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…

***

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

side

go down as low as 10 degrees in this weather at night. If he stayed here all night, Serenity was not sure if he would still be alive

her earlier, Serenity stepped

you have their contact number? I can make a call for you and ask them to

his head. His dull and somber eyes met hers, yet he still would

by a

time, the whole world seemed dark and bleak. Though she was still alive, her life was bereft of

go, you can come

words that flowed effortlessly out of her mouth.

***

the 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

don’t mind, then I’ll lay a mat on the floor for you to sleep

man, Serenity riffled through her place and got him a clean towel and a new toothbrush.

little in the bathroom, but I don’t have any clothes in your size, so you’d better not get your clothes wet.”

for the man to clean up inside the bathroom, Serenity began to lay out a mat on the floor and took out a spare

of slightly more than a hundred square feet,

still wearing the same shabby

with water, Serenity picked up a towel and said,

stared fixedly

If you leave your hair dripping wet like that, you might

for a long time

voice was frigid, but it sounded

as she continued, “Since I brought

slightly, and he slowly

the towel and began drying it as

he simply replied,

she echoed him, thinking it must be a nickname. “My name’s

any

an orphan?

family, she might as well be an orphan too. The only difference between them, perhaps, was that

in common,” she smiled bitterly, then continued drying his

hair

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