Chapter 81 The Vanishing Smile
Brandon casually straightened his clothes, then steadily helped Alice out of the car.
Ella seemed to have recovered from her fear. She had fallen into a deep sleep halfway through the ride, though tear stains still marked her face.
Alice caught a glimpse of Brandon's calm expression from the corn...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 They Are More Like a Family of Three
2. Chapter 2 The Mistress on the News
3. Chapter 3 Car Accident
4. Chapter 4 The Other Woman's Challenge
5. Chapter 5 Let It Be a Farewell
6. Chapter 6: End This Pathetic Act
7. Chapter 7 Apologize? Over My Dead Body!
8. Chapter 8 Kidnapped
9. Chapter 9 Blood Money on Your Name
10. Chapter 10 She's Nobody
11. Chapter 11 Guilt by Design
12. Chapter 12: Attending the Banquet
13. Chapter 13 Starting Over
14. Chapter 14 Garbage Goes Where It Belongs
15. Chapter 15 Twisting the Truth
16. Chapter 16 Broken Promise
17. Chapter 17 She Left
18. Chapter 18 Wedding Bells Soon?
19. Chapter 19 Late to Her Love
20. Chapter 20 Completely Disappeared
21. Chapter 21 Refusing a Confession
22. Chapter 22 Threat
23. Chapter 23 Taking Ella to Therapy
24. Chapter 24 A Waste of Breath
25. Chapter 25 After All This Time
26. Chapter 26 Following Her
27. Chapter 27 Restless Desires
28. Chapter 28 You Gave Up on Me First
29. Chapter 29 Let Her Go
30. Chapter 30 A Man's Nature Never Changes
31. Chapter 31 Not Buying It
32. Chapter 32 Picking Up at the Airport
33. Chapter 33 Eating Together
34. Chapter 34 Have you had enough?
35. Chapter 35 Pretending to Be Sick
36. Chapter 36 Michael Has a Girlfriend?
37. Chapter 37 She Misunderstood
38. Chapter 38 Venting
39. Chapter 39 Pretending to be a Boyfriend
40. Chapter 40 Banquet
41. Chapter 41 The Truth
42. Chapter 42 Henry Could Not Have Committed Suicide
43. Chapter 43 For a Little Fun
44. Chapter 44: New Dad
45. Chapter 45 You Asked for It
46. Chapter 46 Investigate the Background
47. Chapter 47 Clue Interruption
48. Chapter 48 Apology
49. Chapter 49 Self-Indulgent Affection
50. Chapter 50 Competition
51. Chapter 51 An Accident Happened
52. Chapter 52 Going to the Clinic
53. Chapter 53 Birthday
54. Chapter 54 Unexpected Guest
55. Chapter 55: Marry Michael
56. Chapter 56 Claiming You
57. Chapter 57 Time Yet to Come
58. Chapter 58 Retribution
59. Chapter 59 Wading into Shadows
60. Chapter 60 Critical Condition
61. Chapter 61 The Scale That Burns
62. Chapter 62 Uneasy
63. Chapter 63 Willfulness
64. Chapter 64 A Spring for a Drop
65. Chapter 65 Hidden Truth
66. Chapter 66 Irrelevant People
67. Chapter 67 The Hidden Truth
68. Chapter 68 The Shadow Behind
69. Chapter 69 Mom, Don't Go
70. Chapter 70 Stay Away from My Wife
71. Chapter 71 She Wants to Commit Suicide
72. Chapter 72 Are You Out of Your Mind?
73. Chapter 73 Bitten by a Dog
74. Chapter 74 Delivering Oneself to the Door
75. Chapter 75 This Is Your Choice
76. Chapter 76 You Still Care About Me
77. Chapter 77 The Last Exception
78. Chapter 78 Ella Is Missing!
79. Chapter 79 The Mask of Hypocrisy
80. Chapter 80 The Narrow Escape
81. Chapter 81 The Vanishing Smile
82. Chapter 82: A Chain of Misfortunes
83. Chapter 83 Your Own Choice
84. Chapter 84 I'm Back
85. Chapter 85 Holding a Press Conference
86. Chapter 86 Your Daughter Hit Someone
87. Chapter 87 The People Who Must Be Kept in Line
88. Chapter 88 You Are Ms. Baker
89. Chapter 89 The Whole Family Really Likes You
90. Chapter 90 The Ultimate Either-Or Choice
91. Chapter 91 You Are the Jinx
92. Chapter 92 Lifesaving Medicine
