Author's Note: Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that I rewrote this part for plot reasons. I'm sorry if you liked the previous one better, but I needed to do this in order to move the story forward in the direction I had planned. Also, I'm very sorry for the extremely late updates....Anywaysss hope you enjoy the new update☺💖

Yanshi Hima's POV

I've been watching this family for about a week an realized how Baron truly treated his wife. He was abusive and he was also an alcoholic. Of course dysfunctional families are normal, but I wrote down about all of the abuse and whatever I found interesting or important.

I saw Mrs. Juliard walk out and drive off and I decided to follow her, so I marked down the back number of the car and put it into my smart GPS following the car. I waited a while until it told me her car stopped at a certain location for a longer period of time and it wasn't for a red light.

I zoomed into the modified GPS to see exactly where she was. I didn't expect this.

She was located at a small candy store?

I paid a taxi to take me to the address of the candy store. I walked in to see her buying a ton of candy. Does she just have a sweet tooth or something? This can't be for her own children because they are barely 1 and 2 years old. I decided to blend into the store and look like a normal customer by walking around and buying candy. I really like the candy gumdrops, so I got a big bag of those when I saw them. When I went to pay for my gumdrops, Mrs. Juliard began to turn towards me and walk out. I studied her features and realized that she looked worn out. Her blue eyes looked so dull. Her skin looked paler than usual as well. I payed for my gumdrops and made my way to follow her once again.

This time I found her at a mental hospital. Of course I can't really follow her inside if she is going to visit someone, so I decided to plant a listening device on her when I 'accidentally' bumped into her. I put my earphones on as I was waiting outside of the hospital.

" Hello Ma'am what can I do for you?"

"Hello...I'm here to visit Diana Tailor...." Esmé said in a low voice.

" Alright. You're name is?"

" My name is Esmé Juliard. My maiden name is Esmé Tailor....I'm her daughter." Esmé said quietly. I heard a gasp come from the other person.

" H-Here you go ma'am, y-your ID pass." The other person said with a bit of a stutter.

" Thank you." She said and seemed to walk away.

" Hello mother...I came to visit you.." I heard her say.

" How dare you call me mother after being so ungrateful! LEAVE! I don't want to see you! My husband is dead because of you! You killed him! You're a murderer!!" An elderly women's voice screamed. Must be the mother.

" I-I didn't...I-I left to fulfill your wish mother..."

What the hell is this? Another mystery with Esmé Juliard?

" You despicable woman! You left and didn't come back! He constantly worried about you, asking when you were gonna call us or come home!" She screamed. I can hear sobs coming from closer to the mic. Esmé must be crying. She coughed to conceal it.

" I-I married a rich man just the way you wanted me to. I started a family with him... Y-You have two granddaughters mother...I-I also brought you your favorite candies and-"

" I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU WHORE!!! Did you just come in here to rub your happiness in my face?!?! ARE YOU LOOKING DOWN ON ME?!?!" Her mother interrupted her with screaming. I can hear scrambling coming from closer to them.

" I'm sorry Ma'am, but I need to ask you to leave. The patient is mentally unstable right now and we need to give her the daily dosage of her medications." A male nurse told Esmé and I heard her say a faint 'okay'.

" NO NO NO!! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!!! I LOVE YOU ESMÉ PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!! DON'T ABANDON MEEEEEE!!!" The mother screamed. Esmé walked away as I could tell from the screaming becoming quieter by the second.

" Don't listen to her Esmé...You know she doesn't love you....Why do you torture yourself by going to see her once a month?...." She says to herself.

"....I-I didn't mean to kill father....No! I-I didn't kill him...right?" I can hear her sobbing.

I didn't expect for this to happen.

Esmé may be a lot more complicated than what I initially thought.

Seems like this case won't end anytime soon.....

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Esmé Juliard's POV

I have to hurry back to the company....Baron will get angry if I'm late for the meeting and I don't want to be punished like last time...

