“What a joke. No matter how hard you try to seduce her, the only man she truly loves… is me. You pathetic bastard! What the hell are you smirking about?”
“I’m laughing at how you’re looking for trouble for no reason. All that effort is for nothing.”
Infuriated by my cold, disdainful attitude, Jason slapped me hard across the face twice. Then, smiling with a twisted glint in his eyes, he said, “Ethan, I bet you still don’t know why your daughter suddenly fell ill and died, do you? On her birthday, I joked with her. I told her: if she was brave enough to eat an entire snot worm, her beloved mommy would come home right away and blow out the birthday candles with her.”
"I really didn’t expect your daughter to be dumb enough to actually do it. While she was in agony from the stomach pain, she secretly called Vivian behind your back. But Vivian, just to enjoy a movie with me, didn’t even care. She told the girl to behave and go to sleep, then hung up.”
In a sudden burst of fury, I grabbed Jason by the neck, using every ounce of strength I had to drag him toward the depths of the mine, toward the area rigged with explosives.
As Jason screamed for help, his two thugs rushed over and began to beat me savagely, raining punches and kicks on me.
In the chaos, someone accidentally stepped on the detonator and the decaying mine exploded with a thunderous roar, shaking like an earthquake.
Amid the rumbling collapse, I heard a voice pierce through the dust and debris.
“Ethan!”
It was Vivian.
The next thing I heard was the sound of police officers trying to stop her.
"Miss Moon! You can't go in! This mine is about to collapse!"
"I don't care! Let go of me! I need to find Ethan!"
Ignoring their warnings, she dashed into the mine and before long, she found me.
Before she could even show any signs of relief, she heard Jason's desperate cry.
"Vivian, my leg..."
The moment she saw Jason, all her attention shifted to him. Her eyes filled with concern as she rushed to his side. "Jason! How did you end up here?"
With tears in her eyes, she gently helped him up, not even sparing a glance in my direction and without hesitation, she left me behind.
Two hours later...
After confirming that Jason was not seriously injured, she returned to the collapsed mine. She asked everyone, but no one knew where I had gone.
At the private VIP lounge at the No. 1 helipad.