Love Contract
Chapter 134 The First Encounter (Part One)

It was starting to get dark.

William walked out of the hospital in a trance. He looked around, but didn't know where he was going.

'Mary, where did you go?'

William took out his phone and dialed a number. "Watts, replace out where Mary's hiding. No matter where she is, replace her for me!"

"Affirmative, sir!"

William hung up the phone and squeezed it tightly. There were so many people who had come and gone in the hospital, but none of them was the person he was looking for. "Ring, ring, ring!

"

The phone in his hand rang out of the blue. William immediately answered it.

"Hello? Mary? Is that you? Mary!" His voice trembled with so much anxiety and expectation.

"Hello, is this William Lan?"

A calm man's voice came through the phone. William's excitement died down. He frowned and answered in a calmer voice, "Yes, it's me."

"Hello, Mr. Lan. I'm a lawyer from the South Mountain Law Firm. My surname is Zhang. A few days ago, Mary Lu asked me to..."

"Where is she? Tell me!"

Before Lawyer Zhang could finish his words, the pupils of William suddenly shrank and he roared, "Where is Mary? Answer me!"

"Well..." Lawyer Zhang sounded like he was bewildered. "I... I don't know where she is right now. The last time I saw her was two days ago.

"What did she want from you? "A bad premonition crossed William's mind.

"Oh," Lawyer Zhang continued. "She has entrusted me with the matter of your divorce. She has already signed the divorce papers. I want to ask Mr. Lan when you are free, so we can discuss..."

Divorce!

"Buzz..."

Only the word "divorce" rang in his ears, and he could hear nothing else.

Had she really made up her mind?! But he hadn't said he loved her yet! Mary... "Mr. Lan? Mr. Lan, are you still there?" Lawyer Zhang didn't get any response despite asking several times.

Crack!

William dropped the call at once. His eyes were brimmed with dread, and his right arm dangled feebly.

Was he too late? When he finally understood his feelings, she gave up on him...

No, he refused to believe it!

William hurried to the roadside and hailed a taxi. "Take me to South Mountain Law Firm."

In the South Mountain Law Firm.

Lawyer Zhang shook his head in disbelief when he realized that William had hung up the phone. He checked the time and decided to call him again tomorrow to confirm. It was time to get off work today. Lawyer Zhang finished dealing with the last document on the left and packed up his things. When he was about to leave, a man stormed into his office.

The man was slender, with thin lips and black eyes that contained sharpness. He walked towards Lawyer Zhang, like a hawk in the night, intimidating and fierce. Before Lawyer Zhang opened his mouth, the man had already rushed in front of him and grabbed his collar. "You have five seconds to tell me. Where's Mary?"

"I... I don't..." Lawyer Zhang stammered with his words. "Are... Are you Mr. Lan?"

"Damn right, I am!" There was so much anger and coldness in William's eyes. "What did she tell you? Tell me every single thing... or else!"

"Mr. Lan, please let me go first!" Lawyer Zhang could barely get a word out because he was choking.

"Humph!" William let go of him at once.

Lawyer Zhang quickly ran to his desk, took out the document that Mary gave him, and passed it to William. "This is the document. Besides the signed divorce agreement, there is also a property transfer agreement, a black card and a salary card."

William swallowed hard as he looked over the document. The papers were light but they felt so heavy in his hands that his arms trembled.

He reached out and flipped through the papers in the document bag.

Divorce agreement...

Mary's signature was written over her name. It was done so neatly that it looked as if she had no more hesitations. William felt like his heart was about to leap from his chest. He loosened his fingers from the papers and they slowly fell to the ground.

"Mary Lu said that you bought the house in Kylin International. She doesn't want it."

Lawyer Zhang picked up the papers from the ground. "She also mentioned that there was two hundred thousand remaining in her salary card, and she wanted to give it back to you. This way, neither of you would owe each other anything." Lawyer Zhang coughed and composed himself.

Neither of them owed each other anything...

A storm brewed in William's gaze as it turned red from anger and sadness. She said that they didn't owe each other anything!

But he still did. He owed her tens and thousands of apologies, and one confession.

"Ring...

"1

William's phone rang in his pocket. He picked up the call with blank stare in his eyes. His voice was slightly breaking. "Hello?"

"Mr. Lan, we found that Mrs. Lan went to Z City two days ago..."

Z City! That was Mary's hometown!

A glimmer of hope returned to William's eyes. "Come to the South Mountain Law Firm to pick me up!" In the middle of the night, on the highway from A City to Z City, an elegant Lamborghini swept across the road.

Sitting in the car was William, his eyes were bloodshot.

Mary, his dear Mary, how helpless and sad she must be right now.

'Wait for me. I'm never going to divorce you. From now on, let me protect you!'

"Hurry up!" William shouted.

At dawn, the Lamborghini had arrived at a small village where Mary's old house was located.

William's heart sank as he stared at the closed door in front of him. He said to the person beside him, "Open it."

This was the first time he had come to her hometown...

"Yes, sir." Two bodyguards stepped forward and were about to open the door.

"What are you doing?" Suddenly, a strong voice came from behind them. "Who are you? Do you plan on breaking in to that house? Thieves!"

William turned around and saw an old man carrying farming tools and glaring at them.

"I'm from this family... I'm looking for someone," William declared. "You are from this family?" The old man stared at him from head to toe. "They're all gone. Why are you still here? You're from this family and you don't even know this?"

"Is Mary here?" William asked. Overnight, he had grown fine stubble on his chin, and his entire body looked decrepit and messy.

"She's not here." The old man waved his hand. "Her mother was buried a few days ago. I haven't seen her since then."

"Her mother..." William paused and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is she buried?"

"It's on the top of that mountain in front of us!" The old man pointed.

William raised his head. His eyes were fixed and he didn't say anything. He just slowly walked forward.

His two bodyguards immediately followed him.

The old man looked at him and shook his head. Yesterday, a man came to replace Mary, with the same expression as the man in front of him, and he didn't ask much. What in the world was happening?

Then the old man turned around and left.

When William came to the place that the old man pointed, he saw a solitary gravestone. The soil around the grave was freshly dug. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

William knelt down in front of the grave.

He still remembered how Mary's mother held his hand and asked him to take good care of Mary when he had met her for the first time. He still remembered how her mother said that Mary was not good enough for him and asked him to take it easy on her...

But now, she was gone forever.

He could almost see how Mary broke down in front of her mother's grave.

But where was he during her most trying moment? He was somewhere else, thinking that Victor had taken her away, and he even blamed her for it!

Tears started to fall from the corner of his eyes. He bit his lip and buried his face under his palm.

'Mary, where are you? Where on earth have you gone?'

William didn't know how he returned to A City and Kylin International Community.

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