Xante sighed. "It wasn't us, boss. He crashed into a glass door himself and broke it. The doctor says he has a mild concussion and he's still unconscious as we speak."The corners of Corinne's mouth started twitching. 'Seems like the reason Sunny's still alive until now is 'cause his family protected him very well. It's no wonder Lucas keeps such a close eye on him. Sunny does give the vibe of easily dying if no one is watching over him.'"Okay. I understand the situation now. Keep a close eye on him and make sure he doesn't run around when he wakes up. I'll be at the hospital soon.""Don't worry, boss. You can certainly count on me."After hanging up the phone, Corinne turned to look at Ghostlord. She had a change of heart. 'It would be unethical of me to take off his mask. I mean, he's unconscious and the number one fear of a hacker is for other people to find out their identity.'She decided it was in her best interest to keep Ghostlord's identity a mystery since he was her ido
Lucas found it highly suspicious that a young woman who came from an impoverished background and who just recently graduated would have the money to stay in a five-star hotel.A corner of Corinne's lips started twitching. "Mister Lucas, please don't tell me you think I have a crush on you.""It doesn't matter whether you have a crush on me or not but let me warn you, you better not do anything you shouldn't, or else things could end up very badly for you," said Lucas with a threatening smile.Corinne smiled and shrugged. "I'm not plotting anything if that's what you're implying and if you don't believe me, well, that's not my problem."At that moment, the elevator door opened again and around a dozen or so people surged in. Most of them had a laptop in their hands and some of them were laughing and talking to each other. They seemed to be on their way to attend an event together.Corinne was suddenly pushed to the innermost corner of the elevator and through the rush, someone acci
"I said, get away from her!" came the deep voice again and this time, it was louder than ever.The pervert finally found the source of the voice. He turned to look in the direction it came from and discovered it belonged to a handsome man who was a head taller than him. For a second, he lost his confidence."Ahem. This is none of your business."There was no visible sign of anger on Lucas' handsome face. He calmly looked down at the pervert and repeated the four words in a neutral tone, "Get. Away. From. Her."Despite his neutral tone, the aura Lucas was emitting was threatening enough to send a chill up the pervert's spine. Everyone turned to look at them, waiting to see how the drama would unfold.The pervert became a little scared. He could tell Lucas was someone who he should not mess with but his ego would not allow him to humiliate himself in front of everyone. Thus, he decided to challenge Lucas."Who are you to her? Why should I listen to you?""That's not something you
The pervert started crying from the pain. "Ouch! Dude, what are you doing? You're going to break my arm if you don't let go! Why are you still doing this when I've already said you can have that girl? Let me go!""What did you say just now?" asked Lucas emotionlessly.The pervert's eyes became shifty with guilt. "I wasn't talking about you anyway."Lucas did not say anything. Instead, he put more force into the twist, causing the pervert to yelp out in pain."I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that to her. I shouldn't have tried to take advantage of her. It's all my fault! I'm nothing but a shameless piece of sh*t!"Lucas pushed the pervert to the ground before casually stepping on his arm, causing it to crack sickeningly.After that, he looked down on him like he was a piece of trash and said coldly, "Flirting is built on the respect given to the other party. Thus, what you were doing was not called flirting but s*xual harassment!"He then shook his hand as though he t
Corinne arrived at the hospital.Sunny was staying in the most expensive single-occupancy ward. He was unconscious on the bed with a bandage wrapped around his forehead. His brows were knitted tightly together as though he was having a nightmare.Corinne looked at the idiotic Sunny with her brow raised. "Why isn't he awake yet?"Xante pinched the space between her brows and sighed. "The doctor said the force of the impact was really strong so it might take him a while to wake up."Corinne frowned. "How did a big boy like him crash into a glass door in broad daylight?"Xante was left quite speechless by Sunny's idiocy too. "Remember when you asked me to make sure he doesn't get to go to the World Hacker Conference? Well, I pretended to fall sick to distract him and it worked 'cause he was the one who brought me to this hospital."However, when he went to the dispensary to get me some medicine, he was in so much of a rush that he didn't see the spotless glass door in front of him a
Even though Corinne knew Sunny was calling for Anya, she still became a little startled when he grabbed her hand as if his life depended on it."I'm not your sister. Wake up and see who I am!"Sunny shook his head. "Anya, I didn't betray you! I just wish you'll stop bullying Corinne 'cause she's quite a nice person."Corinne was a little taken aback to hear that. 'Is he helping me in his dream?'"Anya, No!" Sunny suddenly woke up in fright; his face was completely covered with sweat.Corinne, who was sitting beside his bed, looked at him and asked, "So you've finally woken up."Sunny turned to look blankly at her and then at his surroundings before finally looking down at the hospital gown he was wearing. "Why am I here?""You ran into a glass door and hurt yourself."Shocked, he tried to think back to what happened before he found himself lying on the hospital bed. What he remembered made him blush with embarrassment. After all, it did sound very foolish of him to run into a g
Sunny frowned in consternation. "Jeremy must have developed feelings for you during the three months you were together. Otherwise, he wouldn't have treated you so well. He became depressed after you left and it took him a long while to get out of it. Now that things are going well with him and Anya, I hope you'll leave them alone. Compared to you, Anya needs Jeremy more since her health is failing as we speak."'Jeremy was depressed because of me?' Corinne thought with disbelief. 'Huh! So what? He brought it on himself. Serves him right for tricking me into believing he has feelings while he goes around playing a happy family with Anya and Joey. He's probably just depressed because I called him out on his bullsh*t and he couldn't take the humiliation.'Sunny stared at Corinne pointedly, causing a frown to appear on his face. "Corinne, there are plenty more fish in the sea. You can be my sister-in-law if you're interested in Lucas. He's every bit as good as Jeremy. H*ll, I'll even hel
Corinne nodded. "Really."Sunny looked at her. For some reason, even though he successfully extracted a guarantee out of Corinne, he still could not help but feel conflicted about the whole thing.Corinne did not want to talk about Jeremy anymore so she absent-mindedly changed the topic. "By the way, I saw your brother in Kanton City today."Sunny's pupils immediately shrank to pinpoint size and the glass of water dropped from his hand. It was a good thing Corinne managed to catch it because if not, the water would have splashed all over the hospital bed.Sunny took a gulp fearfully as though he saw a ghost. "Did you tell him I'm here too?" he asked cautiously."Not yet." Corinne placed the glass of water on the bedside table. "I was just going to ask you whether I should tell your brother so that he could come here and bring you home for some bed rest."Hearing that, Sunny heaved a long sigh of relief before shaking his head vehemently to let her know that under no circumstances