After leaving Gia's house, John sent Nina to No. 53, Serene Road.
His gentle eyes followed Nina's figure until he saw her walk inside the house. The window slowly closed, and John's soft expression faded.
"How is Vivian doing?"
Richard, who was driving, answered, "We arranged for someone to get locked up with her."
"Don't kill her. Just take your time in torturing her," John uttered indifferently and slowly closed his eyes.
Inside the prison
Sitting in a wheelchair, Vivian did her best to clean herself up while still clad in a prison jumpsuit. However, there was nothing she could do about her bloodshot eyes and the dark circles under them.
Usually, she just sat by the window and looked outside.
Even in prison, the viciousness in her eyes was evident. Being locked up seemed to have intensified it like acid. It was as if her eyes could corrode the bars that stood between her and freedom.
After a while, someone else was locked in together with her.
She remained unmoved. At night, however, she would spend hours beating her immobile legs and crying herself to sleep.
Vivian spent most of her nights in low spirits. When morning came, she would pretend. She would imagine that she was still the rich lady that she had been before she was imprisoned.
One morning, when she opened her eyes, it was dark. She waited until she heard the others wake up before she asked, "Why did you get up before dawn?"
Hearing her question, a woman scoffed and uttered, "Idiot. Can't you see? The sun has already risen."
The others laughed and mocked her.
At first, Vivian thought that it was just a trick. She ended up arguing with them and the prison guards came. Then, she realized that she had really become blind.
A few days later, before she could even process her loss of sight, she realized that she also lost her ability to speak. No matter how hard she tried to open her mouth and shout, no sound came out.
Vivian became a person that everyone else bullied.
The other prisoners were pretty callous, especially the woman locked together with her.
Since Vivian lost her eyesight, she couldn't tell who the woman was. All she knew was that she would have new wounds on her body every day.
Every time she heard a suspicious noise, Vivian couldn't help but curl in the corner of her bed, trembling with fear.
It made her feel hopeless. She knew that someone was trying to hurt her, but she couldn't do anything about it. For a second, she even thought that she would go deaf.
However, she didn't lose her hearing. John wanted her to be able to listen to what others said about her. She couldn't see anything, but she could hear their mocking statements, she could feel every pain in her body, and even smell the blood from her wounds. But she wouldn't be able to fight back.
John wanted to give her the ultimate punishment. He wanted to make sure that she couldn't live lavishly like the way she did before.
He wanted to make her life a living hell.
When everything was settled, John and Nina's wedding would be held on the last day of October.
That month, everyone in Shi family was fussing about the wedding, but they were also happy for the soon-to-be newlyweds.
People who were not in the Lexingport City also rushed back.
Leon even went back to the C Island to pick up his parents to stay at C Mansion in Lexingport City, and the Feng family were next to them.
Both the newly built C Mansion and the Feng Group would be considered Nina's assets. Her descendants would surely inherit them in the future.
For four years, Leon and Bryant built the business in Lexingport City from the ground up. The Feng Group had managed to purchase all the medical groups and medical equipment companies in the city. They even opened private hospitals.
In addition to the hospitals they already established in Lexingport City, they were also planning to build more in the surrounding provincial capital cities.
Bryant was just a manager that Leon had hired. His family would have to live in Lexingport City to protect Nina's family for generations.
The second year after he left Lexington City, Bryant got married and had two sons. The family of four and Valerie lived in the C Mansion's luxurious villa.
Nina would get married from the C Mansion, so she also lived there with her children.
Even though Nina was about to get married, she still went to her office every day. She never needed to worry about the wedding.
Van and Don needed to go to school during the day, so Leon had to act as a guide and show his parents the local customs of Lexingport City.
Jessica came back.
She came by herself, and her skin was glowing. It was hard to believe that she was already 36 years old. Her arrogance seemed to have vanished. Instead, she was more gentle and peaceful even.
People who didn't know her might think that she went to a temple to fix her character.
When the family noticed that Jessica came by herself, they knew that Jessica did not get Jason back. They heard that Jason came back with his wife and daughter.
Not wanting to stir any negative feelings, none of them said anything about it. Instead, they smiled, welcomed Jessica with open arms, and shared wedding details with her.
The family was so ecstatic that Jessica felt slightly dazed by it. She couldn't even look at her brother, John, in the eye.
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