The audience was silent for a few seconds before erupting into an even larger uproar.All those standing by Fiona’s side calling for the boycott of Luna finally realized they were duped at that moment.The matter of Luna bullying Fiona half a month ago did not exist.Fiona being burned by Luna was all Fiona’s own plan. She even prepared two plans, to steal Luna’s sketches and to frame Luna for burning her.In the end, Fiona was indeed burned.However, her burns came about because she poured boiling water on herself in the VIP consultation room at the hospital! Her intention was just to frame Luna! Once those two matters were explained, the others, like how Luna bullied her and forbade her from partaking in the core design work, or how Luna pushed her, were not that important anymore.Because they did not need to guess to know that it was Fiona framing Luna.At that moment, the crowd loudly jeered and reprimanded Fiona.However, Bonnie seemed to be still unsatisfied.She sh
Luna could not help but furrowed her brows at Jude’s words. She looked at Jude and smiled ambiguously.“Fiona has a terminal illness?”What act is she playing again? Fiona had always said that Luna burned her with hot water. At that moment, it was not enough, so she brought up excuses like her having a terminal illness?“I’m not lying to you!”Jude sighed and said, “Luna, up till this stage, there is no reason for me to lie to you anymore. Fiona has a terminal illness, also, it is very serious. The doctors said that she only has less than a year to live.”Then, Jude exhaled a long sigh.“Luna, there is no need for me to lie to you anymore. Joshua has told me to keep it a secret from you, but I think you need to know…”Jude looked at Luna and said seriously, “You might think that Joshua overly spoils and indulges in Fiona, but he has a reason for it. Ever since Joshua got together with Fiona, she already had that terminal illness. She requested for Joshua to accompany her thr
However, even if Luna was not very happy, there still needed to be a celebration. After all, this was everyone’s hard work. They finally won. There was no reason to celebrate.As usual, Luna booked a private room in Bonnie’s hotel. She had a simple meal with the rest of them before leaving the hotel.Zayne, Samson, and Shannon also knew that Luna was in a bad mood, so they did not stop her from leaving.Leaving the hotel, Luna stood by the roadside. She looked at the huge LED screen on the building opposite. It was playing the video of her holding the trophy not smiling. She smiled bitterly. She did not know why but the scene of Joshua carrying Fiona leaving appeared on her mind.She did not know what Fiona was like at that moment. If Fiona was truly a terminal illness patient who only had less than a year left to live…Today’s incident was a huge blow to her. Would it aggravate her illness?Did that mean that she had become a murderer? Just when Luna’s mind was in a mess
The kid in the photo was not similar to Neil.It was the same as Neil.In the photo, other than the kid who looked exactly like Neil, there was also another fierce-looking woman.There were a few bodyguards next to her too.However, Luna also recognized the fierce-looking woman. It was Aura Gibson.She held onto the photo and felt her blood boiling uncontrollably! The boy in the photo looked exactly like Neil! Who was this child? Why was he with Aura? Where did Aura find the boy?Why did Aura bring a boy who looked exactly like Neil and Nigel back to Banyan City? What was she trying to do?At that instant, Luna had a load of questions on her mind.She bit her lips and held onto the photo tightly. She started trembling.An absurd thought started appearing in her mind.Could it be…Could it be that Neil did not die but was kidnapped by Aura? At that thought, she could not help but shake her head.No.If Neil was kidnapped by Aura, what about Theo? Theo was together wit
Luna paused for a while before turning around, looking at Joey in surprise.“So you went a huge round and took me to this cafe…”“Because Joshua and Fiona are right across the street.” Before Luna could finish asking her question, Joey chuckled lightly and interrupted her.“I knew that you would find a way to look for the boy in the photo and know what their relationship is to you after seeing him. However, you don’t have much power in Banyan City, so you could only look for Joshua to help you. I helped you make the choice and chose the place for our meetup.”Luna was silent for a while upon Joey’s words.In the end, she smiled helplessly.“You can use the name as my protege to do things in the future. If you have any problems you can’t solve, you can call me anytime.”Then, Luna left.Joey sat in the same spot and looked at Luna leaving. He could not help but laugh.When he took the photo yesterday, he knew that Luna would say such things in the end. He was just waiting for
What Fiona said made Luna, who was standing outside the door, furrow her brows tightly.When she heard Jude saying that Fiona had a terminal illness that day, she thought that Fiona did not look like a terminal illness patient. She should be pretending.She did not expect that she would hear Fiona openly admitting that she was faking her illness at the hospital.In Luna’s impression, Christian was always friendly. He would even take her racing when she was in a bad mood.However, at that moment…Christian and Fiona were discussing Fiona scheming Luna in the room with only a door between them and Luna.Luna did not expect that Christian, who had been always waiting for Joshua to invest in him, was actually Fiona’s financial support.The money that Fiona used to go against her was provided by Christian.Luna’s heart turned cold in the humid and hot evening when she found out.She knew that she should not continue standing there nor eavesdrop on Christian and Fiona.Both of them
Christian helplessly smacked his forehead when he heard Luna’s reply. He took a deep breath and looked at Luna seriously.“You definitely have a misunderstanding about me. There are things I can explain!”Luna narrowed her eyes. She subconsciously moved further away from him an inch. “You don’t have to explain to me. We were not close at all.”Christian raised his eyebrows. “Not close? Luna, why are we not close?”Seeing her getting further away from him, Joshua panicked. He immediately reached out his hand and grabbed Luna’s shoulders, turning her around so that she was forced to face him.“I can explain. It’s not what you think! Don’t be angry. Give me a chance to explain.”When he said the last sentence, the elevator had reached the ground floor. The doors slowly opened.However, Christian still ignored the people outside of the elevator. He finished what he wanted to say.“Let’s find a quiet place. Shall we head to your house, please?”When he finished saying that, the s
Luna’s back was violently slammed onto the cold hard iron door. It hurt so much she furrowed her brows.She looked at Joshua in front of her. His eyes which were looking at her were filled with rage.It looked as if he caught his wife having an affair, that he had been cuckolded.Luna thought it was funny. She was indeed his wife once, but was that not six years ago? “Mr. Lynch, what vivid imagination you have.”Luna met Joshua’s gaze fearlessly.“Which part did you hear that said I want to do inappropriate things with Nigel back at home?”From the beginning, Christian only wanted to clarify whether she heard his conversation with Fiona.Why when it came to Joshua, it became her having an affair with Christian and he wanted to do things to her at her place? Joshua narrowed his eyes. His voice was cold.“It’s already so late at night, Christian said he wanted to bring you to a quiet place and head to your house. Don’t tell me it has nothing to do with that?”Luna was stunne
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