"How could two living people not leave any trace behind?" Chloe Reed’s expression grew pensive. "Either they live abroad, or their tracks have been deliberately erased."

’But why would anyone erase Sunny Reed’s parents’ tracks?’

’What did they do for a living?’

’How did they die?’

’Were Charles Reed and his wife involved?’

’And why did Charles Reed and his wife dote on Sunny so much?’

Chloe Reed was incredibly curious.

She looked at Daniel Hayes and said, "Find any clues you can about Sunny Reed’s parents. I just want to know what exactly happened between them and Charles Reed and his wife."

Daniel Hayes nodded. "Understood."

He drank another bowl of water before getting up to leave.

Chloe Reed, however, didn’t leave. She sat in the teahouse, drinking the entire pot of tea, her mind a chaotic mess.

One moment, she was thinking about Sunny Reed’s parents; the next, about what Daniel Hayes had said regarding Miles Hawthorne.

She pressed her temples.

’The attack on me... was Miles Hawthorne involved?’

’But how is that possible?’

’Miles is still helping me.’

’If it weren’t for Miles, Walker Grant would still be using my grandma’s surgery to threaten me into not divorcing him.’

’How could Miles possibly want to kill me?’

’So, that theory probably doesn’t hold up.’

’It was probably just a coincidence.’

’People from overseas...’

She had no idea her own identity could have attracted the attention of people from overseas.

Now she was starting to wonder what kind of identity she even had.

As evening fell, she left the teahouse.

Learning from the past few incidents, she now walked a full circle around her car every time, checking carefully to make sure no one suspicious was around before getting in.

Sitting in the driver’s seat, her phone suddenly buzzed. She pulled it out and saw it was from an unknown number, but one look at the message and she deleted it, her expression blank.

—[Chloe, why did you block me?]

It was obviously a message from Walker Grant.

’He already knows I blocked him, so why is he even asking? Isn’t that just pointless?’

For the next few days, she was swamped. Her work was in its final stages, and she left the office late every evening. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Her grandmother’s condition improved day by day, and she was already able to get out of bed and walk around a bit.

That evening, Charles Reed gave her a call.

His tone was very gentle. "Chloe, are you coming home for dinner tonight?"

"No," Chloe Reed replied, her tone flat. "Don’t go out of your way to do things like this. It’s too fake. The only reason I’m not targeting the Reed Group anymore is because my grandma talked to me. As long as you don’t provoke me again, I won’t do anything."

It was true.

She had told Zachary Bowman to stop targeting the Reed Group.

After two major upheavals, many of the Reed Group’s senior executives had resigned. The corporation had shrunk significantly and was now barely managing to stay afloat.

One more blow, and the Reed Group would surely go bankrupt.

’Corner a dog, and it will bite back.’

’That was a consequence she might not be able to bear.’

Charles Reed sighed softly. "You’re overthinking this. I’m your father. It’s perfectly normal for me to ask you to come home for dinner. Chloe, aren’t we family?"

Chloe Reed let out a soft, mocking laugh. "I’m your family? Then what about Sunny Reed?"

Charles Reed was silent for a moment before saying, "Chloe, she’s already been very low-key and careful. Stop targeting her. The truth is... she’s had a pitiful life."

Chloe Reed was getting irritated. "Enough. I don’t want to hear this."

With that, she hung up the phone.

’So because Sunny Reed had a pitiful life, she could just unscrupulously take everything I cared about?’

’And now, she had succeeded.’

Chloe Reed was estranged from her parents and divorced from Walker Grant.