"Yes." Carrie nodded firmly.

At this moment, Ralph, always composed and steady, stared at the portrait as he stood quietly and stiffly, his eyes turning red.

"Ralph, are you alright?" Carrie keenly sensed Ralph's unusual behavior and asked softly.

Ralph spoke, his voice hoarse. "Sorry. Where's the washroom? I need to use it."

Justin pointed in the direction, and Ralph immediately strode away.

"Bella, do you guys know this man?" Justin put his arms around her waist and asked nervously.

Bella took a deep breath, trying to calm her surging emotions. "This man looks like my fifth brother, Hugh, who died in a plane crash." Justin and Carrie's eyes widened in disbelief!

Thinking of her fifth brother, who passed away many years ago and became a wound that would never heal on the Thompson family members' hearts, Bella immediately teared up and muttered in a low voice, "During the years Hugh left us, we never dared to mention his name or grieve him, especially in front of Aunt Mila and Ralph. It's not because we have forgotten him, but precisely because we can't, so we always avoided the subject."

the morning of Hugh's accident. He wore his pilot's uniform and carried a suitcase, standing in the courtyard bathed in warm sunlight, waving goodbye to us. We

sadness pressing down on his chest like a huge rock, so heavy that it

her, but any words seemed pale and useless in the face

and could not help looking back worriedly

just look similar to Hugh. They look

we've gotten official confirmation that all the crew members and passengers on Hugh's plane died in

hard

hoarse, his palm rubbing her shoulders gently. "Even if no body was found, the possibility of survival in a plane crash is close to zero. Besides, if your brother survived and was saved, how could henot contact his family for

just a coincidence?" Ralph returned to them, but although he tried his best to control himself, his slightly swollen eyes still betrayed his sadness. "It's

Justin said

refused to give up for a long time and used their connections to search for Hugh's whereabouts, especially Aunt Mila. She didn't see her son's body with her own eyes,

the incident as Hugh's death anniversary. She still celebrates his birthday, as if Hugh merely went on a long trip and would

with pain. "I really can't imagine how Aunt Mila would feel if she saw this man. I'm afraid she'd want to find this man more than we do, even just to

don't belong to him. Hugh is like a pool of springwater, while he is a

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