Everyone looked over to see a young lady in fashionable streetwear walking over with a lollipop in her mouth.Heidi's gaze instantly darkened. "Go away! You're the embarrassing one wearing such clothes to this party!""Mom, I don't want to wear the gown you prepared for me. I'm 24 years old. Don't I have the freedom to wear what I want?"Then, the young lady pointed to Yvonne, who was standing behind Otto, and said, "This woman has a scarf wrapped around her head. What she's wearing is more jarring than me.""Chelsea Carrington!" Heidi barked. "You are not needed here! Go and change your clothes!""I'm not going!" Chelsea retorted. She even stuck her tongue out at Heidi. "I hate wearing dresses! You're only asking me to go so you can continue to bully Aunt Edith."Chelsea hid behind Edith. "Aunt Edith, help me talk some sense into my mother. Tell her not to be so old-fashioned. Why must a lady wear a dress?""Chelsea, you come back here!"Heidi had two daughters. The eldest was
"Aunt Edith!"Edith stopped in her tracks when she heard Chelsea call out to her.She turned around to see Chelsea approaching her. She furrowed her brows. "Why did you follow me?""I don't want to stay with my mom. I prefer you more, and also Otto." When saying that, Chelsea gave Yvonne a glance and smiled at her. "You're the woman that Otto likes, right? What a character! I like you a lot!"Yvonne smiled but said nothing. She was rather uncomfortable with Chelsea's enthusiasm since they had just met for the first time.Her experience told her that Chelsea wasn't as direct and innocent as she seemed.Perhaps Yvonne seemed a little distant, but Chelsea stopped trying to get close to her. She looked at Edith once more. "Aunt Edith, I meant what I said just now. If you want to come back, let me know. I'll surely help you!"Edith smiled gently. "Thank you. I appreciate your kindness, but I do not feel like returning to the country for the time being.""Why? Great-Grandma was a
At night, a row of cars parked by the side of the road.Calbert was in one of them, looking rather inconspicuous.At that moment, the driver noticed that a few bodyguards looking into some cars nearby were slowly approaching theirs."Boss, those men seemed to be working for Mrs. Carrington Senior. Are they looking for us?"Calbert did not respond. He merely looked at the bodyguards coldly.Soon, someone knocked on their car window. The driver was nervous. He grabbed onto the steering wheel, about to slam on the gas pedal at any moment.Calbert rolled the window down a little and asked coldly, "Can I help you?""What are you all doing in the car so late at night?" the bodyguard asked in an unfriendly tone. He looked into the car through the slit of the window. He immediately noticed that Calbert didn't look like a good person."Get out of the car and come see Mrs. Carrington Senior with us. Explain to her why you're stalking her. Perhaps, we could let you go then. If not, we w
"Everything." Otto looked at Yvonne with anger burning in his gaze. "If my guess is correct, the person you're talking to on the phone right now is that son of a bitch, Calbert Beck."Seeing how Otto said Calbert's full name, he was clearly furious.However, the situation was urgent. Yvonne had no time to hesitate.She kept her phone away and looked into Otto's eyes. "Mr. Carrington, I will explain this to you in detail later. Right now, looking for Mrs. Carrington Senior is more important. "She has most likely been taken away by Mark. We have to quickly meet up with Calbert to look for her together."Upon hearing that, Otto looked at Yvonne intently for a moment before turning around without saying a single word.Seeing Otto leave, Yvonne furrowed her brows, but she secretly sighed in relief. Although Otto hadn't said anything, his disappointment was jarring. Her mind was buzzing.…Agatha was the star of the party that night, yet she had not appeared yet.The guests h
After Edith left, Calbert was the first one to speak. "Otto, if you want to blame someone, blame me. I was the first one to notice. I was the one who told Yvonne.""I was the one who told Calbert to hide it from you," Yvonne chimed in. She looked at Otto calmly. "Mr. Carrington, this entire matter is really complicated and long. Back then, we weren't sure of it yet, which is why—""You two ganged up to lie to me. Now you expect me to just try to understand where you're coming from. Is that it?"Otto sneered. "You two are the people I trust the most. I thought there were no secrets between us and that we could talk about anything. "But what did you two do instead? If Mark hadn't taken Great-Grandma away, how long were you planning to keep this from me?"Yvonne and Calbert looked at each other.Calbert looked apologetic. "We had always planned to tell you. It's just that things happened too suddenly. We never thought Mark would do this.""Do you think I would believe you?" Otto
Just as Otto had guessed, Mark didn't cause Agatha any trouble.At that moment, he brought a doggy bag of breakfast food to Agatha. "I don't know what you like to eat, so just eat whatever we have downstairs."He placed the food on the table.The next second, Agatha flipped the table, sending food falling everywhere."Who the hell are you?" Agatha was so furious, she trembled. "How much ransom are you asking for by kidnapping me? Let me tell you, the people I hate the most in this world are kidnappers!"I'm really old. I would rather die than let you terrible kidnappers get away with the money!"Agatha spat on Mark."You!" Mark was furious, but he gritted his teeth and took it.He bent down and picked up a piece of bread.Agatha looked at him as he picked up the bread. Somehow, she got even more furious. She stabbed her walking cane into another piece of bread. "Why the hell are you picking this up? I won't eat any of it!"Mark grabbed her walking cane and looked up at her co
At that instant, her blurry memories of that face suddenly became clear.The face she was looking at in front of her at that moment looked so much like that of her eldest grandson. It was almost a clone!Tears welled up in Agatha's eyes. She raised her trembling hands to touch Mark's face. "You've returned."Mark felt a little uneasy. He pushed her hands away.Agatha frantically pulled him back and asked urgently, "Who are you? What is your name?""I would like to know who the hell I am too." Mark retracted his hand and stood up. He towered over Agatha and looked at her. "Why did you destroy my mother's grave? The men you hired at the border said you were looking for me. Why were you looking for me?"Back then, when Yvonne had said that he was not Jennifer Johnson's son, he had fought for his life to run out from the fire. When he arrived at the border, he realized that Jennifer's grave had been destroyed. After looking into it, he found out that Agatha was behind it.He had
Agatha quickly wiped away her tears and nodded fervently. "Of course!"She tried to get up, but she had used all her energy from crying. She could only look up at Mark. "My child, I've been searching for you to take you back home. No family member should be left outside on their own."If I don't take you back home, I won't dare to see your parents at all!"Agatha reached out to hold Mark's hand. This time, he didn't refuse.She looked delighted. "D-Do you believe me now?""I have to see with my own eyes to believe you. You said my… father and I…" Mark furrowed his brows. He felt a little strange bringing up his father. "That we look alike?""Yes!" Agatha nodded. She held onto Mark's hand and slowly got up. "I can take you back to Carrington Mansion. I still have the photos of your parents. You'll believe me once you see them.""Okay."Seeing Mark agree, Agatha enthusiastically led him to the door. "Let's go. We'll head back right away."However, Mark didn't move.Agatha loo