It was past midnight and a new year had arrived.

Anna gazed at the glamorous fireworks, a garish display of intense colors reflected in her eyes.

With the new year comes a new fight.

Sooner or later, I will completely break off from Jordan’s control and achieve freedom!

Now that her sons had grown up and did not need her protection anymore, she desired to live for herself as there was still plenty of time to enjoy life.

Two of them stood by the window and marveled at the fireworks outside.

Every firework that exploded in the sky would light up Cooper’s facial features, and it seemed like different stories of Cooper were reflected through the glow each time.

Anna was extremely curious about Cooper.

She had come across too many men—the domineering ones, the gentle ones, the wise ones, the foolish ones, even the obscene ones… Nevertheless, she had never met someone as infatuated as Cooper.

She had noticed the photos on his bookshelves the moment she entered the study room. Browsing through them, she realized many were the pictures of him and Annabel.

True enough, this man remained lonely for the past thirty years for the sake of one woman.

“I guess your prompt agreement to my request is very much due to my resemblance to your Anna,” she murmured. Anna seemed to be talking to Cooper but at the same time it seemed like she was talking to herself.

Cooper maintained his silence.

You are my Anna…

bed and left a night light on for her. Sleeping soundly, Carmen had no idea that she dozed off while petting the dogs

gave her a kiss on her

Anna to leave. As Cooper sent her off, the two chattered buoyantly and their relationship seemed to be much better than before. No one knew what their discussion was about, but they could figure that

and his brother

Stanley intended to play mahjong all night while Sean carried the children

mahjong throughout the night. Nevertheless, she was caught by Cooper who came back from sending off Anna. Cooper commanded in a serious manner, “You should go to bed early. Tomorrow we’re

Sophia muttered as she pursed

stop calling me ‘darling’ in

outsider Sophia was referring to, Cooper said in an

was on the alert as she stared

actually said that out loud? Is he going to

of you talk about

reveal their conversation. “Kids shouldn’t meddle with adults’

deal with Jordan, and Cooper was made known to a lot

more he knew, the

he would not sit by anymore regardless of Anna’s real

he imagined that she had gone through so many sufferings in the past twenty years. The hard times had molded her to become a completely different person. Nonetheless, Cooper

had gone through many tribulations, Cooper

asking, dear. Have

kiss on the forehead. Thereafter, he went upstairs without turning back and entered his study room on the

witnessed the scene in which Cooper kissed Sophia. While kissing was a common etiquette in the Western culture, it seemed

“Ew…”

felt like he would be indirectly kissing Cooper the next

was three o’clock in the morning when Anna arrived at her

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