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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

help clear

was turning a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from the live

interested in our private life as a couple, then today I’ll take the time

hearing this, Lewis

a woman of few words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by

he heard her

ever

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slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

you would marry her when you grew up, did you actually marry her when you grew

instantly at a

arranged by the Horton family’s first branch. “You can’t say it like that. We were just playing, but Mr. Horton and Miss Madeleine’s situation is clearly different. Miss Madeleine saved Mr. Horton’s life!”

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

reporter was

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

Madeleine’s mother choke un

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wailed. “I just wanted her to get married.

want her

know how Madeleine’s

about?”

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

of her illness? It’s because of the abuse she suffered from her parents that she lost all hope in life! Lewis could have saved her, but he was merely her medicine!

stunned into silence once again.

been suffering from severe depression and autism for five years. If she had gotten married, what state would she be in now? Either living her days in a daze or she would have already jumped off a building, wouldn’t she? Instead

without Mr. Horton!”

the reporters and people watching the live

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broadcast fell silent.

of money Madeleine spent on treatments both

Horton established a mental hospital here for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there

can do that?

you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time. Why don’t you

this?!”

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

die now, and it’s because of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my daughter, do you have evidence? Without evidence,

here!”

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about you and your husband abusing your child. Just ask any elder, and we’ll

off

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

phone and dialed the

arrived quickly, filed a

Madeleine’s mother.

Horton, by doing this, are you and Mr. Horton plannin to wash your hands of my

other reporters turned their attention back to

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made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t

looked at the reporter who had spoken,

resolute.

had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the

the cool voice of

I are in a relationship out of free will, and

up. He just wanted to help her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody

camera, her gaze resolute as she stared straight ahead.

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