Chapter 143 Bringing Back Penelope's Ashes
160 thousand dollars, sometimes, wasn't even enough for him to have a drink, yet his most beloved girl was driven to this state by this same 160 thousand dollars!
Sea burial was particularly popular in Sea City, which meant that after a person's death, their ashes were scattered in the vast deep sea.
When they were deeply in love, they had discussed this issue.
He said, sea burial was quite good, merging with the vast and boundless ocean.
However, she shook her little head like a rattle drum.
She frowned, pouted her lips, and wore a face of disapproval.
She said, "Zack, I don't like sea burials. I always feel that when a person dies, they should be buried in the ground for peace. Otherwise, they might lose their way on the road to the underworld."
Zack, I was most afraid of getting lost.
Actually, she was a bit superstitious. When a person died, everything became nothing. Where could there be any soul? Where could there be any reincarnation?
Yet, she stubbornly believed that after death, the soul lives on forever. She thought that the road to the underworld would be smooth, so she preferred burial in the ground.
But to raise money for Ethan's treatment, she had donated her body.
Body donation meant that she wouldn't be able to rest in peace after death. On the road to the underworld, she might even get lost. If she hadn't been driven to a dead end, how could she have signed such an agreement!
What kind of determination and despair she must have had when she signed that agreement back then!
But in the end, she was unable to perform surgery on Ethan. Ethan, who fell into the abyss, was buried in the belly of a beast. She sold her own body, but it was all meaningless.
"Mr. Spencer......"
The two men were genuinely frightened by Zackary's appearance - his eyes were bloodshot, his demeanor was violent, yet he looked extremely pained and desperate. They didn't even bother to ask him how much compensation he planned to give them. They exchanged a glance and decisively took off.
"Penelope!" Zackary cried out her name in agony, his hand caressing her charred face as if in a trance.
"Penelope, I wouldn't let anyone take you away! I would lay you to rest."
"I wouldn't let you get lost."
"If you got lost, and I had reached the underworld, and you couldn't find me, what would you do?"
"Penelope, my Penelope..."
The cause of that fire was investigated and it was found that someone had deliberately started it.
However, the day before the fire, the cameras inside the Horse House and even those in the surrounding streets were damaged. The perpetrator's actions were too flawless, turning it into an unsolved mystery.
That fire had made the news headlines, but in this society, there were simply too many similar news stories. In the blink of an eye, it had already been forgotten by people.
Three days later, a poignant and touching legend emerged from Sea City.
Legend has it, there was another woman in Mr. Spencer's heart, the one he truly loved. It was not Lola, but a mysterious woman whose name was unknown to everyone.
Legend has it that halfway through Mr. Spencer and Lola's engagement party, a mysterious woman met with an accident. Mr. Spencer, disregarding the beautiful and charming Lola by his side, ran off to pursue his true love.
However, even though Mr. Spencer was extremely anxious, by the time he rushed over, his true love had already committed suicide.
It was said that his true love committed suicide because she couldn't accept his engagement to Lola, she could only be his secret lover for life.
Legend has it that when the mysterious woman was alive, Mr. Spencer truly intended to keep her as his mistress for life. But after her death, he suddenly realized his true feelings. It turned out that he loved her, and this love had long since penetrated his marrow.
However, the beauty had passed away. No matter how much he regretted, once a person died, they could not be brought back to life.
He could only hold her body, tears flowing like a river.
Legend has it, the mysterious woman was incredibly charming, not only winning Mr. Spencer's heart, but also bewitching Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Kemp.
On the day of her funeral, it surprisingly rained in the winter of Sea City.
The light rain was falling, Mr. Spencer personally held her ashes, placing them into the coffin.
That day, Mr. Spencer placed a jade comb into her coffin. It was said that before her cremation, he personally combed her wig for her.
He murmured over and over again, "We are married, and there is no doubt about our love for each other."
That day, Mr. Spencer buried her with the rites of a devoted husband, while Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Kemp personally carried her coffin.
The reporters of Sea City swarmed out, everyone wanted to uncover the identity of that mysterious woman, what her surname was and who she was.
However, the security at her funeral was so strict that not even a fly could get in. The reporters struggled for most of the day, but they couldn't even pinpoint the location of her grave.
In the end, the legend could only be referred to as a legend.
Lola held several press conferences to dispel rumors, stating that the so-called mysterious woman was just an absurd legend.
Her engagement with Zackary was abruptly called off, not because he was pursuing true love, but because she was unwell and he was concerned about her health.
They wouldn't hold an engagement party anymore, but would get married directly.
She also declared multiple times that there was no one else between her and Zackary, they were the truly loving couple without a doubt.
Every time Lola held a press conference, she spoke as if it were the truth, and her fans believed her words without a doubt.
After all, Lola and Pennie were both so excellent and wonderful, how could there possibly be a woman who could bewitch the men who deeply loved them!
Bullshit!
But still, a portion of people believed that there truly was such a mysterious woman in this world. It's just that, she was really too mysterious, they simply didn't know who she really was...
A month later.
Sea City, the Spencer Group Building.
Senior aide Samuel, clutching his phone in his hand, was disheveled in the wind.
He truly was a dedicated and hardworking assistant. During work hours, he really didn't mean to refresh the news, but just now, he accidentally clicked on the browser. Oh my God, what on earth did he see?!
He saw the news about Penelope!
Moreover, this news was just released a few minutes ago!
They all agreed that the woman, who had tragically died in the fire a month ago, was now, at this moment, wearing a pure white vintage dress, holding a bottle of perfume, and smiling radiantly on his phone screen.
Samuel's hand trembled violently. If it weren't broad daylight, he would have really thought that his phone was possessed.
He continued to tremble his fingertips, clicking on that piece of news.
In that news, there were more photos of Penelope.
In those photos, without exception, Penelope's hands were either holding, carrying, or...
Anyway, she always had a bottle of perfume in her hand.
She was wearing a dress so white it was almost pure, dancing gracefully among the myriad of flowers. She concealed her charm, truly resembling a fairy that had fallen into the mortal world.
Samuel stared in disbelief at the news headline.
Innocent beauty Penelope, holding a perfume photo, became an overnight sensation, emerging as the new national first love.
Samuel held his phone in his hands, trembling with fear.
The boss's ex-wife didn't die, but overnight she became some kind of internet celebrity, the nation's first love. Should he tell the boss, who is always heartbroken and bullying others in the love field?