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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.

it wasn’t like that at all.

help clear Keira’s

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

life as a couple, then today I’ll take the

hearing this,

words, not good at explaining. Was she overwhelmed by

he was pondering, he heard her

ever played

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reporters were slightly

someone answered, “Yes.”

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

were instantly

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

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

was

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

statement modo Madeleine’s mother choke un

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“I just wanted her to

want her

Madeleine’s mental illness

about?”

all only concerned about whether Mr. Horton

thought about 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,

into silence once again.

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

without Mr. Horton!”

reporters and people watching

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broadcast fell silent.

spent on treatments both at home and abroad is something an ordinary

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

can do that?

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

this?!”

for Madeleine’s own good, but

of Mr. Horton. You say I abused my

here!”

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

off guard

and report you for abusing Madeleine,

took out her phone and dialed the police in front of the

a case, and

Madeleine’s mother.

promised by 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, ‘If you save someone, save them all the way.’ Don’t you understand? My

reporters turned their attention back

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you said just now made sense, but the problem now is that the medicine can’t stop.

reporter who had spoken, her

resolute.

had a bad feeling and quickly pulled the car over to the

halt, he heard the cool voice

I’m not the mistress, Mr. Horton and I are in a

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

toward the camera, her gaze resolute as she stared straight ahead.

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