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No! That was impossible!Henry promptly shook her head, rejecting the thought that Sophie was dead as soon as it occurred to him!There was no way she could be dead—she was a perfectly healthy child, so how could she die just from being stood up at the amusement park?!Right, that was impossible!Tina was just giving him crap for making Sophie wait alone at the amusement park for so long because she loved Sophie too much and was too upset with him for playing favorites with Rory! That was why she would say something like that!At that moment, Henry was too scared to think or delve further, even if his reasoning was as weak as it was illogical.It was instinctive denial—denying the possibility that Sophie was really dead.He was so scared that he refused to accept that reality, because that would mean his remorse had come too late.He had finally just realized how much he owed Sophie and had just started to understand that he was a father and was learning how to love Sophie.As
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Grabbing Tina's shoulders with his large hands, Henry's eyes were red as he cried, "What happened to Sophie? Why did she pass out? Why did she cough blood?"This time, Tina did not try to free herself from his grip, her eyes redder than Henry's as she held his gaze.After Madam Barnes found out that Sophie was dead, she knew that Henry would eventually find out anyway.So, when she saw the surprise Henry prepared for Sophie at the amusement park, she did not hesitate to tell him Sophie was dead in this fashion.Since he kept refusing to believe her, she would drive the point home in the way that would hurt him the most.She might be breaking her own heart, but she was breaking his too.It was always said that love that came too late was cheaper than dirt, and a father's love was no different.Even though she was shedding tears ever since the video started playing, it was only because her heart ached for Sophie—her eyes remained cold whenever she looked at Henry.Still, she had
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It was all true—Sophie was really sick and had kidney failure.Henry then remembered Sophie calling him, asking gingerly and tearfully, "Daddy, can you come visit me? I'm sick, and the injections hurt—""Don't lie like your mother." Henry had snapped coolly at her and hung up.He thought she was pretending to be sick just like before when Tina had asked her to.Now, he could not even imagine how hurt Sophie must have been.Rory had kidney failure too, but Henry was at her side during every injection.As for Sophie? Not even once.He had heartlessly rejected her the only time she mustered her courage to call him.He really had no right to call himself her father.He wobbled unsteadily even as the truths struck him one after the other."I didn't know that Sophie's really sick. I thought…"He tried to explain himself but could not just then.Now that he remembered, Tina had fired that maid, who was problematic in the first place.But now was not the time for that, nor the tim
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The name was a sharp knife that stabbed viciously into Henry's heart, and his figure wobbled as if he could not take it.It took a long while for him to finally look up, his eyes red as he took Sophie's death certificate from Tina and saw the cause of death: kidney failure.His chest suddenly felt stuck and stuffy, suffocating him.Sophie was really dead.His daughter… dead!"Where's she buried?" he rasped.He wanted to see her anyway.On the other hand, Tina was endlessly indifferent even as she watched him hurt. "You have no right to visit Sophie. Don't bother her when she's resting in peace."A man who never stopped protecting Sophie's murderer certainly had no right! And with those words, Tina turned to leave.The only reason she came was because she did not want Madam Barnes to make this easy for Henry.She wanted to make him understand Sophie while making it very painful, so that it would hurt him.She had never bothered to hope for Henry to avenge Sophie, not when L
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After Linda vandalized Sophie's gravestone, the graveyard's security got her number, saying that they would keep an eye and tell her right away if anyone got near Sophie's grave.Tina tapped on the photo sent to her and saw that it was Henry kneeling in front of Sophie's grave.So, he managed to find Sophie's grave anyway…Still, it was inevitable once he set his mind to it.The only reason he never knew about Sophie's death was that he did not care and refused to spare the effort to look.She replied to the text: [Thank you, but don't worry about him. He's Sophie's father.]With that, she put away her phone—Henry owed Sophie that much anyway.-The security guards ignored Henry as Tina told them to, although they would find him still kneeling there during every patrol.In fact, he stayed there through the night, and he only got up when the sun rose the next day."Daddy will come by tomorrow again," he said as he touched Sophie's little face and wobbled out of the graveyard.
