Her Life Starts to Spin out of Control

The phone soon rang again. "Satisfied with the proof? If you listen to me, I'll take good care of your father. Otherwise, I'll torture him every day, until he dies!"

"Okay, I promise!" Sophia made up her mind almost instantaneously.

"Good!"

"Wait, one more thing..." Sophia added hastily.

"Yes..."

"In order to ensure my father's safety, you must send me a video of him at least once a week! I need to see him alive."

"How greedy you are!"

"If you can't do that, then we don't have an agreement. I need confirmation every week that he is still alive." The voice on the other end went silent.

After a while, the voice responded. "Every month."

"Deal!" Sophia sighed in relief.

But after the phone call, she noticed that the video she had seen before had disappeared. There seemed to be a virus in her phone that erased the video and the phone number.

With inexplicable disappointment, Sophia stared at the the well-decorated balcony desperately. Her mind raced with thoughts.

She tried to think why anyone would take her father hostage to threaten her marriage.

'Which matters, my marriage or my family?' she tried to reconcile her thoughts.

Sophia sat on the bed, deep in thought, until it was dark outside. When she came out of her reverie, she reached out for her phone. She wanted to call Colin again, but her phone was off.

after, there was a knock on the door. Sophia hadn't switched on the lights, so it was very dark. The knock made her

She asked,

new maid. Dinner's ready. Please come downstairs and have dinner." Sophia breathed a sigh of relief

thought, she should have dinner to replenish

looked almost the same age as her dressed in a sports suit standing outside. Although not so pretty, she was still beautiful in her own

Justina addressed her respectfully. After nodding to her, Sophia went downstairs.

other maids downstairs, unpacking boxes. Noticing her, they

been addressed like this numerous times, she still wasn't used to it. "Good evening!"

Sophia so kind, the maids breathed a sigh of relief.

to look after you. We are with Mr. Xie, the housekeeper. He is busy tending to something and hasn't come back yet." Justina gave a tepid wet towel to Sophia at the dining table to

be the same age as me. You don't need

wouldn't be living there anymore. Her title as Mrs. Li or Madam

at one another in bewilderment, because they had never met such a kind employer. Filling Sophia's bowl with soup, Justina stepped back. "Madam, as

didn't mean to pull rank. She didn't want to demean

promised to address her using her first name, they went on with

pondered for a long time, as to why Colin had hired so many people. Was he afraid that

and asked, "Did Mr. Li assign you any work... I

"Mr. Li said we should give you all you

there was still a yard for her. Perhaps she could return to her idyllic life, grow

she might as well go on

in the bedroom, Sophia switched on her phone that was charging, and then sent Colin

Colin replied to her

sudden sadness. Thinking of what had happened in the afternoon, she didn't know how

still didn't have courage to

she fought back tears. She had to do the right