It turned out that even though she wasn't with him, Charles still treated her mother well, as if she were his birth mother.
Such little things could tell whether a man loved a woman or not.
An old Chinese saying said, "If you love me, you must love everything and everyone around me, including my family."
Linda had thought that Charles sent Donna to the Mu clan's private hospital just because she asked him to.
But Linda didn't expect that he still visited her mother once a week, even after she disappeared.
"We'll go to the ward now, " Anna smiled at the guard.
"Okay, you can go in. But she already has a visitor inside. I guess you know him, too. He claims to be Mrs. Xie's younger brother, so I let him in, " The guard said and smiled.
"What?"
Linda's eyebrows furrowed when she heard what he said.
Was he talking about Derek Xie?
How dare he come here?
It had been a while since he disappeared.
Linda was too softhearted back when he had been put to jail. Donna's pleas made her forgive him. She asked Charles to help release him from imprisonment, so he could have another shot at life.
She promised she would never let him get away if he dared to do anything evil again.
Why did he come here?
How dared he?
"Hurry! Let's go!"
Linda worried that Derek would harm Donna again, so she rushed into the ward with Anna.
Donna was so weak right now that she could not handle any sort of stress. Linda feared that Derek might provoke her.
Standing by the door of the ward, Linda heard Derek talking to her mother. His voice disgusted her.
"My dear sister, don't be so stingy. I am your brother, and I want to give Lily a brighter future with that money. Don't you want what's best for her?"
Donna said in resignation, "Derek, Lily is my niece, so of course I want her to have a good life. But I already gave you 50 thousand. That's all of my savings. I think it's better for us to be practical. You see, Lily is not exactly the studious type. It would be good for her to study in a good local university. Why must you send her abroad?"
"That's exactly why she needs to study abroad. Her academic performance hasn't been great, so she needs a diploma from a foreign university to add value to herself. Studying abroad is way better than staying here!"
"But I have given you all I had. Look at me and how sick I am. How can I work when I am in this state? Where would I get the money from?"
"You can ask Linda for it! Haven't you seen the news this morning? She will have alimony when they break up. Just give me a little bit of it, so that Lily could live a good life."
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