On the other end of the line, Ruth picked up the call very quickly. “Hello, Sabrina. Where are you?”Sabrina smiled. “I’m at home. How are you? Where are you?”Ruth glanced at Ryan next to her then suddenly she blushed a little. “I have no place to go, so I’ve been living here at Ryan’s place now. Sabrina, I…have something that I want to ask for your opinion about.”“What opinion?” Sabrina asked curiously.“My… My parents…”“Absolutely never forgive them! Not sending them into prison is already the greatest generosity to them!” said Sabrina immediately.Ruth said, “Okay, I understand, Sabrina! I will chase them out of here now!”Sabrina asked, “What? Your parents, they…”“They are at the door of Ryan’s mansion,” Mindy said with incomparable sadness. “They have raised me for more than twenty years, and I’ve never seen them care for me at all. However, now, for the sake of my cousin, they actually came to the outside of Ryan’s mansion to beg me. Sabrina, I will chase them away fi
Mr. and Mrs. Mann turned their heads around and saw Marcus, who had a serious expression, standing behind them.Mrs. Mann immediately rushed up to him. “Master Shaw! You’re here, Master Shaw. You’ve always loved Mindy dearly. You can’t just watch Mindy be in trouble and not save her, right? You see, as Mindy’s uncle and aunt, we also feel sorry for Mindy. You are her true cousin…”Marcus broke free from Mrs. Mann. “You dote on your niece very much.”Mrs Mann said, “Yes, Mindy has had no parents since she was young, so as her aunt and uncle, we would naturally dote on her.”“And you are very kind-hearted?” asked Marcus again.Mrs. Mann nodded her head like a chicken pecking on seeds. “We are tender-hearted and kind-hearted people…”At this point, Mrs. Mann was also truly reluctant to admit her mistakes, but she indeed has no other way out. Mindy was in the hands of the shady hotel’s lady boss who they owe more than 100,000 USD. The sooner Mrs. Mann could rescue Mindy out of there,
“Dad...” Ruth called out behind him in an incomparably forlorn manner.“…” Mr. Mann stopped in his tracks, but he did not look back.He was too ashamed to face Ruth. He was even more ashamed to face his own late brother and sister-in-law.“Dad, you and your late brother are true biological brothers, right? I would like to know how you slept every night for more than twenty years? Aren't you afraid of karma or retribution?" When Ruth asked this, she had tears streaming down her face. After asking that, Ruth laughed by herself again. “Oh yes! You have already received your retribution, haven’t you?“Mindy Mann, your most beloved niece!“She should be suffering as if going through purgatory on Earth now, right?”When he heard this, Mr. Mann’s tears poured down his face. It so happened that, at this moment, his phone rang. Mr. Mann answered the call with his trembling hands. “Hello…”“Dad…Daddy, come save me quickly. I’m dying, Dad. They beat me, stripped me naked, and got mor
“What else do I know?” Ruth sneered and asked, “What other things have you and your parents, and I mean your biological parents, been hiding from me?”On the other end, Mindy said, “You… As long as you come to save me, I’ll tell you. I’ll definitely tell you.”“Alright! I will come to save you!” Ruth agreed. After she hung up the phone, Ruth looked at Marcus with a mixed expression. “I truly never expected things to be like this. I… My parents turned out to be…”“There is a good chance that you are my real cousin, and Mindy was just impersonating you," Marcus interrupted Ruth’s words and said.At this moment, Ryan, who was at the side, was surprised. “Hey! That’s just right! Marcus, our relationship will be even closer from now on.”Marcus called out warmly, “Ruth…”However, Ruth had not even the slightest hint of happiness on her face. She was unable to adapt to this sudden change.Especially with the fact that her birth parents had died. She suddenly felt that the world
Ruth only smiled with her lips pursed, but she did not respond further. The car soon drove to the outside of that shady hotel. It was the same early morning and the same place. This time, it was Ruth who saw Mindy’s pants lying in the rubbish bin outside of the small facade.Ruth did not sympathize with Mindy at all.After they had gotten out of the car, Ruth walked down with both Ryan and Marcus.At this time, the lady boss came over just in time. When she saw Ruth, the lady was startled. “Miss Mann…You… You all have personally come to my humble home.”It looked like the tables had turned. Just within three days, this girl before her eyes has gone from being a prisoner to a proper queen.Ruth did not even glance at that woman; she only asked, “Where’s Mindy?”“She is in... inside… Well, Miss Mann, I’m just asking. Are you… here to rescue her?” asked the woman with a long face.Ruth sneered, “What do you think?”The woman instantly said with a pleading tone, “Miss Mann,
Under the dim light, Mindy was lying on the bed with nothing on, and she was surrounded by no less than a dozen men who were holding her down.There was a line outside the room.They all looked like the kind men who were construction site laborers, and all of them were incomparably rough.Ruth gasped in shock when she saw the scene. This was drastically worse from the treatment she received three days ago. “Help… I beg of you all! Help me!” At this moment, Mindy has no dignity at all. Even if Marcus scolded her for being shameless just now and hated her to the bones, at this moment when he saw her, he could not help but feel compassionate toward her. “I, Marcus Shaw from South City’s Shaw family, am here. I’ll see if anyone still dares to touch her! Even if it is your entire construction site, I will destroy it, let alone you guys,” Marcus suddenly shouted angrily. When those men heard Marcus shouting like this, they all ran away in fear.Someone said, “I… I have already pa
“I know how to pay you back,” Ruth suddenly spoke up.“Go ahead, Miss Mann.” The lady boss was still very polite to Ruth. “The Mann family still has a fully detached house with its own courtyard in the countryside, and I think it should be worth two million no matter what. According to what Mindy’s parents once said, that small detached house was a property that originally belonged to Mindy, so you just need to take back that house of hers now and sell it for two million. That would be enough money to repay you, your interest, and also payment for the person whose head was smashed by me. It would be enough for all.”"Are you telling the truth?" the woman asked.“Absolutely the truth!”Mindy also asked Ruth in shock, "How do you know?"Mindy smiled contemptuously. "You don't know, do you? That's the difference between you not having a mom and dad. Although my parents are your real parents, I also enjoyed twenty years of fatherly and motherly love. They once told me about it when
Mr. Mann said with a long face, “The cause of your parents' death, your cousin Marcus also knew about it. They died because of a plane crash."Behind her, Marcus nodded and said, “Ruth, your parents’ death was indeed due to a plane crash.”“Then… Why did you want to swap our identities?" Ruth questioned.When she said that, she was already in tears. Actually, with her current state of mind, she did not even care about the Shaw family's glory and wealth, but she was just too disappointed about what her uncle and aunt had done.Seeing Ruth cry, her uncle had a guilty expression on his face. He touched Ruth’s shoulder and recounted the story from the beginning. Ruth’s biological father, Ronan Mann, and Mindy’s biological father, Anson Mann, were a pair of twin brothers, but the brothers had led different paths since young. Ronan had great academic achievements from a young age. When he was obtaining his postgraduate doctoral degree, he met his wife, Marcus’ aunt, who has the 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