"I'm crazy?" Clark looked at Serenity. "You're Faye's daughter! George Wright killed your biological mother. Don't you want revenge?"

Serenity's thoughts were all over the place. "I... I don't believe that dad is someone like that."

"Heh, he kept up a good facade. But luckily, I saved proof," Clark chortled and took out a tape with a slight quiver, putting it into an old-fashioned recorder. There was a tint of sorrow in his eyes. "This tape was recorded during your mother's labor."

"I don't want to hear it!" Serenity covered her ears.

The tape started moving slowly nonetheless as a shrill voice accompanied by some noises played from the recorder.

"George Wright, you're the cause if I die. It's you."

"I won't let you go even as a ghost."

"Luna Harris, you b*tch, why'd you snatch my man, why!"

The woman's voice was wrenching, pained, and brimming with wrath.

"Madam, save your energy. Push, push, your baby's coming out."

The nurse's voice was heard in between.

Slowly, the woman's voice grew airier, emotions draining away from it. "Dad, I don't think I can hold on further. You recorded everything just now, right?"

"I did." It was Clark's voice when he was younger. There was a hint of a sob in it. "Faye, I recorded everything. Push through it. When the baby is born, daddy will take your resentment out on him. I'll make George Wright pay for this."

"Dad, I don't think I'm able to see it! Promise me, promise me to take revenge for me when I die. Don't let a single Wright go. All of them deserve death. And my baby, when the baby grows up, let him listen to this recording. Tell him how much I've suffered when I give birth to him. Both our pains are because of that b *stard, George Wright. Tell him that he must avenge my death, he must!"

"The baby's here! 3.5 kilograms, it's a girl!" The nurse's delighted voice drifted in right after the woman spoke.

"A girl? Don't bring her to me! I don't want to see her," said the woman.

The nurse's panicked voice started right after that. "Oh no, the patient is suffering huge blood loss..."

It was then that chaos rasped through the tape.

"Dad, promise me, take revenge for me. You have to take revenge for me."

The last of the recording was the woman's agonized cries replaying.

After listening to the tap again, Clark could not help the moisture that gathered in his eyes once more. He recalled how his daughter lay in a puddle of blood.

'George Wright, that b*stard! He made Faye suffer! He should have long gone down hell to keep her company. 9

"It's impossible, it's impossible..." Serenity murmured, her gaze becoming void.

She did not believe that the voice in the recording just now belonged to her mother!

"Serenity, snap out of it!" Clark looked at her angrily." The truth is laid before your eyes. Are you still arguing for that man?"

"I... Maybe you made this up," Serenity tried weakly.

"I made this up?" Clark scoffed and took out another document. "Have a look. This is the DNA test report between your mother and I. Serenity, I'm your biological grandfather. This is undeniable! How could a father use his daughter as a joke!"

Serenity took the document with trembling hands. There was a photo attached to the report. Photos back then were black and white, but the young woman in the photo was radiant. Her stomach was already showing a slight bulge.

Was that her inside there?

Serenity stroked the photo with a shudder, her eyes rimming red somehow.

Clark looked at Serenity, and his voice turned softer." Serenity, I didn't want you as a part of the revenge, but I have no other ways now. When Dr. Yale comes back, the Errol Virus will lose its intimidation. We don't have time anymore. I need your help. We'll kill the Wrights and leave here at once. We'll go to the States, start our new lives there."

It was like Serenity did not hear him as she kept her eyes trained on Faye's photo.

After a long time, she tore her gaze and shifted it to Clark.

"I believe that you're my grandfather, but I won't do anything to the Wrights," Serenity said shakily.

"You're not avenging your mother's death?" Clark stared at Serenity in disbelief.

"You said you didn't want me as a part of the revenge. You lied." Tears fell from Serenity's eyes. "My mother couldn't even take one glance at me after she gave birth to me. She... hated me! Hated the fact that I'm a child of a man who didn't love her hated that I took her life away. So I was in your plan of revenge all along, isn't it? You made the Wrights adopt me, made u s have strong bonds with each other, yet you destroy everything today. Grandfather, everything's been in your plan all this time, isn't it? You hate them, and you hate me equally, don't you?"

Clark went stiff for a moment before he sighed." Serenity, you're my granddaughter, after all. As long as you kill the Wrights, we can still put everything down in the past and go to the States together." "And if I say no?" Serenity looked at him through misty eyes.

"No?" Clark smirked. "You don't have the right to! Say, if I pass the tape to the Wrights and let them listen to how your mother was screaming for you to avenge her death, will they still believe you? Will they still treat you like they used to? No, they won't! They'll doubt and hate you. At that time, you won't have anywhere else to turn to."

"I... Aren't you scared of me exposing you?" Serenity looked at Clark.

"You can do that." Clark smiled. "But I'll tell them that everything that took place previously was the collaboration of the both of us! Serenity, you'll be doomed with me."

"I didn't even know about your plans!" Serenity was going berserk.

"But... will someone believe you?" Clark looked at her with sympathy in his gaze.

His last chess piece was also his last target of revenge.

Due to the blood running in Serenity, she did not deserve death but had to kill the Wrights to redeem the sin of her father's blood in her.

Serenity could not help falling into hopeless despair.

"Serenity!" Clark trained his eyes on her. "That's your mother, regardless. Pregnant for ten months and paying the price of her life, that's how you're here. Taking revenge on the Wrights is her last wish. As her daughter, shouldn't you help fulfill it?"

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