"Luna, I wanted to tell you about this after Thomas comes back, but…" Joshua paused for a while before he continued, "From the looks of it, maybe we can sit by the sidelines and watch for now. If Thomas can handle the matter this time, then we should trust that he has the ability to take care of Yannie and Riley."I know that you both aren't on the best of terms due to your past conflict, but if he can handle it well this time, maybe we should give him a chance. After all…"He sighed. "After all, Riley is his daughter. Maybe he and Yannie could give Riley something we can't."Luna's knuckles protruded as she gripped her phone tightly. She understood everything Joshua had said, but…"Okay," came Luna's simple reply after a deep inhale before she hung up.She closed her eyes and adjusted her sitting posture to feel more comfortable after putting the phone down.Her feelings were tumultuous at the moment, and admittedly, she was a little sad.They finally found Riley's parents…but
"You and Joshua… Is your baby…"Yannie furrowed her brow unhappily. "Hugo, I respect you because you've been a kind, good manager to me, but if you continue to say such nonsense, I won't be nice to you anymore."She took a deep breath and sternly declared, "I'm going to explain to you this once: Mr. Lynch helped me because I'm a friend of his wife, Ms. Luna. My mother is working in his house as a maid. That's why I was in and out of his house when someone took those photos. As for my baby…"She raised her head and looked at Hugo sternly. "If you truly take the time to understand Mr. Lynch and his wife's information, you'll notice he was never here in Merchant City when I was pregnant."She then closed her tired eyes and planted herself on the sofa. "That's all I want to say."Hugo furrowed his brow as he looked at Yannie. Finally, he sighed. "Yannie, please don't be angry at me. I was just talking crap. I won't say it again, knowing you'll get mad because of that."He turned arou
In her dream, Yannie vaguely heard Thomas saying he had a three-month-old baby, but she could not remember anything else. After all, she was dog-tired.It was 8 p.m. when Yannie finally woke up from her sleep. The first thing that popped into her head was her dream about Thomas telling Hugo he was a father to a three-month-old baby.She rubbed her throbbing head, but she could not tell if it was a dream or if she overheard it during her sleep when Thomas and Hugo were talking.After much thinking, she decided to go ask Thomas.When she got out of bed, she realized she had been sleeping on Thomas' bed. She clearly remembered falling asleep on the sofa in the mansion!Did Hugo have someone else carry her upstairs after seeing how tired she was? Nonetheless, Thomas had arranged a room for her ever since he requested her to stay in the mansion. If Hugo wanted to send her to the room, he should have sent her back to her room instead.Moreover, her room was on the first floor, and Thom
"Yannie sure knows how to act! She pretends to be innocent and weak, then pretends as if she has no connections to certain people and was born from poverty. Look at her now!"Wendy harrumphed. "She could buy off the entire hospital three months ago to cover the fact that she's given birth before. From the way I see it, Yannie's intentions weren't that innocent when she started approaching you."She's been planning three months ago, waiting for her chance to step into the entertainment industry. Who knew that she met a kindhearted person like you who'd be willing to give her a chance!"Wendy rambled on, but every word was like a sharp knife stabbing into Yannie's heart. She had to say something.None of that bullcrap was true at all!From the beginning, she never planned to enter the entertainment industry. It was all by chance that she did the shower gel commercial and she, oddly enough, got famous, and it was Thomas who initiated her into the entertainment industry.Initially, s
"So." Thomas stopped in his tracks and looked at Wendy's face indifferently. His tone turned cool. "According to your logic, Yannie must've known you'd give her the chance three months ago, so she's been waiting all this while?"Wendy's expression changed a little upon Thomas' words. She bit her lip.After a while, she finally thought of how she was going to reply to him. "No, no, no! That's not what I meant! I'm saying that Yannie has planned to enter the entertainment industry for a very long time already. Even if it wasn't you or me, she's set her eyes on this industry beforehand."Thomas raised his eyebrows and smiled. "If I remember correctly, Yannie was only Luna's assistant a month ago. If she planned on entering the entertainment industry a long time ago, why did she go and be an assistant to Joshua Lynch's woman? Or are you trying to say..."He bent down and locked his gaze on Wendy. "That Joshua Lynch's woman also wants to be in the entertainment industry? Otherwise, I ca
At that thought, Wendy was so excited that her heart raced rapidly.For the past month, Yannie had brought her immense trouble. For so many years, she was the only person in the entertainment industry who could get close to Thomas.How, then, could she possibly be comfortable with Yannie suddenly popping in? Thus, she had to seize the opportunity to let Yannie vanish from Thomas' side for good!…At the same time, at one of Central Hospital's wards, Gwen was lying in bed, watching the international news with an unfocused gaze.Luna, upon entering, saw how forlorn she looked and sighed, walking toward her.She grabbed the remote control from Gwen. "Why are you watching the international news? You don't like it at all. Anne said that when one is in a bad mood, one should watch the entertainment news. Sometimes, entertainment can be more exciting than any drama!"Gwen came to her senses after hearing Luna's words and smiled bitterly. "I haven't heard anything about Anne for a long
