Chapter 378: A Hint of Comedy in the Absurdity

Chapter 378: Chapter 378: A Hint of Comedy in the Absurdity

Under Cassandra Lynch’s silver-tongued slander and the various pieces of "evidence" she painstakingly arranged, the Reese siblings inevitably fell for her lies once again.

The result was predictable. The budding, unconfessed romance between them was brutally snuffed out in its cradle. Not only that, but because of Cassandra Lynch’s renewed setup, the Reese Family became genuinely furious this time. They began to attack Sylvia Sloan and her family on all fronts, forcing Sylvia and her brother to drop out of school and lose their jobs. They suffered immensely. A pair of lovers who could have become a match made in heaven were thus turned into bitter enemies!

The onlookers were left speechless.

The members of the Reese family saw Arabella Donovan staring blankly into space after they finished speaking. Unsure of what she was thinking, they exchanged glances before tentatively calling out, "Miss Donovan?"

Arabella Donovan snapped out of her daze. "So you can’t find her, and you want my help to divine her whereabouts?"

"Yes, yes, exactly."

"And what do you plan to do after you find her?"

The Reese family members were taken aback, but they answered honestly, "What happened back then was our fault. We hope to find her and do everything in our power to compensate her, to make up for the harm we caused."

"What if she doesn’t want to be found and isn’t willing to accept your compensation?"

"Well..." The family members looked at each other, silent for a long moment before replying, "Then we’ll respect her wishes and try not to disturb her. However, we’ll likely still keep an eye on her situation from afar and try to lend a hand when she needs help."

As she spoke, Mrs. Reese couldn’t help but sigh. "After all, if it weren’t for that incident, she and her mother wouldn’t have... Their lives would be much better now. Of course, if she doesn’t want to see us, we’ll do our best to make sure she never finds out about anything we do to help."

"But if she doesn’t know, she probably won’t forgive you, much less thank you for it."

"The damage has been done. We don’t dare to hope for her forgiveness, let alone her gratitude. We’re only doing this in the hopes of alleviating some of our own guilt."

Arabella Donovan glanced at the four members of the Reese family, confirmed that they were telling the truth, and nodded, satisfied.

’Their attitude is sincere enough. In that case, I might as well help them.’

"I do know where she is."

"Where?"

Arabella Donovan pinched her fingers together as if divining, then offered a seemingly unreliable guess. "Hmm, right now, she’s most likely at Norcapital Agricultural College... chasing a pig."

Everyone: ???

The four members of the Reese Family: ???

As one of the petrified onlookers, Mr. Reese was the first to react. Almost thinking he’d misheard, he asked for confirmation, "What... did you just say?"

"AHEM. I said, the person you’re looking for went to Kael after leaving the Flynn Family. She took her mother’s surname, and two years ago, she was admitted to Norcapital Agricultural College. She’s most likely a junior there now. And you know, students at an agricultural college are either into planting or animal husbandry..."

Arabella Donovan finished with an awkward yet polite smile, "So, she’s most likely on campus chasing a pig right now."

Mason Reese looked completely dazed. "You mean, she’s studying animal husbandry in college, and her project is... raising pigs?"

"Not quite. The pig belongs to a senior from the neighboring animal husbandry major. She’s actually majoring in crop breeding. The animal husbandry senior’s pig accidentally ran into her major’s vegetable garden and ruined a lot of people’s final projects. As a result, more than half the students in her major are going to fail this semester. For revenge, they’ve decided to catch the pig, roast it, and send it back to the senior as a thank-you for his ’care.’"

Everyone in the room was speechless. A collegiate version of "an eye for an eye"? The situation was so absurd, it was almost funny.

"PFFT..." Sandra Reese couldn’t help but burst out laughing at Arabella Donovan’s description. "Brother, this Miss Sloan must be a really interesting person. I can’t wait to meet her."

Mason Reese gave his sister a helpless look, but he had to admit that Arabella Donovan’s words had piqued his curiosity about this Miss Sloan as well.

Arabella Donovan noted the change in the siblings’ expressions, her own feelings quite complicated.

’If I remember correctly, Sylvia Sloan’s brother, Roman Sloan, should have just graduated from medical school around this time and only recently found a job.’

The reason this was worth mentioning was that Sylvia Sloan’s brother wasn’t just a top student at his medical school—his specialty was ophthalmology.

Perhaps many things in this world are just a series of fateful coincidences. According to the original plot, after being framed a second time by Cassandra Lynch, a disheartened Sylvia Sloan and her brother planned to take their mother and flee once again, hoping to escape the conflict just as they had before, all while under pressure from the Reese Family’s deliberate retaliation.

Unfortunately, Cassandra Lynch was dead set on eradicating them, root and stem. The Reese Family, furious, relentlessly pursued the siblings, which gave Cassandra Lynch the chance to borrow their power for her own ends. She had people secretly use the Reese Family’s name to hound Sylvia Sloan to her death and suppress Roman Sloan.

The Lynch and Donovan families, who were also listening, thought to themselves that while this outcome was to be expected, that venomous woman’s poison truly ran deep.

And not long after this, something unexpected happened.

Ever since Sandra Reese went blind, the Reese Family had never stopped searching for a cure. By chance, they learned of a new technology that held a high probability of helping Sandra see again. They immediately rushed her to a renowned local eye hospital for treatment.

After an examination, it was confirmed that her condition wasn’t too severe. There was a very high chance she could recover with surgery, on one condition: it had to be performed personally by their hospital’s top surgeon.

Overjoyed, the Reese Family immediately went to visit the chief physician, wanting to hire him to treat Sandra Reese at any cost.

They never imagined that upon meeting him, the smiles would die on their faces.

This chief physician was none other than Roman Sloan, who had already reached the pinnacle of his field at a young age.

At that time, having lost his only sister, and with his mother having fallen ill from grief and passed away shortly after, Roman Sloan was truly all alone in the world.

Faced with the Reese Family’s earnest pleas, his heart was like iron. No matter how they tried to persuade him or what tempting offers they made, he never agreed to operate on Sandra Reese.

The Reese Family had no choice but to ask another respected and experienced doctor to perform the surgery on Sandra Reese. The result was predictable: the surgery failed, and Sandra Reese lost all hope of ever seeing again.

Things might have been better if it hadn’t come to this. There is nothing more damaging than to be given hope only to have it snatched away into despair. After learning her recovery was hopeless, Sandra Reese appeared no different on the surface. She even comforted her family, who were filled with regret and guilt over her failed surgery. Inwardly, however, she had already collapsed into depression. Finally, on a dark and windy night, she slit her wrists and ended her own young life.

Everyone was aghast. This was too tragic!