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The waters of deep winter chilled the bone, leaving Henry shuddering immediately as he dove under the pool.The freezing temperatures left his exposed skin reddened and stinging, but the cold did not discourage him.His guilt and self-blame only grew further, as he had thrown his already sickly daughter into the pool, leaving her in these icy waters for so long."It's alright, Sophie… Daddy's here. Daddy will take you home…"With that thought, Henry dived to the depths, searching with the rays of dawn that pierced into the depths.He looked around the surface and found nothing, so he began to claw into the mud, not caring about getting his hands dirty.Time passed.He was a great swimmer, but the mud went deep, and it was dim underneath.But he never gave up.Whenever he felt out of breath, he went to the surface to inhale deeply and dived down again."Mr. Barnes…"Andy stood anxiously by the pond, having picked up the coat Henry had thrown on the ground, watching worriedly
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Henry simply stared at the necklace, while Andy drove all the way to Tina's apartment in Maple Park.Henry then wobbled out of the car. His ankles were swollen and hurt after kneeling an entire night and being underwater for so long.Still, he made it outside Tina's door despite great difficulty and knocked.Tina could not sleep herself.She had hurt Henry by talking about Sophie's life, but it hurt her too.When she came home, she stayed in Sophie's room, hugged her photo, and cried the entire night.Hearing the knock on her door, she put down Sophie's photo and went to answer it.She found Henry standing outside, his face unusually pale and his eyes bloodshot, his expression weary.Stubble had grown out as he did not sleep the whole night, making him look especially listless.However, his appearance did not invoke any sympathy from Tina, and she snapped coolly, "You had the cheek to get up and leave?"He should kneel before Sophie's grave until he died!Andy, who had come
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Tina stood behind her door, holding Sophie's bone and watching coolly as Henry lay on the floor, crimson blood flowed out of the cut on his forehead.It first started with trickles, but he was soon lying in a pool of his own blood.It was a gruesome sight, just like the way she found Sophie that day when she reached the amusement park.However, Tina also felt completely different emotions from that day.While she had been on the verge of a breakdown when she found Sophie, she now watched Henry indifferently, not helping him to his feet or calling for help.She simply stood there watching.-Downstairs, Andy was leaning against the car and smoking a cigarette as he watched Tina's floor.When the motion sensor lights turned off, he thought that Henry was coming down and snuffed his cigarette, throwing it into a nearby trash can.However, after waiting for a while but not seeing Henry, while the lights never turned on again, he realized in shock that something had gone wrong.Th
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The instant Tina tapped on the notification, she found Henry kneeling outside her door, motionless.She swiped through her phone and saw that most notifications were from Henry, with the first of many being sent at three in the morning.That meant Henry had driven straight to her place after leaving Rose Garden and knelt outside her door for almost four hours.But Tina remained unaffected.Remembering the video John had sent earlier, she had a hunch that Henry was outside after he became aware of Rory's true nature.She soon tapped out of the notifications and kept chatting with John since she found herself in a good mood first thing in the morning.When John said he had yet to have breakfast, Tina could read between the lines and did not play dumb, telling him that she would cook extra portions for him when he came over.John replied: [Already on my way.]Tina could not resist a smile. [Drive safe. See you soon.]After putting down her phone, she went about her daily routine—
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It was an especially long night, and every passing second was especially gruelling as Henry stayed on his knees outside Tina's door, like his heart was being stabbed.-When Tina woke up, she noticed that John had just texted her a minute ago.[Are you up?]Tina smiled ever so faintly as she replied: [Mornin'.][There's a video you should watch.][Okay.]While waiting for the video to be sent to her phone, she noticed many notifications from her alarm system.It was the first time this had happened since she moved in, and she was about to tap on it when John's file was downloaded.Tina tapped on the video first and immediately recognized that it was taken outside Rsoe Garden when she tapped on it.A familiar car was outside Linda's villa—it was Henry's.Tina's gaze cooled as she looked on.Yesterday was Sophie's death anniversary and also Rory's birthday.And given how much Henry doted on Rory, it was not hard to see that he went to the Rose Garden after visiting Sophie's
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As Henry's car soon disappeared in the night, Rory was left behind and too exhausted to give chase.She lay sprawled on the ground, watching as Henry left her, and her body's warmth slowly faded.Her gaze was endlessly horrified and helpless.Was he really going to leave her?-After leaving Rose Garden, Henry drove straight to Tina's apartment, having paid a hefty sum to buy the adjacent units to hers after finding out that she had moved there.He drove into the car park but stayed downstairs.The apartment complex was very quiet as it was three in the morning, but his heart could not quiet down at all.After all, he had been horrified since the moment he exposed Rory's two-faced nature.It was so obvious, but he just did not see it!He really was too overjoyed from the reunion when Linda showed up, passing herself off as Orange.The delight of the lost and found was just too much, and he cared even more for Linda when she told him that Mama Orange was dead, and how much su
