Hiding Behind Her Superficiality

Chapter 560

Chapter 560 Not a Coincidence

The engagement party was held on the weekend. Elspeth arrived at the venue early with Callum, while Yelena and Hank greeted guests at the entrance with beaming smiles. When Yelena saw Elspeth approach, she ran over to her while holding up the sides of her wedding gown and exclaimed, “Elspeth, you finally came!”

“You look really beautiful today!” Elspeth smiled and hugged her.

Yelena whispered in her ear, “Do you remember the person I told you about last time? The one who looks a bit familiar. He’s here today, too.”

“What about him?” Elspeth didn’t understand why she kept mentioning this person, but she was curious about why.

“Oh, you’ll see when you go over there.” Yelena had asked Hank to take care of the guests while she led Elspeth away.

They walked to the backyard, and Yelena pointed to a nearby pavilion. With a slightly complicated tone, she said, “Look. Isn’t that person very familiar-looking?” NôvelDrama.Org owns all content.

As Elspeth followed Yelena’s finger with her sight, she spotted Yozan donning a pristine white suit. He exuded sophistication and poise, with captivating eyes and a sparkling diamond stud earring glinting in his right ear.

Yozan was deep in conversation with a companion, who was also a handsome man but who paled in comparison to him.

Suddenly, Yozan appeared to sense someone’s gaze fixed on him and turned to lock eyes with Elspeth, creating an unusual and peculiar atmosphere between the two.

Elspeth quickly turned her head and asked, “Who is he?”

“Yozan Harley is his name, and according to Hank, his family has a notable background, tracing back to the royal lineage of Eden for three consecutive generations.”

It was no surprise he looked striking with his mixed-race heritage, but what caught Elspeth off guard wasn’t his appearance. Rather, it was the uncanny resemblance of his eyes to hers. They displayed a tender yet distant expression, but his nose was more elevated than hers, and his facial features were more defined.

“Am I mistaken, or do you bear a striking resemblance to him? Initially, I didn’t pay much thought to it, but I noticed a remarkable similarity between you both upon closer inspection. Not only in appearance but also in personality. Frankly, had I not known about you and the Joneson Family, I would have found it hard to believe.”

Elspeth had kept many things from Yelena, who tended to spread gossip. One of these things was that her biological father was still unknown. Though the townspeople of Damoria knew of her relationship with Callum, they were hesitant to criticize the couple due to the Winthrop Family’s power and her own influence. Nevertheless, there were criticisms of their relationship being incestuous behind closed doors. Elspeth felt powerless to argue against these rumors unless she could find her true father. Even if she were to produce a paternity test proving there was no blood relation between her and Callum, she knew that people would still doubt it.

However, Yelena’s accidental reveal gave her a valuable clue, and Elspeth knew she had to talk to this man.

As Elspeth and Yelena were getting closer, suddenly, there was a splash from the river. Elspeth’s face changed drastically. “Someone fell into the water!”

It seemed like some people were having fun in a small boat on the lake. Someone had lost their balance and fallen into the water.

Although everyone around them gasped in shock, no one made a move to rescue the drowning individual. The men in the pavilion simply looked into the distance and had no intention of saving her. Without hesitation, Elspeth jumped into the water and swam to the center of the lake to retrieve the woman, who was almost out of oxygen from inhaling water. At the same time, Yelena shouted, “Elspeth!”

When Elspeth reached the woman, she wrapped her arm around the drowning woman’s waist and started to swim back to shore. However, as a result of coming into contact with cold water, Elspeth began to feel a chill in her body. Additionally, the physical symptoms from her previous miscarriage had not fully subsided, and now they were resurfacing. Her face became pale, and she experienced a subtle ache in her waist and body. So, she could only watch as the woman in her arm slipped away from her grasp.

When Elspeth grabbed the woman’s waist just now, she noticed the woman’s slightly protruding belly. Having been pregnant before, she recognized that the woman was likely three months along. Ignoring her own potential danger from inhaling the cold water, Elspeth urgently shouted for help, “Please, help! She’s pregnant!”

As expected, she accidentally swallowed two mouthfuls of cold lake water, causing a sharp pain in her throat.

The man in the pavilion, who had previously ignored the situation, suddenly sprang into action upon hearing that the woman was pregnant. He used his immense strength to swim over and pull both women to safety. When passing by, Yozan noticed Elspeth’s pale face and was surprised. However, he simply reached out to her and pulled her out of the lake.

Yozan had impressive arm strength and managed to rescue both people, despite the effort it took. The staff arrived promptly at that time, with a private doctor standing by with a grave expression to provide emergency medical treatment to the two people. The Sullivan Family’s private doctor knew Elspeth and was about to come over to attend to her, but Elspeth coughed a few times and pointed to the unconscious girl on the ground, saying, “Treat her first. She choked on water, and her condition is more critical.”

The doctor followed her orders and crouched down to examine the girl. Elspeth couldn’t resist reminding him, “She’s pregnant. Please check if the child in her belly is okay.”

At that moment, the assistant also handed two towels to Elspeth, who gave one to Yozan. Yozan turned his head to look at her before taking the towel and softly saying, “Thank you.”

“I should be the one to thank you. If it weren’t for you, I might have died,” Elspeth replied with a smile. She first wrung out the water from her hair. Then, she began to wipe it dry with care. Luckily, she wore a black dress today. Otherwise, she might have embarrassed herself if it had gotten soaked through.

“Thank you for saving Elspeth. Don’t worry. My private doctor is very capable and will ensure Cecelia’s safety. However, both of your clothes are wet and cannot be worn. I have prepared spare clothes for you in the villa. Elspeth, you can wear mine, and as for Yozan, if you don’t mind, Hank has a new suit that you can wear.” Yelena sincerely thanked Yozan upon seeing that Elspeth was safe.

Elspeth suddenly realized that the girl who fell into the water was Hank’s childhood friend, Cecelia. Therefore, Yozan must be the male lead in that love story Yelena had mentioned. However, Elspeth didn’t have time to gossip at the moment. If this girl had fallen into the water due to her own mistake, it was still just an accident. However, if not…

Daring to cause trouble at Yelena’s engagement party, huh? The perpetrator must have a death wish.

Elspeth’s eyes turned cold, and she turned to the assistant, ordering, “Go and check who was on the boat in the middle of the lake today.”

Yozan was slightly stunned. He didn’t expect her to have such meticulous thoughts in her mind. They really seemed to think alike.

Yozan had noticed the slight resemblance between their features in the lake earlier, and now that he had a closer look at her, he realized they were indeed extremely similar. She was like a female version of him. He wondered, Could it be that all of this was not just a coincidence?