The Villain's Redemption

So Grant liked her.

That was surprising and, to be honest, it was making everything complicated — more complicated than it already was.

Sienna could only sigh as she eyed the mountain of paperwork in front of her.

It had been a week since that confrontation happened and since then, Grant had been blatantly sending her flowers and chocolates as well as some imported wines. Honestly, she is getting irritated about this whole thing.

"Jane?" she called out.

"Miss?"

"Any progress on the investigation?" she was talking about her birth. She had been investigating the night, she was supposed to come into this world. That was thirty years ago.

The time is making it difficult for her to find out the truth. At that time, CCTV's aren't really something that everyone knew. Some hospitals had a few of them, but they don't really use them for anything. Because of that, she couldn't find anything in the hospital. The records of her birth looked clean, too.

The only reason why she hasn't confronted her father yet is because of the upcoming assembly where she was supposed to expose Scarlette. As much as she wanted to, she needed to wait and tackle one thing at a time.

"No, we couldn't find anything. We already checked all hospitals, and we found nine baby girls that were born that night. All of them are still alive and healthy."

She started to massage her temple.

"Alright. Any news about Scarlette?"

"Well, she is spending more time in the bar, working. Our initial suspicion that she stopped working for the competitor might be true. However, I couldn't understand why she would choose to work in a bar instead."

Sienna knew it was because of John.

Her plan to use that man to counter Scarlette worked.

But the system didn't inform her that her task to make Scarlette fall was already completed. Meaning, it wasn't enough. Scarlette wasn't suffering enough.

She needed Scarlette in that event. But if John is stopping her from going out, then… it might be a little difficult.

"Miss, actually just now, I received a call from one of our contacts. It's about Scarlette's past."

"Hm?"

"When she was in high school, she had a friend who used to be the top student in her class. That was, until she got into an accident and fell into a coma. "

"Where is she now?"

"Our contact said that she woke up a year ago, but she couldn't talk and her lower body was still paralyzed. So, until now, they don't really know what happened to her."

"Tell me about the accident?"

"Well, she fell on the stairs. No one saw if it was really an accident or if it was intentional. But the thing is after she stopped going to school, Scarlette become the top student in their class. With the weird coincidences going around, it's easy to assume that she did it."

"How about their classmates? Did they suspect anything?"

"Yes, actually, a few of them thought she did it. But there was no proof. And when someone tried to write a paper about it, someone, some gang, actually robbed that person and beat her until she fainted. After that, no one dared to accuse her again."

So, she is indeed destroying the people that she saw as a threat.

Because of her knowledge of the future, she knew who is going to be successful and who will fail. It was easy for her to get close to the successful ones and eliminate all possible threats. She was indeed a smart but sinister woman.

No wonder the system wanted to destroy her. The conversation ended with her, receiving a voice message from her father.

This time, he wanted to talk to her alone.

Sienna could only sigh inwardly.

She wondered if that man knew about the confrontation that she had with his son. Was that the reason why he wanted to talk to her? Or maybe it was because of the company? However, Sienna chose to stop overthinking things and prepared herself for the meeting with her father.

She was determined to find out the truth about her parentage tonight and go back to see Mo Li.

In the past few days, she had been trying to find some rational reasoning about Mo Li's connection to the system, and the only thing that she found viable was the possibility that he was indeed the one with the system. At one point, she started to wonder if he was planning to absorb her.

Was that the reason why he had gotten close to her?

A part of her abhorred the thought.

She left her office and made her way into her car. The call instructed her to show up at their old house located at the border of the city. It was the place where Grant's great-great-grandparents lived until someone decided to create a mansion in the city.

The place was old, but her father paid a lot of people to maintain the area.

Located on a hill, the place looked magical, yet lonely.

She wondered why her father wanted to meet her there. Does it have something to do with her real parents?

"Alright, you can leave now," Sienna told Jane before getting out of the car. The voice mail told her to come along as they needed to talk about something very important. Sienna trusted that the old man was going to help her with her transport back to the city. Right?

She eyed the two-story house in front of her. The light from the house contrasted the already darkening sky. It was already five in the afternoon. Traveling with her took her a few hours because it was far away and, well, the traffic was horrible. But this was already something she expected. This is another reason why she asked Jane to leave. After all, Sienna could just spend the night in the house if she wanted to.

Walking inside, she immediately noticed the absence of the servants. She remembered that a butler and his family were the one maintaining this place. But… where are they?

Did her father ask them not to welcome her as well?

She frowned.

[Alert: Killing Intent Detected]

[Alert: Killing Intent Detected]

[Alert: Killing Intent Detected]

[Scanning Area in 3… 2… 1…]

[Scanning complete]

[3 Humans are five meters away to the left.]

[3 Humans are five meters away to the right.]

[Killing Intent Detected.]

Sienna lifted her eyebrow. Hmmm…. Was it an assassin? Or a kidnapper?

Either way, she was just going to pretend that she didn't notice them.