His Mute Wife: He Can't Sleep After She Left-Chapter 20: What Really Happened During That Time?

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: What Really Happened During That Time?

Compared to his current self, always in a suit and tie, Ethan Sinclair saw on the surveillance footage a version of himself wearing a plain white T-shirt, his hair rather casual, with eyes full of spirit.

That face, with a smile, bore an exuberant and brazen smile, exuding a youthful and bold aura.

The person in the surveillance clearly had the same face as him, but to Ethan, he felt incredibly unfamiliar.

In his memory, it seemed he had never smiled like that.

Howard Sinclair was often busy and rarely home, while Zoe Xavier was constantly filming, so Ethan Sinclair’s relationship with his parents was quite distant.

His grandmother groomed him as the Family Head of the Sinclair Family, being extremely strict with him. While others played during their free time and summer and winter breaks, he was thrown into militarized training camps by his grandmother.

While others enjoyed a carefree childhood, playing games and chasing girls, he was sent to the company by his grandmother to work as the most basic employee.

He was aloof and distant, unable to mingle with others, let alone smile like that at a stranger in a shop.

What on earth happened during that period?

The store’s surveillance didn’t have audio, so it wasn’t possible to hear what Ethan was saying in the video.

Not long after, he took out a photo. The surveillance video’s resolution was not high, and the recording was quite old, so the image was rather blurry.

Moreover, in the video, he merely showed the photo briefly to someone else before looking at his phone screen with a foolish grin, appearing quite foolish.

Ethan Sinclair replayed the footage for a long time but couldn’t identify the pixelated girl in the video.

But... he seemed to have seen this phone in the old house’s bedroom.

Realizing this, Ethan Sinclair immediately headed to the old house.

He found the obsidian black phone in the nightstand by his bed, the screen badly damaged from the car accident he had.

The phone hadn’t been used in a long time and was out of battery, so he charged it and turned it on.

The screen lit up, displaying a wallpaper of pink starlight, identical to the starlight drawn by the girl in his dreams.

Ethan Sinclair took a deep breath and entered the password.

"Incorrect password, you have two attempts remaining."

The cold, mechanical female voice made Ethan Sinclair furrow his brow. Almost all his passwords were the same, his grandmother’s birthday, so how could it be wrong?

Could it be that during his memory loss, he changed it to his own birthday?

Knowing himself, Ethan Sinclair was sure that wasn’t the case.

He thought for a moment and entered Kate Lynch’s birthday.

"Incorrect password, you have one attempt remaining."

If Ethan Sinclair remembered correctly, this phone was a custom-made gift for him by Simon Ives on his eighteenth birthday.

Ethan Sinclair immediately called Simon Ives.

As soon as the call connected, before he could hear Simon’s voice, he heard a playful meow from a cat.

"Blackie, let your dad answer the phone."

Steven Fuller’s cat, an entirely white Angora cat, was named Blackie because Simon Ives thought naming a white cat Whitey was too common, so he named it Blackie instead.

"You need something so late?"

"Do you remember the phone you gave me on my eighteenth birthday?"

"Of course, I haven’t lost my memory!"

Feeling a bit subtly insulted, Ethan Sinclair: "..."

"I don’t know the lock screen password for that phone. Is there a way to retrieve it?"

"How many times have you tried?"

"Twice."

"Then don’t enter it a third time if you’re unsure of the password!"

"Why do you say that?"

"That phone is custom-made, and if you enter the wrong password more than three times, all the contents in it will be formatted."

At that moment, Ethan Sinclair felt somewhat relieved he didn’t rashly input another password.

What if he got it wrong!

"Is there any way to unlock the phone if the password is forgotten?"

"There’s no way!"

"How is that possible?"

Simon Ives snorted, "When the phone was being made, I asked you if you needed a program for recovering forgotten passwords, and you said no, you’d never forget your phone password."

Ethan Sinclair was left speechless, not knowing what came over him to change the password suddenly.

"Is there really no other way?"

"If there was, would I not have told you? Now the only way is for you to remember your phone password and make sure you get it right."

Ethan Sinclair was a bit frustrated and asked, "Simon, in what kind of situation would someone decide to change their phone password?"

"You should ask Quinn Sinclair that; she’s always changing and forgetting her passwords, isn’t she?"

Finding Simon Ives’s suggestion not unreasonable, Ethan Sinclair sent a message to Quinn Sinclair on WeChat.

Soon, Quinn’s response came through.

"Changing passwords is something you do on a whim, but most people change passwords to significant dates or someone they’re fond of’s birthday, brother, why are you asking this?"

"Nothing, just wash up and go to bed."

Quinn Sinclair: "..."

Ethan Sinclair was lost in thought with the phone in his hand. If it was the birthday of someone he was fond of, why wasn’t it Kate Lynch’s birthday?

Does it mean there was a significant date between him and Kate Lynch?

Ethan Sinclair thought hard, to the point of a headache, but couldn’t come up with anything.

He felt a bit irritated thinking about what he was doing during the time he lost his memory!?

Not sleeping well all night, Ethan Sinclair had a rather bad complexion when he went to the company the next day, exuding a cold, restless aura that made whoever saw him subconsciously avoid him.

In his work, Ethan Sinclair also faced unprecedented challenges.

As Evercrest Group developed to this stage, the domestic market was saturated. Ethan Sinclair wanted to expand into foreign markets and increase trade, so he needed to find partners to collaborate with.

Smith was the person Ethan Sinclair most wanted to work with, but Smith was very much under his wife’s control, listening to her in everything, and his wife Daphne didn’t seem to like Ethan Sinclair, so the collaboration kept being delayed.

"How’s the investigation going?"

"The couple is very affectionate, and it’s hard to find any weaknesses in them, but... lately, Zenith Corporation’s president, Matthew Crowe, has been meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and they seem to get along well. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are interested in collaborating with Zenith."

Ethan Sinclair’s handsome eyebrows furrowed tightly as he contemplated the situation for a long while before calmly saying to Nathan Lawson, "Bring Kiana Sutton to the company."

Nathan Lawson roughly guessed what Ethan Sinclair was planning and nodded gently, "Yes."

Kiana Sutton didn’t know why Ethan Sinclair wanted her at the company, so she felt a bit uneasy.

After all, the two of them had such a big disagreement last night.

Reaching the eighteenth floor, Kiana Sutton took out her phone and quickly typed a message to show to Nathan Lawson, "Secretary Lawson, do you know why Ethan Sinclair wants to see me?"

"Secretary Sutton will know once you go in."

Kiana Sutton: "..."

For some reason, she felt an ominous premonition.

Being here now, she might as well just face the music, Ethan Sinclair wouldn’t actually kill her, would he?