Chapter 177 - Bring Back From the Dead

At a distant hotel, Patricia was acting up again, pressuring her father to contact Lu Fang. She wondered what had happened to him and how come he did not seem affected by the drug they gave him. 

She was trembling and biting her finger as she sat on the couch. 

"Patricia, I already called twice. I don't think we should be more obvious than we already are. We should just wait," Harold said as he tried to make his daughter loosen up. 

"Harold, maybe this will not work. We should just leave them alone, " Pamela suggested. She turned to her daughter and pleaded, "Patricia, please. You are a very beautiful girl. We can find another man for you - Lu Fang, he is married - "

"No! Mommy, no! I want Lu Fang!"

Patricia kept screaming and screaming until she was struggling to breathe. 

Her parents rushed to get her medication and after taking a tablet, they let her rest. Harold carried his daughter to the bedroom where she took her nap. 

Mrs. Smith's head was aching from her daughter's infatuation. She massaged her forehead as she sat on the couch. When her husband came out of the bedroom, she immediately called for him, but she was instantly slapped in the face!

"This was your fault, Pamela! If you had not been drinking and smoking while pregnant, our daughter might have had a normal heart - "

"We don't know that for sure! Besides, I did not know I was pregnant at that time - Ahh!"

Her response brought in another slap. 

Harold then came up to her and roughly held her by the face with one hand. He maliciously said, "Because you had caused our daughter to receive three major surgeries, you don't get to question how I treat her!" 

He pushed his wife onto the seat and walked away to get a bottle of whiskey from the minibar. He contemplated at what he had done, but for him, his daughter remained to be the most precious. 

"No one can judge me. They have no right to criticize me," he told himself as gulped down a glass of liquor. 

On three occasions, he had felt his world crumbled. The day Patricia was born, she had open-heart surgery to cover the hole in her heart. When she got older, the hole opened up again; she was rushed to the hospital for a bypass operation as the balloon that covered the hole had blocked her artery.

After her 20th Birthday, Patricia's heart weakened, and she had another bypass operation. Although the surgeries were successful, she occasionally experiences an irregular heartbeat and sometimes heart attacks. At present, Harold's daughter had survived two mild attacks and one severe. 

To Harold, he would cut down mountains for his daughter.  Whatever it is that she requested, he gave with everything in his power. To him, all the wrong that he had done was right… because he did it for his daughter. 

Meanwhile, back at the Starlight Tower, Hearing Lei Dong admitting to being drugged, Andrea became flustered. Having to burden herself in dealing with cunning women who try to be in bed with her husband, she was tempted to cover Lu Fang's face and with plaster. 

She began to wonder how she could have missed the details about Patricia's unusual relationships during her initial investigation. Then again, who Patricia dated was none of her business. 

'No wonder, Harold Smith was so adamant to establish a partnership. He even invited Lu Fang to visit the US just to watch the boxing match… but how? Where did they meet Lu Fang?' These were the thoughts that kept repeating in Andrea's head. 

Wasting no time, she reviewed the surveillance of the Starlight lobby and saw Patricia speaking with the server. She went through the cameras inside the restaurant and saw the same young man pour wine to her husband's glass. She also saw how Darwin tried to retrieve the drugged beverage. 

Andrea would have scolded Darwin for not taking the drink away from Lei Dong but after learning that the General did not go to the hospital and was with Chunhua at the hotel, it only meant he relieved himself. She thought it was not such a bad thing considering her conversation with his girlfriend the other day. 

"I will help you get back your investments. I'm not sure about returning to your fiance but, at least you can get part of your life back."

"Thank you, though I must tell you beforehand, the Smiths are very wealthy and can afford to pay off anyone just like what they did to me."

"Oh, don't worry Mr. Clark," Andrea smiled as she said this. "My family's combined wealth will make them crawl to the ground."

"Where are you staying?"

"How are you living off?"

"What is your current financial standing?"

Darwin answered all of Andrea's questions with all honestly. He was running dry; he was only banking on a hunch that coming to China would somehow help find a solution for him. 

Andrea arranged accommodation for him where it was most convenient for them to meet. She called up her sister to recommend the best plastic surgeon to fly to Beijing as soon as possible. 

"The first thing that we need to do is to get you a surgery."

Darwin's heart pounded, he had always wanted to get his face fixed but his funds were limited and wanted to save what he can to take revenge against the Smiths. 

"A surgery?" He asked, almost teary-eyed. 

"Yes,' Andrea smirked as she answered before giving a hint of her plans, "Let's bring you back from the dead."

Lu Fang finally finished his practice with Han-joon and came up to their suite, only to see his wife incredibly upset, waiting for him in their bedroom. 

"Babe?" He asked, curious about his wife's vicious look. 

"Tell me, Mr. Lu, have you been displaying your god-like features to other women behind my back?"

"Babe, I don't know what you are talking about. What is this all about?"

Andrea glared at his sexy body. His shirt hugged his lean torso and a drop of sweat traced his forehead down to his neck. She took a deep breath before ordering, "Strip."

"What, babe? It isn't Sunday - "

"I said strip! Now!"