Joshua furrowed his brows.He lifted his head and looked at Luna coldly. “What do you mean?”“Am I not clear enough?” Luna sneered, “I only want justice.”Joshua sneered, “Luna, I thought you knew what it meant to not overdo it.”“Not overdoing it?” Luna laughed out loud. She raised her eyes and looked at Joshua. “Mr. Lynch, can you explain to me why I should not overdo it? Someone recorded our meeting and posted it online, accusing me of plagiarizing. When it almost cost me my career, did you get her to stop overdoing it?“When Mrs. Lynch got my most trusted assistant to use her computer, creating evidence accusing me of putting up an act all by myself, did you stop her from overdoing it? “Why do I have to know when to stop? Why when someone harms me, I don’t even have the right to find out who was the one who did it?”Then, Luna took a breath. “If you are such a biased person who only protects the people closest to you, why can’t I choose to quit and leave Lynch Group?”Th
Luna was the victim. She had the right to pursue this matter.Alice bit her lips tightly. She turned to look at Joshua. “Joshua…”Joshua did not even bother to look at her. “Just apologize. You crossed a line this time.”Alice gritted hard. Although she was unwilling to do it, she still got up.Alice walked over to Luna and bowed at her. She said grudgingly, “Luna, I’m sorry. I should not have uploaded the video online and instigated this incident. I should not have deliberately framed Arianna for it too...”Seeing Alice in front of her, the woman who had the exact same face that she used to have, Luna gritted her teeth.Slap! A crisp sound rang through the entire conference room.Alice’s face turned to the side due to the slap. Her face was burning with pain.She turned her head back in disbelief and stared at Luna in shock. “How dare you slap me?”“This slap is on behalf of your father, Joseph Gibson.”Luna took a deep breath. Her voice was filled with an irrepressible ra
“If it was not you, who else?”Luna did not want to listen to Alice find any more excuses. She harrumphed coldly, “If it was not you, did the video appear out of thin air?”Alice slightly squinted her eyes. She turned her head and swept a glance at Courtney, who had curled up into a ball, not daring to let out a single breath.When their gaze met, Alice smiled meaningfully at her.The next second, Alice pointed her long finger at Courtney. “She was the one that gave me the video.”“I did not!” Upon Alice’s words, Courtney, who had been curling up into a ball immediately jumped up in anger. “I didn't do it! It was not me! I did not take the video, I…”Joshua lightly furrowed his brows. He turned to look at Luna. “Do you still remember the seating in the meeting yesterday?”Luna nodded. She might not be good at other things, but her memory was exceptional. She could still remember things clearly from six years ago.Let alone the meeting was only just a day before.Joshua, sitt
Slap! Alice slapped with all her might, causing Courtney to directly slump on the table.When she fell onto the table, she knocked over the teacups on the conference table.Clank!Tea splashed everywhere and onto Courtney’s pants. She looked extremely wretched.Alice glared at her. Her eyes were filled with resentment and hatred. “You are not worthy of asking me whether I have a conscience or not! All this while, I have treated you as my friend, yet you kept doing harmful things to the Lynch Group!“I have already taken on the blame for hurting Arianna and uploading the video, yet you still want me to take on the blame for taking the video? Do you have a conscience or not?”Courtney clenched her fists tightly upon Alice’s words. She bit her lips, raised her head, and looked at Joshua.“Mr. Lynch, no! This is not how it is! Granny Lynch got me this job! I will never do anything that hurts the Lynch Group!”Joshua smiled. “So what’s with the video?”Courtney gritted her teeth.
Luna clenched both her fists tightly by her sides.Alice was deliberately trying to provoke. She knew that Luna knew that Courtney was just a scapegoat. That was why she could so brazenly provoke.After being silent for a long time, Luna raised her head. She smiled at Joshua. “I’ll let Mr. Lynch handle this.”Then, she swept a glance at Courtney, who was slumped on the ground.“One has to pay the price for their own foolishness. Whether it was the past or now, you and I don’t have much of an acquaintance. I don’t need to show you mercy. You are to blame for your own actions.”Luna picked up her employee tag and looked at Joshua, who had no emotions on his face. “Since Mr. Lynch has helped me investigate this, I won’t resign. I will keep my promise and see this project to the end.”Then, she was about to leave.“Joshua.” Just when Luna’s hand was on the door handle, she heard Alice say gently, “The workplace is too sinister. I don’t want to work anymore. Let me go home, please? I
“She didn’t sleep well last night. After seeing the news this morning, she felt much better. She’s catching up on sleep now.”Luna glanced a look at Natasha through the crack of the door.Natasha had a head of white hair. She was sleeping peacefully. Luna sighed. She gave the nurse some money as a token of appreciation before leaving the hospital with Anne.However, Luna did not expect that once she exited the elevator with Anne, they bumped into Alice, who was coming to visit Natasha.The three of them bumped into each other at the entrance. The moment Anne saw Alice, she could not help but clench her fists.Luna stopped her in time. “Natasha is asleep.” She lowered her head to look at the time and furrowed her brows.“Care to join me for a cup of coffee?”Alice squinted her eyes and sneered, “Aren’t you afraid that I might poison you?”“As long as you’re not afraid I might do it first.”Alice sneered, “Let’s go then.”Then, Alice went first and exited the hospital.Behin
Bang! Alice angrily slammed the table. She pointed at Luna’s nose. “Don’t think that you’ve won just because I couldn’t do anything to you this time! Don’t you forget that I am still Joshua’s wife!”Luna leaned back with her arms crossed around her chest. “Mrs. Lynch, you won’t be able to achieve big things with such an attitude. All I did was just say a few harsh words. It’s nothing compared to you trying to ruin my career. I have not even paid you back what you did to me, yet you are already this agitated?”Alice glared at her angrily. She was so furious she was trembling.In the end, Alice harrumphed coldly, “Thank goodness I’m not your younger sister, I would be disgusted to have the same blood running in my veins!”Luna smiled. “Likewise.”Alice gritted her teeth hard. She wanted to say something when someone recognized her from far away.“That hysterical woman is… Mrs. Lynch, right?”“It looks like it. She is Joshua Lynch’s wife. Her photo has always been posted to use a
Seeing her staring at that piece of paper in a daze, Anne pursed her lips. “You had an accident six years ago, right? This woman must have started planning her cosmetic surgery not long after you had the accident.“... All this just to be with a man. She completely forgo her own identity and changed into another person. This kind of obsession is also quite scary.”Then, Anne looked at Luna. “When you were with Joshua, was there ever such a paranoid woman?”Luna paused for a while. A name flashed across her mind.Hailey Walter.Back then, when Luna just got married to Joshua, Hailey had sworn never to marry her entire life.After their marriage, Hailey has even tried to get her killed.On top of that, when they were in Sea City most recently…The dead Hailey Walter was most likely an impostor…At that thought, Luna immediately took her phone out. She flipped through her phone for a very long time before finding the photo that Anne sent her previously.It was Hailey Walter who
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