Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 1702: The Zoren they didn't know

In the trance...

The study room of Zoren's home in Skyline Plaza was quiet and dim. With barely any lights on, the desk lamp cast a soft glow over the files. Zoren stared at Penny's case files.

He sat there, almost slightly confused.

"This..." he whispered to himself, pressing his lips into a thin line.

As he reached out to Penny's file, where his profile was clipped to it, a faint, low growl echoed to his ears. He turned, catching sight of his huge black panther idling in the corner of the dim room.

"Renny," he whispered, furrowing his brows as he noticed one of the panther's eyes was shut.

Instead of checking the case files first, Zoren pushed himself away from the chair. He approached the black panther. Renny stayed idle in the corner, just watching him approach.

The black panther let out a low growl the moment Zoren got too close.

"..." Zoren paused, eyeing it.

After a breath, he squatted down and studied Renny. Earlier, he noticed one of Renny's eyes shut because only one glowed in the dim space. But now that he was up close, he could see the large scar across Renny's eye.

Renny had lost one eye.

"What..." he whispered. "... did I do?"

His chest moved heavily as he stared at the panther that stared back at him-not with the same affection as it used to, but rather, it stared back at Zoren with the same distance, like a soldier to his commander.

The longer they stared at each other, the clearer Zoren's cold reflection was mirrored in its eyes.

Zoren narrowed his eyes at his own reflection until his breathing stopped for a moment.

There, crouching down before Renny, was him. However, it didn't carry the same worry one might expect. If anything, his own pair of dark eyes were darker and more emotionless.

His own reflection looked back not with care, but more like assessment.

"That's..." he whispered.

"Renren?"

almost couldn't hear her. Instead, Zoren kept staring at his own reflection through Renny's eyes, until the different emotions in his eyes merged with

it was even more distant. Her voice tried to reach him once more, but this time, he didn't hear her

grew colder, now fused to relieve

remained silent until he pushed himself

on his heel, he walked away from Renny and toward his

its one eye on Zoren, watching him from

it try. It just stared at Zoren and followed his every movement

[In reality]

a thin line, checking the pulse

panting heavily, as if he had seen something horrifying. He seemed to have panicked, but now, he had calmed down

called again, but he

chair and picked up the heart monitor device. She scooped it up and brought

on a different location on his chest. She checked the

looked back at Zoren, her brows

called. "Can you

Nothing.

all normal. Even his breathing was calm, almost like

leaned back, her brows

thought, worry flickering in her eyes as she kept

just what they planned for him to take a peek from another perspective. But rather, Zoren was pulled into that memory

words, reliving the memory as if it were happening the first

[Back to Zoren's Memory...]

sat down in the chair and moved it closer to the desk. Just as he

edge of the desk,

— three in the morning, to be exact.

he set his eyes on the documents

Mark to compile and send to him.

been a full

he had a four-hour nap. And he was growing used