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.

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

been a troublesome boy and his actions gave Cole an

was rebellious. He frequently skipped classes, fought against people and

and brought her home to his family with the

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

Francis left the hospital the next day

was too busy dealing with his promotion. He didn't have time to spare

act of revenge, Francis took his men to teach the

caught the police's attention. They

that day. He was still able to go home, despite being bruised. It didn't make sense that he was being pinned as

He was told that the person his son had beaten up had died of brain damage and

that he had beaten the victim but couldn't

was also responsible for some of the blows that had appeared on the victim's body

father was furious but couldn't bear to watch seeing his

solve this case. It was such bad timing, especially when still had to focus his

in vain. But he knew that his son was in danger and

felt like he had no choice. He only had one son. Everything would be ruined if his son went

Francis' father made sure that his son's crimes were wiped away. His lawyers were able to bail him out of jail, but now

by then. But someone had been

was interrogated by the Committee of Discipline Inspection, and Francis

moment, it came to his senses

asked for his private investigators

behavior that he

his father was able to 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

he had been in a promiscuous relationship

situation was aggravated and it felt that someone

important backbone of his family. After his death, his whole family became a mess. His wife was overwhelmed with everything. She tried to find an arrangement to help her son, to hide the family affairs, and sort out the

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

five years had drastically changed

he was released from prison, Francis conducted his own investigation about what had happened in

and he knew his father had done the same thing before

Cole's involvement. It was not a surprise that Cole was his father's biggest adversary. It was even more surprising that nobody had