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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.

reporters it wasn’t

to help clear Keira’s name!

just as he was turning a corner, Keira’s distinct, cool voice emerged from the live broadcast.

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

hearing this, Lewis

words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by the pressure

pondering, he heard her voice

ever

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reporters were slightly stunned, and

someone answered, “Yes.”

girl you would marry her when you grew

were instantly

like that. We were

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

reporter was

mother and father, wanting to sell her to someone else as their daughter-in-law. Mrs. Davis, at that time, you certainly didn’t have the love for your daughter that you do now.”

statement modo Madeleine’s

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then she wailed. “I just wanted her to get married.

didn’t want her to die!”

know how Madeleine’s

about?”

her. “You’re all only concerned about whether

the cause 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! Since when did a person’s death cease to be about holding the executioner accountable and instead become about questioning the medicine?”

stunned into silence once

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 of, as of now, rationally

without Mr. Horton!”

people watching the live

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broadcast fell silent.

the amount of money Madeleine spent on treatments both at home and abroad

chose to return to her country, Mr. Horton established a mental hospital here for her! During these five years, whenever she called, Mr. Horton was there at her beck and call… I ask you

do

Madeleine is gravely ill and attempted suicide, you blame Mr. Horton for the medicine not being administered in time.

this?!”

it’s for Madeleine’s own good, but are you even fit to be a

about to die now, and it’s because of

here!”

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your child. Just ask any elder,

was caught off guard once

I’m going to call the police now and

out her phone and dialed

quickly, filed a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

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, ‘If you save someone, save them all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My daughter saved his life. How

their attention back to

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now is that the medicine can’t stop. What are you and Mr. Horton planning

looked at the reporter who had spoken, her gaze

resolute.

suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the

screeching to a halt, he heard 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 of free will, and

help her with her treatment. As for the issue of the medicine that concerns everybody the most…’

toward the camera, her gaze resolute

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