He remembered receiving a call when the experts couldn’t treat Lauren.
But he was so anxious at the time that he cursed the caller and hung up.
Who knew it was about Sophia’s contract termination?
“How could you let her leave without my signature on the termination agreement?”
Nathan was determined to vent his anger on someone today.
The other side sighed again:
“Mr. Nathan, have you forgotten? You signed the contract five years ago.”
“She’s your wife. You gave her special approval for termination back then, and you even paid the breach of contract fee out of your own pocket…”
Nathan’s lips had lost all color as he gritted his back teeth.
That did happen.
But he had long forgotten about it.
At that time, he was passionately in love with Sophia. He signed her to his own company, poured resources into making her a star, just to give her the best treatment and ensure she wouldn’t be constrained.
He even spent all the liquid assets he had, angering his grandfather who punished him with twenty strokes of the family rod.
After his wounds healed, Sophia was so worried about him that she developed a fever in the middle of the night and almost died.
He was terrified and mobilized all his connections in the city to save her.
He cried like never before at her bedside:
“Sophia! You can’t have anything happen to you, you can’t die. Even the King of Hell can’t take my wife from me!”
And when Sophia woke up, her one sentence made him cry tears of joy:
11:57 PM A
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“Is this your way of proposing to me?”
As the memories flooded back, Nathan’s eyes stung.
His self–perceived doting had almost cost Sophia her life back then, and now it had made her disappear from his world completely.
Didn’t Sophia say she loved him?
Then why did she leave him…
His nails dug into his flesh, but he couldn’t feel any pain. His heart continued to ache.
The world seemed to return to those dark days when he was besieged within the Jin family, desperately fighting for power.
Those were the darkest days of his twenty years, suddenly plunging into an icy hell, all warmth around him vanishing.
Only Sophia stayed by his side, loving him.
She stayed up late with him, coaxed him to sleep, took him to see a therapist, accompanied him in extreme sports. She gave him love, becoming his emotional pillar.
How could someone like her leave?
Nathan crouched on the ground, burying his head in his arms, questioning the air over and over.
But no one could give him an answer.
The phone on the ground was still ringing:
“Sigh, Sophia is pitiful too. Her legs were beaten until she was crippled. She can’t be a model anymore.”
“But at least she retired from the industry while still hot as an international supermodel. People will remember her, so she won’t be too lonely!”
A tear fell on Nathan’s phone as he urgently wanted to know exactly what had happened:
“How badly were her legs injured?”
The agent’s voice immediately turned angry:
“It’s really despicable. Those people specifically wanted to ruin her. They didn’t touch anywhere else, just completely destroyed her legs. It’s a
sin!”
“Originally there was hope for treatment, but who knows why it took so long to get her to the hospital. Her right leg is beyond saving now.”
Only her legs were injured? Specifically to ruin her career?
