“Ah… Conrad, how can you treat me like this?!” There was no warmth in Conrad’s gaze at her. It was as if he was looking at a rock.“Ms. Reid said that you pretended to be hurt while you paid someone to rape Fia. Is there anything you want to tell me?”Esme crawled toward Conrad on her knees and grabbed his pants as she looked at him. “No! I swear on my family’s lives that I didn’t do it! I swear, if I’ve ever hurt Fia, the gods can punish my family!”Conrad laughed as he looked at her.“Why didn’t I realize how shameless you are?”He was questioning her but she made a vow using her own family? That was not the Esme Manning that he knew.“Esme.” He called out her name coolly. The warmth in the past no longer existed.“I will investigate this, and you better pray that it has nothing to do with you.”Conrad kicked Esme away after saying that and patted his pants before getting back into his car.Esme could only sit on the ground as she felt her heart become ice-cold.She had f
Jason ignored Conrad and consoled Eileen. “Don’t worry. I’ll make my rounds every half an hour. As long as the same thing doesn’t happen again, she should be conscious soon.”Eileen knew that Jason hadn't rested at all since last night.She was still waiting outside the ward early in the morning. He was the one who had arranged for a family lounge for her to rest in.She didn’t want to. But he told her that she couldn’t fall before Fia woke up because there was no one else that Fia could depend on.Jason checked Fia’s condition every hour the whole day yesterday. Even after she slept, he must have done the same thing.“You should get some rest, Doctor Evans. Let the other doctors do this. Otherwise, you won’t be able to handle the stress too.”Conrad glared at Jason coldly and said, “Ask Doctor Hall to help.”Eileen didn’t like how Conrad sounded, but she agreed with him.“True. Rotating with Doctor Hall works too. If you do this for 24 hours straight, Fia would blame herself o
She quickly sent the information to Conrad and said, “Do it fast, then. The longer we drag this, the harder it will be to find him.”“Sure.” Conrad became friends with Eileen on Facebook before giving Silas an order to find the person.In the evening, Silas came over with a dark expression.“Sir, Ms. Reid. We found him.”“Really? What about the evidence that he stole?” Eileen looked at him excitedly.If they found the person, then they must have found the evidence. She could prove Fia’s innocence!“Well…” Silas choked.“What is it? Speak!” Conrad said coldly.“Sir.” Silas immediately gave him a piece of paper.Conrad grabbed it and frowned.“What is it?” Eileen went on her tiptoes to read it, and her expression turned very sour as well. “Dead? Why would he die so suddenly?!”Silas bit his lips and said with a heavy heart, “I know, right? He died suddenly during a jog.”“Did you find the documents that he stole?” Eileen asked nervously.“No. We searched his rental and workp
“There are so many questions now but you still don’t suspect Esme at all?” Eileen looked at Fia who was lying in the ICU ward through the glass. She pitied her.The person who stole the evidence was dead. No matter how he died, all the stolen evidence was gone.She felt so useless. She couldn’t do anything for Fia in the end.“It’s getting late.” Conrad looked at his watch. “I’ll get you some dinner.”“I don’t have any appetite at a time like this. If Fia wakes up and finds out she’s lost her child, I can’t imagine just how regretful she would feel!”“Do as you like,” Conrad said before turning to leave.Eileen was so angry that she questioned him, “You’re leaving so soon?!”Conrad stared at the woman lying in the ward.“I still have a lot of things to do.”“What else is there for you to do? You accompany Esme when she’s in the hospital, but you leave when it’s your wife that’s in there!”Conrad simply hastened his pace, not wanting to argue with her.There were things that
“I’m telling you to find someone to marry, but that person won’t be me.”“But we’re already engaged. The entire Gryphon knows about it…”“A marriage can be broken and a divorce can be undone. The relationship between a man and a woman can be very complex and doesn’t follow any rules!” Silas said. He got annoyed just looking at the three of them. “Mr. Maxwell had helped the Manning Corporation and Ms. Manning plenty of times because of their past relationship. Please don’t force things!”“Shut up, Silas! This is between me and Conrad! There’s no place for you here!” Esme said to Silas angrily.Conrad took in a deep breath. “I don’t want to reveal who you are. It’ll make things very distasteful.”He took out his phone and said, “What Silas is saying is what I wanted to say as well. Take a look at this, Esme. The phone then played a video as he put it on the coffee table. The Mannings could see it clearly. In the video, Esme was screaming at Fia. Cursing at her and for her mother
“Are you trying to lie to me, Conrad? Lie to me despite our long relationship for Fia? You want to force me to admit to something I never did?”Esme’s tears continued to flow as she sobbed pitifully.Conrad simply stared at her as the discomfort within him became stronger.Even Silas felt disgusted and couldn’t help but say, “What are you trying to say, Ms. Manning? Didn’t Mr. Maxwell treat you well enough? If you didn’t fake all those scenes whenever you fought with the madam and we discovered it, would we even suspect you?!”“I didn’t!” Esme painfully denied it. “The car accident that Fia’s involved in has nothing to do with me.”She then stood up and said, “If you don’t believe me, I’ll kill myself to prove my innocence!”She turned around and pretended to want to ram into the wall. Hank and Beth quickly stopped her.The old couple glared at Conrad angrily.Hank yelled, “Conrad, aren’t you pushing her too much?!”Beth said, “Esme came back from overseas for you and gave up
