Seven years ago, a young Evan Hart, expecting a child with Victoria Cole, looked forward to building a life as a family of three. But on a stormy night, his car was rammed in a pursuit. His parents were killed, and Evan himself was secretly abducted by the mastermind behind the attack, Julian Cross. Everyone believed Evan had perished in the crash. Yet deep in captivity, amid cruel experiments, he gave birth to their son Leo. For the next seven years, Evan was repeatedly injected with toxic drugs, forced to give blood, and confined against his will. His health slowly deteriorated. To protect Leo, he never stopped fighting to escape and find Victoria. Seven years later, seven-year-old Leo clung to his gravely ill father. When Evan suddenly coughed up blood and slipped into a coma, doctors said he had at most three days left to live. Desperate, Leo found a charred photograph, a wedding ring and a lab safety manual tucked inside an old metal box. He then saw the news: Victoria, the wealthy corporate CEO soon to be engaged to Julian, was his mother. Leo stormed into the engagement announcement gala and cried out for her in front of everyone. “Mommy, Daddy is dying!” His outburst shattered Victoria’s world. Victoria had long believed Evan was dead and could not bring herself to accept the boy’s existence. Julian wasted no time smearing Leo as a fraud. He produced a falsified death certificate and secretly tampered with the paternity test samples, convincing Victoria that Leo was
