Love at First Sight? Mr. Harrison Has Been Scheming All Along-Chapter 145: The Vase Was Brutally Smashed on the Man’s Head

Chapter 145: Chapter 145: The Vase Was Brutally Smashed on the Man’s Head

Lion He.

Sean Harrison had heard that name countless times back in middle school.

The name had once haunted him like a nightmare.

It was the name of that kid from the orphanage.

Charlotte Rhodes had mentioned the name in front of him countless times, endlessly praising the boy’s every quality.

Even though Sean had never once met him.

From Charlotte Rhodes’s descriptions, the boy was practically perfect.

It was only after Sean decided to change himself in high school that Charlotte Rhodes gradually stopped bringing up the name.

He had thought that person would disappear from his life forever.

He never expected to see it again after so many years.

He had even come to Celestria.

Without a second thought, Sean Harrison pocketed the sticky note.

Then, he simply handed the medicine box to the housekeeper.

The housekeeper had been tidying up in a hurry and paid no attention to what Sean Harrison had taken.

Besides, the sticky note had been on the medicine box to begin with, so she hadn’t noticed it.

Now that it was gone, its absence went undetected.

After tucking the note away, Sean Harrison sat in the small sitting room to wait for Charlotte Rhodes.

About ten minutes later, Charlotte Rhodes finally sauntered over.

When she saw Sean Harrison, she couldn’t help but frown, saying with displeasure, "It’s not your day off. What are you doing here instead of at work?"

In Charlotte Rhodes’s eyes, Sean Harrison wasn’t just her son; he was a machine for completing the tasks she assigned.

For example, when Sean Harrison was in elementary school, he had to learn the violin. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

She demanded he practice for three hours every day, and that those three hours of practice yield specific results.

If he failed, the punishment ranged from being denied meals to being beaten with a rod.

The deep and shallow scars that crisscrossed Sean Harrison’s back were all left behind from those beatings.

Sometimes, he felt that Charlotte Rhodes genuinely wanted to beat him to death.

As a child, he had even wondered...

...why he was so tough that he hadn’t been beaten to death yet.

Now that Sean Harrison was working and had his own company, she still demanded that he be responsible for every employee and not waste his energy on unnecessary things.

And especially not to waste it on her.

How much affection did she have for this son?

Even she herself couldn’t say for sure.

Sean Harrison ignored his mother’s question completely. "I’ve already hired people to collect evidence of my father’s multiple affairs while he was alive," he said directly. "A few illegitimate children might even turn up."

Charlotte Rhodes’s face turned ugly. "What are you talking about! What are you trying to do!"

Sean Harrison crossed his legs and looked up at his mother, whose emotions were plain to see. "I’m going to make you see what kind of man my father really was," he said calmly. "To see if a scumbag like him was worth a hard-working woman seducing."

"You’re doing this for that Quinn Linden’s daughter, aren’t you?! How much could her mother earn working as a housekeeper her whole life? A little bit of money from your father would have been more than she could ever make!"

Charlotte Rhodes just thought her son was naive.

More importantly, even though she had been abroad all these years, she had maintained a respectable image for herself and her husband.

If Sean Harrison made a big show of digging up his late husband’s mistresses and unearthed a few illegitimate children...

...all the dignity she had maintained over the years would be gone.

She might even become a laughingstock!

"What makes you think her mother would betray her morals and compromise her principles for money?" Sean Harrison looked at his mother and asked deliberately, "Are you projecting?"

"You— you!"

Charlotte Rhodes was so furious she was about to strike him.

She looked around, searching for something to use as a weapon.

After looking for a long time, she couldn’t find anything suitable.

"Can’t find anything suitable to hit me with?" Sean Harrison remained seated. "Then go take your time. I’ll sit here and wait for you."

When Sean Harrison came to talk to Charlotte Rhodes today, he hadn’t intended for things to get this hostile.

But just before seeing her, he had seen that sticky note.

’This mother of his was really something else.’

’At ten, she thought I wasn’t good enough and wanted to replace me.’

’Now I’m thirty, and she’s actually still thinking about it.’

’Is there another mother like her in the entire world?’

’Has she ever truly thought of me as her son?’

Charlotte Rhodes was so angry she was speechless.

Sean Harrison continued, "I suggest you beat me to death right here, today. Because as long as I’m alive, I will do everything in my power to find out how many women my father got involved with. If the number isn’t to my satisfaction, I’ll offer a public reward until I get a result I’m happy with."

As he said this, his face was almost devoid of any expression.

It was as if the person he was investigating wasn’t his father, but a complete stranger.

Or perhaps, his enemy.

"You— you— you’ve gone too far!"

Charlotte Rhodes snatched a vase from the table and smashed it violently over Sean Harrison’s head.

The man didn’t even try to dodge.

He didn’t so much as blink as the vase came down.

"SMASH!"

The vase shattered squarely on the man’s head.

It broke.

Shards flew everywhere, some landing on the man’s body and by his hands.

A few seconds later, blood began to trickle down from the left side of his forehead.

Even then, the man remained seated, his legs crossed, his hands folded on his knees.

Utterly still.

As if he felt no pain.

It wasn’t that Sean Harrison wasn’t afraid of pain.

It was just that this pain, compared to the suffering he had endured as a child, was nothing.

The agony he suffered as a child, being beaten by his mother and threatened with abandonment,

was more unbearable than this...

A thousand times over.

Ten thousand times over.

Sean Harrison’s dark eyes shifted. "I’ll stay right here. Go on, keep hitting me."

"You, you..."

Suddenly, Charlotte Rhodes clutched her chest, gasping for air as her face turned deathly pale.

She collapsed stiffly to the floor.

Even after falling, she kept her hand clutched over her chest.

Just then, the housekeeper came running over.

Sean Harrison said to the housekeeper, "Bring the medicine the doctor prescribed for my mother."

He called for an ambulance.

The ambulance took Charlotte Rhodes directly to the nearest hospital.

Once her condition stabilized, she was transferred to Elysian Hospital.

-

Rory Linden had just finished a surgery.

As she was leaving the operating room, a nurse ran up and told her that Charlotte Rhodes had been hospitalized.

Evan Hollis was walking behind Rory Linden.

He was on his way to another surgery but stopped when he heard the name "Charlotte Rhodes." He asked, "Didn’t this patient just come in yesterday for a follow-up with your director? How did she fall ill again?"

He couldn’t hide the tension in his voice.

Rory Linden also knew that Evelyn Irving had accompanied Charlotte Rhodes to her follow-up appointment yesterday.

The nurses had said Charlotte Rhodes was recovering well.

She had performed Charlotte Rhodes’s surgery, so if something went wrong this quickly, she would also bear some responsibility.

The nurse explained, "It seems to be due to emotional distress from a fight with her family."

Rory Linden: "Her family?"

The nurse said bluntly, "President Harrison."

Evan Hollis, who had been listening from the side, saw Rory Linden about to leave with the nurse and asked, "This President Harrison... is he the patient’s son?"

The nurse looked at Rory Linden.

Rory Linden answered, "Yes. President Harrison is my boyfriend."

Evan Hollis nodded. "Then I’ll head to my next surgery."

Rory Linden followed the nurse to the hospital room on the sixth floor.

Sean Harrison was sitting on a bench in the hallway, talking on the phone.

Rory Linden jogged over and, before she could say anything, noticed a white shard on the man’s head.

She reached out to take the shard, only to find that the hair around it was matted together...

She touched it with her fingers and realized it was blood!

"How did you injure your head?"

As she spoke, Rory Linden gently parted the man’s hair and saw a clear wound.