done the same for you. I feel guilty toward you, which is why when I saw you beaming at Noah, and how happy you were, even if you were picking leftovers off the ground, I decided to let you go because I saw how truly happy and content you were. I wanted to do something for you. The eleven million I gave you was only meant to get you settled down. I went back immediately after giving you the money because I was in a rush to handle all the work I had in hand. I was going to hand them over to Sebastian, and come back to the northeastern region. I was going to live somewhere close to you. I planned on never disturbing you, your husband or you
Alex said it with such ease that everyone in the house was frightened to the point that their legs gave in."Master Alex…" Cindy tried to act familiar with Alex. "Everything I did was approved by Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Poole is also pregnant with your child. She is now resting at home so I didn't bother her with this."Up until then, Cindy had no idea that Lily had been sent overseas by Axel five days ago. The reason why she had not contacted Lily proactively was because she wanted to get closer to Alex behind Lily's back. Even if she could not become Alex's wife, she could at least be his lover. Had she followed the plan and contacted Lily, Lily would have never allowed her to come into contact with Alex, and would probably become extremely cautious against her. For the past few days, Lily did not call Cindy and she was more than happy about it. Never had she thought that something could have happened to Lily. Until that very moment, she still thought that Lily was Alex's wife.Right aft
"Please, I'm innocent…""Me… Me too, I'm innocent as well. Please, Master Alex, spare my unworthy life.""Me too…""M--Ms. Sheen, you… Throughout the two nights and one day you have been locked up in here, I haven't once bullied you, I… I didn't wrong you." At that moment, the youngest girl that stayed by Huron's side crawled her way toward Jane in a kneeling position. She clung onto Jane's arm and pleaded miserably. If she was going to die anyways, she might as well give begging for her life a shot. "Miss… M--Mrs. Poole, I… My family is poor and has borrowed money from Huron and we’re without the capability to return it. That's why I… I know you come from a difficult background as well, which is why when they bullied you, I… I never joined them. I… You might have forgotten about it, but the night before yesterday night, I even snuck you a piece of bread."The young woman bowed her head at Jane and pleaded, "I'm merely eighteen this year. I don't want to die yet..." she cried.Jan
Another one of his subordinates came and reported again, "There's a cocky old man out there, saying that he is going to bomb this place to the ground if we don't hand Mrs. Poole over.""..." Alex glanced at Jane and found that her expression seemed to have wavered briefly.Huron, Cindy, and Orla, who were about to be dragged out and buried alive, started shouting in unison."Master Alex, I can make it up to you!""Master Alex, I know Lenny.""Master Alex, Lenny is my man. I can help deal with him…""..." Alex did not respond to the three but instead raised his arm as a sign to his men. "Lock them all in the living room and follow me out to see what's going on! If this is just another local scum like Huron, we'll take care of him as well so that I won't have to come back here to White Ocean again!"After that, Alex took off his black jacket and handed it over to Garrett before lifting Jane up into his arms and wrapping her up with his jacket. He then headed out with her in his ar
The screeching noises caused by the friction between the tires and the ground had been ear-piercing, but Alex did not send any of his men after him.Here on this land, anyone who was remotely of status had tortured Jane with the full intention of killing her, and Jane did not even say anything to protect the eighteen year-old young woman from earlier. However, she tried everything she could to protect the elderly man just now, and that was enough proof that the old man in his seventies did no harm to Jane.Alex looked Jane in the eyes and pulled her back into his arms. "He has helped you before, has he?"Jane sneered. "No one has helped me here in White Ocean City, Alex Poole. Taking the eighteen-year-old young lady from earlier as an example, it's true that she had given me a piece of bread before, but it was nothing but their leftovers from a few days ago. Don't read too deeply into it. No one has treated me with kindness. I simply think that if my death is inevitable, then why dr
