My Mute Bride

“Mrs. Burton, what’s wrong with you?” As soon as Jennifer saw Rachel’s pained appearance, she hurriedly went forward.

Rachel felt as if something was about to burst out of her brain as she frantically gripped her forehead, but she failed to suppress the pain. As she let out a cry of pain, she fell to the floor.

“Mrs. Burton!” Jennifer’s face paled with fear.

The colorful world suddenly turned black and white as time wildly receded to that scene in the isolated mountainous area more than twenty years ago, where birds and animals fluttered among the mountains and

forests…

The dream that had been with her for more than twenty years was gradually becoming clearer at this moment. At this moment, the gentle silhouette that had its back to her for twenty years slowly turned around.

The woman’s long hair hung over her shoulder as she revealed a warm smile and dimples on her cheeks. “Katie, didn’t I ask you to stay at home with Grandma? Why are you following me up the mountain again?”

“Mom, it’s too boring at home, so I wanted to follow you up the mountain to collect herbs.”

“Don’t fall down. Come and hold my hand.”

“Okay!”

“Do you like collecting herbs?”

“Yes.”

“Then, I will teach you a song about herb-picking, okay?”

“Okay!”

“Poria seeds, peony flowers, forsythia, dahurica, mixed with red sand…”

Rachel’s lips vibrated. Despite the inability to make a sound, the memory of those children’s songs suddenly became incomparably clear to her with the name of each herb echoing in her ears.

“Mom, are we not going to pick herbs today?”

“Katie, we have guests at home. I have something to tell this man, so head out and play for a while. Grandma is at the back of the mountain, so go and find her, okay?”

“Okay!”

remembered what her mother looked like, how she became a mute, the man with the scar on his forehead, and the fire in Somerset Mountain that had started

look at what’s

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on the bed as she stared at the ceiling in a daze. The doctors and nurses stood around the bed, shining flashlights into her eyes and talking to her, but she could only see their mouths moving as she heard nothing. Her ears were filled with buzzing sounds

wrong with her. She’s just

hand to shield the item in her hands and

“Mrs.

in a daze and finally responded. I’m fine; you all should

and nurses looked

you should also

left alone in the ward. The information sheet in her hands was already crumpled by her tight grip. She never thought that she would remember the events of twenty

taught her, the origin of the Somerset Mountain fire, and the guy who was hidden in

was that guy

Jennifer!

of bed and went to call

Jennifer was keeping guard at

Give me the phone.

“Mrs. Burton, um…”

to contact

look. “Mrs. Burton, Mr. Burton said that you are not allowed to contact the outside world. How about this? If you have anything to tell

anxious. Just tell him that I have something to say to him

dialed the number in front

me. Mrs. Burton is asking when you’re coming back as she has something

end. “I’m busy with something right now. It can wait

when will

know.” After those three words were spoken, he hung up while

Burton, it’s okay. He will come over when he’s

just wait for

calmed down and looked at the information sheet in her hand, she suddenly felt as if she was in

before, but, so what? He had considered her his foe for so long and had tortured her all this while. Besides, the origin