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    Theresa sighed and embraced her.


    Susan just leaned quietly on her shoulder for a while.


    Theresa said softly, “Susan, you were never the one at fault. It should be the ones who set you up.”


    Susan had been off–kilter emotionally when she first came to stay at Theresa’s ce.


    Only after much questioning did Susan casually mention the incident with Isabe.


    At that time. Theresa had been so outraged she wanted to call Ben and demand to know if he didn’t


    trust Susan.


    But Susan stopped her.


    In matters of the heart, Susan had an almost obsessivepulsive insistence on purity.


    The slightest doubt from Ben was uneptable to her. She would rather they split up than offer a


    single exnation, however simple.


    Back then, Theresa felt indignant solely on Susan’s behalf.


    But then Susan left.


    And Ben found Theresa


    When he did, Theresa’s tone certainly wasn’t pleasant, defending Susan.


    Yet, Ben, in all his pride, was even willing to kneel for news of Susan. That’s when Theresa had a


    hunch that things weren’t as Susan believed them to be.


    However, at that time, she didn’t have a way to contact Susan to convey this.


    Now, with Susan in front of her, Theresa earnestly told her about Ben’s visit.


    Hearing that Ben almost knelt before Theresa, Susan felt faintly stunned.


    “Susan,” Theresa said seriously, ‘Personally, I believe Ben’s feelings for you are genuine. Of course,


    I’m an outsider. You’re in the thick of it, and you’d know better than anyone if his feelings are true.”


    Susan was lost in a daze for a moment, then mechanically stood up, “I’ll go home and be alone for a


    while.”


    She left Theresa’s house clumsily.


    Theresa watched her enter the apartment across the hall before returning to her own.


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    She supposed she wouldn’t be privy to this couple’s drama for much longer.


    But, more than watching the drama unfold, she genuinely hoped that Susan and Ben could work things


    out.


    Theresa yawned, “I better catch up on some sleep.”


    Susan stood alone on the windowsill for a long time.


    wurate point.


    Theresa had made a very urate point.


    “You’re in the thick of it, and you’d know better than anyone if his feelings are true.”


    Some questions don’t need to be asked aloud; the heart naturally finds its answers.


    Letting go of thatst bit of stubbornness, Susan’s smile came more easily.


    In the next few days.


    Susan began to systematically “recover memory” without any reservations.


    Ben was both delighted and anxious.


    Susan’s memory seemed to be returning too swiftly.


    He feared he still wasn’t good enough to keep her by his side.


    So, during these days, Ben was doubly kind to Susan.


    By the fifth day, aside from her emotional experiences, Susan had ‘recovered” all her other memories.


    ‘I’ve been dreaming a lot every nighttely. I feel like I’m about to regain my memorypletely,”


    Susan said with a


    smile.


    Ben’s hand, holding his fork, paused momentarily.


    He had been enjoying their time together. If possible, he wished these days couldst longer.


    But as Susan’s memory resurfaced, he knew these moments were drawing to a close, and a tinge of


    anxiety crept


    1. in.


    What if Susan refused to forgive him once she remembered everything?


    Testing the waters, Ben asked, “Susan, if you regain your memory and find out I’ve lied to you, would


    you be angry?”


    “It would depend on the extent of the deceit,” Susan blinked.


    ming everything on Timothy and fabricating an entirely new persona for himself – what level of


    deceit did that


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    count as?


    Ben was unsure.


    And now, he was mor


    even more troubled.


    Susan secretly smirked.


    Tomorrow, she nned to go straight to Ben’spany and surprise him.


    As for the stories from this “amnesiac period, she would keep them to herself. In front of Ben, she’d


    pretend to have forgotten.


    That way, she’d spare him the embarrassment.Content ? N?velDrama.Org 2024.


    How considerate was she?


    The next day.


    Once again, Ben was sent off to work by Susan.


    Not long after he left, Susan followed.


    She had made up her mind.


    When the timees to see Ben, she would tell him.


    She remembered everything.


    She scrolled through Twitter and knew all that Ben had done.


    Then, she would give him a big hug.


    Their misunderstandings resolved, they would live happily ever after.


    Yes. That script seemed quite good.


    Susan rehearsed the script in her mind a few times, brimming with confidence as she set off.


    At the Storm Group.


    The moment Susan entered, the entire lobby fell silent for an instant.


    Only Ben’s secretary knew about Susan’s return, for now.


    Seeing Susan suddenly appear, everyone was shocked.


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    “Hello, everyone,” Susan waved her hand.


    The lobby continued in silence.


    After a long pause, someone finally said in a daze, “Mrs… Mrs. Landor?!”


    Susan smiled and nodded.


    Instantly, the lobby erupted intomotion.


    “Mrs. Landor, you’ve finallye back! Does Mr. Landor know yet?”


    *Please forgive Mr. Landor, Mrs. Landor! He’s been nearly out of his mind since you’ve been gone.”


    “Yes, let me take you up to him. Mr. Landor will be over the moon.”


    People were talking over each other, a buzz of excitement in the air.


    The more proactive ones had already notified the CEO office.


    The rest circled around Susan, as if afraid she’d vanish again.


    Only after Susan repeatedly assured them she wouldn’t sneak away did they finally give her some


    space.


    “Mrs. Landor, let’s go, I’ll take you up, someone offered.


    Susan nodded, ready to ept.


    Suddenly, a mncholic voice rang out, “Susan, long time no see.”


    Susan froze for a moment, turned sharply, and then saw the ghost–like figure of Yana.


    Susan’s pupils contracted sharply.


    The former Yana, although sometimes annoying, was always morous and well–put–together, no


    matter the


    asion.


    Now, she was a shadow of her former self, with dark circles under her eyes, her hair in disarray, and


    her feet d int just a pair of slippers.


    Compared to the Yana of before, she looked like apletely different person.


    “Yana… what… what happened to you?” Susan was at a loss for words.


    She had an inkling of the cause.


    Yana’s mouth twisted into a smile more pained than crying, “Susan, don’t you know? Timothy… he’s


    dead.”


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    Susan’s body stiffened.


    While she harbored no guilt over Timothy’s death, seeing her own sister reduced to this was unsettling.


    “Susan, before he left, he said he was going to see you,” Yana walked towards her, “Can you tell me


    why he would suddenly die in a small town so far away?”


    Yana stared intensely at Susan.


    She had thought she felt nothing for Timothy.


    Choosing him had been merely to spite Susan.


    She never expected that now, with Timothy gone and herself as the sole heir to all his assets, she


    would feel anything but tion.


    This should have been a cause for celebration, something to revel in with her parents.


    But as Carl busied himself with taking over Timothy’spany, all she felt was darkness.


    And it was in this haze that Yana came to a realization.


    She had truly cared for Timothy.


    But this realization hade far toote.


    Now, Timothy was gone.


    All she could do was seek justice for him.