At that moment, when he realized it was just a dream, the sharpness in his eyes had already faded away.
Staring at Elly Campbell’s face for a long time, he finally spoke up and asked directly,
"Have you ever plotted against me before?"
Upon hearing his words, Elly Campbell’s expression suddenly darkened, and she looked at him with cold eyes, asking,
"I’ve manipulated you countless times, which one are you referring to?"
He had simply wanted to ask, with no other implications.
Look at that petulant tone.
It seems that he had indeed spoiled her too much in the past, nurture her temper to be so foul.
"Go on then," he urged.
Seeing that he remained silent, Elly Campbell, with a frosty face, asked again.
Adam Jones saw her temper flare up and gently poked her temple with his finger, "You little scoundrel. I just asked a question, look at that nasty temper of yours!"
This tone carried a hint of an indulgent father’s helpless affection for his daughter.
The next second, he hesitated briefly.
He always felt this gesture, this term of endearment, seemed familiar.
It was as if he had called her that many times before.
Elly Campbell gave him a displeased look and shook off the hand he was still holding over hers, saying,
"Would you have asked such a ’casual question’ if you trusted me?"
She huffed and walked down from the bed. After just a few steps, as if she remembered something, she turned her head to look at Adam Jones, who still looked rather aggrieved on the bed, narrowed her eyes, and said,
"The manipulation you mentioned, are you talking about the incident from nine years ago?"
Adam Jones pursed his lips, nodding rather aggrievedly.
Elly Campbell thought about the moment when he had just woken up and asked her if she were "Sophie Baker." Could it be because the incident was etched in his brain?
Elly Campbell’s gaze turned chilly all of a sudden, much like what Adam Jones had earlier considered. But obviously, Adam relied on his instincts, while she had the actual memories.
Although the specifics of that past event were still unclear at the moment, if Adam Jones had always held onto that incident in his heart and still suspected her involvement, how could he have treated her so unreservedly afterwards, even handing over his entire fortune to her?
And if he were certain that she was not involved in that past incident, how could the memory be so ingrained that he would remember it so clearly even after having forgotten everything else?
This only made Elly Campbell more convinced of her earlier guess that Adam Jones’s recent memory loss was not due to brain damage but rather inflicted by someone who purposely erased his memories, leaving only this one that could potentially cause Adam Jones to detest her.
If it was to take down Adam Jones, wouldn’t it have been simpler to just let him die when his life was in doubt?
Why resort to such a convoluted method?
And if it was to target her, there would be even more methods at disposal, certainly no need for such an approach.
Moreover, those who wanted to take her down were mostly women who longed to marry Adam Jones but couldn’t have him.
Those women didn’t possess the means to selectively erase Adam Jones’s memories, nor could they orchestrate such a meticulous car accident.
The only possibility was that the perpetrators wanted to obtain something from Adam Jones.
By having Adam Jones remember the incident from nine years ago, on one hand, they wanted to make him doubt her, leading to a divorce and creating an opportunity for Sophie Baker.
And the incident from nine years ago was very likely linked to Sophie Baker. If Sophie succeeded in marrying Adam Jones, then perhaps they would indeed be able to get what they wanted from him.