Although she had a nightmare, this time it was different. Angeline was not abruptly awoken by her dreams. She opened her eyes in a daze, and after seeing Jay, she closed her eyes and went back to sleep.The next day, Angeline woke up to the sound of birds outside the window. The warm spring sunlight shone into the screen window and cast on her crystal clear face. She opened her eyes, got up, and sat on the bed, looking at the courtyard across the street. The old loving couple was seated at their stone table outside, drinking tea as they chatted. It was as if Angeline's consciousness was filtered by a sieve. All of her confusion and muddle-headed thoughts were sifted out, and it turned into a rare moment of sobriety. She remembered how the old lady looked precisely like Jaybie.Angeline jumped down from the bed and saw the floor mirror next to her. She stood in front of the mirror for a moment, looking at herself. She had charming big eyes, a small face, and a thin figure. She w
The old couple looked at Angeline in astonishment, secretly wondering why Angeline would suddenly come to visit them.Angeline hesitated to speak at first. “I… I was bored, so I came to chat with you guys.”The grandpa glanced at Jay, who was standing on the balcony opposite, and smiled, “Are you still bored even if he’s around?”Angeline raised her gaze to look at Jay, only to realize that her abnormal behavior today must have made Jaybie somewhat worried. She made a heart shape with her hands toward him, and Jay shot back an elegant smile. “Take care of Angeline for me, please.” Jay gesticulated to the old couple.The granny smiled and said, “Don’t worry about it.”Then, Jay turned around and entered the house.The grandpa looked at the breathtakingly stunning Angeline and started joking around with the granny. “I told you. Just look at her, she’s so beautiful, yet you were worried that the husband was abusing her. Who’d be willing to bully such a pretty little lady?”Angeli
Angeline continued to remain calm and collected as she probed further. “Granny, since you’ve been married a few times, I wonder if you have children or grandchildren?”The granny’s expression instantly darkened. “Yes, I do. I’ve given birth to children for every one of my husbands. And I’ve exchanged my children for my freedom.”When the granny described the thrilling first half of her life, her tone was very calm. However, in Angeline’s heart, there was a stormy sea.“Exchanged your children for your freedom? Did your husbands try to imprison you?”Angeline was in disbelief because she had every reason to believe that Grand Old Master Ares was a very reasonable man. The granny shook her head and smiled bitterly. “They all loved me, so naturally, they wouldn’t try to imprison my body and make me unhappy. However, they disallowed me from doing things that I love, which to me, was simply as good as being dead. So I gave birth to children for them, and the children became my husband
After Angeline revealed her identity, the granny cried out in astonishment, “What? You’re Scott’s granddaughter?”Angeline had an indifferent expression on her face. “I’ll catch you up on everything while I’m still clear-headed today. Everything about the Severes, the Imperial Capital’s Areses, Doomsday’s Yorks family, and all of Monster’s family’s resentments. I’ll tell you the story from the very beginning…”Angeline spent a long time sharing the tragic and bizarre life of Jay Ares, the eldest grandson of Imperial Capital’s Ares family, through the eyes of a bystander. She told the story of how he transformed from the confused, ignorant young man into a firm and unyielding character who protected both the Areses and the Yorks; how from a domineering crown prince of Imperial Capital, he had fallen into a cage, trapped in a conflict between his mother and wife. Angeline was using her distinctively soft and gentle voice to relay the story. It was serene yet carried an endless amount
Angeline raised another question, “It was rumored that my mother-in-law, Chloe Yorks, killed you. For this reason alone, Grand Old Master Ares imprisoned her in the underground palace for many years. But, you’re not dead, Grandma Boye. I want to know who spread such a terrible rumor?”Boye sighed and said, “Before Chloe married into the Ares family, she had already given birth to a child for another man. She named the child Ron Yorks and looked for me everywhere when a terrible virus infected him. As soon as she came into the Ares family’s house, she quickly saw through my identity and made threats so that I’ll treat her son’s illness. Even though I didn’t like her very much, as a doctor, I still promised to treat her son.“But she pressed too hard, saying that she’ll expose my identity if I failed to treat her child. I was afraid, so I got a corpse and made it look like me. I used that as my crafty escape plan to leave the Ares family’s household. As for why there were such rumors,
Boye felt the powerful aura emitting out of Jay. It felt like a sub-zero freezing field, causing her to tremble unconsciously.“I can cure Angeline’s disease.” Boye did not want her grandson to worry about Angeline’s illness all the time and feel restless over it. As such, she took the initiative to propose a treatment for Angeline.However, Jay promptly refused. “Thank you for your kind thoughts, but I think my dear Angeline doesn’t need it.”The drugs for anxiety and depression had too many side effects, so he was very resistant. He firmly believed that so long as Angeline was with him, she would slowly get better.Boye was dumbfounded. Others would beg her with money and riches for treatment, but her own grandson failed to recognize her extraordinary talent and rejected her help?“I can cure her disease and let her live like a normal person in the future.” Boye persevered.Jay said firmly, “I can also help her lead a normal life.”Boye, “...”Angeline merely giggled at the
Angeline returned to the dining table and noticed Jay staring at her face from time to time.Angeline wiped her face. “What’s the matter?”“What did you talk about with the granny that got you so absorbed? You almost completely skipped all your naps and meals,” Jay said in a joking manner.Angeline’s mouth was stuffed to the brim. Her cheeks looked especially cute when she said, “Try and guess.” Her mouth was not fully closed when she spoke, and a few pieces of food particles spurted out. Jay was dumbfounded… “Angeline, don’t forget that you’re a well-bred young lady from a prestigious family.”Angeline laughed out loud, and more of the food inside her mouth was sprayed out. Some of it even landed on Jay’s face. Angeline quickly took a tissue and wiped it randomly all across his face. Jay felt incredibly helpless, but in the end, apart from squeezing her face tenderly, he did not show the slightest bit of temper. Why had he not trained her to be a well-bred young lady of a pr
The atmosphere for the rest of the meal turned somewhat dull.Angeline’s pessimism and world-weariness gave a self-confident and arrogant person like Jay a sense of powerlessness.He thought that once Angeline’s body slowly recovered and her mood gradually became more cheerful, everything would go back to the way things were. However, the sadness that seeped through Angeline’s eyes seemed to have burst the bubble of hope for their future. It made him feel hints of despair.When he went into the kitchen to wash the dishes, he ended up breaking several plates in the process due to his absent-mindedness. Angeline heard the sound coming from the kitchen and sighed sadly.Was he starting to lose patience with her?This disease was not something they could get rid of overnight. It was normal for Jaybie to lose patience because even she did not have confidence in herself.She turned around and went into the bedroom, locking herself up.Jay’s gaze followed her until she closed the doo