“Ah!” Lola was scratched on the face and a bloody wound immediately made its appearance.“Continue,” Conrad simply said in a terrorizing tone.Silas walked over and pulled Esme away so that she couldn’t stop Lola.“When I saw Fia that day at the hospital, I was thinking of getting her into the van. But… I don’t know why but Fia suspected me and offered me something, so I changed my mind and told my cousin to stop.”Conrad raised his hand and massaged his head.He remembered. Fia invited Lola to dinner that day.His feelings were a bit complex. In order to deal with someone else, she had used him to seduce other women.How could she be that generous? Did she not care about him? Her husband?“Ms. Manning didn’t pay anything to us afterward because she blamed us for not being able to finish the job, so after Fia had paid a deposit, I told my cousin to find a way to make her confess her schemes. But maybe because they felt that they had been toyed with by Ms. Manning, they made the
Conrad looked at her as memories from the past began to resurface.When he was younger, he provoked many people. On campus. From the community.He fought everywhere he went.While she was gentle and subservient.She would be goaded by a lot of others because of him.There was this one time after class, she was forced into an alley and was almost…“Conrad, despite our love, how can you treat me so cruelly? I… I would rather die back when I was seventeen!”When she was seventeen… That was the time when she was almost…It was after that that he wanted to better protect her. He held her in his arms and made that promise to her.That was how the two of them confirmed their relationship.But what he didn’t know was that another girl was also stopped in an alley that night and was beaten up.If it wasn’t because she was too young and too thin, it would have been even worse for her.The girl didn’t dare to go to school for half a month because of that.She refused to tell her moth
She was not worthy of him.Right from the start."Wait a moment."She lowered her head to treat the wounds of a mother and son, then stood up with the medical kit and smiled at him."Shall I treat you to a meal?""Sure."She led him through the damp and moldy alley to a shabby restaurant.She ordered two bowls of noodles in the local language, sat down at the old table, took out a handkerchief, and wiped it vigorously.Conrad looked at her. It was obvious that she was different from before.She had gone through hardship, suffering, despair, and then settled down.The noodles were not delicious. There was no oil or salt, and even the soup was bland and tasteless.He looked at her sallow face and said, "Is this what you've been eating the whole year you’ve been here?""This is considered a good meal." Annie did not complain and said that she usually just ate some steamed buns.The conditions here were poor and backward in various ways.Moreover, Lucifer was determined to ma
Fia stood on the streets, looking at the photos and remembering what Lucifer had once mentioned."When everything is over, how about I take you, Adrian, and Irene on a trip?"The man's blue eyes were like the sea, looking at her deeply.She fell into a daze for a moment back then.After coming back to her senses, she replied without emotion, "You should find a partner and travel around the world, and I should live a good life with my children."The sound of car horns on the road brought Fia back from her thoughts.She looked at the blue sky and white clouds and remembered the beggar boy she met on the bridge when she was a child.If he hadn't been taken away that day, would it have been different if he managed to wait until she and her mother went to find him?The days ahead were still very long, and she was not sure whether she would be able to live peacefully with Conrad in the future.But she would never swallow her anger like she did before.Later, Conrad, a decisive char
Irene whimpered, turned around, and hugged Adrian. "Adrian, does Daddy not want us anymore?""No, don't talk nonsense! Didn't you hear what Daddy just said?""I heard him, but why do we have to choose? I won't be happy no matter who Mommy marries.""Shut up!" Adrian was a little anxious. If this silly sister of his said in front of everyone that their mommy could marry two men, it would be over!"Why shut up? Why can't we be with Mommy, Daddy, and our biological dad..."Adrian immediately covered her mouth. He knew that this sister of his could not speak normal words!Everyone in the audience also had mixed emotions. Those who originally complained about Lucifer’s actions all became quiet at this moment.With Lucifer’s blessings, Conrad took off the mask.Fia looked at him, tears rolling down her face.How much she had wished to have a wedding back then. She did not expect it to be so many years late.Conrad said with difficulty, "I didn't expect him to do this either."He w
