Chapter 2

What Serenity had said at the time was, “If you keep beating him up like that, he’ll die!”

“So what?” Jackson peered down at the man who was laboriously struggling to get up from the ground, his gaze piercingly cold.

Serenity was taken aback. It was only then that she had a good look at the man’s face.

He had a flawlessly handsome face with a straight nose and lips that were thin but shapely. His facial features were delicate, but there was not a trace of emotion in his expressions. One could even say that his eyes were dead calm, almost as if human lives meant nothing to him at all, and he had no qualms about either taking someone else’s life or even his own life!

Serenity took a deep breath and told him, “It’s not worth losing your freedom to a scum like him.”

The man stared straight at her for a while before releasing his grip on Travis.

Knowing that he had just narrowly escaped, Travis hurried away with a face smeared with his own blood and quickly got into his car with his female companion before fleeing.

In the car, he gritted his teeth and vowed, “I’ll bring my men over and teach that b*stard a lesson!”

However, the woman beside him who had been silent all along suddenly widened her eyes as she finally realized why that man just now had seemed so familiar. She remembered how she had seen the very same man in the banquet earlier from afar, and that man was…

“Jackson Valor! That man just now was Jackson Valor!”

“Jackson Valor?!” Travis turned pale as if he’d just seen a ghost. “The richest man in Solaria? Impossible!”

“But he really did look a lot like Jackson Valor…” the woman insisted.

They stared at each other, both turning just as pale as death…

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Serenity looked at the man in front of her and stammered, “Thank you for… just now.”

side and sat down on the ground

weather at night. If

he had just saved her earlier, Serenity

going home?” she asked as she stood in front of the man. “What about your family? Do you have their contact number? I can make a call for you and ask them to come get

dull and somber eyes

struck by a deathly

could see exactly what she looked like after being sentenced. At the time, the whole world seemed dark and

nowhere to go, you can come home with me.”

that flowed effortlessly out of her

***

boldness to act on a sudden urge to bring home a man she did not even know. Perhaps it was because the man had just saved her, or perhaps… it was because she saw herself as she used to be in this man.

don’t mind, then I’ll lay a

riffled through her place and got him

can clean yourself up a little in the bathroom, but I don’t have any clothes in your

began to lay out

had an area of slightly more than a hundred square feet, and it only consisted of a small room

the same shabby clothes, but his hair was dripping wet

still dripping with water,

man stared fixedly at

hair,” she explained. “I have no other intentions. If you leave your hair dripping wet like that, you

long time before asking, “Are you concerned

was frigid, but

“Since I brought you home, I just don’t

slightly, and he slowly leaned down toward her.

and began drying it as

long silence, he simply

thinking it must be a nickname. “My name’s Serenity Lewis. Where do you live? Where’s

have any family,” he replied.

orphan? Was that why he

too. The only difference between them, perhaps, was that she had managed to rent a place, so she had a roof over her head.

got a lot of things in common,” she smiled bitterly, then continued drying

put the towel away and began to comb his hair. After brushing his hair back and revealing his

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