"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."

spreading from the deepest corner of her heart and almost overwhelming her. "Until now, I could still remember 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 never thought it would be the last time we saw him."

hand on Bella's waist tightened, the sadness pressing down on his chest like a huge rock, so heavy that it suffocated

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

help looking back worriedly at

this portrait doesn't just look similar

trembled again as she held the portrait. "But... But we've gotten official confirmation that all the crew

hard to believe."

was slightly hoarse, his palm rubbing her shoulders gently. "Even if no body was found, the possibility of survival in a plane crash

he tried his best to control himself, his slightly swollen eyes still betrayed his sadness. "It's just a coincidence that he

not impossible," Justin said

her son's body with her own eyes, so

the day of the incident as

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 see

handsome face. "This man looks like Hugh, but his eyes don't belong to him. Hugh is like a

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