When I fainted while carrying Samantha up the mountain in the heavy rain,

I heard her talking to her best friend.

“Samantha, you are too good at pretending. You have been in a wheelchair for five years since Hanley left. Davy is also a fool. He has taken care of you for five years and didn’t even notice that your legs were fine. How many times have you asked him to carry you up the mountain to seek medical treatment? I’m tired of it.”

I only heard Samantha’s cold voice. “99 times, what? Do you feel sorry for him?”

The voice on the other side paused for a while.

“I didn’t, but after all, he is someone you trained. Are you really willing to let him give up his career and become a nanny?”

“If he hadn’t persuaded me to go hiking, I wouldn’t have let him take advantage of his power to snatch Hanley’s project. In the end, I watched him fail to seize power and be sent overseas. This is his punishment. The game will end after 99 times.”

Lying on the ground, I clenched my fists hard and my heart ached so much that I had to stop breathing.

I thought that Samantha loved me by keeping me by her side without fear of others’ eyes.

I didn’t expect that it was just to retaliate against me for stealing the project of Hanley, so that she had to watch Hanley leave.

Well, you funded and trained me for five years and I would repay you for five years.

After this, there was nothing owed between us and we would be strangers when we met again.

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I lay on the ground until I had restrained all my emotions and then I slightly moved my stiff legs.

With a light hum, the sound in the hall disappeared instantly.

I opened my eyes and all eyes fell on me.

“Davy, what’s wrong with you? You fainted before you even reached the top of the mountain. If you don’t have the strength to carry Samantha, just say it. If you hadn’t been so stubborn as to promise that you could do it, maybe her legs would have been cured long ago.”

The person who spoke was Pandora, Samantha’s best friend, just like before.

I ignored her sarcasm, staggered to my feet and walked to Samantha.

Her face was pale, her arms and legs were bruised and her body couldn’t help shaking because of the wet clothes.

But when I touched her wound, the powder on my fingertips stained my fingers blue.

This was the scene she had played for me 98 times before. Her legs could only be cured by the doctor on the mountain and no other vehicle could go up the mountain except carrying her. The funny thing was that I didn’t notice it at all in the past five years.

“Why are you still standing there? Send her to the doctor quickly.”

Seeing that I was not like before, Pandora grabbed my wrist and shook it hard.

I fell heavily to the ground again and my physical strength that had not yet recovered made me paralyzed on the ground for a long time.

Samantha, you were really a good actor.

In order to punish me, you even pretended to be disabled in a wheelchair for five years.

“Pandora, stop it!”

Samantha’s stern shout interrupted my thoughts.

I forced myself to look up, saw her maneuvering the wheelchair to my side and stretched out her hand with difficulty to help me up.

“Davy, I’m sorry. Pandora didn’t mean it. She was just too worried about me.”

I forced a smile but dodged her touch.

“I know, I didn’t estimate my strength. Does it hurt when you fell?”

Hearing what I said, the vigilance in her eyes finally relaxed.

I knew that my hesitation just now made her suspicious.

As the richest family in the country, the Norman Family was extremely powerful. It was not something that a small orphan like me could challenge.

If I didn’t cooperate with her to finish this play, my end would never be better than now.

I forced the last bit of faith and sent Samantha to the doctor’s room. After telling Pandora to take good care of her, I closed the door and left; just because Samantha said she didn’t want me to see her painful appearance during treatment.

I would be sad and if I were sad, she would be unhappy.

In fact, every time she went in, I would kneel outside and beg God to let her go.

Even if it was in exchange for my own legs.

But this time, I heard a loud laugh from inside before I was far away.

“Samantha, you saw it! We successfully tricked him again.”

“I must be more prepared this time. Just getting wet and wasting some energy is not enough to realize my mistake. And all the expenses later will be charged to you. I have prepared a mysterious gift for you.”

Samantha held the wine glass and spoke slowly. “Since I invited you to watch the show, I will pay for everything.”

I walked down the mountain in my wet clothes and their laughter kept replaying in my mind.

My love for Samantha disappeared a little with every step I took.

Until I stumbled and rolled down, I bumped into a man in a suit.

“Can you walk? If you like to roll, just roll down.”

I hurriedly climbed to the side and let him go up. “Isn’t this the best club? How come there’s not even a cable car? I have to walk. It’s so tiring.”

So, the place she told me about treatment was just a club where people could have fun.

I looked up in shock, waiting to see the person in front of me clearly.

It took a long time to recover. This was Hanley. He was back.

It seemed that I was really redundant to Samantha.

On the way back to the Norman Family villa, I contacted my uncle, who was abroad for the first time.