[Is this Yannie? Am I seeing things?][Why is Yannie in Thomas' bedroom? Are they not just professionals working together?][I saw the stretch marks on Yannie's belly! She did give birth to a child after all!][If she already has a child, how dare she pretend to be an onscreen couple with Thomas? How dare she waited for him in his bedroom, wearing just that?][How shameless of her! Quit the entertainment industry!]…Only just by seeing Yannie standing in Thomas' bedroom in her underwear, the people watching the live stream went off the roof as they made various scathing remarks about Yannie.Wendy took a rough glance, and upon seeing the insults aimed at Yannie, she was instantly excited. This was the effect that she wanted!She wanted Yannie's ugliest side to be exposed to everyone. She wanted Thomas to hate Yannie, to despise her.Moreover, at that moment, everything was right before their eyes. Even if Thomas did not hate Yannie, he could not stop the people on the interne
However, only Joshua had been helping Yannie deal with her news since that morning.Thomas' team did nothing.Of course, it did not matter that much. After all, Joshua's men had settled everything.At this moment, however, Thomas seemed to not know anything about this live footage and the comments about Yannie. It was too strange."Don't care about whether it's strange or not." Gwen furrowed her brow and passed Luna her phone. "Don't you have Thomas' number? Call him to let him know. Get him to settle the secret live stream first."Luna pursed her lips and looked at the phone in her hands. She hesitated for a moment before quickly looking for Thomas' contact and called him.…The moment Luna dialed him, Thomas' phone rang in the live stream, too.His eyebrows pressed together as he took out his phone to have a look. When he saw that it was Luna, he furrowed his brow. His eyes flashed with mild confusion and irritation, but he picked up the call. "Can I help you?"His cold tone
At that, he looked at Gwen. "Actually…"Steven found himself unable to finish his sentence. After a long while, he shook his head and smiled. "Forget about it.""Steven…" Gwen looked at him, and her tears fell.Her heart was not made of stone. How could she not know Steven's feelings toward her?She was silent for a long while. In the end, she stood up and slowly walked over to Steven with arms opened wide. "Give me a hug."Steven hesitated for a while, but he still stood up.They hugged."Gwen." Steven hugged her thin figure. "I have to meet you earlier in the next life so I can compete fairly with my brother."Gwen nodded with tears streaming down her face. "Okay."They thus hugged once more. Minutes later…"He's gone," said Stefan.Tears kept falling.They hugged for a while longer before pulling apart. Gwen looked at Stefan with her tear-stricken face. He had tears on his face as well.She bit her lips and reached out to wipe his tears. "A—Are these tears…yours or his?
The next day, Rachel flew from Merchant City to Sharnwick City to diagnose Anne's condition. Theo tagged along as well because he had another identity, Rachel's boyfriend."According to the report, Anne's condition is slowly recuperating." Rachel was relieved after assessing the report. "Although she is very weak, she is going to get better with lots of rest."There is nothing wrong with her vocal cords too. It could be a psychological thing that makes her lose her voice. A knot in her heart that causes it." She looked at Luna, then at John. "Considering all factors, I think that knot is Luna."Rachel continued, "John, I know Luna is the root cause of all these bad things. Being away from Luna, Joshua, and other people is going to guarantee a safer life for you and your family. But have you thought about it from Anne's point of view? Other than you and Sammie, she has her own life and her circle of friends. Never has she blamed Luna for what happened, yet you forced her to leave Lun
It was almost a miracle for Anne to willingly leave the house just to visit him!Robyn, meanwhile, sobbed at the sight.The nurse who accompanied Anne to the ward was puzzled. What was going on with these people?She snuck her phone out of her pocket and took a photo of this surreptitiously. Then, she sent it into the nurse's group chat with the caption, [What a strange family I met today.]The nurses in the group chat began gossiping about this. One of them tagged a fellow nurse named Daisy and said, [Hey, isn't this the guy who saved the old man you're looking after? What a hero!]Daisy was, at this moment, walking into Andy's room to help him change his wound dressing. She saw the message but was not able to type on her keyboard to respond, so she recorded a voice message instead. "Yes, that's the man. What's wrong with his family? What are you guys talking about?"As soon as she finished her sentence, she lifted her head and finally realized that Andy was not there.Instead,
