He grabbed the nearby thermos and poured the water over her.

"Still refusing to learn? Addicted to lying, huh? Does this wake you up?"

Caught off guard, Sasha couldn't dodge in time. Her upper body was completely soaked and the bed was drenched as well.

Thankfully, she hadn’t gone to fetch hot water yesterday after being dragged away by Juno. The water in the thermos was now lukewarm, not scalding.

Otherwise, she would have been burned.

Sasha felt both relieved and deeply saddened.

Was it because he didn’t love her? Was it because she was just a stand-in? Did that give him the right to treat her so cruelly, with no regard for her well-being?

But Juno was the factory manager, holding all the power here. She knew that resisting further would only provoke him to greater extremes.

Left with no choice, she forced herself to head to the workshop despite her fever and weakness.

The workshop supervisor felt both distressed and angry seeing Sasha so ill yet still reporting for work.

"How did Mr. Marlow become like this?" she muttered in frustration.

She handed Sasha some fever medicine and let her rest in the workshop for the morning.