After hanging up the phone, Emily took out her mobile phone from the bedside drawer.

She had two mobile phones, one for work and the other for everyday use. The one she dropped that day was her work phone, so Emily had no choice but to pull out her daily phone card and replace it with the work phone card.

As soon as the phone was switched on, messages came rushing in.

Emily filtered the messages. Beside her ears, the phone in the living room kept ringing, but it didn't bother her. It was not worth wasting energy on people who did not matter.

Flipping to a text message, Emily...