Upon hearing that, Melissa let go of the woman in her arms and grinned, "Well, do you miss me?"
"Of course I do," Martha replied with a smile, and then asked curiously, "How do you know I'm coming back?"
"Eden told me."
Melissa blinked slyly, and reached out to hold Martha's arm intimately.
Martha realized it was Stefan who told Eden.
Before she could speak, Melissa's voice sounded again, "What's wrong with you? What happened? Why do you look so bad?"
"Didn't Eden tell you about that?"
Martha turned to look at her friend in puzzlement, with obvious shock in her eyes.
Eden told Melissa about their return to C Country, but why did he not mention such a big thing to Melissa?
Just when she was confused, Eden's gentle voice sounded beside her.
"I was afraid she was too worried about you, so I didn't tell her that."
Melissa looked at Martha suspiciously, and then at Eden, not understanding what they were talking about.
Finally, her eyes fell on Martha, "Tell me, what's going on? Is it related to your health?"
"Hmm," Martha responded softly, and just as she was about to explain, Stefan said in a deep voice, "Let's get on the car first and talk slowly."
"OK." Without waiting for Martha's answer, Melissa had already given one for her.
After the four of them got into the car, Melissa couldn't wait to ask, "So how are you now? Have you done a physical examination?"
"Yes, my situation has been stabilized."
Hearing long-lost concern from her best friend, Martha felt warm inside.
When she was in the basement, she once thought she would not survive, but now she was fine.
Melissa, who was sitting next to her, breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that, "It's a good thing that you're fine."
Then she turned to look at Martha in doubt, and urged, "Tell me what happened to you. Why did you suddenly get sick?"
"Melissa, I was swapped. The woman who came back a while ago isn't me."
As soon as Martha finished explaining, Melissa's shocked voice sounded in the car.
"What? You meant you weren't the one getting married to Stefan this time?"
Martha nodded slightly, with a wry smile on her lips unconsciously.
Speaking of it, life is like a play.
She married Stefan twice, and it didn't work out even once.
The first time they got married, she escaped marriage alone to seek out the truth of her mother's death.
Later, the truth came to the light and yet she was switched by a clone who got married to Stefan instead.
Stefan carefully prepared two grand weddings, but she attended neither of them, and she wondered how Stefan would feel about it.
Melissa was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses and grabbed Martha's hand.
"What... what's going on here?"
"The woman who returned to C Country last time is a clone, cloned by my fake grandmother."
After Martha answered the most crucial question, she reached for the water Stefan handed over and took a sip.
In the next second, Melissa's voice was raised once again in shock.
"Clones? Has someone really conducted experiments to create clone humans in this world?"
"Um," Martha responded in a low voice, and then slowly said everything she experienced in Z Country.
"I went back to Z Country just to find out the real cause of my mother's death, but I accidentally found some members from the Lucas family were involved in my mother's death. Later, the truth was brought to light."
"The night before I left Z Country, I visited Grandma to say goodbye to her. Yet I found a lot of badges in my grandmother's room. And my mother also had a similar badge. Then, the old Mrs. Lucas suddenly appeared, with a dark voice, and I was startled and passed out."
"When I woke up again, I found myself tied to a stone pillar. And the old Mrs. Lucas drew my blood with a needle every day."
When Martha said that, she paused to recover some strength.
Melissa looked at her suspiciously, and asked, "Why did she do this?"
"To survive," Martha replied lightly, and continued to explain, "The old Mrs. Lucas is not my real grandmother, she is a fake, a clone invented by the ancestors of the Lucas family."
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