Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

By the time the Turner family rushed back to the Turner Mansion, the fire had already been extinguished.

The Turner Mansion was not severely damaged, but Dereck and Teri died.

Edgar, hit by multiple blows, suffered a heart attack relapse and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Other family members went to the hospital to look after Edgar, while Natasha accompanied Alexei to collect Dereck’s body.

The fire first started in the bedroom of Teri.

After leaving the engagement ceremony, Teri returned to the Turner family.

She could no longer return to the Westwood family. Her family members hated

her.

The Westwood family’s pillars collapsed, and their assets and residences were confiscated and mortgaged. Overnight, her family members plummeted from privileged elites to the lowest–class commoners, condemned by everyone both online and offline.

Struggling to survive, they had no desire to see the one they considered the root

cause.

The world was vast, but Teri was utterly alone, deserted by everyone close to her, with nowhere to go.

She had resolved to die.

When Dereck heard Teri wanted to see him and was invited to the room by a servant, he saw Teri wearing a wedding dress and getting ready at the dressing table.

After his surprise, he pressed his lips together, speechless,

He and Teri had a very low–key wedding.

At that time, Unity had passed away, and he had been hospitalized for half a year. Physically and psychologically, he had no desire to hold another grand wedding.

The custom–made wedding dress Teri had ordered abroad, which cost a fortune, was not completed and went unused. She carefully stored it away.

This was one of her unresolved issues.

It was also why she was so obsessed with showing off a perfect couple image in front of others, creating the illusion of a harmonious marriage.

Dereck didn’t understand what it meant for her to take it out and wear it.

He also didn’t ask her why she left the engagement party early.

had stopped talking a

her

designer’s work, even decades later, was still timeless. It was just that the person wearing it could no longer return

had lost so much weight recently, worrying

him, “I wish I

photo

twitched. It was a wedding photo he

His and Unity’s.

and the expressionless groom just going through the motions at another wedding a few years

clown frantically wiping away someone else’s marks, scrubbing countless times, only to realize

futile from

:

“Can you tell

and said in a

bury the pain of losing her, but

expression was a mix of tears and laughter. “But I sacrificed the Westwood family,

armrest of the wheelchair. “I failed

his life, he was neither a good husband nor a good

hug you again?”

but still

to the wheelchair, bent down, and hugged him, tears rolling down

knife plunged into his

had no choice but to take you with me,” she

did he resist; he just smiled faintly in relief. “Next

nodded. “No, I won’t like you.

the bed in her bloodstained wedding gown, pulled out the sleeping pills she had prepared long ago, and swallowed them all

go,

bleeding profusely and enduring pain. Tears streamed down her chin. “If only I could wake up and go back to the day you brought Unity to meet

and he smiled vaguely, “But Unity certainly

marry me again.”

smiled. “Dereck, we

wanted to leave

didn’t intentionally set

Dereck’s

had called for help, he could

meaningless. He wanted to join Unity sooner and surrendered

a photo of him and Unity but stumbled, knocking over a scented candle. The flame ignited the tablecloth, starting

managed to get the photo before he

void at Unity, who was on stage playing the cello and smiling at him. He smiled faintly and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t take good care of