Meanwhile, her useless brother was indolently lying on the couch, sound asleep. His clothes were still


    in perfect order. Not even his hair was the slightest bit ruffled up!


    There was no need to guess. There was definitely nothing “interesting” going onst night at all!


    Leia sighed. These two had been dragging it out for close to ten years now, yet they were still stuck in


    this ambiguous “friend zone” after all this time. She was almost irked to death thinking about it!


    “Ahem!” Leia dragged her feet into the room and yanked the curtain open, flooding the room with bright


    sunlight. “Wake up, both of you! Time to get up!”


    Liam woke up with a grimace and promptly got up to his feet and grabbed his sister from the back by


    the cor of her shirt.


    “You little sh*thead!” he hissed. ‘So you finally opened the door, huh?


    You’re getting too bold for your own good if you have the audacity to y this kind of stupid prank! If


    you didn’t think that I’d teach you a sore lesson today, then you’re about to get a big reality check on


    how frightening your brother can be!”


    ’Ah!” Leia screamed and struggled in resistance, but against her brother, she was nothing but a


    helpless little bird, and had no chance of escaping his grip. ’Let me go, you idiot! I only did it to help you


    guys! What a shame! All my good intentions and painstaking efforts were totally wasted on you!’


    “He’s going to kill me!” Leia continued to make a loudmotion, now turning to Renee for support.


    “You’ve got to help me, Renee! My brother’s gone crazy! He’s really going to kill me!”


    Despite the hugemotion between Liam and Leia, Renee surprisingly stilly quietly in bed in the


    same position the whole time, just as if she had been reced by a mannequin.


    “That’s strange,” Leia noticed after fighting with her brother for a while.’ Why do I feel like there’s


    something wrong with Renee?”


    “Didn’t I tell you tofort herst night?” she asked her brother. “How did she end up this way? Did


    someone hurt her?”


    “Do you think anyone could hurt someone like Renee?” replied Liam, putting his hands in his pockets.


    He looked at Renee, whose back was turned towards them, and softly added, “If I’m not mistaken, I


    think she’s just in a self-healing mode.”


    “Self-healing mode?” Leia asked, puzzled. But judging by how calm her brother seemed, perhaps


    Renee was in no big trouble after all?


    Liam slowly added, “When a person gets hit by a huge psychological blow and bes seriously


    traumatized, they’ll get into a self-healing mode like some animals do. Some would bawl their eyes out,


    some would make a hugemotion, some would overeat or turn to alcohol to help them cope, and


    some would even turn to sex and be promiscuous. My guess is that our boss here probably chose


    to sleep in order to heal her trauma.”


    “No way,” argued Leia. “The Renee that I know has full confidence in Adie’s ability to survive. She can’t


    be so worried about her son that she became traumatized, can she?”


    “Who told you it has anything to do with Adie?” replied Liam. He heaved a long sigh. He had no desire


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    anymore, so he exined, “Stefan Hunt is dead. In fact, he died trying to save Renee. The doctors


    couldn’t save his life. Perhaps Renee just can’t ept the reality of his death at the moment, so she…”


    “What did you say?!” Leia’s eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. “Stefan Hunt is dead?! This is


    earth-shattering news! Never mind her, I don’t even think I can believe that’s true! I’ve heard of rumors


    about his death, but no one actually believed it! This is Stefan Hunt we’re talking about after all! How


    could Beach City’s most powerful man just die so easily like that…?’


    ’It’s not just a rumor,” said Liam, “because I saw his corpse on a stretcher wheeled out of the operation


    room with my own eyes. His body was lying stiff under a white cloth.”


    Liam was filled with conflicted emotions. To him, Stefan Hunt had always been an opponent both in


    business and in love. He had been anticipating the day Stefan was finally eliminated, yet now that he


    had actually died, he felt inexplicably lost.


    The man that he had always aimed to surpass was now gone forever before he had the chance to


    actually surpass him. Because of that, Stefan Hunt had be a forever insurmountable godlike


    figure. How could he not feel disheartened by it then?


    The whole room was now filled with a dull and somber air.


    Just then, Renee’s phone on the nightstand suddenly rang..