Sabrina, who was on the other end of the line, was resting for her pregnancy at home. She had been two months pregnant by then. The need to take care of Zayn and Aino throughout the years she had been on a run had caused Sabrina to work any job that came her way, to the point where she would not turn down the most exhausting and difficult work that the men at the construction site refused to take. During the time when she had just given birth to Aino, she worked in the mud to fix the roads in heavy rain. She did not sleep for a day and a night, and for that, she earned an overtime salary of two thousand dollars. The money was enough to buy medicine for Zayn and a month's worth of baby formula for Aino.Sabrina was extremely happy at the time. When she arrived home, Zayn was so worried for her that his eyes were reddened from the urge to cry."Sabbie! Keep this up and you will never be able to give birth to another child again!" he scolded her furiously.Sabrina did not care. "That's
In a blink of an eye, Aino was already 18.She was already going to college.Her husband, Mister Ford, already had gray hairs on his sideburns and was already a man who was pushing 50.Both Sebastian and her had gone through thick and thin together for almost twenty years.That was so fast."Old man," Sabrina called out.Sebastian turned her head to the side and looked at Sabrina. "What did you just call me?"Sabrina smiled. "Isn't that right? You're going to be fifty next year, and I'm only in my early forties. I'm not an old lady, but you are a proper old man! Let me ask you something. Your sideburns have turned gray, are you going to dye your hair on our wedding day?""I'm not going to! I simply want others to say that an old man like me is marrying a young wife! Listen to me. You'd better stop dressing up and putting on makeup in the future!" Sebastian said to his wife, who looked ten years younger than him.How unreasonable!This old lady simply has not aged a day since
Yvonne hugged her children and lifted her head to look at her mother. At that moment, she was incredibly excited. She was both excited and aggrieved, which made her cry inconsolably. She rushed into her mother's arms. Immediately after, her father also hugged both her and her mother. The family of three was finally reunited. No, it should be a family of five at that moment. It would be a family of six with Marcus included. The family of six hugged each other and cried so much that the people at the side could not help but cry as well. Even the nurse also teared up.It was after a long while that Yvonne's parents let go of her."Alright, my child, let's go home. Let's go home."Helena raised her head and looked at Yvonne. Her child did not have her original face anymore, but she was truly her child. After her child went missing for five years, she finally got her child back. During that time, Yvonne got a rare condition that was hard to cure in any part of the world, but she was cure
After everything, all of it, was handled, Marcus suddenly burst out in tears."What's the matter, my son?" Missus Shaw has lost three sons and he was the only son left by her side. When she saw her son crying like that, it was only natural that she felt very saddened."Mom…I just feel that karma really is a funny thing. It's really making a fool of all of us! It turned out that everything was already destined. Everything was destined!" Marcus was covered in tears.Missus Shaw was confused. "What's the matter, my child?"Marcus cried and then he smiled. "Mom, I've finally understood why God let Yvonne go through this disaster that lasted for five years. It turned out that God had given her the biggest hardship which seemed so inhumane, but God had given her the best reward. Otherwise, the person who truly died would've been my Yvonne, wouldn't it? I would've been my Yvonne."Hearing him saying that, Missus Shaw said extremely emotionally as well, "That's right. At the end of it all
The fake Yvonne was still conscious the second before she died. She watched herself fall over with her eyes widened. She never would have expected it. After she had plotted everything, she was only one step away from the wedding, and then she could have replaced the real Yvonne and truly be a part of the high society of South City and be the wife of a rich man. However, she was fatally shot. Who was it?There was no time for her to look into it in detail before she fell to the ground. All of her regrets were forever sealed in her body. Without even a cry or shouting, she fell to the ground. She was feeling so reluctant to accept defeat that her heart had already stopped beating but her eyes were still wide open.Marcus was also stunned. He did intend to have Bonnie's entire gang arrested in one go, and he had already done it. The police were simply there that day to have this group of people surrounded. However, never in a million years would Marcus expect that someone would kill Bon
