Stuck in you

After a short pause, he asked in a low voice, "What is it?" He wondered what Rachel had to say to him. Maybe his father had already told her about the agreement.

But when she began to talk, he found he was wrong.

"Do you remember the engagement party that we attended a few days ago? The bride-to-be is dead."

Surprise flashed in Jack's eyes. "I know. But how did you know?"

"Her body was rushed into my operating room." She sadly smiled as she saw surprise written all over his face.

It seemed that he had forgotten that she was a doctor.

Rachel hesitated at for a brief moment before asking, "I don't know if it is appropriate to ask you but I've been thinking a lot for the past few days. Do you perhaps know why she jumped off the building?" Both of them fell silent for a brief moment.

After a pregnant pause, he finally answered, "Why are you interested to know?" The question was direct and sharp. Rachel's face slightly contorted, her eyebrows furrowing at the question. She pursed her lips and replied, "Forget it. I'm sorry I even asked."

"Wait, hold on. I didn't mean any malice against it. I just..." Jack stuttered, trying to find the right words to explain himself. "Why do you want to know all of a sudden?"

Perhaps, she just wanted to gossip, he thought. Celine had done a lot of similar things out of curiosity. But Jack wasn't the type to spread rumors and intervene in other people's affairs.

"You see, before I left the engagement party, she asked me to send a message over to her brother, Vincent. The party was really weird. I want to know if she was asking someone for help that day."

For a moment, Jack was stunned upon hearing all of this. "What kind of message did she ask you to send?"

"She wanted me to ask Vincent to stay out of it and go back. It didn't really make sense to me." Rachel tilted her head and thought for a while.

Jack remembered what happened that day. Celine was fuming mad at him. He had to take her home, leaving Rachel alone. But luckily, Vincent was there and offered her a ride. They must have discussed the message on the way to her house.

After that incident, Rachel fell ill, battling a fever the entire night. Jack grimaced, he still felt guilty for leaving her alone.

He decided to tell her the story between the Cheng family and the Wen family. "There had always been a feud between their families. It is unfortunate that Wendy was involved. She was just another one of the victims of the feud."

Her eyes couldn't conceal the doubts she had. To help her, Jack began to explain everything.

Francis' father and Cole were political rivals. The competition between them was very aggressive, with neither parties willing to give up a fight.

that their interests deeply clashed with one another. And that was when Cole had decided to

gave Cole an idea on

people

year and brought her home to his family with the intention of

at that time and it angered his father. He scolded his son for being a bastard and having the gall to even announce such a

being weak, Francis left the hospital the next

an eye at this because he was too busy dealing with his promotion. He didn't have time to spare to give Francis

was bullied. As an act of

ensued, leading to the guy's death. It immediately caught the police's attention. They began to investigate him

day. He was still able to

his situation was carried over to his father. He was told that the person his son had

had admitted that he had beaten the victim but couldn't exactly remember whether he had hit his head or

had caused the victim's death. But he was also responsible for some of the

couldn't bear to watch seeing his son's

It was such bad timing, especially when still had

all his efforts would be in vain. But he knew that

But it felt like he had no choice. He

lawyers were able to bail him out of jail,

But someone had been spying on them and this caused

Discipline Inspection, and Francis was brought

a spur of a moment, it came to his senses that someone had

he asked for his private investigators to conduct another

his frivolous behavior that he and his father had come to this

receive information about the matter, he suddenly died. His body was found in a river along with Francis' girlfriend. The police report stated that both had died in a car

manipulated the entire situation, insinuating that he had been in a

it felt that someone

whole family became a mess. His wife was

for ten years under the prosecution of negligent homicide. She used her relations to reduce his sentence and because of his good performance, he was

years had

had happened in the past. Somebody had told him something and gradually,

knew his father had done the same thing before

to Cole's involvement. It was not a surprise that Cole was his father's biggest adversary.