The garage door had completely descended. It was frighteningly dark in the car. Angeline could not see the aggression in Sean's eyes. All she could hear was the sound of their breaths. Sean's jaw was clenched tightly. He closed his eyes and forced himself to steady his breathing. Then he pushed the door open and carried Angeline out.The motion-sensor lights in the garage flickered on, and he set her firmly down on the ground.He grabbed his suit jacket from the passenger seat and shut the car door before entering his password on the digital lock pad and heading inside. "I'll have the driver send you home."Behind him, Angeline stopped in her tracks. She quickly ran after Sean and entered the elevator to go upstairs. She watched Sean call the driver and instruct him to drive to the villa's front door. Angeline's hands tightened as she clasped them behind her back.She inexplicably felt rather disappointed.Perhaps it was because Sean had seemed to be so full of urgency in th
Gregory took out his phone. He debated if he should call Angeline and tell her. Then he thought about the man who had shielded Angeline and taken her away from the fight. He was worried that Angeline would be with him right now. He considered if his call would cause a misunderstanding between them.Now Ned had a fiancée, and Angeline had a protector by her side. Gregory thought it would be best if Ned and Angeline never interacted again. When Trevor received news of Ned's admission to the hospital, he rushed over, looking pale.Fletcher Corporation was in a precarious situation, and Ned had to stay safe. "Angeline…" Ned suddenly gripped his bedsheets tightly as he murmured her name. His brow and neck were covered with sweat. He seemed to be in the grip of an intense nightmare.In his dreams, he saw Angeline dressed in a school uniform as she sat on the balcony with him. She handed him a lollipop. "Don't worry, I'm not going pursue a direct entry to a doctorate course at
Ned saw himself climb over the wall to play hooky with Angeline. A teacher caught them, but Angeline promised to raise Ned's grades to the top 50 in their year by the next month. Her promise got them out of the staff room safely.Ned took Angeline to the racecourse. He had wanted to show off his equestrian skills to her but had ended up falling off a wild-tempered horse. After that, he watched Angeline, dressed in an equestrian suit, hold the reins with one hand and effortlessly tame their wildest horse. At the time, she had seemed to shine brighter than the sun, and he remembered the sensation of his heart pounding like a hammer in his chest.He saw himself beating someone half to death simply because they had confessed to Angeline. He had panicked when she caught him. However, she merely grabbed his hand. Then she carefully cleaned the wound on his hand with antiseptic as she told him not to be so ridiculous in the future.At that time, Ned realized he was the only one in her
Ned wanted to deny his actions to Angeline, but he could not make a sound. He wanted to hug her as she stood alone by the pool, soaking wet, but he could not reach her no matter how hard he tried.He watched her stand with her back straight as she faced all her friends and insisted on reviving his memories. When everyone had dispersed and abandoned her, she had hidden herself in the storeroom under the stairs and sobbed as she hugged her knees into her body. He saw himself deliberately kissing Ingrid in front of Angeline and intentionally getting drunk when taking Ingrid to the house that he had prepared for Angeline. However, he and Ingrid hadn't done anything in that master bedroom.Ned saw Angeline sit in the living room, her hands trembling as she held a wine glass. He watched as she gulped down sleeping pills with the wine.When Angeline had woken up in the hospital, he had contemptuously said that she should have slit her wrists if she wanted to die faster so that he and Ing
As he spoke, Gregory thought of Trevor's instruction from last night. He quickly pulled out his phone and called Trevor. "Mr. Marshall, Ned's woken up!"Ned mulled over the word "boyfriend" that Gregory mentioned.He swallowed, and his eyes were bloodshot.He wondered if Angeline's boyfriend Gregory described was the father of her children.Ned was ultimately the one who had sent her to someone else's bed.He had never even touched Angeline all those years because of the trauma that she had toward intimacy. Still, he had personally drugged her and delivered her into another man's bed.Ned clenched his teeth, cast off the blankets, and ran outside. Gregory was still on the phone when Ned knocked him over. He turned back to see Ned rush out. He immediately hung up the call and began chasing after him. "Ned!"Gregory caught up to him at the hospital entrance and grabbed him. "What are you doing? The doctor forbade you to leave!"Ned tried to push Gregory's hand aside, but
"Yes, it's been treated!" Gregory said to Angeline over the phone.He glanced at Ned. "Ned stayed in the hospital overnight so that they could keep him under observation. He will probably be discharged if his follow-up results are okay today.""Will you delay your return to Cloudsville?" Gregory had intentionally mentioned Ned, but Angeline clearly had no interest in the subject."Yes, I'll be returning the day after tomorrow. There are so many things to do in the lab. I can't leave it all to Reese.""Alright! If you need anything, give me a call. I'm busy, so I'll talk to you next time."When Ned heard that Angeline was about to hang up, he sat up straight. His mouth opened as if to say something. He looked at Gregory."Alright. Bye!" Gregory avoided Ned's gaze as he hung up. He frowned and said, "Look, Angeline simply doesn't want to hear about you. Forget it, Ned! You have a fiancée now. What would be the point of bothering Angeline again?"Trevor stood in the doorway
Ingrid's statement was the truth. She had already begun to imitate Angeline before she even faced Ned.That was because she deeply envied the legendary love between Angeline and Ned. She felt she could experience the same love if she could be like Angeline.At Oceanford High School, she wasn't the only one who had thought that way. Almost all the girls in the years below Angeline shared the same thought.After Angeline and Ned left for Oceanford University, it became a trend for students at Oceanford High School to imitate them.Although the boys did not have the same family background as Ned did, they tried their best to emulate Ned's deep feelings toward his girlfriend and his devil-may-care swagger.The girls did not have Angeline's brains, so they tried to mirror how calm and unruffled she was.Ingrid's tears fell down her cheeks like strings of broken pearls.She had always been terrified that Ned would choose Angeline if he recovered his memories one day, and in her heart,
Ingrid sobbed as she pounded on Ned's chest.Ned sat there without moving and watched as Ingrid fell to her knees, drained of all strength. His eyes were red. "Ned!" Ingrid had finished crying. She suddenly pulled herself together and grabbed his hand. "Let's give each other another chance! We'll set a time limit to be a buffer period for us. Let's give ourselves two months so that we can end on a good note. "I won't bother you if you're still firm on your decision after two months and want to cancel our wedding. But you've got to work with me for the next two months!"Ned remained silent, so she said, "When Angie woke up and asked you to work with her, you agreed. Ned… I'm not asking for much. It's just two months—not two years. You owe me this!"Ned didn't think two months or two years made much difference.As his memories gradually returned, he only felt his love for Angeline growing.The more he recalled about the past, the more he found himself unable to let go of Ang