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It was such a horrible sight that Henry eased his foot off the gas pedal before he knew it, and his car clearly slowed.To Rory, it was a ray of hope—just as she thought, he loved her and could not really bear to leave her.He must be heartbroken to see how much she loved him and chased him until she got hurt.With that thought, her utterly discouraged spirit was once again soaring.So what if Sophie was his real daughter?! She was dead! And all a dead person could do was lay six feet under, unable to do a thing!But Rory was different—even if she was not connected to Henry by blood, she was alive.That meant she could sweet-talk him, whispering nice words to cajole him.And what could dead Sophie do about that?Hence, Rory found renewed strength despite being exhausted and started crawling toward Henry's car, bawling as she did.She had a clear objective and did not care that her hands and knees were scraped through."Daddy… Look at me… It hurts so much… Daddy…"As Rory g
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Henry paused as he turned and suddenly turned toward Rory.Despite her leveling a miserable look at Henry with her eyes swollen from tears, he was still not relenting.In fact, he was endlessly cold as he glared at her with a cool look that cut to the bone."I'm telling you one last time—don't call me Daddy, you hear?"Rory had only seen him give Tina and Sophie that look before and had never expected him to look at her the same way now.She was left trembling endlessly, her lips parting as she really wanted to call out to him and sweet-talk him like she always did.But that icy glare left her speechless, and she could only watch as Henry turned and strode off, his footsteps soon fading into the distance.Did he really hate her now? Was he leaving her?Even as the thought struck her, she shook her head repeatedly!No! Henry could not leave her! She could not lose him! "Daddy!" She finally called out again as she leapt out of bed and started running without putting on her sho
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However, was Rory really innocent?Henry might have believed Linda if he had not seen what Rory did with his own eyes—how malicious she looked when she cursed Sophie, and how vile the words she breathed were!Just remembering the sight left him shuddering.Not even a normal adult should have been capable of such vile words, and Rory was only seven!But what frightened Henry the most was how she was once again the good girl Rory as soon as she turned and saw him.She could switch between her personalities as if it was second nature, just like what Linda always did behind his back.The phrase 'the apple doesn't fall far from the tree' really came to mind!Why could he not just see that from the start?!Rory had grown up by Linda's side, and Linda was a mother who was so immaculate with her pretensions.With such influence, would Rory have been all that different?"Adopt Rory, you say?" Henry breathed so quietly that no one could tell what he was really feeling just then.But s
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Linda already had some choice words in mind for Rory after Henry never showed up today.So, her eyes were flaring in annoyance when she opened them, as Rory made such a loud ruckus past midnight, waking her up.She was ready to give Rory a beating as she moved from her bed to her wheelchair and headed to the next room.That was when she heard Henry's voice.She did not rush inside, however, and eavesdropped outside, cursing Rory's incompetence when she realized what just happened! Rory could not even do one thing right and had to let Henry catch her cursing that brat!At this point, Linda was well aware that any chances she had of getting back together with Henry depended entirely on Rory, so she must not let Henry become disappointed in Rory.Rory was her trump card. And if she lost her trump card, she had no shot of getting Henry back.And how could she accept something like that?!She had stayed by his side, putting up an act for years! How could she just allow herself to
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It had never crossed Henry's mind that Rory was lying.He was prejudiced and had absolutely fought with Sophie, insisting endlessly that Rory would never lie.But was Sophie lying just because Rory did not?At this very moment, Henry did not even dare to think about how many lies Rory had told him over the years.And because he had absolute faith in Rory, how many times he had glazed over the facts and blamed Sophie!"Daddy…" Rory was truly terrified now, clutching her cheek where Henry slapped her in disbelief while her tears welled up in her eyes.In truth, Henry did not hit her that hard—he was holding back, compared to the times her mother had slapped her.But her heart hurt.Her daddy… The daddy she loved so much, the daddy who spoiled her so much and never raised his voice at her, slapped her because of Sophie!He did not just forget her birthday because of Sophie—he even struck her now!But she did not blame him.It was all Sophie's fault—and she hated Sophie even m
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Rory asked, "Daddy? Is that my birthday present?"At the same time, she knew very well that if Henry saw what that straw doll really was, he would be absolutely furious.That was why he must not let him see at any cost.However, Henry was still glowering as he threw the gift aside, taking a step forward and glaring at her menacingly. "Show it to me!""Daddy…"More tears gushed from Rory's eyes, as if Henry terrified her.And yet, she gingerly reached out, tugging on the hem of Henry's shirt, chirping sweetly, "Daddy, you're scaring me. Don't look at me like that."At that moment, she was once again the Rory that Henry was so familiar with.Mature and obedient.Kind and innocent.Guileless and harmless.But Henry could not forget about the Rory he saw just now.And seeing that she kept trying to manipulate him, he lost all patience and pushed her aside, while reaching for the blanket with his other hand."Daddy! Don't look!"Rory cried as she lunged over in a panic to stop
