Chapter 8: The Things a Married Couple Should Do
Hope remained completely unaware of this.
At that moment, she lay in her room, unable to sleep.
After today’s ordeal, Hope felt it was time to take action against Mr. Newton and Louis, lest they continue to harass her.
Hope retrieved her phone, typed a code, and easily obtained the interview materials for new graduates at the Newton Group.
She found Richard’s resume, a young college student with an ordinary appearance, looking somewhat immature in his passport photo.
Only Hope knew that, in a year, Richard
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would be the hottest rising star in the business world, with a sharp eye for opportunities, decisive in action, and an extraordinary talent in real estate investment.
In her past life, Richard had successfully joined the Newton Group, using his
remarkable talent and sharp intellect to rise above the competition and become Louis’s most trusted right–hand man.
This time, Hope intended to claim this valuable asset for herself!
She added Richard’s Twitter account and boldly extended an olive branch.
“Richard, would you like to start your own company?”
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Late at night, a company named “Plan Hope” was established, and a storm in the business world was about to unfold.
After transferring the money she had saved over the years from treating patients to Richard, Hope gazed at her bank balance, now reduced to a mere handful of digits, lost in deep thought.
In her previous life, she had cured countless people and built an extensive network of connections and wealth for the Newton Group.
This time, she intended to use those very connections and wealth to overthrow the Newton Group’s dominance in the business world!
Having planned the next steps, Hope lay in
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bed, still wide awake.
She couldn’t sleep; whenever she closed her eyes, she saw the tragic past of her previous life.
She feared that when she awoke, she would find herself in the same small corner room, weak and bedridden.
“Since we’re already married, is it too much to ask my husband to sleep with me?”
In the end, Hope climbed over Easton’s wall and snuck into his bed.
In his groggy state, Easton felt a warm presence moving toward him and, assuming it was a dream, casually pulled the person into his arms and fell back asleep.
The next morning, Easton was startled by
THE
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the warmth on his chest.
Looking down, he saw the face of the sleeping girl. Her hair cascaded like a waterfall, her skin fair and flawless, her lashes curved like butterfly wings, her small nose delicate and refined, her lips slightly parted, with a glimpse of her tiny, glistening tongue.
Easton swallowed involuntarily, his heart pounding in his chest, a wave of heat rushing through his body, igniting a feverish desire.
He reached out, intending to push her away, but his fingers couldn’t resist gently caressing her smooth cheek, his gaze fixated on her cherry–red lips.
Just as his finger brushed her lips, Hope stirred and groggily woke up. Flustered,
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Easton quickly moved his hand to her head, ruffling her dark, thick hair into a messy bun.
“Don’t mess with it, or I’ll go bald…” Hope muttered, shaking her head in protest.
Easton quickly withdrew his hand, awkward and uneasy, his tone flat, “Your room is next door.”
Since the last time he told Hope she could stay here, Easton had arranged for the guest room next door to be prepared, allowing Hope to move in whenever she liked.
Hope rubbed her eyes, yawning as she sat
- up.
“We’re already married; do we still need to sleep separately?”
“You don’t dislike me, do you?” Hope tilted
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her head, studying his expression.
Easton lowered his gaze, not answering directly. “This isn’t right; we don’t have an emotional foundation.”
“Feelings can be cultivated, can’t they? We’re married, it’s only natural for us to sleep together!”
Hope said this, though inwardly, she was silently mocking herself. She had never imagined she would be so shameless!
She realized that sleeping with Easton alleviated her insomnia and decided that from now on, she would always sleep with him!
“So, if I do what married couples should do, is that also perfectly natural?” Easton suddenly asked seriously.
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Hope raised an eyebrow and shifted her gaze to Easton’s lower body. “Is it still… functional?”
And there, before her eyes, was a small mountain…
Hope immediately looked up at the ceiling in shock, her face burning with embarrassment, her mind consumed by the image of the mountain.
So it was true–men really do get morning erections!
Easton, embarrassed and irritated by her gaze, grabbed the blanket to cover his body. “I may be crippled, but I’m not…”
Hope, mortified, covered her face. “I didn’t check, how would I know?”
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“Well… you can take care of it yourself, right?”
“I’ll go down for breakfast now! Take your time! No rush!”
Hope said quickly and ran out the door, casting a glance at Easton’s arm in a cast as she shut the door.
Her heart raced with worry. He should be fine, right? She hoped he wouldn’t injure his other arm.
Downstairs, the table was set with breakfast, and the milk was still warm, but Hope looked around and found no one.
It seemed that the person named James was indeed very busy!
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Could he be a part–time worker Easton hired?
Or just a delivery man?
Was Easton always alone at home? Would he not get bored?
It seemed she would have to visit Easton more often.
While Hope was lost in thought, Easton arrived via the elevator.
She glanced at the half–eaten bread in her hand.
Looking at Easton, she asked, “You’re done already?”
Easton’s face darkened again. “I haven’t!”
Hope then noticed the blanket covering
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his legs and felt heat rise in her face. After finishing her milk, she grabbed the bread and hurried out.
“I have things to do today. I’ll leave now!”
Hope ran out of the villa and took a taxi straight to the hospital.
Mr. Hester, an important partner of the Newton Group, lived here!
At the hospital, the doctor worked all night and finally managed to wake Louis.
Mr. Newton, who had been waiting outside the emergency room, was red–eyed, exhausted, but couldn’t hide his joy.
“Louis, you’re awake! How do you feel?”
Louis looked around in confusion, his mind
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in turmoil. Wasn’t he dead?
He remembered that after Hope’s death, Easton had ruthlessly suppressed the Newton Group. Both he and his father couldn’t hold on, and the company soon collapsed.
The police had come to investigate Hope’s cause of death, and Sylvia, seeking to exonerate herself, had accused him of poisoning Hope!
The poisoned soup that killed Hope had been poured by him, and the fingerprints on the soup bowl had been wiped by him!
With Sylvia’s testimony, he was quickly imprisoned. Former business rivals took advantage of the situation, bribing prison inmates to torment him, leaving him to suffer a fate worse than death in prison.
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Before his death sentence was carried out, Sylvia visited him in prison, mocking his foolishness and arrogance.
It turned out that when the construction site collapsed, he had been buried underground, falling into a deep coma, his life hanging by a thread.
When he woke up, only Sylvia was by his side. Sylvia claimed she had saved him, saying that Hope had caused the cement slab to collapse, almost crushing him to death in the gap.
Hope had thus received her comeuppance, her hands pierced by steel rebars, leaving her disabled!
Louis had believed Sylvia’s words, treating her as his savior while mocking the true
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hero, Hope, who he believed deserved heer fate.
Upon learning the truth, he regretted the e harm he had caused Hope before his execution. If given a second chance, hee would treat her well and make amends for alll his wrongs.
Mr. Newton, seeing Louis’s vacant gaze, his spirit dissipating, anxiously shook his shoulder.
“Louis, what’s wrong? Do you feel unwell?”
Louis snapped back to reality, his heart racing with overwhelming joy!
Had he been reborn? Had heaven truly granted him a chance to right his wrongs?
