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
Lucas turned toward her. "Go on. Spit it out."Corinne got up and looked at him with resolve in her eyes. "Mister Lucas, I think there's something wrong with the way you're disciplining Mister Sunny."Lucas smiled. "Miss Corinne, I didn't expect to run into you again so soon. Why, it was just moments ago we ran into each other at the hotel. I haven't even asked you what you're doing here and yet you dared to question the way I discipline my brother? In any case, who made you the queen of discipline?"The contempt in Lucas's voice was obvious but Corinne was unfazed by it. She continued to look at him indifferently and said, "I might not know everything there is to know about disciplining a child but I do have first-hand experience of what it feels like to grow up in a house that gives out bad disciplinary actions so I thought I should warn you to stop doing what you're doing or else you'll come to regret it in the end."Lucas pulled out a chair, sat down on it, rested his elbow on
Lucas stared fixedly at Corinne for a while before finally, politely but coldly, saying, "Miss Corinne, what you said only applies to kids of regular folks and not for kids born into the Rivera family. Those that carry the Rivera name, like Sunny himself, are tasked with a great burden on their shoulder. Thus, he can't just do whatever he wants. Do you understand now?"What Corinne hated the most was the way Lucas thought he was better than everybody else just because he was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy and prominent family. "We're all humans on this earth. No one is better than anybody else! You say he's tasked with a great burden on his shoulder but have you ever asked if he wanted that? No matter how self-righteous you made the whole thing sound, it still doesn't make it right for you to impose your wishes on another person! I used to think life would be better for me if I was born into a wealthy family. Then I could do whatever I wish to do without ever having to worry
Sunny regained his senses and answered Lucas honestly, "Umm, we just so happened to bump into each other at the airport. We parted ways after exchanging a few words and I saw her again when I woke up in the hospital.""She came to the hospital without you telling her to?" Lucas asked suspiciously.Sunny nodded. "Yes. I was still unconscious when she arrived at the hospital so there was no way I could've asked her to come.""Then how did she know you've been admitted to the hospital?""She said the hospital has access to the national traffic system which allowed them to track her down. They thought she must be my friend since I've spoken to her at the airport so they asked her to come here."Lucas frowned. "The hospital has access to the national traffic system?"Sunny nodded. "Yeah!"Lucas did not know what to say to that. All he could think about was how stupid Sunny was to be so easily fooled by Corinne. 'I was right to think she has some ulterior motive to show up here at Kan
Lilin was still reeling from the shock of the car accident so she could not take in anyone's words. She cried even louder and shook her head fiercely. "I want my mommy! I want my mommy! I want to go inside to my mommy!"The nurse was at a loss for what to do. She tried to coax her gently, "The doctor is trying to save your mommy right now. You just have to wait here until she comes out since kids are not allowed into the emergency ward. Be a good girl and listen to me. Wait here quietly. You might affect your mommy's treatment if you keep crying and shouting like this."Her words did not affect Lilin. She continued to cry for her mother. "Mommy! I want my mommy!"The nurse became frustrated. She was at her wit's end."What's going on here?" Corinne asked after she came over.The nurse looked at her and sighed helplessly. "There was a serious car accident on Third Avenue. This little girl's mother sacrificed herself to protect her. My guess is she's not going to make it out of that