During this time, he brought Hollie home.
I witnessed with my own eyes that everything belonging to me was taken away.
Even the wedding photos were replaced with their couple pictures.
Matching toothbrushes and slippers.
Everything became Hollie’s.
Even the sunflowers I loved in the backyard were removed.
They flaunted their presence in the social scene,
professing their love in front of cameras.
Rumors spread that I had someone else outside, which led him to turn to Hollie.
Only Simon himself knew
that he was the one who changed his heart first.
“Mr. Smith, I heard you’re divorcing Miss Burke, is that true?”
“Did Miss Burke betray you first? Is Hollie your next wife?”
…
One question after another crashed over him like waves.
Yet Simon remained expressionless, his gaze fixated on a figure not far away.
Before Hollie could react,
he rushed over and firmly grabbed the woman’s hand.
“I knew you’d come…”
He arrogantly finished his sentence, but when the woman turned around,
his smile instantly froze on his face.
It wasn’t me.
It was a stranger.
Realizing he had mistaken her, he awkwardly retracted his hand.
At that moment, someone approached him
and punched him in the face.
Simon didn’t have time to react before he was knocked to the ground.
It was James.
His eyes were bloodshot, staring fiercely at Simon. “Do you know Julie is dead?”
Not only Simon, but even I was stunned.
Dead?
How could she be dead?
Didn’t Julie only have her leg broken?
How could…
My throat tightened as I suddenly recalled something.
Yes, Julie was tortured so cruelly, and she was so young; how long could she hold on?
James cared a lot about Julie.
The children from the orphanage were sent to factories, but she was the only one who was adopted.
That’s why he paid extra attention to her.
However, when he searched for the couple who adopted Julie,
he discovered something was wrong; these two were notorious fugitives.
By the time he traced them to that mountain village,
he found a barely alive Julie,
bloodied all over.
She was sent to the hospital, but despite efforts to save her, she died.
James gritted his teeth, thinking of how such a lovely child could die in just one day.
Simon spat out blood,
“Are you talking nonsense?”
“Don’t believe me? Come with me to the hospital.”
The two rushed to the hospital.
Julie had already been wheeled out of the emergency room.
Underneath the white cloth lay Julie’s body.
Simon froze, “Doctor, she…”
“I’m sorry, we did our best, but the child was too severely injured, with multiple fractures…”
Saying this, even the doctor couldn’t continue.
He sighed and let Simon look for himself.
With trembling hands, he pulled back the covering cloth.
Julie’s pale face appeared before him.
He staggered back, “This is impossible! You’re lying to me, right? Isn’t one lie not enough? Get up, stop pretending to be dead!”
He shook Julie’s body vigorously until he accidentally pushed it to the ground due to his force.
James shoved him away, “What are you doing?! She’s not breathing! Simon, do you know that every child from the orphanage is Laura’s labor of love? How can you face her like this?”
“You clearly know how important this child is to her!”
The main reason I adopted Julie was that she was also a child abandoned by her father.
When I found her, she was being beaten and scolded by her father and stepmother.
In that instant, I remembered my own childhood.
That’s why I adopted Julie, treating her like my own child.
Simon knew this.
But now?
He harmed Julie just as he harmed the former me.
Simon was furious, his face flushed, but he wouldn’t back down.
During this time, he had been elevated by Hollie and was accustomed to seeing himself in a high position.
Would he admit he was wrong to me?
Ha.
“What are you even worth?”
Then Simon sneered again, “You’re doing this on purpose, right? Putting on this act, waiting for me to bow my head to her? Dream on! Where’s Laura? She must be here, right? Come out!”
He pushed aside the stretcher in front of him.
He stormed into the operating room, overturning the entire surgical table.
He searched through the whole hospital but didn’t see my shadow.
This wasn’t right.
In his mind, I was bound to appear.
Seeing him go mad for me, seeing him panicked,
was also amusing; if I were still alive, I would definitely mock him.
But unfortunately, I was already dead.
“Sir… what should we do with the body?”
Assistant Patel asked cautiously.
He couldn’t grasp Simon’s thoughts; one moment it was for Mrs. Smith, the next for Miss Owen.
He was afraid that if he said the wrong thing, he’d provoke Simon’s wrath.
Simon looked at him, “What body?”
“The one belonging to Julie… um…”
Before Patel could finish, he was kicked hard by Simon.
“I told you she’s not dead; can’t you understand? This is just Laura’s scheme!”
“She just wanted to deceive me in this way!!”
“Who would have thought she was so scheming? I used to think she was a kind-hearted person.”
As soon as he finished speaking, his phone rang.
It was from the person responsible for examining the body.
“Mr. Smith, the autopsy report is out…”
At that moment, Simon finally calmed down, revealing a mocking tone, “So, which unknown body did she use to fool me? I knew it would turn out this way; she thinks that with her little cleverness, I can’t find out the truth?”
“We’ll hold a press conference tomorrow; I want her to apologize to Hollie in front of everyone in Haicheng!”
After a speech, there was a long silence on the other end of the line.
After a while, the person in charge stammered, “Mr. Smith, according to the autopsy report, the identity of the body matches that of Mrs. Smith…”
Simon froze. “What do you mean?”
The person in charge paused, then said seriously, “That body is Mrs. Smith’s…”
“You’re talking nonsense! How could that body possibly be Laura’s? Did you make a mistake? Or did you get some benefits to deceive me?”
“Mr. Smith, if you don’t believe it, come see for yourself.”