Seeing that Fiona was almost done cleaning up, Joshua got up from his seat and said, “I worked late last night, so I’m feeling a little tired now. I’m going to get some rest first. If you need anything, ask the butler and servants for help. If they can’t help you, then call me.” With that, he stood up and strode out of the room. As soon as she heard his footsteps recede, Fiona clenched her fists in anger. She should not have listened to Aura at all! Aura had told her that the children were Luna’s weaknesses, so as long as they took the children away, Luna would not be able to retaliate at all. She even said that Joshua would send Luna into a mental asylum, but she was wrong. Not only was Luna not admitted into a mental asylum, but Joshua had even let Granny Lynch move into Orchard Manor as well! Granny Lynch detested Fiona more than anything, but this time, Joshua was asking her to compromise and make peace with Granny Lynch. On top of that, when the children and Granny L
By the time she hung up the phone, Luna’s sleepiness had dissipated. Instead, she got up, went into Nigel’s room, and found his computer.Nigel was such a skilled hacker that he could enter the dark web, which was almost unattainable to any ordinary person.Luna wanted to scour through the dark web in hopes of finding some information about Dr. Robert’s social circle.Since she could no longer use money to buy off the doctor, she had no choice but to try using connections.She investigated everyone related to Dr. Robert while simultaneously praying that she would come across someone she knew who was somehow connected to him.Her search rendered no results.However, Luna could not help noticing that Dr. Robert had married a woman more than ten years younger than him a few years ago.His wife’s name was Janice Yale.However, when Luna clicked into Janice Yale’s information, she caught sight of a familiar name—Violet Lewis.A few years ago, Janice’s daughter had died in an acci
“Do you know the name of the doctor who couldn’t save her?”Christian remained silent for a moment before replying, “I don’t know. All I know is that after Violet’s father, Shaun, died, the press even interviewed the doctor who performed surgery on them. Of course, the doctor didn’t reveal his or her name, but they told the press that they were heartbroken over not being able to save either Violet or Shaun.”With that, Christian got out of bed and asked, “Why are you suddenly asking me all these questions? Do you think there’s something fishy about Violet’s death?”Luna remained silent for a moment, then finally let out a sigh and told Christian what she had found. “I’m not sure if you know this, but Violet’s mother, Janice, is now married to Dr. Robert.”Christian immediately leaped up from his bed. “You mean Dr. Robert Jenson, the one who made a fake medical certificate for Fiona?”Luna nodded. “Yes. As you said, the only reason Fiona could convince Dr. Robert to help her is eit
Luna did not expect this question from Christian.She gripped onto her phone and was silent for a long while. She could not help but clear her throat.“Christian, what kind of joke is this? You’re Nigel's and Nellie’s cousin. Although our age difference isn’t that huge, in terms of seniority…”Christian, on the other end of the line, chuckled. “If you’re not planning to be with Joshua, is seniority in the family that important?“Rather than saying although our age difference isn’t huge but due to seniority…“I’d rather put it this way: Although seniority is in the way, our age gap isn’t that wide.”Then, Christian cleared his throat and continued seriously, “Luna, aren’t you going to consider it?”Luna paused a little. Her throat tightened. “Christian, stop pulling my leg, I—”“I’m already being so serious, yet you could still hear that I’m joking?” Before Luna could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Christian’s mischievous laughter.He chuckled loudly. “Yeah, I’m ju
In the end, Luna decided to have a look.She had gone through so much that summer.Seizing the end of the summer and bidding farewell to the unhappy incidents was a good choice, too.The more important thing was that she was indeed hungry. She was all alone at home, and she was too lazy to make her meals.Thus, after asking Anne about where the event was taking place, Luna simply packed up and hailed a taxi there.Outside the Blue Bay Villa, in a corner somewhere...Zach took his phone out. “Mr. Lynch, Ms. Luna hailed a taxi and left. Should we follow her?”A cold man’s voice came from the other end of the line, “Go with her.” Then, he hung up when a knock came from the door of his study.“Joshua.”The person that entered was the aggrieved-looking Fiona.She was still in her usual white dress, looking extremely frail.“Joshua, Granny Lynch has been targeting me. I don’t feel like having dinner at home tonight. Let’s go out, please?”Joshua calmly furrowed his brows. He lift
Luna, Anne, and John had a lot of good food at the fireworks celebration event.They knew that Luna could not take alcohol, so John deliberately went far away and bought a few different flavors of beverages for Luna and Anne to pick.“I have known for some time that the fireworks celebration takes place every year, but I was always busy, and I’ve never been here before. I never thought that it’d be so pretty!”Anne lamented while looking at Luna, “How is it? Do you feel your unhappiness caused by Joshua vanishing into thin air after coming here?”Luna shrugged. “To be honest with you, not that much.”Being there made her think of her past even more. She had been to Banyan City’s fireworks celebration event before.The year she just got married to Joshua, she was still a young girl full of dreams and hopes.When she heard the servants at home mention that there would be a fireworks celebration event every summer, Luna would always find the opportunity to get Joshua to accompany h
Anne’s voice wafted into the night breeze into Joshua and Fiona’s ears.Fiona furrowed her brows. She subconsciously wanted to reason with Anne, yet Joshua stopped her.He came there tonight to see Luna and to accompany Fiona to relieve her boredom.He did not want to cause any trouble.Thus, Joshua pretended he did not hear them and pulled Fiona forward. He only took a few steps when his phone rang at an inappropriate time.This time, it was from his company. It was from work.Seeing Joshua getting busy, Fiona bit her lip a little and headed to one corner of the fireworks celebration.Actually, she had another purpose for coming there that night, besides watching the fireworks with Joshua.That was to find an opportunity to get in touch with Aura’s people amidst the dazzling crowd. She needed to get something. After Fiona complained to Aura about Granny Lynch, Aura told her there was something that could silence Granny Lynch. Fiona was there specifically for that thing that
It was completely dark behind the boulder, save only the vague, dim light from the fireworks and moonlight in the distance.Behind the dark boulder stood an emaciated man. He was so thin that his facial features almost changed.He was as thin as a rake, but his eyes were still elegant and gentle-looking.“Luna.” That man smiled. “I never would’ve thought we’d meet under such circumstances.”Luna rushed forward and immediately hugged him. He was so thin that it was almost uncomfortable hugging him.Tears fell. Luna hugged him tightly. “Theo, I thought that you were really gone! I thought I won’t be able to see you again in this life! I knew that the email must’ve been you! It was you!”Theo hugged her. His eyes were rather teary, too. This was the first time that Luna hugged him first, yet it was under such circumstances.Luna’s tears wet his shoulders.Theo sighed and gently lifted his hands to pat on Luna’s back.“It’s fine, it’s fine. I’m alive. Neil is still alive, too.”L