"I will be very satisfied to just be his friend and take care of him. I've never thought of marrying him in this life at all. I won't defile him, much less fight your daughter, Yvonne, for a mother's love. I won't do any of that. Don't worry. If you think that I'm ugly and you don't want to see me, I can also not appear in front of you. I can do that. It's enough for me to confirm regularly that you're still doing well and you're healthy in all aspects. I…only have this little request."She said that so very sincerely that tears were welling up in Vincent and Helena's eyes."Helena…" Vincent choked a little.Helena looked at Vincent. "Hmm?""Do you believe in relationships by blood?" Vincent asked. Helena was speechless."I know that our daughter's whereabouts are still unknown today. If our daughter didn't appear, we can't simply take another girl as her. However, why do I keep feeling that Mila is our daughter? Even if her DNA is unlike ours, why do I still feel that she's Yvonn
When Mila heard the pause in Helena's sentence, she felt incomparably disappointed. However, she became open-minded again in a blink of an eye. It was right for Helena to not acknowledge them."However, Vincent and I love these two children. If you're willing, we can also take these children with us, and we can take care of them for you." Helena's tone was incredibly sincere. That was the only way she could think of to compromise. She wanted to acknowledge the children as her grandchildren very badly. However, she also knew that Mila was not Yvonne. If she were to acknowledge that Mila was her daughter, if Yvonne was still alive, then Yvonne would be truly too pitiful. Therefore, she could not do it."Thank you. Thank you very much. We're already very grateful." Mila shook her head to reject. "I really don't need you to help me take care of my children. It's quite good for me to leave my children here."Mila then looked at the elderly couple who took care of her children for her. Th
"I won't ask to move into the Shaw Residence again and be the young lady of a rich household. I just want to stay alive, watch my children be full of vigor, and watch them grow up, then I will be very satisfied.""Are you still going to be an actress?" asked Sabrina."That's right." Mila smiled happily. "I realized I'm quite gifted in acting. It was only after I started working in this industry that I learned that I really love this job. It's fine no matter how ugly the character I'm playing. I just like to give these kinds of ugly characters added depth through my acting. That would be an achievement to me."Sabrina smiled. "Mm-hmm. That's quite good. Ruth, myself, Kingston, and also Eevonne will visit you often in the future. You have to…do your best on your own!""Mm-hmm. I have to do my best!" Mila could tell that Sabrina sounded a little distant. She felt a little sad, but she would not blame Sabrina."When my new movie premiered, would you still go and watch?" she asked Sabr
"Rich families have a lot of troubles. You can hide from those who attack you openly, but you can't hide from those who attack you in secret. You can hide from this, but you can't hide from that. Look at Aunt Yvonne. Before she was married, she and my mom were from two different families and backgrounds. My mom has always been having it very rough before she was married, but it was not the same for Aunt Yvonne. Aunt Yvonne has been the apple of her entire family's eye. But what happened to her after she married into a rich family? Uncle Marcus loves her very much, but she still was set up by others."The young lady's tone was very calm and very cool. It was like something that a high schooler would say.Sebastian could not help but take another look at his daughter. "My daughter has grown up!""Dad!" Aino smiled while looking at Sebastian. "I'm sixteen going on seventeen soon. In another year, I'll be an eighteen-year-old grown-up. I'll be an adult then, won't I?"She was right. Se
Sebastian put the piggy bank aside and asked with concern, "What's the matter? Do you need money? Is the allowance that your mom and I give you not enough? Why do you want to open up your piggy bank? Once you open up this piggy bank, you can't close it up anymore."Sebastian still remembered that this piggy bank of Aino's was what Minerva brought back for her when Minerva came back to the country the first year she went abroad to study. The person Aino admired the most since she was a child was her Miss Minerva. How could she bear to break the piggy bank that Minerva gave her?Aino nodded seriously. "Well, no need. I just want to take the money out.""Tell me, what are you going to use the money for after you've taken it out?" Sebastian asked."A girl in my class has…leukemia. Her family had already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her treatment. They're out of money. I was thinking of giving her some money," Aino said to her father honestly."How much do you want to give
A sense of sorrow flashed across Mila's eyes. After that, she said in a miserable tone, "The work done on my face was indeed very intense. It was so intense that everybody around me no longer recognized me. Even Miss A, who is closest to me, also no longer recognized me.""Aunt Yvonne, you're Aunt Yvonne! How did you become like that? No, You're… You're Miss Mila?"Aino was an extremely smart child. She has never met Mila, but she already heard about Mila from her parents. Her judgment was the same as her mother's, which was that Mila might be her Aunt Yvonne. Otherwise, how could she know so many details?At that moment, for example, Mila called her Miss A. That was a form of address that her mother might not even know. That was a secret between Aino and Yvonne."No, I'm not Yvonne. I'm Mila," Mila said shyly."You're Mila?" Minerva asked. She had also heard about the matters regarding Mila from Sabrina, Aino, and others in the past few days.Mila nodded. "Mm-hmm.""I don't kno
Aino looked at her mother very calmly. "Madam Scott! I don't wish to force myself or let myself suffer. I want to call her Yvonne deep down, so I will just do it. I feel that it's not against the law for me to address her as Aunt Yvonne, isn't it? Therefore, Madam Scott, please don't interfere and just let me be!""You silly little girl! You're all grown-up now, aren't you?" Sabrina raised her hand and poked Aino's forehead. "It's because you speak your mind without deliberation that you addressed her as Aunt Yvonne, but what if your Aunt Yvonne were to return one day? How sad would she feel?""It's impossible!""What a jinx! Are you saying that it's impossible for your Aunt Yvonne to return?""No!" Aino explained to her mother with annoyance, "What I'm saying is that it's impossible for a second Aunt Yvonne to appear in front of me because Aunt Yvonne has already returned. This is her!"'Are you very sure?' Sabrina muttered in her heart."She is the real deal!" Aino said very fi
Minerva sighed. "Mila, why are you…so pitiful?"Mila, however, smiled a little. "Minerva, let's not talk about this. Oh, right, how are your studies? I remembered when you came over from Star Island back then, you were still in high school. Your grades weren't very good at that time, so you took a repeat course when you came to South City.""You…you know that my name is Minerva?" Minerva asked.Aino was also stunned. "Aunt Yvonne. You're simply Aunt Yvonne!"Even Sabrina and Sebastian, who were at the side, were stunned as well.Mila was slightly embarrassed. "Oh…I'm…sorry, I… I'm the one….who harassed Master Marcus from time to time. Therefore, I am…quite familiar…with Master Marcus' friends and family. I knew that Master Nigel is Master Marcus' friend. I also knew that you are…Master Nigel's girlfriend. In order to approach Master Marcus, I…had already inquired about all of these."Mila's voice was just hoarse, but she has never been a stutterer. However, at that moment, she wa
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