My Mirror Image by Maybe Not (Candice And Alex’s) novel Chapter 557

Alex glanced at Candice sideways. The warm yellow light inside the car softened her features. She pursed her lips and shifted her gaze away.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out a very small box and handed it to her.

Actually, he hadn't planned to tell her about this matter. After all, it wasn't something to be proud of, and it might make Candice feel that he was being pitiful and weak.

But...

Alex thought somewhat self-deprecatingly in his heart and decided to speak up.

"Daniel is someone with strong control desires, you should know that. When I first joined Aether Corporation, he placed this pinhole camera on my desk."

He paused for a moment.

"You asked me before why I didn't like going back to the manor. There were three cameras in one room. What's the difference between such a place and a prison?"

Alex's expression was indifferent as he closed his eyes and leaned back against the car seat, seeming to recall the times when he moved out of the Elysian Manor.

Oscar had mentioned before that he envied Alex for being able to come and go freely in the Elysian family's manor, but Alex envied those who had never been inside the house.

Daniel was extremely suspicious, especially after hearing about a certain family where a son killed his father to fight for the company. This had intensified his desire for control and vigilance toward Alex.

A father being suspicious of his own son was something no one would believe if said out loud.

But Daniel not only thought this way but also acted upon it.

When Alex was around 15 or 16, Daniel had installed three cameras in his room.

Under the pretext of doing it for his own good, Daniel turned his life into one where he felt like he was being watched every day. He felt less like a person and more like a monkey locked in a cage.

The oppressive atmosphere had continued into Alex's adulthood, prompting him to move out of the manor directly.

But shortly after he started working at Aether Corporation, Daniel repeated the same tactic and placed cameras in his workspace and office again.

Whether it was the cameras in the room or the ones in the office, Alex had tried to remove them, but they would always reappear in their original positions the next day.

It wasn't until later, when he gradually made some achievements, that Daniel couldn't control him as tightly anymore.

He had removed all those cameras until Candice appeared.

Alex always kept his emotions hidden deep inside, but when it came to her, he couldn't hide much.

He still remembered the night when Daniel called him into the study and threw a video clip in front of him, coldly questioning him about it.

Daniel's desire for control was so strong that every step Alex took had to follow his plan, including his marriage.

And Candice's appearance made Daniel feel challenged once again. He warned Alex that if he couldn't distinguish between priorities and didn't focus, he wouldn't mind helping Alex deal with Candice.

And Daniel's way of dealing with things…

When Alex was a child, he’d had a cat. The kitten was very affectionate, but Daniel said it was distracting him from his studies and asked him to get rid of it. Alex refused.

But the next day, when he came home, he found the cat in a garbage bag about to be thrown out.

Its limbs were stiff, motionless.

So when Daniel said he wanted to help Alex deal with Candice, Alex's first reaction was to reply, "I'm just playing around, why are you taking it seriously?"

He didn't know if Daniel was still watching him somewhere, or when Daniel would act on Candice like he did with the cat.

He had been smart since childhood, but no one taught him how to deal with such situations.