<h4>Chapter 190: Miranda’s Backstory</h4>


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


    rence was only momentarily distracted before instantly calming down.


    He started treating Miranda.


    “You have a few contusions and bruises that need to be tended to, or you’ll be left with an ugly ck scar there. It’ll be a sore sight in the future.


    “I’ll bring you a basin of hot water. Apply it yourself to promote blood cirction and discourage stasis.


    “You’ll probably suffer from insomnia and have vivid dreams whenever you do manage to sleep. You’ll also have some endocrine disorders for some time.


    “You’ll also be mentally exhausted after what’s happened today. You need to rest for a couple of days. Don’t go to work in the meantime.


    “Just rest at home,” rence said as he examined Miranda.


    Miranda nodded. “Okay, I’ll do whatever you say.”


    rence went out and brought in a basin of hot water.


    He handed Miranda a towel. “Apply it on your bruises.”


    Miranda wanted rence to help her because she had trouble moving. “Help me do it. It’s quite inconvenient for me to do.


    “And I can’t feel my back, for some reason.”


    “Your back?” rence frowned.


    He pulled Miranda’s clothes open. The corners of his eyes twitched when he saw a giant footprint on her back.


    The mark had be a ckish purple. The area was severely bruised.


    Then, rence remembered that Master Dunn had kicked Miranda during that critical moment.


    The entire chunk of flesh here was close to being ruined!


    rence reached out to touch the flesh. “Does it hurt?”


    Miranda shook her head. “I feel nothing.


    “What’s wrong with it?” she asked.


    rence sighed. “Remember Master Dunn’s kick? He ruined a whole chunk of your flesh with that kick. The nerves here are dead.


    “It won’t be long before the flesh starts rotting.”


    “Huh?”


    Miranda screamed and nervously grabbed rence. “It’s not going to leave a scar, is it?


    “You’re an amazing doctor. You must help me.”


    rence ced his hand on the back of Miranda’s hand. “Don’t worry. I’ll try my best to help you.”


    Then, he took the ne with a cross, held it in his hand, and unleashed a green glow that covered the rotten flesh on Miranda’s back.


    The rotten flesh slowly turned from a ckish purple to a ckish blue.


    rence reached out and poked it.


    “Ah... Ouch...”


    Miranda broke out in cold sweat due to the pain. She flung herself into rence’s arms, hugging him.


    rence smiled. “If you can feel it hurting, it means your nerves are still working.


    “Rest for a few days, and you’ll be alright once the bruises heal.”


    However, Miranda did not let go of rence. She just continued hugging him.


    The atmosphere in the room was a little amorous.


    “Ahem.” rence broke the silence with a dry cough. “You’re alright now. Patients are waiting outside. You can rest here while I go tend to the others.”


    With that said, rence pushed Miranda aside and walked out of the room.


    Miranda bit her red lip. “How unromantic.”


    She dressed in silence and walked out of the room. Then, she left Thirteen Hall when she saw rence treating another patient.


    Master Williams looked at rence. “Master Howard, are you just going to let her go?”


    “What else do you think I should do?”


    Master Williamsughed. “Master Howard, you should remarry Miranda if you still like her.


    “I watched her grow up. She’s unlike Belle and Melody because Peony adopted her.”


    rence froze. “What?


    “Peony adopted Miranda?”


    Master Williams lowered his voice. “One night 23 years ago, Peony suddenly brought home a baby girl.


    “I was still working at the Humanity Hall in Beth City at the time.


    “A few dayster, Armstrong did something to offend the Murphy family, so he was sent from Beth City to Mediterranean City.


    “Belle, Melody, and Miranda, who had just been brought home, were all taken to Mediterranean City together.”


    Master Williams sighed. “You can see it from the way Peony treats her. She just wants to trade Miranda for money and status. She doesn’t even think of her as her own daughter.


    “Belle and Melody are awful, yet they own a majority of the Murphy Group’s shares.