Five years ago, in order to take care of Samantha, I refused my uncle who came to recognize my relatives.

This time, he agreed to help me deal with all the problems without asking anything.

Before that, I just needed to take care of Samantha wholeheartedly as usual.

Unfortunately, Samantha did not show up the next week.

Her assistant told me that there was an emergency in the branch office outside the city and she had to deal with it personally.

“Davy, I’m at the company, don’t worry. I’m not here, you can also take a good rest and take care of things at home.”

Samantha sent me a video after arriving at the location as usual.

This was an agreement between us, we must ensure each other’s safety at all times.

Just because I was kidnapped by the enemy on the road when I just entered the Norman Family, she mobilized all her strength to rescue me.

After that, she asked me to call her on video when I went out.

Only when she saw me with her own eyes would she not worry.

For so many years, this habit had been preserved.

But this time, I clearly saw the back of a man in the corner.

I couldn’t help asking, “Is there anyone else in your room?”

“No, it’s the staff.”

The look on her face only dodged for a moment, but I still caught it.

I hung up the video awkwardly. That person must be Hanley.

The appearance of Hanley made Samantha’s carefully planned lies no longer detailed.

This was her first business trip since her legs became inoperable. Besides, as the president of the Norman Group, in order to avoid public opinion, except for me, all the staff around her were replaced by women.

While she was away, I hurried to arrange my departure.

There were only two days left before her next treatment and that was the day I left the Norman Family.

Samantha came back and Hanley followed her back to the Norman Family.

“Where have you been? Recently, the housekeeper said that you often go out.”

Samantha looked at me, who had just entered the door with an unhappy face.

I rolled up my sleeves, revealing my arms full of needle holes.

“I went to learn acupuncture. I heard that it is particularly effective for leg injuries. It’s just right that you are back. Let me learn it on myself for two more days and then we will give it a try.”

Her eyes stayed on the dense needle holes on my hands, revealing a trace of pity.

“Be careful and don’t hurt yourself.”

Hearing this, my tense heart relaxed. I pulled up my sleeves and naturally wanted to push her.

But Hanley, beside her, snatched it away.

“Davy, this is Brian, the disciple of the miracle doctor. Pandora begged him for a long time before he agreed to come to the house for treatment. In the future, you should listen to him more about my affairs.”

I looked at the man in front of me who looked exactly like Hanley in surprise, but the words I wanted to ask were still swallowed by my throat.

Listening to her undisguised lies, I couldn’t help but laugh at myself in my heart.

Was it treatment, or something else?

“You are Miss Norman’s younger brother, please cooperate more in the future.”

That was how she introduced me. In order to make me gain a foothold in the Norman Family, she did declare to the outside world that I was her younger brother.

But now, how could we still get along like a sister and a brother? Which sister would hug and kiss her own brother?

Realizing that I was redundant to her, I went upstairs tactfully.

“Yes, I’m her brother. Samantha, I’ll go upstairs first.”

Hearing the long-lost “Samantha”, her brows frowned.

But in the end, until I went upstairs, she didn’t say anything.

I was sorting out the things Samantha gave me in the room one by one and the sound of the two people playing next door kept coming into my ears.

“Miss Norman, how is this strength? Do you need me to use more strength? Get ready, I’m coming.”

I only heard a loud shout of “Ah-”

I tried to cover my ears, but I couldn’t help thinking of them.

When I was fifteen years old, Samantha, who participated in a charity event, saw me wearing only sandals and single clothes in the cold weather and tears flowed.

After that, she took me back to the Norman Family and provided me with the best education and the best company.

She became the salvation and dream of my life.

The year I graduated from college, I mustered up the courage to confess to her, but found that she already had a favorite marriage partner.

Since then, I wanted to be her brother for life, but after Hanley left, she suddenly started to have more intimate actions with me.

I thought this was the love I had been looking for, so I gave up years of hard work and was willing to become a male nanny who was ridiculed by her.

Now that I thought about it, Samantha never said she loved me from beginning to end and everything was just my self-love.

I waited until the noise next door subsided before I walked out of the room.

When I passed Samantha’s room, I was stopped by Brian.

He was wearing loose pajamas and there were still a few scratches on his exposed chest.

He showed me everything that had just happened.

“Brother, go downstairs and pour us a glass of water, remember to warm it.”

I stared at him blankly, but I couldn’t hear anything in my ears.

Even though I had guessed everything, I still couldn’t accept the moment I saw with my own eyes.

As if dissatisfied with my indifference, Brian suddenly grabbed my collar with a fierce look in his eyes.

“Why are you standing there? Move.”

After saying that, he threw me toward the stairs and my forehead hit the handrail hard.