Anne stared at John for a long time before forcibly smiling and told him in sign language, "Robyn didn't return after so long, so I got worried and came by to check on her.""Daddy, Aunt Robyn, are you two hugging?" Sammie asked, blinking innocently as she raised her head in curiosity.John and Robyn turned pale at this.It was understandable for such a young child like Sammie to misinterpret them as hugging, but what would Anne think of this?John leaped off the bed and staggered toward Anne. "Anne, it's just a misunderstanding…"However, he was still so weak that his legs could not hold up the full weight of his body at all, and he almost crumpled to the ground.Quick-witted Robyn managed to catch him before he could fall, but this gesture appeared once again rather intimate to both Anne and Sammie. Sammie furrowed her brow and asked rather indignantly, "Are you hugging again? Daddy, how can you hug Aunt Robyn like this when you've never even hugged Mommy and me like this befor
When the nurse pushed Anne to John's ward, she overheard John and Robyn fighting from the door. The fight was about how John was anxious to return home because he was worried about Anne and Sammie.However, as someone who used to work as a nurse, Robyn knew John should not leave the hospital after being shot by a gun. At least, he needed to stay in the hospital and be observed for 24 hours to make sure that he was fine before leaving the hospital. If an infection happened, John's body would crash easily and he would become weak just like Anne.In the ward, John frowned and talked with a serious tone, "I'm really fine. Get me my clothes so I can go upstairs to thank Miss Andie and go back home immediately. If Anne knows that I'm hurt, she is going to worry. She will easily be suspicious since you haven't gone back home for a long time. What if she worries about me and brings Sammie to the hospital to look for me? Can you bear yourself even just thinking about it? She's weak and Sammie
Sammie's soft and cute babyish voice melted Stefan's heart immediately. It had been quite some time since he actually put a smile on his face. "Hi, there. What's your name and how old are you?"Sammie tilted her head to look at Stefan's handsome face and smiled sweetly, "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sammie."Then she did not forget to introduce Anne to Stefan too. "This is my Mommy. Her name is Anne."At this point, Stefan had given all of his attention to Sammie and did not notice Sammie mentioned that her mother's name was Anne. He pinched Sammie's cheek and said, "Your Mommy is not feeling well. You have to be a good girl and take care of her, do you understand?"Sammie nodded seriously and said, "I will.""Alright, sir. I will bring them to where they want to go," the nurse saw Anne signing to her anxiously. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of them."The promise from the nurse gave an assurance to Stefan that they would be well taken off. He smil
This was the first time Anne brought Sammie out. Ever since she escaped from death, she became a different person—a recluse and was afraid of the sun. This situation became even worse after she became mute.The last time she left the house was two weeks ago when she had to go for surgery.However, she worried about John. In the morning, Robyn told her John was hurt and needed to stay in the hospital to rest. However, she had a hard time believing what Robyn said.After spending so many years together with John, Anne reckoned she was the one who knew John the most. If it was a minor injury, John would never want to stay in the hospital. He cared too much about her and Sammie, so he never dared to let her worry about him. Therefore, it just did not sound reasonable if John would stay in the hospital because of a small injury.Furthermore, Robyn had not returned home since the morning, which was nearly three hours since she left the house. After much consideration, she decided to call
Tara fell silent upon hearing this. She bit her lip nervously and shot Gwen a tentative glance. "I didn't mean to offend you, Gwen…" "I know." Gwen let out an exhale and interrupted Tara before she could finish, "I know you meant no harm, but I can't deny that this is something I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around. In the future, neither of you—even you, Luna—should bring this up again." Her love life was such a mess that not even she could unravel the ties, much less expect other people to understand. Tara pursed her lips and did not reply. Luna stared at Gwen in silence for a while before finally saying, "But you have to face this eventually, Gwennie. After all that you've been through with Luke, all of us hope for nothing but the best for the two of you. Even if you avoid it now, you'll have to face the truth eventually. Otherwise, are you planning on spending the rest of your life in this complicated relationship with Luke? Can you bear the thought of not being
Stefan was mildly amused by the look on her face. He extended his arms out in a gesture of defeat and said, "I never intended on ratting you out to Joshua. You three spoke about these secrets in my presence." With that, he shot Andy a rather helpless look. "Don't you agree, sir?" Andy was surprised to be called out all of a sudden. "Of course!" Although Gwen and Luke had been together for a long time, Luke had never much cared for maintaining good relations with his future father-in-law. He always thought his relationship with Gwen did not concern anyone else outside of the two of them. Combined with the fact that Andy had done some hurtful things to Gwen in the past, Luke grew even more disdainful of his future father-in-law. Because of this, he had never given Andy as much as a second glance throughout their relationship and rarely ever addressed him directly like this. The truth was, Stefan had already called out to Andy once before, during their rescue mission the day befor