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Lewis was striding toward his car at this moment.”

He looked down at his phone.

On the phone was a live broadcast from the entrance

of the Olsen residence.

Madeleine’s mother had driven Keira into a corner!

Lewis was very anxious, so much so that when he heard the driver’s words, without a second thought, he

drove away immediately!

Now, the reporters on the phone were giving Keira a

hard time.

“Mrs. Horton, Miss Madeleine’s mother is pleading with you, won’t you say even a word?”

“That’s a human life; how can you be so cold-hearted?”

“Do you and Mr. Horton really plan to leave Miss

Madeleine to die?”

“Since it was agreed that Miss Madeleine would be married to Mr. Horton, why did Mr. Horton have a change of heart? Was it because you intervened? Mrs.

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Horton, don’t you feel guilty? In the dead of night,

don’t you suddenly feel scared?”

The reporters’ questions were becoming more and more tricky.

Comments of abuse also swept across the live

broadcast chat.

“Dammit! A mistress is taking over?”

“I feel that since you made a promise, you should keep it. How can you abandon her when she is mentally unwell?”

“Isn’t this the very definition of biting the hand that feeds you?”

“If Miss Madeleine finds out when she grows up that the person she saved would treat her this way, I wonder if the younger her would still save him!”

“A real-life version of The Farmer and the Viper story!”

“That’s not even the most important thing! Isn’t the most important thing about Mrs. Horton? She doesn’t say a word. Is she planning to play dead?”

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The public’s accusations made Lewis press the accelerator furiously.

He knew these comments wouldn’t hurt Keira. Her mental resilience had always been strong, but even so, he didn’t want her to be hurt in the slightest.

He ran red lights and sped all the way.

wanted to tell the reporters it wasn’t like that at

to help clear Keira’s

corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from the

interested in our private life as a couple, then today

this,

good at

pondering, he heard her voice again.

you ever

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reporters were slightly stunned,

someone answered, “Yes.”

and told a girl you would marry her when you grew up, did you actually marry her when you grew

were instantly

family’s first branch. “You can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s

that reporter and smiled. “Yes, she saved his life, didn’t she? So, is it because she saved Mr. Horton’s life that she

reporter was

beaten by her mother and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law.

Madeleine’s

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then she wailed. “I just wanted her

want her to die!”

how Madeleine’s mental illness came

about?”

looked at everyone around her. “You’re all only concerned about

her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine! Since when did a person’s death cease to be about holding the executioner accountable and instead

reporters were stunned into silence once again.

Either living her days in a daze or she would have already jumped off a building, wouldn’t she?

without Mr. Horton!”

people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

years, the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an

her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at

do

ill and attempted suicide, you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time. Why don’t you ask the assailants why they

this?!”

head towards Madeleine’s mother. “You repeatedly claim it’s for Madeleine’s own good, but are you even

my daughter is about to die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence, don’t talk

here!”

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street knows about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll find out, right? Evidence is something the

caught off guard once again.

me, I’m going to call the police now and report you for

her phone and

a

Madeleine’s mother.

the Horton family’s first branch, her eyes lit up again as she angrily shouted, “Mrs. Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands of my daughter completely? There’s a saying,

their

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now made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop. What are you and Mr. Horton planning to do?”

looked at the reporter who

resolute.

bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to the roadside.

the cool voice of a

everyone is here, I’ll clarify right now. I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a relationship out

her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns

gaze resolute as she stared straight

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