Chapter 1771:

Corrie’s protest came out weakly. “I haven’t sacrificed my conscience!”

Elyse’s voice was measured but relentless. “Then explain your tears. Why this emotional response? Are you crying because, despite all your schemes, Brook doesn’t love you and refuses to marry you? Corrie, what do you truly desire at your core?”

Corrie found herself speechless under such incisive questioning.

The sudden ring of her phone shattered the tense silence.

She answered with trembling hands, only to be met with her mother’s furious voice. “You useless fool! You can’t even secure a man. His family has arrived to cancel the engagement—you’ve humiliated me completely!”

The ground seemed to tilt beneath Corrie’s feet. Everything she had fought for slipped through her fingers, spiraling beyond her desperate grasp.

“Hurry home immediately,” her mother snapped. “We’ll go see Brook together!”

ground. Screaming at Brook, she demanded, “Why are you breaking off the

should I? You lash out without thinking. You need

shrieked. “You are the one

longer, cut in. “Corrie, you’re delusional. You act like Brook belongs to you, but he never

let out a strangled sob before dissolving into tears

good news. They had found Jennie’s missing

Brook turned to her

gaze. “Do you really love me? I’m

“Love

uploaded on

your choice,” Jennie

over something that hasn’t even happened yet,”

gave him a faint smile. “What have you been reading lately? You’re starting to sound pretty

holding her hand. “It’s what I’ve been thinking ever

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