Ethan Sutton ran a hand through his hair, exasperated. "I’m not going! You go if you want to! ...Mom, what’s gotten into you? How did you become so superstitious? I can’t believe you fell for such obvious lies. I really don’t get you!"

After speaking, Ethan Sutton turned and stormed back to his room, fuming.

Mrs. Sutton watched him go, shaking her head helplessly.

She knew the recent events had hit Ethan hard, causing his personality to change drastically and leaving him emotionally unstable.

As a mother, Mrs. Sutton’s heart ached for her son. All she wanted now was for Joanne White to have Ethan’s child.

Once Ethan had a child, she would find a way to get him a wife. This woman wouldn’t need to be from a family of similar social standing to the Sutton Family; she just needed to be able to take good care of Ethan and the child.

Once Ethan had a wife and child, outsiders wouldn’t look at him so strangely anymore... ’Hopefully, his mindset will improve by then.’

At this thought, Mrs. Sutton sighed silently.

She turned, picked up the bowl of noodles that had almost gone cold on the table, and brought it to Joanne White...

... 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After finishing the bowl of chicken noodle soup, some color returned to Joanne White’s cheeks.

Fighting the discomfort in her abdomen, she placed the bowl and chopsticks back on the nightstand with a trembling hand.

Just then, her phone on the nightstand vibrated. The screen lit up, displaying a new message.

Joanne White picked up her phone and glanced at it. It was a message from Mr. Caelus:

"Joanne, what’s the situation on your end? Is everything going smoothly?"

Joanne White quickly typed a reply:

"Godfather, I’ve successfully moved into a guest room in the Sutton house. Margaret Adler is pretty warm toward me, but her husband and son are very cold..."

As soon as Joanne White sent the message, a reply came back instantly:

"You need to find a way to win over Margaret Adler’s husband, Sean Sutton, as quickly as possible. He’s the one who truly controls the Sutton Family’s finances. There’s not much to gain from Margaret Adler anymore. In short, be careful and stick to our original plan!"

After reading the message, Joanne White pressed her lips together and replied:

"I understand, Godfather. Don’t worry."

After putting her phone down, Joanne White flopped back onto the bed as if she had been deflated.

She stared up at the ceiling for a moment, then closed her eyes in despair.

’So much has happened in the past week. I feel like I’m living in a nightmare...’

After her miscarriage, Zane Simmons hadn’t even let her rest. He’d had her sent straight back to her parents’ house and even recalled the bodyguards he had stationed there.

But who could have known that as soon as the bodyguards left, a devastating disaster would befall the White Family!

After the natural disaster, Zane Simmons would occasionally send people over with food and water. Even though Mr. and Mrs. White usually kept a low profile, the truckloads of supplies were hard to miss, and their starving neighbors had long been eyeing the White Family greedily.

It was only because of the bodyguards Zane Simmons had sent that no one dared to rob them.

Now that the bodyguards were gone and only the three of them were left, how could those people possibly let such an opportunity pass?

So, the very next night, a group of thugs broke in and ransacked the White Family’s home.

Tragically, when Mr. and Mrs. White tried to stop the robbers and call the police, one of the robbers, flying into a rage out of shame, stabbed them in the chest, killing them on the spot.

Joanne White, weakened by her recent miscarriage and confined to her bed, was spared...

When Joanne White heard the commotion and struggled out to the living room, she was stunned by the scene before her—both Mr. and Mrs. White were lying on the floor, covered in blood, their breathing so faint it was barely perceptible.

Joanne White threw herself beside her parents, desperately trying to apply pressure to their bleeding wounds. She took out her phone to call for an ambulance and even ran outside to cry for help from the neighborhood’s emergency office.

But it was all in vain. In the end, Mr. and Mrs. White died from blood loss...

Having lost her parents and with all her family’s supplies looted, Joanne White had no choice but to follow her mother’s dying wish and seek refuge with "Mr. Caelus."

Because Mr. and Mrs. White had often donated money and supplies to Mr. Caelus, he took in the desperate Joanne White for their sake and made her his goddaughter.

The reason Joanne White was now in the Sutton household was because of a mission Mr. Caelus had given her.

Mr. Caelus had ordered Joanne White to infiltrate the Sutton Family, gain Sean Sutton’s trust, and find a way to get her hands on their fortune.

Thinking about this, Joanne White ran a hand through her hair in frustration.

She knew this was fraud, but she was in no position to refuse Mr. Caelus’s demands.

’I don’t understand. How did things turn out like this?!’

Just last week, she was still Zane Simmons’s girlfriend, dreaming of having her status as his Canary made official. But in just a few short days, her entire world had been turned upside down.

She had gone from the future mistress of the Simmons Family to a pawn in Mr. Caelus’s hands...

At this thought, Joanne White covered her face in despair.

Just then, her phone let out another short buzz. A new text message had arrived.

Joanne White opened her phone. After reading the message on the screen, she couldn’t help but frown slightly—it was from Austin Hale:

"Babe, miss me? It must be tough for you, going to the Sutton house all alone. Once you finish the mission, I’ll definitely bring you back."

After reading the message, Joanne White rolled her eyes.

’How disgusting!’

It was only after going to Mr. Caelus’s place that Joanne White discovered that Austin Hale was there too.

Not only that, but Austin Hale had also been taken in by Mr. Caelus as a godson!

Austin Hale was constantly calling Mr. Caelus "Dad," delighting the man. Mr. Caelus thought highly of him and treated him as his right-hand man.

Austin Hale was also surprised to see Joanne White. Remembering how she had betrayed and abandoned him, he was furious and planned to teach her a lesson in secret.

Joanne White was living under someone else’s roof. To keep Austin Hale in check, she had no choice but to lie and tell him that the child she had recently lost was his.

’...Besides, it’s not like Austin Hale could verify it anyway!’

Austin Hale didn’t believe her at all when he heard this. Thinking on her feet, Joanne White lied again, claiming that Zane Simmons was infertile. Otherwise, how could one explain that he had so many young lovers, yet none of them had ever had his child?

Hearing this, Austin Hale thought it made a lot of sense and began to hesitate.

Joanne White wasn’t particularly smart, but she knew exactly how to handle men like Austin Hale.

Seeing him waver, she immediately pressed her advantage, crying to Austin Hale that she had only endured her humiliating position with Zane Simmons for the sake of their child’s future...

When she saw that Austin Hale was starting to believe her, Joanne White fanned the flames.

Joanne White told Austin Hale through her tears that she had thought of him constantly since their breakup. But to ensure their child could survive the disaster and live a life of comfort in the Simmons Family, she had to suppress her disgust and play along with Zane Simmons.

Joanne White said that she had wanted to die for a long time but had been holding on by a thread, just for the chance to see Austin Hale one last time. Now that she had, she was content and had no regrets.

Joanne White added that she was "dirty" now and no longer worthy of Austin Hale, so she planned to end her life to prove her devotion. Her only dying wish was for Austin Hale to find a chance to visit their son at the Simmons Family home, as he was, after all, his own flesh and blood.