Chapter 1

My phone rang, but I ignored it and went in.

Upon seeing me, Henry hung up and handed a case closure form to me. “I’ve found the murderer. Sign this.”

I skimmed through the contents and felt my heart twist in pain.

In the morning, Henry had promised to help me take revenge, but at this very moment, he was protecting the murderer and had just found a scapegoat to deceive me.

“You’re saying that a terminal-stage cancer patient killed my father as a middle finger to society. Do you really think I’d believe that?”

Henry averted his eyes in the face of my demands. “I know that you can’t accept it, but that’s the truth. You want your father to be able to rest in peace, don’t you?”

If I signed this, my father would truly never be able to rest in peace.

I tore the case closure form right in front of him and turned to Violet Sunder, Henry’s sponsored student. “Violet, you were the last person who called my father before he was kidnapped.”

The sudden accusation stunned Violet, and she looked at Henry for help.

“That’s enough!” With a dark expression, Henry shielded Violet and rebuked me, saying, “Luna, stop kicking up a fuss here. The murderer has been executed, and the judgment bears the court’s official seal. If you really want to blame someone for this, blame your father for being unlucky.”

I teared up and stormed forward. “My father spent months in the lab researching the cure to treat your legs. Don’t you have a conscience?!”

Violet then shielded Henry. “It’s not as if Henry killed your father! Why are you yelling at him?!”

When I saw the murderer standing in front of me, looking all innocent, I slapped her. In the next second, the security guards rushed in to pin me to the floor.

The moment Henry saw the bruise on Violet’s face, his gaze turned cold.

“Don’t hold back,” he ordered the security guards, and they immediately started slapping me rapidly on the face.

Henry then yelled at me, “Violet is an important guest of mine and my savior. How could you hit her?!”

As I lay on the floor, I felt my heart grow numb from pain.

No professor wanted to take Violet as their student, and Henry had begged my father to take her, but he ended up bringing danger on his heels.

Henry stared down at me. “I know that you claimed credit for Violet’s work. If you don’t want all your father’s horrid deeds to be made known to the world, you’d better sign the form.”

“I refuse to! My father never did those things!”

However, the security guards ignored my struggles and forced me to sign the case closure form.

Once she saw this, Violet kicked me. “Don’t worry. I’ll take over Professor Smith’s research and cure Henry’s legs.”

As I lay on the floor, I watched Violet push Henry out.

Once they were far away, I opened Henry’s drawer and took out his medical record.

It said that he was going to get his last injection in a week.

Then, I called someone overseas. “Mr. Finean, I’ll come to you in a week.”

It was just a week. I could wait.