America.
A woman covered in blood appeared out of thin air on the street.
The pedestrians passing by stared at this disheveled, filthy woman with looks of horror on their faces.
Priscilla’s eyes were wide open, bloodshot, as she screamed desperately at one of the passersby, “Please, please call the police for me, help me, I’m begging you, save me.”
That person looked at her skin, festering and oozing pus, assumed she had some contagious disease, and immediately shook off her hand in disgust, backing away three meters.
Priscilla grabbed several people in a row, but everyone avoided her as if she were the plague, some even loudly calling her crazy.
In utter despair, she accidentally caught a glimpse of her own reflection in a nearby glass window, and was so frightened she froze on the spot.
Her hair was dry and brittle, every inch of exposed skin was festering and oozing, her cheeks were deeply sunken and tinged with a bluish–purple hue–she looked just like a walking corpse.
During this period, Edward tortured her every single day, making her life worse than death.
She was repeatedly scalded with boiling water, suffered the excruciating pain of her ten fingers being pierced, and endured every torment that Anastasia had once suffered.
More than once, she wanted to just end it all by smashing her head against the wall.
But he wouldn’t let her die, nor would he let her truly live.
Every time she was on the verge of being tortured to death, Edward would have someone save her, keeping her barely alive.
A kind–hearted passerby eventually took her to the police station.
Facing the police’s questions, Priscilla exaggerated her story, describing her ordeal in detail.
But because the evidence was destroyed in time, by the time the police arrived at the scene, it was already spotless.
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With insufficient evidence, and with Edward’s influence in both legal and illegal circles, at most he was jailed for fifteen days for intentional injury.
Priscilla’s act of sending Edward to jail caused a huge stir.
Some netizens exposed that Priscilla was Edward’s mistress and had driven away his wife Anastasia; others even posted photos of the three of them at an amusement park.
Major media outlets scrambled to report the story, Edward’s image as a loving husband was shattered, and several partners who valued integrity canceled their collaborations.
Overnight, the Copeland Group’s stock price plummeted.
But Edward no longer had the energy to care about any of this.
These days, he suffered from insomnia, numbing himself with alcohol, seeing Anastasia’s figure every time he opened or closed his eyes.
He tried to find her, but it was as if she had vanished into thin air–no news at all, as if she had
never existed.
Each day in prison, Edward missed her even more.
For the first time, he realized that longing was like a thin thread wrapped around his throat–he couldn’t swallow it, nor could he spit it out. The feeling nearly drove him mad.
After being released from prison, his mental state became even more dazed.
On the way home, he saw a figure up ahead that looked just like Anastasia, and immediately told the driver to stop the car.
He rushed over, grabbed her arm, and couldn’t hide the excitement in his voice. “Anna, is that you? I was wrong, can you forgive me, please?”
But the only response he got was a hard punch from the woman’s boyfriend.
He was weak, his back slammed against the ground, making him grimace in pain. He squinted, looking at a face completely different from Anastasia’s.
The light in his eyes gradually faded away.
He had mistaken someone else for her.
After returning to the Copeland’s residence, he stared silently at a photo of himself and Anastasia.
Thomas came over as well, tugging at his sleeve and asking, “When is Mommy coming home?”
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Lately, it was the servants who picked him up from school.
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He could no longer smell the pleasant scent of his mother, taste her delicious cooking, or have anyone help him straighten his wrinkled clothes.
Edward didn’t know how to answer his question, and fell silent for a moment.
Then he said, “Tom, Daddy will definitely find Mommy. No matter when, you have to believe in Daddy, okay?”
As he said this, a place suddenly came to his mind.
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