My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

The investor didn't want to cause a scene, so he offered William a large amount of money in hope that he would just take it and leave the place. But William refused, and he even reported that matter to the authorities.

At last, the investor was brought away by the police. During the investigation, it was found that the investor was also involved in bribery and corruption cases. The investor's wife was having a promising career as a politician. A scandal of that scale would most definitely hurt her reputation. Thus, she decided to take things to the court, and filed a divorce with him. She also presented a few pieces of evidence gathered from the illegal acts that her husband had done over the decades to court.

With the evidence present, the court sentenced the investor accordingly to his crime. The court also ordered him to return the assets he earned from his illegal acts. The investor, who had lost everything, took his life while in prison.

It was at that time that I found out the investor was actually Aaron's biological father. I also learned that his birth mother passed away due to lung cancer in the same year Carol took him under her care.

After his father's death, Aaron's personality shifted to the worst. He was a quiet child before. But ever since his father's wrongdoings were revealed, other kids in the alley took advantage of that, and they would beat him up just because his father was the bad guy. The funding Carol received for taking care of him was also stopped indefinitely following the investor's death.

a child, how he viewed the world was based on what he was told. Everyone around him hated him and bullied him because of his father,

would even cut off the strays' limbs and send those to the children who had bullied him. Furthermore, he would leave those carcasses in the alley, making the alley stunk so

to move out from Hovell with his family. On the day they planned to move out, William's whole family was hospitalized due to food poisoning.

the explosion didn't garner much interest from the local residents. On the other hand, after spending three days in the hospital, William and his wife passed away.

a small town, and people believed that the couple died due to food poisoning. However,

their heads.

was visiting Monique in the hospital after my college entrance exam. Monique survived, but for a long period after that, she would break down

right in front of me. I remembered that I fell ill for a couple of weeks after that day. Monique and I never brought up that topic anymore. We were both young and innocent when Aaron committed the murders, so we never thought

I sold the house to treat her with the money. We then moved to Ucrebury as I further my studies while she received her treatment. Monique didn't resume her studies in Hovell. And since she had no friends nor family, she

what I heard, he was a grandson of