93. Chapter 93 Get Out
94. Chapter 94 No Entry for Liars and Dogs
95. Chapter 95 All That Should Have Been His
96. Chapter 96 You Still Have Me
97. Chapter 97 Are We Very Familiar?
98. Chapter 98 You're Still Just As Spineless
99. Chapter 99 Turmoil in the Robinson Group
100. Chapter 100 No One to Care for You
101. Chapter 101 Surrounded by Sharp Tongues
102. Chapter 102 No Surveillance
103. Chapter 103 Clubbing Expenses
104. Chapter 104 The Scapegoat Master
105. Chapter 105 A Strained Father–Daughter Bond
106. Chapter 106 I'm Going to Find Mom
107. Chapter 107 Running Away from Home
108. Chapter 108 Old Acquaintance
109. Chapter 109 My Wife
110. Chapter 110 She Is a Substitute
111. Chapter 111 Thrilling Escape
112. Chapter 112 You Are the Antidote
113. Chapter 113 Seduction Is an Art
114. Chapter 114 Enthusiastic Invitation
115. Chapter 115 The Attitude of Asking for Favors
116. Chapter 116 Announcing Abdication
117. Chapter 117 Charity Gala
118. Chapter 118 Methods of Competing for Favor
119. Chapter 119 You Still Can't Leave
120. Chapter 120 Successful Handover
121. Chapter 121 Alice's Questionable Origins
122. Chapter 122 Entrapped to Death
123. Chapter 123 Unable to Seek Survival
124. Chapter 124 Doomed to Die
125. Chapter 125 At Death’s Door
126. Chapter 126 The Truth Is Right Before Our Eyes
127. Chapter 127 Too Late for Brandon
128. Chapter 128 The Art of Chasing Someone
129. Chapter 129 Patient Causes Trouble
130. Chapter 130 You Are Seducing Me
131. Chapter 131 Seeing a Doctor and Running into an Acquaintance
132. Chapter 132 A Swindler
133. Chapter 133 Her Backer
134. Chapter 134 We Protect Our Own
135. Chapter 135 The Best Gift
136. Chapter 136 The Final Gambit
137. Chapter 137 Don't Invite Trouble
138. Chapter 138 Face-to-Face Identification
139. Chapter 139 The Three Giants
140. Chapter 140 He Is a Madman
141. Chapter 141 You Have No Right to Choose
142. Chapter 142 My Brother Is Theron
143. Chapter 143 You're All Cut from the Same Cloth
144. Chapter 144 You Are the True Love
145. Chapter 145 The Trash at the Door
146. Chapter 146 Dragging Him In
147. Chapter 147 This Is My Battle
148. Chapter 148 Plan Ahead
149. Chapter 149 We Meet Again
150. Chapter 150 I'm About to Fall in Love With You
151. Chapter 151 He Is a Fanboy
152. Chapter 152 Are You Gay?
153. Chapter 153 Approaching the Truth
154. Chapter 154 Blind Date Dinner
155. Chapter 155 Drugging
156. Chapter 156 Inviting the Hit
157. Chapter 157 You Lost Your Memory?
158. Chapter 158 Who Is That Man?
159. Chapter 159 The Lesson You Deserved
160. Chapter 160 Too Loud
161. Chapter 161 Struck Too Lightly
162. Chapter 162 I'd Make Him Regret Existing
163. Chapter 163 A Car Is Following
164. Chapter 164 Falling into a Coma
165. Chapter 165 I Like You
166. Chapter 166 A Line Drawn by Status
167. Chapter 167 Emergency Call for Help
168. Chapter 168 Who Was the Person That Night?
169. Chapter 169 You're Not the Type to Take Advantage, Right?
170. Chapter 170 Fired the Gun
171. Chapter 171 The Secret of the Study
172. Chapter 172 Holding Her Feels Safe
173. Chapter 173 Having Your Back
174. Chapter 174 She Is Not Worthy to Be Our Daughter
175. Chapter 175 Severing Ties
176. Chapter 176 Showing You the Door
177. Chapter 177 The Chance to Pursue You
178. Chapter 178 Sweet Kiss
179. Chapter 179 Blood Relation
180. Chapter 180 She Is the Third Party
181. Chapter 181 We're Not Suited to Be Friends
182. Chapter 182 Moral Blackmail
183. Chapter 183 It Was You Who Gave the Address
184. Chapter 184 Awaiting Your Demise
