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
Moreover, when the two elderly in the family knew that their most valued eldest son and daughter-in-law who made them proud were involved in the plane crash, the couple, who was over 70 years old, suddenly died of heart disease due to heartache and anxiety.In a flash, the Mann family, which originally had eight family members across three generations, were left with only four members in an instant. Among them, there was also a seven-month-old baby who had lost her parents and grandparents. At that time, the Shaw family was still in Kidon City, and Marcus’ parents were also abroad. Therefore, the seven-month-old baby was temporarily taken care of by her aunt and uncle. However, at that time, it had just been a month since Anson’s wife had given birth to her child, and she had insufficient breast milk. Due to her selfishness, she could only feed her child first. After her child was well-fed, the remaining would be fed to the seven-month-old baby.As a result, when Ruth was one a
“Haha!” Hearing that, Ruth suddenly burst out laughing wildly. After laughing, Ruth said sarcastically, “Should I call you Dad and Mom now, or call you Uncle and Aunt, or even call you enemies?"Mr. Mann stuttered, “Ruth, we…We have also loved you before.”“Loved me?” Ruth asked rhetorically. “Was it out of love for me that you instilled in me from childhood that I was a maid and your real daughter, Mindy, was the queen?“Or telling me since young that I was Mindy’s hatchet man, and it did not matter if what she did was right or wrong, I had to spearhead the attack for her?“If you loved me, would you let me have all of Mindy’s hand-me-downs?“Also, it was only the ones she thought were ugly that were given to me to wear.“If you loved me, why didn’t you guys provide for me to go to school? Instead, you allowed me to grow wild like a shrew?“Are these your ways of loving me?"Mr. Mann said in embarrassment, “Ruth, your academic performance had been poor since young…”“My aca
”Isn’t it?“I'm asking you, isn’t it!"At this point, Ruth finally could not be calmed down anymore, as her emotions were close to breaking down. If Ryan did not hold her tightly in his arms, Ruth would have collapsed to the ground from crying. Her parents!The mom and dad that she had been calling for twenty years… How could she stand it emotionally?How could this be endured?How could she let go of it?However, could she not let go?In the past twenty years, everything they did to her was hurting her, and the harm was boundless. The reason she was still alive now was that she met Sabrina.It was Sabrina who saved her soul, made her realize her own shortcomings, and helped her have a new way of living.Otherwise, she, Ruth Mann, would have already been dead.Also, it definitely would have been an incomparably dirty death.She had cried and laughed, and Ruth had already made a decision in her heart. She said calmly, “From today onward, I, Ruth Mann, am through with you.
Mindy was confused. Marcus also looked at Ryan. To be honest, although Marcus was also angry at Mindy and Mindy’s parents for lying to his family for so many years, once he thought that Mindy had lived with the Shaw family for twenty years and that they were indeed as close as cousins, Marcus agreed with Ruth’s way in his heart. Also, indeed a man was judged by the company he kept.Ruth and Sabrina had been hanging out together daily, so she has been subtly influenced by Sabrina. At this moment, Marcus admired his cousin, Ruth, very much, and his real cousin was much more broad-minded than Mindy. However, he did not expect it. Why would Ryan suddenly want to report to Sebastian?Ryan had already dialed Sebastian’s number. Sebastian was preparing to go to the conference room for a meeting. Recently, he had been in the thick of the preparations to conquer Star Island, so every morning he had a regular meeting with his most trusted subordinates. Rather than saying it was a r
Sebastian’s tone was incomparably calm. “Because of Ruth. She and Sabrina are the same. They are both softhearted. That is her cousin, and also her parents have raised her for so long. It’s very normal for her to have an entanglement of love, hate, and all the other states of mind in her heart.”Ryan was speechless.This was the first time in Ryan’s life that he found his Uncle Sebastian to be so smart. He could see everything through everything so thoroughly with just a glance. He truly was the most powerful director of the Ford family. “Uncle Sebastian, well… Could you spare Mindy once more this time for my sake…” Ryan said with embarrassment.“You brat.” Sebastian’s tone remained flat. It was not a big deal.However, he still said, “You brat, you better keep a close eye on her. If anything were to happen in the future, I’ll directly put it on your tab.”“Yes! Thank you, Uncle Sebastian!” Ryan could hear from Sebastian’s tone that he had agreed.After he hung up the call,
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