    “Murphy Group is worth over two billion dors, yet the two daughters and two sons-inw divided billions of dors between themselves!


    “What did Miranda get? Apany worth less than fifty million dors.”


    Master Williams shook his head, a look of regret on his face. “It’s too noticeable of a difference.


    “The child has always been filial since she was little. I think of her as a granddaughter.


    “Oh...”


    He let out a long sigh.


    rence fell into a trance too. It turned out that he and Miranda both shared simr experiences.


    Both had been abandoned when they were little!


    However, Miranda was adopted by the Murphy family, while he had to go to an orphanage.


    renceughed drily at the thought of it.


    Ring... Suddenly, rence’s phone rang. It was a number that had been on his contact list for years. He had never called it before, but he sent it messages during the holidays.


    “rence, where are you?


    “How have you been?” a youthful and lively voice asked.


    rence froze. “Hailey?


    “How did you find the time to call me?”


    The girl on the other end of the line was Hailey Lester.


    They had grown up in the orphanage together.


    Because they were orphans, she had cherished the opportunity she was given to study.


    Besides rence, nearly all the children there had gotten into college.


    Hailey was one of them.


    After her college entrance examination, she did not study in a local college. She went abroad.


    rence remembered the night they had seen Hailey off. Everyone toasted her congrattions.


    Six or seven years had gone by in a sh.


    “Hi, have you forgotten? It’s the third year anniversary of the death of our orphanage’s director, and everyone’sing to pay their respects.


    “It’s all in the Whatsapp group. Haven’t you read it?” asked Hailey.


    rence smacked his head.


    He had been so busy these days that he hadpletely forgotten about it.


    He opened the Whatsapp group and looked through it. Sure enough, he found conversations in the rarely-active Whatsapp group where everyone was talking about a trip to the cemetery together to pay their respects to the orphanage director.


    renceughed and asked, “Did youe back from abroad for this?”


    Hailey shook her head. “No. Being abroad is great and all, but it’s not home.


    “I wanted toe back for my career, and Mediterranean City’s a good ce, so I came back to check it out.


    “If I manage to find a good job, I’ll stay here in Mediterranean City.


    “Where are you? I’ll go and pick you up. Everyone’s having dinner together tonight. We’ll head to the cemetery to pay the orphanage director our respects tomorrow.


    “By the way, didn’t you get into a matrilocal marriage? Can you go out at night? Your wife won’t object, will she?” Hailey was a little worried.


    rence smiled faintly. “Hailey, I’m divorced.”


    “Huh?”


    Hailey shouted, quickly apologizing, “Sorry, I didn’t know.”


    “It’s okay. It’s all over.” rence seemed carefree.


    Hailey was puzzled. “Sorry for being nosy, but why did you get divorced?”


    rence shrugged. “Irreconcble differences. What else could it be? It’s a good thing to be divorced. I’m happy.


    “Pfft...”


    Hailey smiled. “Well, that’s a good point. You can’t be happy in a matrilocal marriage anyway.


    “I’ll introduce you to some friendster. They’re all beautiful.


    “If you can conquer one, maybe we can get closer too.”


    rence snapped, “Do you think so highly of me? Are you just throwing your friends at the wall that is me and seeing which one will stick?”


    Hailey did not deny it. “What wall? You were smart. If it hadn’t been for Sophie’s incident, you would have gotten into college and probably done better than I’m doing now.


    “Anyway, let’s stop talking about that. Where are you?


    “I’ll pick you up, and we’ll all get together tonight.”


    rence gave her Thirteen Hall’s address.


    About half an hourter, a BMW X5 pulled up to Thirteen Hall’s door and honked.


    rence stepped out, and a beautiful woman rushed out of the car to give rence a big hug. “ry, I missed you so much.”


    She was beautiful and fair.


    She was also young and vivacious, and had long legs...


    Her looks could kill!