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Patrick Rhodes rolled down the car window, his big eyes staring intently at the park. 1

The cars behind him were blocked, honking their horns incessantly.

Only then did Patrick slowly pull over to the side of the road.

He was sure he hadn’t seen wrong.

Serena Jennings was indeed together with a man.

The man was supposed to be Serena’s high school ssmate.

Patrick had heard a bit about this high school ssmate.

He knew that the guy had a deep connection with Serena.

Yet seeing him tie his scarf around Serena’s neck in such a public ce made Patrick feel ufortable.

He got out of the car, striding swiftly towards the park.

“Serena, what a coincidence!”

Upon hearing Patrick’s voice, Serena was very surprised.

“What are you doing here?”

In her memory, this small park was quite remote, and the surrounding area was under development. Not to mention on a snowy day like

this; even in the height of summer, there weren’t many people around.

Patrick nonchntly said, “I was passing by and saw you guys ying snowball fight. Can I join?”

Serena: ???

Was snowball fighting really such an attractive sport?

Serena subconsciously looked at Ethan White.

She didn’t mind letting Patrick join, but Ethan and Patrick weren’t familiar with each other.

Patrick approached Ethan White, frowning and raising his chin, looking like he was challenging him.

Serena watched from the side, bewildered,

She didn’t understand why Patrick had such hostility towards Ethan upon first meeting him!

“This is my high school ssmate, Ethan White.”

Serena proactively introduced Patrick and Ethan to each other.

“This is Patrick… a good friend of Caleb Lockwood.”

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“Also your good friend.”

Patrick corrected, puffing with pride.

Serena awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth.

Were she and Patrick really good friends?

“Patrick, is it okay for you to be here ying snowball fight with us? What about yourpany?”

Serena asked curiously.

But in her impression, Patrick wasn’t that career–oriented anyway.

“I wasn’t heading to thepany…” Patrick waved his hand at Serena, “By the way, Serena, don’t you know Brother Lockwood is

hospitalized?”

Serena was taken aback.

Beside her, Ethan White pursued, “What’s wrong with him?”

“He fainted from stomach pain.”

“When did this happen?”

“Just this morning!”

After hearing Patrick’s words, Ethan’s eyes slightly lowered.

“So you didn’t know! No wonder you can still enjoy a snowball fight here.”

Serena crossed her arms.

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“I can still y snowball even knowing it now!”

“Aren’t you going to visit Brother Lockwood?”

“No.”

Serena tly refused.

Patrick opened his mouth but didn’t persuade Serena further.

Serena is now divorced from Caleb; emotionally and rationally, her not visiting Caleb isn’t a mistake.

Seeing Serenapletely let go of her feelings for Caleb, Patrick actually felt pleased.

But when he thought of Serena turning to Ethan’s embrace after giving up Caleb, he couldn’t be happy.

Before they started the snowball fight, Serena’s phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID made her expression turn serious.

“Sorry, I need to take this call.”

She told Ethan and Patrick, then turned and walked deeper into the park, clearly not wanting others to hear the conversation.

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Left behind, Patrick and Ethan looked at each other.

Patrick stared at Ethan’s face, examining him closely.

Ethan had an attractive face, far more handsome than today’s period drama leads.

However, the more Patrick looked, the more he frowned, the more he disliked him.

Pfft, just a pretty face.

He evaluated Ethan in his mind.

Ethan noticed Patrick ring at him, unfriendly, yet smiled calmly.

“Mr. Rhodes, you like Serena too, don’t you?”

Ethan’s tone was as casual as asking about the weather.

Patrick’s face instantly turned red.

“Who–who likes her! We’re… just, just ordinary friends…”

Patrick stuttered as he spoke, his face growing hotter, as if steaming, and his heart pounding.

Ethan smiled faintly.

“That’s good then…i” /i

“What do you mean that’s good? Say it clearly!”

Patrick red at Ethan.

Ethan’s handsome face remained lightly smiling, his voice was as clean and cold as snow falling on the ground.

However, what he said shocked Patrick.

“Because Serena will be mine sooner orter, I advise you not to harbor useless desires for her.”

Just as Ethan dered war on Patrick, Serena was deep in the park, on the phone.

The voice on the other end was Chance Bell.

“The phone number and payment ount you gave me earlier are foreign virtual numbers, and I’m still investigating who’s behind the

server. They’re clever, all I know is it’s in Meridia, but it might not be targeting you, just selling virtual numbers… I’ve found out who used

the virtual number to hire thugs…”

Serena listened silently, names surfacing in her mind, only needing concrete evidence.

“It’s Cynthia Fulton, the daughter of the Fulton Family”

In the hospital room, Mr. Miller was reporting investigation results to Caleb Lockwood.

Caleb’s frown eased slightly.

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“Understood, you may leave.”

“Yes.”

After Mr. Miller left the room, Caleb’s brow furrowed again, tightly.

The stomach that had finally stopped hurting began to ache faintly.

When he heard Mr. Miller say the mastermind behind the thugs was Cynthia Fulton, he actually breathed a sigh of relief.

However…

Was ire really not involved at all?

Was it necessary for Cynthia, as the mastermind, to insist that the thugs destroy Serena’s hands?

The more Caleb thought about it, the more his stomach hurt.

In his mind appeared the image of a young girl.

The girl was only twelve or thirteen, exquisitely good–looking, but with grayish–white dyed hair and a mouth full of braces, unsure if she

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Caleb pressed tightly on his chest, looking conflicted.

So…

Had he changed?

Or had his Ellie changed?

Or perhaps…

Both of them had changed?

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For three consecutive days, ire hadn’t gone anywhere or done anything.

She locked herself in her house and even disconnected from the inte.

Currently, it was difficult for her to continue in jewelry design.

But besides jewelry design, she knew nothing else,

The psychology doctorate was a fake degree she obtained to present herself aspetent and multi–talented to others.

Valerie Vance advised her to lie low now, wait for Serena’s limelight to pass, and then use the connections she had built with Caleb Lockwood to rise again.

ire also agreed with this, so she temporarily handed her studio over to her assistant to manage,

Even if her current clientster wanted to stop working with her, at least at this stage, they had contracts. She hadn’t breached them, so it was unlikely they’d risk ending the agreements carly.

However, on the evening of the fourth day, ire received a call from her assistant:

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