Chapter 685


    rence put the soup in front of her and said leisurely, “Tell me.”


    Ste said, “Yesterday he went to the studio at noon. He was telling ine that he was going to take


    her and leave City N, and that she shouldn’t tell us. She didn’t want to bother us. After all, he was her


    most trusted and closest person, and plus she didn’t want to bring any trouble to us. So of course, she


    thought that his words made sense.”


    “Caesar and ine agreed that he would pick her up at 8pm, to bring her to a safer ce. Caesar, as


    ine’s uncle, seemed not out of ce to be doing so. Even though they were in my studio at that


    time, he was ine’s uncle, so I didn’t know what reason I should have stopped him for.”


    “The strange thing about it is that Caesar purposely went at noon to tell ine about it. Even though he


    knew that City N was dangerous, however, he didn’t take her away at that time. Instead, he told her to


    wait until 8pm. But Sherry learnt about this and convinced ine to stay in City N first instead of going


    with Caesar.”


    “Not long after Caesar arrived, which was around 8 o’clock, those people came. That means that even


    if Sherry didn’t make ine stay, when Caesar took her away, there was no way for them not to bump


    into those people on the way out. Coincidentally, ording to what Maxwell said, if those people hadn''t


    appeared suddenly, Caesar would have no chance to get ine out in the chaos with Maxwell and his


    man on the spot.”


    “My guess is, Caesar knew that you sent people to protect ine, in that case, there was no way for


    him to finish his ns. So, he went to the studio to convince her to leave with him, and after ine


    agreed, he nned the show at night.”


    “But to make the show work, first he needed to be sure that ine was gonna leave with him.


    Otherwise, if she didn’t cooperate, it would be problematic to carry out the n. Sherry said, whenContent is property of N?velDrama.Org.


    those people chased after them, it was a big mess. All her focus was on ine, and she didn’t know


    what Caesar was doing.”


    “In that situation, ine being taken away, Caesar was not as shocked as he should have been being


    her uncle. That would only leave one possibility, which was, he never spoke once nor did he do


    anything to stop those men during the process.”


    After she finished, she suddenly felt a chill running down her spine.


    She remembered that Sherry said when ine was taken, she was yelling for Caesar to send Sherry to


    the hospital.


    If that was the case, ine might still not know that the person who was staging all this, was her most


    trusted uncle.


    rence smiled, “Did you get all that in such a short time?”


    Ste answered, “Since Maxwell told me about the situationst night, I had a feeling that something


    was off, and with everything Sherry told me in the ward, the feeling got even stronger.”


    As she said so, she paused and frowned, “But there''s still something I don’t understand.”


    “What is it?”


    “If Caesar’s people already took ine, why would he... bring Sherry to the hospital? And he was here


    all the time. This makes me doubt that my guess is not quite right.”


    rence said, “What you are assuming is right. The reason why he brought Sherry to the hospital is


    because he hadn’t gotten a chance to escape yet.”


    Sherry paused, “Didn’t get a chance to escape?”


    “Maxwell must have told you that they almost ran after them immediately, so Caesar didn’t have much


    time. He took so long to work on this n. Sherry was just an ident, but ine had to be taken


    away. Since he put so much time and energy into this, it means that he didn’t want ine to know the


    truth.”


    Ste immediately understood, and felt her scalp was turning numb. “So he didn’t leave those


    kidnappers. He waited till they were gone. But at that moment, Maxwell appeared, so he could only


    pretend that he was talking Sherry to the hospital?”


    rence nodded, “He had already gone so far, so clearly he couldn’t get away with it. He might as well


    wait till we were back to find out the whole story, so that he could make himself off the hook.”


    “So, where is he now?”


    “I told him to go home.” rence said, “Since we want to know where ine is, we need to start from


    him. That is the fastest way.”


    Ste breathed in, quiet for a while before she said, “But what I am worried about is that ine being


    kept from it all. Would something happen to her?”


    rence said, “There is no need to worry, the reason why he took ine is probably because he wants


    to do something in Riverside City. As long as they are in City N, ine will be safe.”


    Ste opened her mouth to say something, but rence interrupted, “Eat your food, it''s getting cold.”


    Ste swallowed her words back and drank her soup, her mind floating elsewhere.


    She was wondering how ine was doing.


    ...


    On the other side, after ine was taken, the men had knocked her unconscious because she was not


    cooperating and being loud all along.


    When she woke up, she was in an unfamiliar room.


    She slowly sat up, feeling the whole world was spinning around her.


    ine shook her head hard. When she didn’t feel so dizzy anymore, she got off the bed, but because


    her hands were tied, she could only kick the door, screaming, “Open the door! Open the door! Open the


    door!”


    After two minutes, the door was finally opened, the person who opened the door was the same guy as


    last night.


    He looked at ine without any expressions, “Miss James, you should control yourself. This is not your


    own home.”


    ine’s heart twitched, she was scared and took a few steps back, but she still gathered her courage


    to say, “Even if this is not my home, you need to bring me something to eat, I am hungry and haven’t


    eaten sincest night. If you let me starve to death, my father and my great grandfather would never let


    you get away with it!”


    The man looked at the time, “What do you want to eat?”


    ine especially asked for some special dishes of Riverside City, and she spoke in the proud manner


    of a nobledy, “I want all of it, and some milk tea, room temperature without any ice.”


    The man snorted, “Miss James, or maybe I should call you Miss Attitude. We don’t have any of that.”


    “Then… what do you have?”


    “Just eat what we have.”


    As he said so, the man closed the door.


    ine used all the strength to get back to the couch, while her hands were sweating.


    Not long after, the door was opened again.


    Looking at the food, she was quite sure that they were still in City N.


    Leave alone everything else, she was a professional in food and drinks.


    So she only need one nce to tell whether the food was from Riverside City food or from City


    N.