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.

escalated to the point that their interests deeply clashed with one another. And that was when Cole had decided to act against Francis' father

boy and his actions gave Cole an idea on how he would be able to

fought against people and was feared by the majority of

girl for half a year and brought her home to his family

was only seventeen years old 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 drastic decision. Out of anger,

Francis left the hospital the next day and eloped

an eye at this because he was too busy dealing with

was short-lived. Francis' girlfriend was bullied. As an act of revenge, Francis took his men to

the police's attention. They began to investigate him as

He swore that they only punched the guy that day. He was still able to go home, despite being bruised.

news about his situation was carried over to his father. He was told that the person his son had beaten up had died of brain

couldn't exactly remember whether he had hit his head

also responsible for some of the blows that had appeared on the

to watch seeing his son's

such bad timing, especially when still

vain. But he knew

decide whether to choose his son or himself. But it felt like he had no

sure that his son's crimes were wiped away. His lawyers were able to

someone had been spying on them and

was interrogated by the Committee of Discipline Inspection, and

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

his private investigators to conduct another inspection without Francis'

of his frivolous behavior that he and his father had

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 crash past

entire situation, insinuating that he had been

felt that someone

his death, his whole family became a mess. His wife was overwhelmed with everything. She tried to find an arrangement to help her son,

Francis was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years under the prosecution of negligent homicide. She used her relations to reduce his sentence and because

had drastically changed

own investigation about what had happened in the past. Somebody had told him something and gradually, those previous

investigation and he knew his

not a surprise that Cole was his father's biggest adversary. It was even more surprising that