Before Dahlia could respond, Caspian quickly ran inside.

A phone strongly hit her body.

Camilla was watching TV in the living room when she suddenly came running down from upstairs.

Without saying many words, she charged over like crazy, pushed Camilla onto the floor, and started hitting her.

Camilla did not dare fight back and was beaten until her body turned bruised and swollen. She begged for forgiveness while crying, “Sister Dahlia, stop hitting me! Please! Stop hitting me!”

“I-I’m not here to separate you and Uncle, I’m here to become part of this family! You need to trust me!”

Dahlia stayed quiet, only forcefully pushing her head against the floor before grabbing a long stick and striking down hard.

Dahlia’s head rang loudly.

The bottom right side of the phone screen showed the time when everything happened, and it was this afternoon.

She had stayed inside the room the whole afternoon and never went downstairs at all.

She pressed the video open once more and carefully checked it again. The “Dahlia” in the recording always turned her back toward the camera and never showed her face clearly.

Camilla asked someone to act as her and performed a fake injury.

“This wasn’t my doing. I didn’t leave the room the entire afternoon.”

Dahlia lowered the phone. “You can carefully watch the video scenes. That person never shows her face…”

A slim figure quickly ran into the room and gently persuaded, “Uncle, Dahlia has serious depression and can’t handle too much stress. I’m really okay now, so don’t keep forcing Dahlia…”

Caspian only looked toward her, his tone cold as winter. “Dahlia, come over here and apologize to Camilla.”

Dahlia nodded.

She slowly rose to her feet and stopped in front of Camilla. “Camilla, I’ll first say sorry for what I’m about to do next. I’m truly sorry for making you hurt.”

Right after saying that, she grabbed the flower vase beside her and smashed it hard at Camilla.

Camilla’s scream quickly spread across the entire villa.

Dahlia, though, remained unusually calm. She immediately grabbed Camilla’s long hair and roughly pressed her head onto the floor, completely repeating the actions from the video.

In Dahlia’s life, there had never been the words “quietly putting up with anger.”

After finishing everything, Dahlia stood up and prepared to leave.

Before she could take a few steps, Caspian tightly caught her wrist.

“Dahlia, are you insane?” Caspian’s voice came out through clenched teeth. “You really dared to hurt Camilla this badly right in front of me!”

“Men, my wife’s serious mental illness has acted up again, and she attacked someone for no reason. Immediately send her to the psychiatric hospital and watch her closely. Before her illness gets better, nobody is allowed to let her out!”

Before Dahlia even had the chance to inform her assistant, someone forcefully took her into the psychiatric hospital.

Those three days in the psychiatric hospital turned into the longest and most painful days of Dahlia’s life.

The nurses and doctors acted toward her as if she were a serious psychiatric patient who might attack anyone at any time.

The moment she entered the iron gate, they forced a restraint jacket onto her.

Any tiny movement to resist got her hit again and again with hard punches.

On the first day, staff pushed her beneath a high-pressure water gun, while cold water covered her for the whole night.

On the second day, they pulled her up and began obedience tests, forcing her to wash every bedsheet around the hospital with her bare hands. After laboring the whole day, shards of glass were placed into her food. She grew so hungry that she could only battle dogs for food.

On the third day, they strapped her onto the electric shock chair, and a strong electric current ran through her whole body. The shocks became so bad that her eyes turned upward.

Three days later, they finally let her leave the psychiatric hospital. Her mind already felt confused, and she could not even stand properly.

She picked up her things from the security room near the entrance.

Right after she pulled out her phone and tried to call her assistant, a car suddenly pulled over by the road.

With a loud commotion sound, somebody stepped out of the car, ran toward her, reached forward, and hit her until she passed out.

When she became awake again, a harsh incandescent lamp hung over her head.

Strong pain spread across her entire face, and only her eyes were still able to move around.

Caspian remained sitting near the bed. After seeing she was awake, he reached forward and stopped her from moving. “You already went through plastic surgery. Don’t move around.”

While still confused, Dahlia thought she might have heard the wrong thing.

Her trembling hands moved toward her face and felt several thick white bandages wrapped around it.

She slowly moved her eyes in pain and looked at Caspian with disbelief. “Why do I have to get plastic surgery?”

“Three days before, your mental illness became serious, and you struck Camilla with a flower vase, which ended up cutting her face. During the three days you spent inside the psychiatric hospital, I reached out to the leading cosmetic doctors around Utah because I wanted to restore Camilla’s face, but every result looked far from good.”

Caspian spoke in a rough voice, “Camilla became badly affected because of this and almost tried to kill herself. You and she look very similar, so your face was transferred to her.”

“Don’t be afraid. I picked a much better face for you. You will like it.”

Dahlia looked straight at him while her entire body shook. “I resemble my mother, not Camilla! Also, I am older than Camilla! If one person looks like another, then she is the one who looks like me!”

A small sign of guilt crossed Caspian’s face while he tried to calm her. “Wife, I know you went through pain after spending three days in the psychiatric hospital. Right after leaving that place, you came here again for facial surgery, so your heart feels terrible. But everything is already over.”

