After hanging up the phone, Tiger approached Adrian and Irene. “What do you want, mister?” Irene asked giggly. “We aren’t sharing our cakes with you,” Adrian said before taking another bite of his cake.“Kids, I don’t suppose you have enough snacks?” Tiger asked with a gentle smile. Well, it was a rather stoic smile. He was not familiar with talking to children.“Perhaps I could buy you more snacks. What do you think?”Fia carefully listened to Tiger trying to win her children’s favor while playing with her phone.Adrian glared at Tiger warily and asked, “What do you want?”Tiger shook his head and said, “I don’t mean anything by it. It’s just that you must be so bored and tired by accompanying my boss here with your mother. So, I’d like to treat you to something. If you two need anything, just tell me.”Irene asked curiously, “You’ll do anything for me and Adrian?”“Of course!” Tiger answered. He felt so proud of himself for being able to win the kids’ favor so easily!Ove
“Do you like to watch Aunt Eileen’s TV dramas too?” Irene asked.“Well, I don’t watch as frequently as I’d like.”Conrad tried to recall what shows Eileen had taken part in recently but he could not remember any specific roles she had.Adrian said, “Which character did you like the most?”“…”Pausing for two seconds, Conrad answered, “I like most of her characters. She’s been good at her job.”“Then point out some examples!” Adrian probed further in a serious tone.“Well, she had three roles that she had won awards for. One was in a noir film, another was from a medieval political drama, and the last one was from a high fantasy drama. These three were highly acclaimed by both the critics and the public.”Irene gave him a thumbs up. “Wow, you’re spot on! Why yes! Those three were Aunt Eileen’s best works! The stories were really good too! Mommy even cried after watching them!”“…”Fia stared at her daughter silently.Adrian smirked. “Heh, you’re a man yet you watch these mell
No wonder their mommy rejected him, hated him.“How did you hurt her?” The two children didn’t want to ask anymore, but Fia asked him instead.Conrad looked straight at the emotionless Fia. “The environment that I grew up in lacked love, and I don’t understand what love is too. My dead wife and her cousin grew up together with me. I’m closer to her cousin, so we confirmed our relationship as lovers when we were still young. After that, her cousin left the country. My grandfather and her grandmother made me and my wife marry.“We respected each other during the marriage. She was a good wife, but I wasn’t a good husband.“Before her cousin came back, she sought me out. I thought that I was still in love with her, and so, I asked for a divorce.”Irene and Adrian listened wholeheartedly. Suddenly, they felt pity for their mother.“That was the biggest mistake I made. I ruined our marriage before I thought things through. I did all of that. Meanwhile, her cousin kept on harassing her
Fia patted the children’s heads. “It’s all in the past. It doesn’t hurt me anymore.”She kneeled and tidied the twins’ collars of their jackets. She then gently said to the children, “You’re my greatest happiness. You healed me.”Irene bit her lips and whispered, “Did you really stab him?”Fia was slightly stunned as her facial expression was filled with bitterness.“I really thought that I couldn’t live on anymore. I hated him… So much.”“I’m sorry, Mommy.” Irene hugged her mother. “I’m not blaming you. I just feel…sad.”“The phone said that marriage is something that’s filled with love. Why did you suffer so much pain?”“Why did the two of you become like that?”Adrian frowned and then mumbled, “You’re still a kid, so of course you don’t know. The world of adults is very complicated.”Fia pulled Adrian over and hugged both of them.“It’s all in the past. I won’t do anything stupid anymore. I'll always think of you two.”When Fia remembered about Lucifer, she earnestly s
Fia was touched and she quickly nodded. “Once his right leg has healed, I won’t owe him anything anymore.”“Alright,” Lucifer said without hesitation. “Then, I’ll take the kids for now. If you miss them, you can give me a call anytime.”Fia nodded. “Thank you.”“You can pretend that I owe you one,” Lucifer said as if making a joke as he left with the children.Fia looked at their departing figures. When she could no longer see them, she sighed and turned back to Conrad’s ward.“Why are you back here alone? Where are the kids?”Listening to Conrad’s anxious voice, she sneered. “You’re overstepping your boundaries.”Conrad frowned but realized that she was right.“The children’s father is here?”“Yes.” Fia poured herself a glass of water and then stood by the window, looking outside.Conrad looked at her. Every time he did, it was like looking at his wife.But when she turned around, her expression and her skin color would pull him back to reality.“Won’t their father mind yo
Fia was also trusting of Silas and Tiger.Silas carefully opened the door. He looked down and kept his curiosity to himself.He said in a light voice, “Ms. Sia, our boss is not feeling well and he’s in a bad mood. If he somehow offends you, please forgive him and don’t take it to heart.”Fia looked at Silas with half-closed eyes and asked, “You worked for him for many years?”“Yes.” Silas’ eyes kept on looking down.Fia then asked, “How can you still be so loyal to him despite his bad temper?”Silas said, “We had gone through multiple life-and-death situations together. It’s not as simple as him just employing me. I admire him. Respect him. I will be his most loyal soldier forever.”Fia frowned as she looked at Silas in a daze, her thoughts wandering in the clouds.When Silas didn’t hear her response, he carefully looked up.When Silas saw her in a daze, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.Ms. Sia looked a lot like Fia when she was in this state.“Ms. Sia, why do you hate o
“She has nothing to do with Madam and Sophia. She humiliated them the moment she opened her mouth. How could they be related at all?”Conrad opened his eyes and looked at Tiger. “You think that she’s Sophia?”Tiger gritted his teeth.Conrad said, “If she is Sophia, where did the two children come from?”Tiger looked at him in shock. “Do you mean…?”“I don’t mean anything. I’m tired. I’m going back to sleep.”Tiger refused to leave. He simply wanted to have a good chat with the boss.Silas came over and pulled him out of the main bedroom.When the two of them were in the living room, Silas said, “Your boss is different than he was five years ago.”“Yeah.”“Don’t think too much. She doesn’t look like a bad person. The mysteries surrounding her will be dispelled as time passes.”Tiger nodded. “When will Sophia come back?”Silas tapped his shoulder. “Worry about the present. Don’t think too much about the others.”…Aurora Residences. Basement carpark.Lucifer was waking the
When Fia received the picture and the text, she was almost dozing off.The figures inside the picture were very clear, and it instantly dispelled her sleepiness.She sat up and carefully looked at the text that was sent.Fia looked at the door, gripping her phone tightly. It was the first time she had received such a message.She was sure that it had to be Sophia!Lucifer took the children to meet up with Sophia?Why meet with Sophia? He had another mission for her?She looked at the picture carefully and recognized that it was the basement carpark of Aurora Residences. She quickly got up and went out.“Where are you going?” Silas, who was in the living room, quickly asked.“There’s something I need to do. I’ll be back.” Fia said as she glanced at Tiger.It wasn’t long after Fia left that Tiger gave Silas’ shoulder a good hold and said, “Watch after the boss. I’m going out!”Silas grabbed his arm. “You’re going to follow her?”Tiger’s eyes narro