"Do you really want to stop the wedding?" Lucifer smiled half-heartedly, looking at him like a fool.***"What's going on? Why hasn't the groom come yet?" Everyone couldn't help discussing.Fia stood on the stage and exchanged looks with the emcee.Both of them were a little tired from standing.The emcee asked her awkwardly, "The groom?""He should be coming soon." After Fia finished speaking, the wind blew and revealed her face under the veil. "Just wait."The emcee cursed internally. 'It's really rare to have a wedding with such a beautiful bride kept waiting.'Fia fiddled with the veil on her head to cover her face, making her hazy beauty even more attractive.Just as everyone was waiting impatiently, the music suddenly changed to a more passionate one.The groom appeared.Wearing a black suit with gold threads and a blue rose on his chest, the six-foot-two man wore a golden mask on his face.With just one glance, Fia’s heart suddenly jumped and her body temperature bec
The two kids could only rush back to find their mother and tell her what happened.Fia did not panic. "You were raised by Daddy. Don't you trust him? He is a man who keeps his promises. He said he is just inviting them to the wedding, so they are just attending the wedding."Even though she was suspicious in her heart, she would not speak ill of him to her two children.This island belonged to Lucifer, and his spies were everywhere.If he was infuriated, no one stood to gain anything from it."But that person was not arranged to sit down. He was taken into the woods," Adrian said anxiously.Fia turned to look at her son. "Are you worried about him?"Adrian could not look directly at her.Irene spoke first. "I'm the one who’s worried. I don't want them to fight.""Oh." Fia reassured them. "It should be fine. Today is a special day. Your daddy will not want to see blood."She thought Lucifer was simply afraid that Conrad would cause trouble, so he brought him to the island to l
Amused, Lucifer said, "Those people are not under my command.""They gave you all the companies under their names. You said you'd let bygones be bygones, but if you go back on your word, how will your subordinates see you?"Fia’s eyes were a little arrogant.Lucifer’s expression turned cold and he stared at her and said, "How important do you think Hellish Training Camp is to me?""Then give it away!" Fia raised her eyebrows, her eyes full of teasing.Lucifer was speechless for a couple of seconds and explained to her seriously in a rare instance, "Those people have sacrificed a lot since they started following me. I can't ignore them. Except one day when there is a more suitable successor. I will take the initiative to give up my position.""Then you have to lead them well." Fia smiled slyly.Lucifer gritted his teeth with hatred. "Marrying you is equivalent to marrying a housekeeper. From now on, must everything I do have your permission?"Fia said, "Invisible shackles."On
"I got it.""Thank you, Daddy!" Adrian kissed him twice on the face. "My sister and I will take care of you until you die.""Hahahaha!" Lucifer could not stop laughing. "Okay, I'll wait until you two grow up to see me off."He smiled while carrying Adrian and walked to Fia and Irene.Irene was eating something and said vaguely, "Adrian’s temper is getting worse now, and he lost his temper with me.""Who is angry with you!" Adrian slid off Lucifer. "Who do you think you are, that you can influence me?""Mommy, Adrian is shouting at me!" Irene pouted.Adrian turned his back. "Forget it. I won't talk to you anymore."Lucifer and Fia looked at Irene."Mommy, Daddy, what are you looking at me for?" Irene blinked, looking innocent.Lucifer sat down beside her. "Adrian should love you, but you should also respect him.""Didn't I respect him?" Irene was a little confused.Fia said, "While I'm still here, you just spread rumors that he is angry with you."Irene replied, "But he was
Eileen returned to the living room."Is she really going to marry Lucifer?" Victor asked nervously.Eileen remained silent.Victor threw the spatula in his hand. "Can't you stop her for a bit?""Why should I stop her? No matter who she marries, she will always be my best friend!" Eileen said angrily. "Whoever wants to stop her should stop her on their own!"Victor saw that she was angry and quickly picked up the spatula. "I'm going to cook."Eileen rolled her eyes at him, sat on the sofa, and scrolled through her phone.Thinking of Adrian and Irene, she could not help but feel a little irritable.What if Fia and Lucifer had a child in the future?For the happiness of the two children, she forwarded the photo sent by Fia to Conrad.After Conrad received the photo, he immediately ordered everyone under him to put down all work and find the location in the photo.Three days later.The wedding on the island was beautifully decorated, dreamy and gorgeous, with Lucifer’s involvem
Soon, Fia knew what they were doing with just a little of the decoration showing.Decorating the wedding venue.Irene was a little girl who was very happy when she saw balloons and pink ribbons.She ran over and grabbed them, but her brother, Adrian, slapped her little hand."Don't cause trouble!""So beautiful! These uncles and aunts were invited by Daddy. Can't I play with these things?"Adrian pinched her cheek and said, "That's Daddy decorating the wedding scene for Mommy!""What?" Irene immediately retracted her hand and said with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry. I didn't know."Adrian rubbed her head and said, "It doesn't matter. Don’t simply meddle. It should be beautiful when it's done."Irene nodded, took her brother’s hand and hid under a nearby coconut tree, and spent the whole day doing nothing except cooking and watching them.By evening, the dreamy and beautiful wedding scene was mostly completed.Irene leaned against her brother and asked dully, "Daddy and Momm