“In the future, if you stay obedient and stop causing trouble for me, you will still be Mrs. Holmes. I will make it up to you, too. Whatever you ask for…”

She laughed coldly and stopped him. “Caspian, do you think I care about that little money from you?! Who are you looking down on!”

When he saw her like this, Caspian felt his chest tighten and wanted to speak.

The nurse pushed open the door and came in with worry on her face. “President Holmes, Miss Silva already woke up. After not seeing you there, she kept shouting and tried to leave the bed to find you.”

Hearing those words, Caspian stood up right away.

He followed the nurse outside. As he reached the doorway, he turned back and looked at Dahlia again. “Wife, spend these next two days recovering properly in the hospital. I need to travel overseas for work. Once I come back, I’ll bring you a gift.”

After finishing his words, he closed the door and left in a hurry.

Dahlia stared at the firmly closed door and stayed quiet for a long while.

She picked up her phone and called her assistant. “Arrange a press conference for me in two days. I want him and Camilla to lose all their reputation overnight.”

Dahlia calmly remained in the hospital for two days.

On the day she left the hospital, the divorce lawyer called her that morning. “Miss Watson, your divorce certificate is ready.”

Dahlia ended the call. After walking out of the hospital, she went straight to the law firm.

When she came out of the law firm holding the warm divorce certificate, her phone suddenly shook.

She lowered her head and checked it. It was a text message from Caspian.

The attached photo shows the airport’s large floor-to-ceiling window and a beautiful jewelry box.

[I just arrived. This is the gift I promised to give you as compensation.]

[It’s the one you kept saying you wanted before. Wife, you will definitely love it.]

Dahlia smiled, lifted her hand, then directly deleted and blocked Caspian.

The assistant was already waiting outside the law firm entrance. When he saw her coming over, he opened the car door for her.

Dahlia got inside. “Drive. We’re going to the press conference venue.”

Caspian looked at the phone screen and felt that something seemed wrong.

Ten minutes had already gone by after he sent the message, but Dahlia still had not replied.

Before this, whenever he sent her a message, she always answered right away.

Even when he accidentally touched his phone and only sent a single period, she still replied at once and asked him caring questions.

Sometimes, when she felt happy and her illness was not acting up too often, she even sent him cute stickers.

Caspian suddenly remembered the moment two days earlier, the last time he saw Dahlia in the hospital.

That day, her face showed many emotions he could not understand, much more than he had seen from her during all these years.

Ever since he caused her depression, her face had mostly looked sad and lost.

There were barely any other expressions.

But two days earlier, her expressions had been full of emotion, nothing like a person with severe depression.

Everything about this felt wrong.

The assistant reached over and carried Caspian’s luggage. “President Holmes, are we heading back to the company?”

When he saw Caspian staying silent, the assistant was about to speak again when the phone suddenly vibrated.

He looked at the screen, his face turning troubled. “President Holmes, are you going to see Miss Silva? During these two days, because you were away on a business trip, she seems unwilling to believe it and keeps calling to ask where you are.”

During the two days overseas for work, Caspian spent over twelve hours working each day.

To him, this was not considered tiring, only average work pressure.

He simply went from meeting to meeting, spending the breaks drinking coffee or quickly finishing a meal.

He did not have spare time for personal matters and had not even gotten the chance to read all his messages.

Because she could not get a reply from him, Camilla could only keep contacting his assistant.

Caspian held out his hand. “Pass me the phone.”

He took the phone, answered the call, and spoke deeply. “Camilla, it’s me.”

After hearing Caspian’s voice, Camilla finally breathed in relief. “Uncle, you finally replied to me.”

Her voice sounded wronged, as if tears were about to fall. “I spent two days looking for you. You never replied to my messages. I was so worried about you. Uncle, where did you go?”

When he thought about her crying face, Caspian felt bad for her.

His tone stayed soft. “These past two days on the business trip, I was always stuck in meetings and too busy. I accidentally neglected you. I apologize.”

At the other end of the phone, Camilla slightly raised her lips into a smile.

Just as she expected, Caspian was always helpless against her weak and pitiful appearance.

Whenever she acted like this, Caspian completely gave in and agreed to all her requests.

She sobbed lightly twice. “Th-then I’ll give you one final chance… I want to eat the cassava cake from that store in Garden City.”

“Okay. I’ll go buy them right now.”

The airport was located on the east side of the city, and driving to the west side took two hours.

That cassava cake shop also needed a two-hour wait in line.

After ending the call, Caspian looked at the gift bag in his hand and paused for a moment.

In the end, he still put the gift bag away.

Giving the gift to Dahlia later would not make any difference anyway.

But the cassava cake shop on the west side of the city closed at seven in the evening. If he failed to buy them by then, he would have no way to explain things to Camilla.

Caspian lifted his eyes toward the assistant. “Let’s go. Head to the cassava cake shop in Garden City right now.”