Chapter 17 - It's My Fault

Javier Zhong shook his head lightly, "There was a day when I was going through my mother's things after she had passed on... I noticed a White envelope stuck between the pages of her diary. The letter inside wrote..."

[If you are reading this note and I did not come back alive on 21 March, know that I was murdered.]

With a heavy pause, he said, "That was the exact day that she had passed on. Though the writings were poorly scribbled, I could still recognise that it was my mother's handwriting."

"..."

Seeing the hurt written on his face, Stephanie Ruan could imagine the shock that this incident must have brought to him, especially at such a young age.

In her past impression of Javier Zhong, she saw him as someone who is very powerful and ruthless, without any emotions of his own at all.

And this is the first time that Stephanie Ruan has felt that he is more 'human', as he opens up a more vulnerable side of himself to her.

In fact, it i