Chapter 1


    Chapter 1 A Troubling Call From A Stranger


    Early in the morning, a ray of sunlight sneaked past the curtains and shone on a woman still fast


    asleep, making her seem as gentle as a baby.


    The woman had soft skin, cherry-red lips, a tall nose, and eyshes so long that they could shield her


    eyes from the sun. There was a sense of tranquility about her as she slept under the golden sunlight.


    Suddenly, the abrupt ringing of a phone interrupted the sweet calmness of the scene and woke the


    woman from her dreams.


    With her eyebrows furrowed tightly, she rolled over and covered her ears with a pillow, intending to


    ignore the phone call.


    However, the caller refused to give up. Only after being tortured by the ringing for a while did the


    woman finally decide to extend her long fair arm to grab the device on the bedside table.


    “Hello.” The woman’s voice was hoarse as she was only half awake, and there was a hint of irritation in


    her tone.


    “Your fiancé is all over the news, yet you don’t seem to have lost any sleep over it.” The voice from the


    other end of the line was as deep as a cello. It sounded pleasant but foreign to the woman.


    Immediately after hearing that, the woman opened her eyes wide to stare at the unfamiliar phone


    number on disy before eximing, “What did you say?”


    “This is our first phone call. I’ve prepared something special for you as a wedding gift. I believe the


    timing should be just right.”


    The woman’s heart began to race after listening to the mysterious voice.


    For some reason, she had an ominous feeling about it, but before she could seek out answers, her


    butler knocked on her door. “Ms. Micha, there’s a package for you that requires your signature.”


    Immediately, the woman knew it was the gift the stranger had just mentioned. What does this person


    want from me?


    The woman was knitting her eyebrows in hesitation when she heard another knock on the door before


    the butler called out, “Ms. Micha?”


    “All right, I heard you. I’ming!”


    As soon as the woman responded to the butler, the stranger hung up on her. All she could hear was the


    beeping of a disconnected phone call. What a weirdo!


    Even though the woman shook her head as she thought about how odd the whole thing was, she was


    determined to figure out what the stranger was ying at nheless.


    After changing into a fresh set of clothes in the shortest time possible, the woman hurried downstairs


    and saw a somewhat restrained delivery man at the main door. “Sorry for making you wait.”


    Then, the woman habitually signed her name, Micha Lingard, on the delivery man’s document


    before taking the parcel off his hands and watching him leave.


    At that moment, her family had already woken up and was enjoying coffee in the living room.


    Another young woman, also casually dressed, immediately jumped to her feet from the couch and


    hurried over when she saw Micha. With a cheeky expression on her face, the woman snatched the


    package from Micha’s hands. “This must be the piece of jewelry the Xanders had custom-made just


    for you! Let me see!”


    Micha smiled slightly as she let the woman open the package for her. However, her face


    immediately hardened when she saw the colorful magazine inside and the unmissable headline printed


    on its cover.


    What shocked her even more was seeing her fiancé, Zack Xander, behaving intimately with the woman


    beside her, Lucille Lingard, on the magazine cover.


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    “What is this?” questioned a stern voice after a moment of awkward silence.


    Seated beside the stern man, a middle-aged beautiful woman narrowed her eyes at the magazine


    before she heard the entertainment news host on the television. “Hello, everyone. I’m your host, Amy.”