Chapter 698

Seeing Marilla dare to talk back, Edith felt a surge of rage so intense, her meticulously manicured nails almost digging into her own palms.

If it weren’t for the crowd around them, she would have slapped that fool across the face already!

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, Edith’s red lips curled into a venomous smirk as she leaned close to whisper in Marilla’s ear, her voice dripping with mockery.

“That’s right, you’re not an idiot, you’re a lunatic.”

Lunatic.

She was calling her a lunatic.

A buzzing sound filled Marilla’s head, and cold sweat soaked through her pure white cotton dress.

And just then, the piano recital began on stage.

The flowing music filled her ears. That was to Marilla a torturous cacophony, only serving to heighten her psychological burden.

“Marilla, you wholeheartedly wish to be my brother’s wife. But do you think you’re worthy? You know your condition best. Do you really believe you can bear my brother a child with a sound mind?”

Edith struck right at her sore spot, each word a dagger to the heart!

Marilla hung her head low, her eyes reddening with moisture, her cotton dress wrinkled beyond recognition by her slender fingers. Just like her heart in that moment.

lover; he’s the heir to the entire

of dignity, her voice icy, “My father’s dying wish was for the Fairhaven Group to become a century–old prestigious family. If you want to be the lady

if your illness is passed on to your child? Do you want to leave the Fairhaven group without a successor? Do you want my brother to become the laughingstock of the entire Elmsworth?”

sweat beading on her forehead.

indulges you, decides against having children… would he also give up on the Fairhaven

Grandpa would accept a woman like you as the future lady of the Fairhaven group? If my brother insists on marrying you, then he’ll only grow further from the role

like a frost–edged blade, slicing mercilessly into Marilla’s

not an idiot, you must understand what I’m saying, right? Think about it

her piece, Edith

softly, her

“What did you say?”

so very much.”

Edith’s sinister stare, “All my life, I’ve been a coward, never fought for myself, never truly desired anything. But now, all I want is to be

teeth, Edith was livid.

title, I only want to

her eyes shone with a brightness so compelling, they

desperately and not wanting to let go!

heels clicking sharply as she walked away,

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Chapter 698

the hallway until the

students poured out with laughter and chatter.

hurried forward to

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