Five years later.
Yrador’s top auction house.
The spacious hall was filled with high society figures.
On the auction stage, the Auctioneer wore a white cheongsam, her hair elegantly styled, a thin veil covering her face, making her features unclear, yet her every movent was stunningly beautiful.
With confident ease, she introduced the item on display in flawless English, prompting a bidding frenzy below.
A pair of clear, bright eyes swept over the audience, hands holding a gavel, commanding the entire room.
On the second floor, Damien Lancaster sat there, turning his head to glance, "Is she the one grandpa insisted on eting?"
The assistant next to him handed over so information, "Yes, her na is Zinnia, and she beca an auctioneer here five years ago. Her first auction saw a landscape painting with a starting price of one million sell for a staggering sixty million, a 60-fold profit, making her famous with one stroke."
Damien Lancaster narrowed his eyes, "Does she always appear with a veil?"
The assistant thought for a mont, then said, "Yes, I heard soone once offered ten million to have her remove it, but she refused, and it’s said she must be incredibly ugly, which is why she doesn’t want to reveal her face."
Damien Lancaster snuffed out his cigarette and quietly watched, "Her eyes are beautiful."
With such beautiful eyes, she couldn’t possibly be shockingly ugly.
Moreover, those eyes resemble soone.
Who do they resemble?
Like Ivy Sumrs.
The woman who, five years ago, left behind a divorce agreent, silently aborted his child, and vanished without a trace.
"Bring her to see ."
Damien Lancaster stood up, took two steps, then stopped.
"It’s been five years, and there’s still no trace of Ivy Sumrs?"
The assistant was in a panic.
They say people can’t just vanish.
But their lady really vanished into thin air, with no trace for five years.
Damien Lancaster had a headache, "Keep looking."
That woman was ruthless enough, divorcing him, aborting his child, and blocking every way to contact her.
No one would guess that the president of the mighty Lancaster Group was the one left by a divorce agreent, or that he has spent five years searching for the woman who abandoned him.
Damien Lancaster must find her; he needs to ask her what heinous cri he committed that made her leave so rcilessly.
Damien Lancaster left.
Assistant Julian Jacobs stood there, cold sweat dripping, having searched everywhere to no avail.
After five years, finding a person felt like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Julian Jacobs muttered bitterly to himself, "Ma’am, where in the world are you?"
As an auction concluded, Zinnia elegantly bowed slightly and then turned to leave the stage.
Five years ago, Ivy Sumrs ca to Yrador and joined an auction house, renaming herself Zinnia to avoid unnecessary trouble, always wearing a veil at the auction house.
Arriving at the office.
A soft little pink bundle toddled over, opening her little arms to hug Ivy Sumrs’s leg, and called out crisply, "Mommy."
Ivy Sumrs removed her veil, revealing a delicate and stunning face. She bent down to pick up her daughter and kissed her pale, tender face, "Sophie, have you been waiting long? Where are your brothers?"
The little pink bundle balled her little hand, raising her head, "Hmph, the brothers went out to play."
"Didn’t they take Sophie?"
"They said they were going to play boys’ gas and couldn’t bring Sophie."
Ivy Sumrs, "..."
Those two boys didn’t want to take Sophie, just say it outright.
Back then, when Ivy Sumrs was heartbroken and intended to abort the child, standing at the operating room door made her reluctant, and eventually, she gave up.
Two months after arriving in Yrador, she gave birth to three babies, two boys and one girl.
The eldest is Nathan Sumrs, the middle is Leo Sumrs, and the youngest is Sophie Sumrs.
The eldest is sensible, the second is mischievous, and the youngest is the cutest.
Ivy Sumrs looked at the adorable little dumpling in her arms, feeling grateful for the decision made back then.
"Oh, guess who Sophie and the brothers saw today."
"Who?"
"The bad daddy."
Sophie said loudly, but Ivy Sumrs didn’t hear it clearly.
"Who did Sophie say she saw?"
"Sophie and the brothers saw the bad daddy, the one who appears on TV, called... called... Damien Lancaster, the really fierce and an one."
Sophie said, and even raised her little hand to make gestures to Ivy Sumrs.
Listening to Sophie, Ivy Sumrs’s heart tightened.
For these years, she seldom heard Damien Lancaster’s na.
At tis, Ivy Sumrs almost forgot this person existed.
Yet, when his na ca from Sophie’s mouth, past mories surged, and Ivy Sumrs’s heart ached.
But why would Damien Lancaster be here?
Her children only knew their father as Damien Lancaster, having seen him on TV a few tis, and probably mistook soone else for him.
"Sophie must have been mistaken. He wouldn’t co here."
"But..."
Knock knock——
Two knocks interrupted Sophie.
"Who is it?"
"Zinnia, are you busy? The manager wants you to co imdiately. A distinguished guest specifically requested you, and the manager wants you to co quickly."
A distinguished guest?
There are many distinguished guests at their auction house, but not many could make the manager so anxious.
Ivy Sumrs beca a little curious about how distinguished this guest could be.
"I’m not busy, I’ll head over right away."
"But Sophie really saw the bad daddy." Sophie furrowed her little brows, speaking softly, as Ivy Sumrs looked at her. Sophie blinked her big watery eyes, sowhat disappointedly asking, "Is Mommy going to work again?"
Ivy Sumrs placed Sophie on the sofa, apologizing, "Darling Sophie, just wait a bit longer, Mommy will be back soon, okay?"
Though she wanted Mommy to accompany her, she knew not to delay Mommy’s work.
Sophie was very understanding.
"Okay, Sophie will wait for Mommy."
Ivy Sumrs kissed her daughter’s cheek again, giving her so bread, "Sophie, eat so bread. Mom will take you and your brothers for a big al later, okay?"
"Okay."
Ivy Sumrs smiled softly, put on her veil, and left.
Sophie, holding onto the bread with both hands, ran to the door, peeking outside.
Mommy is gone again, so boring.
Sophie put down the bread, tapped on her smartwatch, and asked sweetly, "Brothers, where are you? Sophie is coming to find you."
Soon Sophie received a reply, a location plus, "In the underground parking lot."
In the underground parking lot, the two little boys stood in front of a black Maybach.
Nathan Sumrs crossed his little arms, looking complicated while staring at Leo Sumrs beside him, "Are you sure this car belongs to the scumbag daddy?"
Leo Sumrs was busily drawing on the car with a paintbrush.
Mission accomplished.
"No mistake, I saw him get out of this car."
Nathan Sumrs looked at the childish scrawled words on the car and silently read, "unfaithful bastard."
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