Two female attendants wheeled out a completely sealed glass cart. The ring that was carefully kept inside the glass cart was truly colorful and dazzling. Every side of the gem was radiating in different colors as the light shone upon it through the glass chart. The fake Yvonne was stunned silly when she saw it. Another person who was also stunned silly was the tan and fat man holding a pair of binoculars while sitting in a car across from the jewelry store.The tan and fat man muttered, "Gosh! This man must love her so much. He actually is willing to spend so much on her! This woman really deserves to die! She deserves to die too much!"Inside the jewelry store, Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne gently. "Do you like the ring I'm giving you?"The fake Yvonne was so excited that tears streamed down her face. "I like it. I love it too much! I truly love it so much!""I should've given you this ring four years ago. It was such a pity that at that time…""It's fine, hubby, it's fine. Is
All thirty people in the banquet hall were stunned. At that moment, they still have not made sense of what the hell has happened. How come a group of police came in once Yvonne left? Did they arrest the wrong people?"No, officer, we're…friends of Master Marcus of the Shaw family in South City. We've saved his wife. Master Marcus even said he is going to give me two apartments as gifts. Did you…have the wrong place?" Bella boldly asked the police at that moment.Nobody answered Bella. A few police officers came up and confiscated all of their phones. Not a single one was left behind.Bella could not hold herself back anymore and said while trembling, "We're Marcus' friends. He is not an ordinary person in South City. If Marcus knew that you've arrested us, when the time comes…"A police officer sneered. "The people we're arresting are all of you, the group of Marcus' friends!""Huh? Why?" Bella did not understand. Actually, she was not too familiar with the law. She just knew tha
"A billion dollars! Isn't he just insulting us, the three Shaw brothers? Marcus loves this bitch so much! When I see her looking so happy, I just want to kill her immediately! I have to have her killed!"At this end of the call, the tan and fat man asked Marcus' eldest brother very respectfully, "Sir, as long as you give an order. Just tell me, how do you want to get this woman killed? Why don't I kill her now?""No!" Marcus' brother stopped him and said. "It's not the best time now. There are too many people in there, so it's not going to be easy for you to escape. I only have a loyal servant like you. I can't let you die. You have to find a place outside that you can easily run away after getting the deed done. Now is not the right time!"The tan and fat man instantly said, "Alright, Sir, whatever you say. I'll find an even messier place and have this woman killed! I'll be hanging up now, sir!"After he hung up the call, the tan and fat man continued watching everything inside th
When Bella heard Marcus saying that, she immediately said shyly, "Gosh, how can I trouble Master Marcus in everything? No…there's nothing else.""Come on, Bella, whatever difficulties you have, just say it. My husband is the second most powerful person in South City anyway. There's really nothing he can't do." The fake Yvonne lifted her head and looked at Marcus coquettishly. "Am I right, hubby?"Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne very dotingly. "Baby, what do you think? I'm a husband that you've picked, so could you have been mistaken?""That's right!" The fake Yvonne happily leaned her head on Marcus' shoulder. Marcus hugged the fake Yvonne and was feeling so disgusted that he almost threw up. This Yvonne and his Yvonne indeed look very alike. They looked extremely alike! If this Yvonne did not speak and remained quiet, Marcus would feel that this is his Yvonne and his wife whom he had been thinking of all day and all night. However, the real Yvonne would never make such a request o
Of course, the fake Yvonne agreed. Three days later, they held a banquet for the fake Yvonne's benefactors at the most luxurious hotel in South City. Some of them were out-of-towners. There were also some from South City. Marcus roughly scanned them and surely, the middle-aged woman was there. She was the woman who was staying in the same area with Mila back then and the one who suggested letting Mile do a DNA test.Marcus held the fake Yvonne's hand and came to the middle-aged woman. "Miss, do you still recognize me?"The fake Yvonne immediately introduced her to him. "Darling, let me tell you, this is the lady who had helped me the most. Her name is Bella Hughes. She has always been taking great care of me, including the time I had a miscarriage. She was the one who took care of me. I feel we should give her two apartments!"The middle-aged woman named Bella immediately waved. "No need, no need. There's really no need for that. To be able to escort you back to your husband's side