Chapter 245

"Then, did you catch his accent? Where’s he from?" Her uncle didn’t answer right away. He paused for a while before replying, hesitant, "Sounded like… Yuan City." I froze. I had expected he’d be from somewhere nearby, like maybe a city next to City S. At the very least, somewhere within the same province. But Yuan City? That was way across, like three provinces over from City H. Maybe because that’s where the competition had been, and also where Evan Smith was taken by that mysterious car from, I couldn’t help being extra sensitive to anything related to Yuan City. It felt like… that city had some invisible thread tying it to me. I’d only stayed half an hour at the hospital before Aunt told me to leave. By the time I walked out, Heather Carter was still in critical condition. Later that night, when Henry Smith asked how things were going, I just brushed it off. He already had his hands full with all the stuff going on at the Smith Group—I didn’t want to dump more drama on him. Still, H