<h4>Chapter 128: Innocence</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    “Miranda.”


    rence woke up with a start to discover that a bunch of hospital tubes were stuck to him.


    He unplugged them and pulled out his phone, only to see that it was dead.


    rence rushed out of the room to find a charger. He desperately needed to know what had happened to Miranda.


    rence remembered that Julian and the others had arrived the moment he fainted, so Miranda should be fine now.


    However, rence could not be at ease until he saw her.


    The floor of the intensive care unit rence was on was empty, so he got into the elevator to check out the floor beneath him.


    As soon as he got out of the elevator, he saw Peony and the others walking toward him.


    Peony and her family had been on vacation in Dragon Soar Heights’ Vi One, happily taking photos and posting them on Facebook. They had rushed to the hospital after getting a call about Miranda’s kidnapping.


    “rence, how’s Miranda?” Peony asked nervously.


    “How did she get kidnapped all of a sudden?


    “What’s going on?”


    They all looked at rence nervously.


    rence froze. “Miranda’s in this hospital?”


    Peony exploded on the spot. “Don’t you know? What kind of husband are you? Miranda was kidnapped.


    “There’s no telling what would have happened to Miranda if William hadn’t saved her!


    “You’re her husband, yet you don’t even know that she’s in this hospital!


    “What are you doing here, then?”


    Belle pressed the elevator button. “Mom, stop talking to him.


    “The boy’s covered in blood. It’s disgusting. We have no idea what he’s been doing.


    “Let’s go see Miranda first.”


    Peony then remembered that they hade here to see Miranda. They had no time to talk to rence, so she stepped into the elevator.


    rence followed her back into the elevator, which took them to a private ward on the third floor.


    Miranda was in a hospital bed. Aside from her pretty face looking a little pale, she was in good health.


    Miranda’s expression sank, and her smile instantly vanished once she saw rence walk in.


    “What happened to you, Miranda? You were alright. How did you get kidnapped?” Peony sat down beside the bed. With concern, she took Miranda’s hand.


    Armstrong frowned. “Who kidnapped you?


    “The Murphy family doesn’t have any enemies. Could it be Beth City’s…”


    “Beth City...” Peony trembled.


    Miranda shook her head, “Mom, it has nothing to do with anyone from Beth City.


    “My kidnapper was Chadwick Miller, the son-inw of the chairman of Wonder Group and Cecilia’s husband.


    “He did it because of rence.”


    Peony and the rest were surprised. “He did it because of rence?”


    William made things worse by adding, “It’s not only that the kidnapping was because of rence. After Chadwick kidnapped Miranda, he called rence, yet rence had turned off his phone since he didn’t care if Miranda lived or died.


    “If I hadn’t gotten there in time to get Miranda off that crane, I’m afraid she might still be hanging there now.”


    “What?”


    William’s exnation made Peony and the rest very shocked and angry.


    Miranda had been kidnapped because of rence.


    rence had even turned off his phone when the kidnapper called him.


    rence immediately exined, “Mom, that’s not true. I went to the rooftop and saved Miranda.


    “Also, I didn’t turn off my phone. It ran out of battery.”


    rence showed them his phone to prove his innocence.


    Peony knocked rence’s phone away. “That’s enough!


    “Do you expect us to believe that?


    “rence, you caused Miranda’s kidnapping, yet you’re still trying to disassociate yourself from it.”


    rence tried to exin himself, but it was useless. “Mom, I’m telling you the truth...”


    William bellowed, interrupting rence abruptly, “rence, would Chadwick have given you trouble by kidnapping Miranda if you hadn’t been so shameless as to hook up with Cecilia?


    “rence, how can you call yourself a man? You didn’t save Miranda when she was in trouble, but now you’re arguing that you were the one who actually saved Miranda?


    “How dare you?


    “Do you deserve to be Miranda’s husband?” Taking the moral high ground, William scolded rence as he pointed his finger at rence’s nose.


    Furious, rence rushed forward and grabbed William by the cor. “What are you talking about? I’m the one who saved Miranda!”


    “What are you doing?


    “You’re getting so angry because you’re ashamed. Are you going to hit me?”


    “rence, let go of William!” Horrified, Peony and the rest rushed to pull rence and William apart.


    Instead of being scared, William was actually secretly amused as rence attacked him.


    The more aggressive rence got, the more sympathy William would get from the Murphy family, and the more Miranda would take his side.


    Sure enough, Miranda roared, “rence, do you really want to do that here?”


    “Dear, I really did save you,” rence spoke as he let go of William.


    “rence, this is no time for you to be stubborn.”


    Miranda was utterly disappointed.


    William sighed and shook his head as he straightened his cor. “Uncle Armstrong, Aunt Peony, you can ask Miranda who was the first person she saw when she woke up.”


    “Miranda.


    “Tell us.


    “Who was it?” Peony asked hurriedly.


    Miranda was silent for a second. “It was William. William saved me.”


    “How dare you, rence? Even my daughter said that William saved her life. Why are you still denying it?” Peony red at rence.


    Armstrong was furious. “Miranda was kidnapped, and instead of rescuing her, you turned your phone off.


    “William saved Miranda, but now you’vee here iming that you were actually the one who saved Miranda. What are you trying to do? Take credit for William’s actions?”


    Belle shook her head begrudgingly. “Mom, Dad, don’t you know rence?


    “All this guy does is talk.


    “Not a word of it is ever true.”


    Melody was sitting aside, painting her fingers. “It hasn’t been a recent development either.


    “Has rence not lied over the years?


    “Especially for the better part of this month. He’s lied almost every day.”


    “Dear, I didn’t...” rence feebly argued back.


    Miranda’s face was grim. “F*ck off!”


    “Dear...” rence tried to exin again.


    William rolled up his sleeves to chase rence out. “Miranda told you to f*ck off. What are you still doing here?


    “F*ck off!


    “Miranda needs to rest!”


    rence shook William’s arm off. “Who told you to touch me?”


    “What are you doing? Do you want to hit me?


    “Go on!


    “I want to tell you off, even if you kill me for it.” William acted righteously and as if he was undaunted by rence’s threat. If rence attacked him, he would only win the sympathy of the Murphy family.


    Miranda would hate rence even more, too.


    rence kicked William in the stomach. “Do you think I won’t hit you?”


    William was squatting on the ground, his face ghastly pale. “rence, I want to say it, even if you beat me to death. You’re not good enough for Miranda.


    “You lying, bragging coward.”


    William craned his neck. “Kill me!”


    As rence was about to do so, Peony ran over to protect William. She yelled at rence like she had gone mad. “What the hell is wrong with you? William was just sharing his opinion, yet you want to hit him?”


    “Go on!


    “Why don’t you just kill me?


    “You little loser, what can you do besides hitting people? How barbaric, you country bumpkin!”