Chapter 255


    rence said, “Answer my question first.”


    Ste frowned. After a few seconds, she answered, “After he died, I found something in the box under


    his bed.”


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    “What did you find?”


    “A few photos, one pocket watch, and Jeffrey Radomil’s diary.”


    “What kind of pocket watch is it?”


    Ste answered, “An ordinary one. Would there be any difference?”


    rence said, “Of course. The producer and production series number are all useful ws.”


    Upon hearing it, Ste parted her lips, but she didn’t utter any word.


    rence stared at her for a few seconds, pressing his thin lips slightly, “Don’t you want to find him?”


    After a moment, Ste lowered her head and said, “I just don’t think it makes any sense.”


    “Ste, it’s not the problem if it makes any sense. You should know the truth in the past.”


    “What’s the use to know the truth? I just want to lead a peaceful life.”


    Since she could remember anything, this had be her biggest wish.


    In the fast, because of Jeffrey Radomil, her family was a mess. From time to time, the debtors would


    come to their house, yelling outside the door. All she could do was to lock the door and hold Chan


    tightly, not afraid to utter any sound.


    Later, she met rence, making her messy life more difficult.


    The man in the photo was a stranger to herpletely. She didn’t remember her. She’d rather lead a


    peaceful life than finding out why her mother married Jeffrey with her over twenty years ago.


    rence said, “It’s not the excuse for you to skip. Sometimes, the truth might be crueler than the


    reality, but I’ll always be with you.”


    Ste was a bit startled, wondering why the wretched man changed the subject so suddenly.


    rence continued, “Even if you don’t care what the truth is, a series of things have happened


    because of it. You are one of the people involved. How can you only care about yourself?”


    “Mr. Conrad, I don’t know what you meant.”


    “Have you met Charles Steward tonight?”


    Ste didn’t understand why he suddenly mentioned Phoebe’s father. She thought for a moment and


    said, “Yes, I have.”


    rence said, “Have you ever thought why there’s no news after your brother had posted the notice in


    a missing-persons column for such a long time?”


    Ste frowned, more confused.


    Back then, when Channing was doing it, she hadn’t expected to get any feedback.


    However, since rence mentioned it now, she sensed something weird.


    After a thought, she didn’t answer. Instead, she asked, “Mr. Conrad, you haven’t answered me how you


    knew it.”


    rence knocked on his knee with his slender fingers, “Haven’t I told you before? There’s nothing you


    can’t do without money.”


    “Mr. Conrad, I don’t have anything to talk to you then. Bye.”


    Ste just stood up, rence pulled her hand and chuckled, “All right. I’ll stop teasing. I found it when


    looking into Charles Steward’s matters.”


    Looking at her confused face, rence continued, “Probably the truth means nothing to you, but you


    must know what has happened in the past, so you can be well prepared for the unknown things.”


    “Mr. Conrad, in humannguage, please.”


    She just wanted to know what Charles had to do with this matter.


    rence exined, “I’m not certain why Charles Steward has done so, but one thing I’m sure that he


    knows the man in the photo, your biological father. He has been preventing the news to spread and


    doesn’t want you to find the man.”


    Upon hearing it, Ste frowned deeply, lost in thought.


    She didn’t have a deep impression of Phoebe’s father, but he looked like a gentle and quiet man. She


    couldn’t believe that he had anything to do with her biological father.


    rence said, “You don’t need to think about other things. I’m telling you now to get you prepared. You


    can’t walk into others’ trap directly.”


    Upon hearing it, Ste was unhappy, “When did I walk into others’ trap?”


    “Did you know what the situation was tonight before you attended the banquet with Emmett Carter?”


    “Nothing had happened to me, did it? Besides, even if I didn’t go with Emmett, Mr. Conrad, didn’t you


    ask me to bet your date? Is there any difference then?”


    rence answered, “Of course, there is.”


    Ste snorted, “In what way?”


    rence suddenlyughed, “Ste, do you know why Charles Steward still just stopped you from


    finding your biological father instead of doing anything to you directly?”


    “I...”


    “Because he knows that I’m your backer. He doesn’t have the guts to do anything to you.”


    Ste was speechless.


    She wondered since when the wretched man had be her backer.


    Before she answered, rence continued, “Use your brain and think about it - why all through the past


    years, Charles Steward never wanted to let Phoebe marry Justin. Instead, just recently, he has taken


    the initiative and asked the Conrad family to consider the marriage for convenience. Guess. What’s he


    afraid of?”


    Ste was still confused about what he had said to her just now. Right then, he switched the subject to


    the engagement between Phoebe and Justin. After a moment of silence, she said, “Probably he


    doesn’t like you.”


    rence was speechless.


    He said, “I’m discussing something serious with you.”


    “Just tell me directly. Why do you keep beating around the bush?”


    He asked her to guess. How could she be able to guess?


    rence pressed his thin lips and said, “Let me tell you the exact timing. He proposed the marriage to


    the Conrad family after your brother has posted the notice in a missing-persons column.”


    “Do you mean this matter has anything to do with me?”


    “Or in other words, your appearance made him scared.”


    As for the reason that he was scared, only Charles knew himself what on earth he had done.


    Ste’s heart sank bit by bit. Now shepletely understood what rence meant.


    Charles didn’t only know her biological father, but also something must have happened between them


    so that Charles thought about something in the past when seeing Chan’s post.


    He wasn’t afraid of her but her biological father. Or, in other words, he was afraid of the truth of twenty


    years ago.


    Hence, he cooperated with the Conrad family and wanted to bind the Steward and the Conrad families


    completely together.


    rence looked at her hand that he was gripping, gently rubbing it, “Aren’t you still not interested in the


    truth?”


    Ste gradually returned to her senses. Looking down at his hand, she immediately withdrew her own,


    “Mr. Conrad, thank you for informing me about those things. I’m quite interested now. I’m so interested


    that I wish I can rush over to Phoebe Steward’s house and ask her father what on earth the insane


    things he had done in the past!”


    rence was rendered speechless.