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.”
The black Maybach stopped outside the press conference venue.
Inside, the place was already crowded with the most famous reporters and media from all over Utah.
Many microphones and cameras had already been prepared in front of the stage, waiting for Dahlia to appear.
Dahlia stepped out of the car and slowly walked into the venue with her assistant beside her.
She wore a plain white skirt suit and sat directly at the center of the stage.
The second everyone saw her, the entire venue exploded into noise. Quiet discussions spread nonstop.
“Isn’t this supposed to be the press conference for the Watson family’s eldest miss? Why is this unfamiliar woman here?”
“Hey, your family always hears gossip first in Utah. Do you know who the woman on stage is?”
“No idea. Could she be connected to the Watson family somehow? Maybe she’s Eldest Miss Watson’s assistant?”
Dahlia did not feel surprised at all.
After all, her face had already become someone else’s face.
Now, even she felt unfamiliar when looking at herself, much less other people.
She picked up the microphone, glanced around the whole venue, and slowly breathed in. “Hello, everyone. I am Dahlia. I came here today because I want to properly tell all of you about the five years Caspian and I spent in our marriage.”
She took out the gold-stamped divorce certificate. “I already divorced Caspian. The marriage between the Watson family and the Holmes family is over. I have also returned to the Watson family and will become the future successor of the Watson family.”
“During these five years of marriage, Caspian kept poisoning me, making my depression worse and worse.”
As Dahlia said those words, her voice stayed calm and strong. At the same time, many surveillance videos appeared on the large screen, showing Caspian secretly changing her medicine, along with detailed drug test reports.
“My Watson family did nothing wrong to the Holmes family. After the marriage, I kept doing everything a wife should do. I even left the board of Watson Corporation and stayed home completely, all so I could help Caspian well.”
“But all my efforts only got me Caspian’s betrayal, and the person he cheated with was even his old friend’s adopted daughter, Camilla.”
The next second, videos suddenly appeared on the big screen behind her, showing Caspian and Camilla having secret relationships in different villa rooms.
The entire venue immediately exploded with noise.
The reporters and media rushed to record the shocking moment.
The livestream viewers also quickly increased, while the comments section moved so fast that nobody could clearly read the messages anymore.
Dahlia’s hand beneath the table was already trembling nonstop.
She tightly pressed her nails into her palm. Even when her nails pierced her skin, she ignored the pain and forced herself to stay calm.
“Camilla kept setting me up and hurting me again and again, while Caspian helped her the entire time. The worst time was when Caspian tied me up without my permission, took me to the hospital, and transferred my face to Camilla.”
Soon after, the hospital surveillance video from that day appeared on the screen.
Dahlia slowly lifted her hand and moved the loose hair away from her forehead, exposing the injuries that still had not completely healed.
Not far from her, the assistant signaled toward her.
The livestream viewers had already passed one million, while Caspian and Camilla had reached the top trending search.
The entire comment section was flooded with angry insults toward the cheating couple.
Some netizens were still not satisfied after insulting them. Right there on the spot, they even called the Holmes Corporation customer service hotline to give Caspian their most “sincere greetings.”
Dahlia’s purpose for holding this press conference had already succeeded.
“I will make Caspian and Camilla repay every bad thing they did to me.”
“This is just the beginning.”
She did not answer the reporters and only used those short words to finish the press conference.