With You For the Rest of My Life

Rose took the paper and opened the cover. An old family photo came into her sight.

The family of three stood side by side behind a worn-out mud wall.

The middle-aged man stood in the middle, with a chubby woman around his age in his arms. The other girl, about fourteen or fifteen years old, stood at the outer side, dressed in a white school uniform, looking dull.

Rose realized that the woman was Amanda.

And the chubby woman who looked a bit like her must be her mother.

"Is this man Amanda Zhao's father?" Pointing at the photo, Rose asked.

"No," Xavier shot a glance along the direction of Rose's finger. He sat down and said, "That's her stepfather."

"No wonder they don't look like a family." Mumbled Rose.

"Amanda's father was missing ever since she was born, and her gambling mother eloped with another man. She lived with her aged aunt grandmother in a remote village. At the age of seven, her aunt grandmother died, and she became an orphan completely. When the police cracked a gambling case, they caught her mother, Janice Chen. After being released from the police station, Janice Chen was sent back to her original village. When she returned to that village, she couldn't bear the pressure of the public opinion and had to bring up Amanda again. " Xavier explained.

"So her mother brought her to Qinshan Town?" Seeing the words on the page, Rose's eyes twinkled slightly.

Qinshan Town was where she first met Burke in her childhood.

At that time, she often went there to escape the summer heat at the hold housekeeper's house. And Burke went there to rest.

During that family feast, Amanda claimed that she had known Burke for ten years. Given her family background, it was not easy for her to know him. They might have known each other in Qinshan Town.

"Yes, she was brought to Qinshan Town by her mother because her mother's lover Lucas Chen opened a repair shop there. At early times, Lucas Chen's repair shop could still earn some money to support their lives. So Janice Chen and Amanda was depending on that earnings at that time." Xavier took a glance at the documents in the hand of Rose, and his eyes fell on the only man in the family photo for a moment. He said in disgust, "I disdain to speak of this man."

"What's wrong with him?" Asked Rose, raising her head.

"Rose, do you know why I have this material?"

and didn't have much contact with Amanda. The only connection between the two was Burke. Xavier didn't pay much attention to Amanda before her miscarriage. And the date that this

You knew her

seven years ago," said Xavier

this, Rose got quite surprised.

Amanda...

the exposure of the victim was

"What happened then?"

have enough evidence. As far as I know, it was very tricky at that time, and all the evidences were kept by the mother of Amanda Chen. However, in the beginning, she tried to protect her husband, but then she couldn't resist the court trial and submitted the evidence. Lucas Chen was

got too stunned

gambler's mind from a normal person's perspective." Xavier

fixed on the section of Lucas Chen's family relationship. She found a

this Rocky Chen the son of

is Amanda's

Judging from the rough voice of the man threatening her on the phone just now, she guessed that he must be the voice of Rocky

bag. She stopped thinking and looked up at the

phone was still

ahead. Let's see what they are going

answered the phone.

the voice on the other side of the phone was not from Amanda or Rocky

was a cold voice that

to drive you to No. 285 of

the matter in a short sentence at a very

phone was hung up before Rose could make any response.

say?" Looking at the pale look on Rose's

not been turned off

forgot to notice the caller's name. It was

still on a business trip? " Xavier was more confused. "Rose, what did he say? You don't look