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!”

Screaming at

I? You lash out without thinking. You need to see a

that!” Corrie shrieked. “You are the

you’re delusional. You act like Brook belongs to

a strangled sob before dissolving

before the bodyguards returned with good news. They had found Jennie’s missing friend. Though shaken and slightly

to her and asked softly, “Now

his steady gaze. “Do you really love

“Love

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might regret your choice,” Jennie

borrow trouble over something that hasn’t even

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

reading,” Brook replied, holding her hand. “It’s what

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