the two-faced Adopted Girl Who Melted CEO's Ice-Cold Heart
Chapter 55: The Time in ’Twin Flowers

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: The Time in ’Twin Flowers

After sitting in the car for six hours, the film crew arrived at the small town and quickly settled into a local five-star hotel. Upon discovering it was a five-star hotel where they’d be staying for a month, everyone screamed with excitement, wishing they could throw themselves at the director, Theodore Hughes.

Theodore Hughes also shed his usual gloom. He tied his long hair into a small braid, shaved his beard, and radiated an aura of renewed confidence.

Delphine distinctly noticed Theodore treating her with special favor. The best suite was reserved for her and Sister Zhao, the food catered to her preferred tastes, and his words to her were unusually courteous.

However, Delphine paid no attention to these changes, immersing herself entirely in the filming of the movie.

The opening scene of the movie portrayed a sunset as crimson as blood. An old, cramped residential building. A fifteen-year-old girl, Octavius, wearing a blue school uniform, carrying a backpack, opens the door.

The girl shuts the door, and intense shouting erupts from inside the house. The camera fades into silent darkness.

A murder case in the small town made it into the local newspaper. The deceased, Octavius’s father, was a forty-year-old man with a gambling addiction, a penchant for alcohol, and a history of violence. He had served a three-year prison sentence for injuring someone during a fight. His wife, Athena Thompson, was a homemaker without a proper job and was poorly regarded by neighbors.

Octavius, left orphaned by the death of her parents, was taken in by distant relatives who moved her out of the small town. Ten years later, Octavius returned from studying abroad to handle her immigration paperwork.

The police station called to inform her that the uncle who had adopted her had passed away, asking her to return to inherit the estates of her parents and uncle.

Octavius returned to the small town, only to find that the supposed "closed case" from years ago now had new suspicions. The police sought Octavius for assistance in recalling the events of that time and introduced her to an experienced hypnotist named Flint.

Flint was taken aback upon meeting Octavius. The young woman in front of him was pale, ethereal, and beautiful — difficult to reconcile with what he knew of her childhood: a life plagued by parental abuse and violence.

In the dim, quiet office, the young, beautiful Octavius lay sideways on the armchair, her eyes closed, submitting to hypnosis.

The thirty-year-old hypnotist Flint, beginning with pity for Octavius, found his feelings evolving into fascination. Gradually, step by step, he delved into her inner world, driven by a desire to control her.

Flint secretly implanted commands within her subconscious. Deep hypnosis carried out ten times would allow him to completely possess Octavius.

During the tenth hypnosis session, Flint glimpsed the full truth of the murder case from that time.

Flint: "After school, you came home and pushed open the door.

Behind the door, the man was drunk, smashing things recklessly. The woman emerged from the kitchen, and the two began to fight.

Then what happened?"

Octavius: "He wanted to kill her. I rushed forward."

Octavius fell into a painful struggle, her body curling up, cold sweat breaking out across her forehead.

The hypnotist, consumed by his obsession, knelt beside the chair, wiping her sweat with a handkerchief, guiding her step by step: "And then?"

Octavius: "He tried to strangle me. I felt unbearable pain.

And then there was so much blood, and a knife — the knife fell onto the ground."

Flint was both horrified and exhilarated, continuing his guidance: "Who was holding the knife?"

Octavius’s expression became even more agonized, sweat pouring down like rain.

Octavius: "The woman had the knife in her hand, but then she was pushed to the ground. The ground was covered in blood."

Flint’s eyes lit up, confirming his earlier suspicions. Octavius’s father, abusive and violent, had viciously beaten his wife Athena Thompson. The teenage girl, Octavius, had intervened to save her mother. Ultimately, Athena, in order to rescue her daughter from being strangled to death, was forced to use the kitchen knife to kill Octavius’s father.