Chapter 879: Chapter 879: Dad, Why Won’t You Acknowledge Me?
Because Arnold knew that her father was doing this for her benefit.
And thinking back, since she couldn’t see, what did it matter if she returned?
Arnold was proud.
In her pride, she never needed anyone’s pity or sympathy.
So, if her eyes couldn’t be healed, staying in S Country was just fine.
This way, she wouldn’t burden him, nor would he feel compelled to stay with her because of her eye injury.
If Arnold wanted anything, it had to be the best, the purest, without a hint of impurity.
She wouldn’t force him, nor would she seek his sympathy or pity.
Arnold told herself that if her eyes never found a suitable cornea and she remained blind, she would bury her secret love and never cling to him again.
She would never appear before Mark again, never in any form, never in any identity.
But what could she do?
She missed him so much, so much!
Arnold sat on the rooftop of the hospital, feeling the night breeze of S Country and missing that person in her mind.
More than half a month had passed since he was discharged from the hospital and went home to recuperate.
During this time, did he ever ask about her, did he think of her even for a second, did he miss her as much as she missed him?
Arnold smiled bitterly: Probably not, right?
Secret love is the most painful, yet she chose this path anyway.
Three months later, Arnold finally got a cornea that matched hers.
After completing the cornea transplant surgery and regaining her vision, Arnold immediately returned to M Country.
Arnold had been away from M Country for nearly half a year, and she hadn’t contacted Mark during that time.
In nearly half a year, Arnold had undergone a lot of changes.
Her short hair, which had been deliberately cut for her male disguise, had grown long, transforming into shoulder-length hair.
Not only that, Arnold, who was always dressed as a man, started wearing silk dresses, transforming herself completely into a girl, and a very beautiful one at that.
Previously, if Arnold had been handsome and charming, with the beauty of a woman and the sharpness of a man, now she still retained that charm, but it belonged to a dashing girl.
And now, with a head of shoulder-length hair, wearing a pink long dress, Arnold not only had that charm but also the shyness and cuteness of a girl.
Her beautiful features were artistically exquisite, her delicate skin flawless, and her clever eyes were bright and shiny, seemingly able to see through people’s hearts, and as if they could easily capture one’s soul...
This was the Arnold who appeared in the elevator of the apartment where Mark lived.
Arnold wanted to see Mark, to present her most perfect side to him.
She also wanted to warmly greet Mark, ask him if he was doing well these past six months, and if he had ever thought of her.
Ding! The elevator doors opened.
Wearing a pink long dress and seven-centimeter crystal shoes, Arnold stepped out of the elevator.
She headed straight for Mark’s apartment, but standing at Mark’s door was a voluptuous woman and a three-year-old boy.
The woman was holding the boy’s hand, knocking hard on Mark’s door, "Kaleb, Kaleb! Open the door, I know you’re inside!"
The boy, holding the woman’s hand, also knocked on the door and kept shouting, "Daddy! Open the door, daddy!..."
Hearing the woman and boy’s words, Arnold stood shocked in place.
Daddy?
Who was that child calling daddy?
Could it be that Mark...
Impossible!
Arnold shook her head, immediately dismissing her thoughts: That woman was calling for Kaleb, perhaps she was at the wrong place, knocking on the wrong door?
Thinking this, Arnold raised her steps again, preparing to approach the woman and inform her that she might have knocked on the wrong door, as the owner of this apartment wasn’t named Kaleb.
But just as Arnold moved her steps again, the apartment door opened, and Mark stepped out.
Seeing the woman standing outside, Mark immediately frowned, "How did you find this place?"
The woman didn’t answer his question, instead, she pulled the boy closer to show Mark, "Kaleb, this is your son, can you at least take a look?"
Mark held his forehead, speechless, "Lucy, haven’t I told you, this isn’t my child..."
"How can he not be your son? Kaleb, you can’t deny your own son because of my identity, can you?" the woman interrupted Mark.
After speaking, the woman looked at Mark with a sad, disappointed face and asked, "If you say this child isn’t yours, then whose is he? Those few nights you were with me... I haven’t been with anyone else since then..."
Mark was dumbfounded.
He looked at the woman, trying his best to explain, "Lucy, listen to me, this child really isn’t mine. At that time, I was on an assignment, undercover in Virgil Davies’s operation..."
"I know you were undercover at that time, but this child truly is yours!" The woman spoke resolutely, not waiting for Mark to finish his explanation.
After she finished speaking, the woman pointed to the boy’s face and continued to talk to Mark, "Look for yourself, doesn’t he look exactly like you?"
As the woman finished speaking, the boy hugged Mark’s leg.
His little face, which was strikingly similar to Mark’s, looked up at him pitifully, asking, "Daddy, why don’t you acknowledge me?"
Mark: "..."
Indeed, the child did resemble him, and so closely.
But looks alone couldn’t determine the child was his!
After all, he was still a pure boy; how could he possibly have a child?
This child’s resemblance to him was simply because it was his doppelgänger’s child!
"Sigh..." Mark let out a long sigh, not expecting he would one day have to clean up after his double, and not just once.
But he had himself to blame.
Previously, he had run into the pregnant Lucy, and after she had informed him of her pregnancy, he had meant to ask his double to contact her.
But he had ended up being so busy that he completely forgot.
Mark looked at the woman at the door, "Lucy, come inside if you have something to discuss."
Lucy looked overjoyed and immediately led the boy inside.
Mark lowered his head to close the door, intending to try contacting his double later, as this situation required his double to come out and explain...
And so, the woman entered with the boy, followed by Mark who closed the door behind them.
