"Therefore, Hana exhausted all the ways to take care of my parents. To be honest, my parents didn't like Hana, at first. After all, this was her second marriage and she is older than me. However, after Hana had worked hard for so many years, they now love her more than they love me and my younger sister. That was what she had gotten in exchange for true affection. We're all a family. Nobody is more superior than the other, and nobody is more inferior than the other as well. The most important thing is to tolerate each other, get along with each other, and love and protect one another. Only that can maintain a good relationship in a family."Ruth looked at Zayn with tears glistening in her eyes. "Thank you, Zayn. I know that you're…lecturing me out of the kindness of your heart.""Ruth, you have to restrain that temper of yours," Sabrina advised her.Ruth bit her lips and hung her head.Seeing that she did not respond for a long time, Ryan said with disappointment, "Ruth, have you t
Sabrina's heart suddenly skipped a beat. "Yvonne. Where are you, Yvonne? Which number are you using to call me?"When Marcus, who was next to Sabrina, heard her calling Yvonne's name, he immediately got up, snatched the phone away from Sabrina's hand, and shouted at the phone, "Yvonne, where are you? Yvonne, I am your husband—"The call was disconnected from the other end of the line at that instant."Yvonne! Yvonne!" Marcus shouted.What he heard coming from the other end of the line was the busy tone that made him feel extremely hopeless.Sabrina looked at him while feeling heartbroken. "Marcus, you…shouldn't have been so impatient just now. How great of a chance it was for Yvonne to call me."Marcus burst out in tears. "It's all me. It's all my fault…."He sobbed. He was such an unyielding and tough man, but he was crying his heart out in front of everyone. Sabrina, Jane, Ruth, Hana, Minerva, and Isadora, who were all next to him, could not help but cry along with him as well
Sabrina, who was sitting at the side, said to everyone. "Alright. Enough with thanking each other. We've been through too many things recently. Everything is over now. Yvonne is not present now, but it's good news that she is still alive. Everyone living in this world will encounter plenty of imperfections. Therefore, since it's so difficult for all of us to be gathered here today, let's not think about other things anymore. It's a happy occasion that we've reunited here today.""Yes, it's a happy occasion!" Marcus was the first to shout out.Nobody knew how miserable he was feeling in his heart. However, he was also feeling happy. That was because Yvonne did not die. As long as Yvonne was still alive, that would be the hopeful thing that could make him feel the happiest.After that gathering, everybody returned to their respective peaceful lives.Ruth and Ryan had already made up with each other. Both of them had grown quite a bit through this incident. They had apologized to each
Sebastian sighed. "I didn't think so in the past. I would never have thought about all these as well. I only knew to focus on fighting for more riches and power. As long as someone offended me, I would certainly punish the person. I had never thought twice about it. If I were to look around, nobody in my surroundings could be my match. However, things are different now. I have three children now. I have you as well. These are people I care about and also my concerns, which is also the most tender part of me. Not only do I have the four of you, but I also have all these relatives now. Sabrina, you may never be able to imagine it, but a heartless man like me who did not care about family relationships at all would actually care for these relatives as well."Thinking of that, Sebastian suddenly smiled gently."Take Minerva, for example. She and I are not related by blood, but when I heard that she was abducted, I wanted to kill someone. There's Zayn and his child as well. Also, there's
Kingston was speechless. He was absolutely stunned."Do you know your own age?" Kingston asked her coldly and angrily."I…I am thirty-four this year.""You're already thirty-four!" Kingston smiled. "You're already thirty-four, yet you are still thinking of marrying Master Sebastian. It looks like your condition is quite severe. It's not wrong at all to put you here for treatment.""No, no, no! No! Kingston, listen to me, Kingston. I am one that best suits your Master Sebastian. His stepmother is my aunt. What a good match we are with our status? What about that Sabrina? She is so unfashionable and is a criminal. How could she be a worthy match for my Sebastian? Also, Selene is an impostor! I've known that she is an impostor for a very long time. With her cheap quality, she is even more unworthy to be with my Sebastian. I am the only one! More than a hundred years ago, my family, the Quinton family, were like royalties and had a huge business. I am also not a weak woman as well. Onc
Sebastian made a decision. He did not recover or expand the Ford Group's business. Instead, he kept the majority of its business under the Aino Group.At that moment, other than Eldon and Marcus, nobody knew who was the boss of the Aino group. Therefore, he would just continue keeping his identity a secret.In the future, the Ford Group would slowly wither away."Send my word out and just say that the Ford Group is no longer the same as before," Sebastian told his subordinates.All of his subordinates sitting in the conference room understood what Sebastian was feeling at that moment."Mister Ford, why?" one of Sebastian's men who had fought alongside him for more than twenty years asked him straightforwardly.Sebastian smiled gently and shook his head. "I'm tired. I don't wish to bring trouble to myself anymore. I'll just take it as letting my children have a peaceful life. I have all the power now, but there are still people who will challenge me from time to time. I've figured
"It was the same every day and it was flourishing. In just five years, the Ford Group had expanded to five times the size before he had taken over. The Ford family in South City was only famous in South City at first. However, the Ford Group and the Ford family are well-known around the world. We can't underestimate Sebastian.""That's right. This person is highly unpredictable. He said he wanted to retire and said that the Ford Group has shrunk in size, but I don't believe it. Instead, I believe that he has other plans.""I don't believe it either…""I also feel that with Sebastian's personality, he is not the kind of person who would admit defeat so easily."A group of elderly men was discussing it while playing chess by the river in the city.It so happened that at that moment, Sebastian, who was wearing a hat and sunglasses, passed by the river in the city. He had intended to walk to Aino's school to pick up his daughter, whom he had not met for a week. He unintentionally hear
"Oh?" Sebastian replied. He had never truly asked her about her future.That was because Aino was only thirteen. She still has a long way ahead of her before she has to think about her future. Sebastian was thinking that she has to go through the entire process of elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and further studies abroad. That would at least take her more than ten years. It was truly too early to be thinking about her future career path at that moment.However, Sebastian did not know that Aino had already had her own plan all along. She has had it since a long time ago."Mm-hmm. I want to study architecture." Aino raised her head and looked at her father."You want to follow in your mother's footsteps?" Sebastian asked with interest.Aino smiled mysteriously and looked at her father. "It's my grandmother's…"Sebastian instantly smiled. "You're quite good with your words. However, I have to tell you that where you were to walk in your mother's or your gran
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