185. Chapter 185 Please Save Me
186. Chapter 186 Get Out
187. Chapter 187 Two Wastes
188. Chapter 188 Deeply in Love
189. Chapter 189 You All Come at Once
190. Chapter 190 Lapdog? More Like an Attack Dog
191. Chapter 191 Attend as a Representative
192. Chapter 192 This Is a Dead End
193. Chapter 193 Cut Off Contact
194. Chapter 194 The person I care about ran off with someone else.
195. Chapter 195 Jealousy
196. Chapter 196 You Are a Madman
197. Chapter 197 Today We Settle the Score
198. Chapter 198 Time to Settle It
199. Chapter 199 Get Straight to It
200. Chapter 200 Succeeded
201. Chapter 201 The Center of Gossip
202. Chapter 202 Moral Blackmail
203. Chapter 203 Be a Personalized Partner
204. Chapter 204 Who Is the Mole
205. Chapter 205 Who Is Behind It?
206. Chapter 206 Please Me
207. Chapter 207 Save Your Energy for Sex
208. Chapter 208 A Choice
209. Chapter 209 Danger Averted
210. Chapter 210 A Surprise for You
211. Chapter 211 Submit to Me
212. Chapter 212 What a Performance
213. Chapter 213 The So-Called Talent
214. Chapter 214 Positioning System
215. Chapter 215 Master of Feigned Sorrow
216. Chapter 216 This Is Your Apology
217. Chapter 217 Where Is the Evidence
218. Chapter 218 Everyone Has a Share
219. Chapter 219 The Leash Master
220. Chapter 220 Drugging
221. Chapter 221 You're Here for the Affair Too?
222. Chapter 222 The Tarnished Man
223. Chapter 223 Divorce
224. Chapter 224 Court Meeting
225. Chapter 225 Waiting to Collect the Corpse
226. Chapter 226 His Friend
227. Chapter 227 Kill Them Off
228. Chapter 228 Threat
229. Chapter 229 So She Was the Love He Never Forgot
230. Chapter 230 Game of Wits
231. Chapter 231 Inheritance Rights
232. Chapter 232 He Found a Lover
233. Chapter 233 Heir
234. Chapter 234 Please Go Home
235. Chapter 235 This Is My Home
236. Chapter 236 Self‑Interest Is the Only Real Glue in Relationships
237. Chapter 237 Who Is the Master of the House?
238. Chapter 238 Gabriel's Gesture of Goodwill
239. Chapter 239 Capable Assistant
240. Chapter 240 A Total Crackdown
241. Chapter 241 Waiting for You at Home
242. Chapter 242 I Am Seducing You
243. Chapter 243 Crude Tactics
244. Chapter 244 Tearing Off the Mask
245. Chapter 245 You're Just a Madman
246. Chapter 246 I'll Be Your Backup
247. Chapter 247 I Will Protect You
248. Chapter 248 Big Trouble Is Here
249. Chapter 249 Michael Is Back
250. Chapter 250 I Will Listen and Behave
251. Chapter 251 Lucid
252. Chapter 252 She Is Mine
253. Chapter 253 When Did the Davis Family Get a New Lady of the House?
254. Chapter 254 Her Biological Mother
255. Chapter 255 Not Just One Lover
256. Chapter 256 Her Daughter
257. Chapter 257 Apology
258. Chapter 258 You Can Only Depend on Me
259. Chapter 259 I Am the Master Here
260. Chapter 260 My Strike Needs No Cause
261. Chapter 261 Finding Someone
262. Chapter 262 You Are the Murderer
263. Chapter 263 Burning Desire
264. Chapter 264 He Wants a Proper Status
265. Chapter 265 You're Quite Impressive
266. Chapter 266 Partiality
267. Chapter 267 I'll Wait for You Downstairs
268. Chapter 268 Lust
269. Chapter 269 The True Bloodline
270. Chapter 270 You Must Help Me
271. Chapter 271 Death
272. Chapter 272 Visiting
273. Chapter 273 Office
274. Chapter 274 She Rules the Reign
275. Chapter 275 What If I Strike You Later?
276. Chapter 276 Never Overplay Your Confidence
277. Chapter 277 Take Care
278. Chapter 278 You Finally Came Back
279. Chapter 279 Now the Net Tightens
280. Chapter 280 Choice
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