I walked out of the mental hospital as quickly as possible and felt like someone was watching me. I know my appearance can catch people's attention, so I don't really pay much attention to it. I get into my car and drive to the company.

" Oh how I wish my life was different..." I said out loud.

Mother wanted me to marry a rich man, so she threatened me with her life and made me promise to get married to a wealthy man. I found Baron and realized he was very wealthy...so I seduced him...he ended up having a one-night stand with me. I ended up getting pregnant on accident with his child. I used this to get him to marry me. His family didn't approve of me, so I had to find a way to convince them. I was able to do this by showing off my skills. I design clothes and the Juliard Corp. is a jewelry based company. All I had to do was propose an idea to help their business with my own ideas and designs.

My idea of combining a clothing line with the Juliard brand became highly successful and the family approved of me.

I love designing clothes and while at the company, I learned that I also love designing jewelry. Everything was perfectly planned out and executed. I got married to Baron and gave birth to his daughter.

What I ended up learning is that Baron...is an alcoholic, abusive man. I was beaten up by him whenever I stepped out of line. It started off when I told him to stop drinking.

I didn't visit or talk to my parents after the wedding. Mother loathed me, but always pretended to love me whenever my father was around.

My father was a kind and loving man. He truly cared about me and didn't like the idea of me marrying into a rich family. He told me he wouldn't mind it if I truly loved Baron, but he knew I didn't. My father was already sick with a heart disease and the idea of him dying because of being worried about me, is highly possible.

Mother is also sick. She has a mental illness called Histrionic personality disorder. Although, it is somehow different. She didn't have it as a child and only seemed to show symptoms postpartum(after birthing a child).

Father loved mother very much either way, even after finding out about her illness. He took care of her and I, but mother always got angry whenever I got father's attention. Mother never really cared about me, but I still do...Even if she abused me as a child and threatened to end her life if I didn't marry into a rich family.

After father passed away, mother couldn't stand it and acted out, trying to commit suicide. She was stopped however and was sent to a mental hospital where she is being kept now. I was informed of this by the neighbor who called the police on my mother and stopped her from committing.

I held a small funeral for my father without Baron finding out. Father's closest friends attended. Mother was in the hospital, so she couldn't show up. People gave me their condolences and I thanked them while bawling my eyes out. After the funeral, I decided to head to a beautiful meadow where my father used to take me to.

There I met a man who caught my interest. He was from China, but studied English and he spoke fluently. His name was Jun. He didn't give me a last name, but I didn't care. We spoke for hours until it became late and we had to go on our separate ways.

I've met up with Jun for a while and became absolutely enamoured by him. He said he wasn't a wealthy man and I honestly didn't care. He was a kind man who had an incredible sense of humor. He was amazing and talented in many aspects. I fell for him and ended up having a one-night stand with him. I didn't expect to get pregnant with his child. I got scared and didn't tell Jun about it. I knew I could have had an abortion before Baron found out, but he was quicker and believed he was the father.

I decided to go with it and soon gave birth to another daughter. To say that Baron was angry, is an understatement. He wanted a male, but has two useless daughters instead.  His words, not mine.

I cut off all connection with Jun. I couldn't visit him even if I wanted to...I was beaten up daily. I stayed home or went to the company to work. I was miserable...the guy I love was out of my reach and I have to live with an alcoholic, abusive, but rich man, because I married him and had his child.

I miss Jun so much...

" This is all my fault...Father wouldn't have died if I didn't decide to care about mother and fulfill my promise to her of marrying a rich man....No. If mother died, father would've been the one suffering... He loved her dearly and it would crush him, possibly kill him...Either way...it would have been bad...Father, I hope you are happy up their in heaven...hopefully you aren't too disappointed in me..." I said out loud.

I noticed I was already at the company. I parked my car in the private parking lot and made my way inside the corporate building.

I checked the time and sighed.

" I'm late."