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An agitated Henry looked extremely furious. He said, âI only realized the child wasnât mine after we were married! Youâre just like your mother! As they say, A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow! Youâre both stingy girls who got pregnant before you got married!â
Noraâs eyes snapped open.
She clenched her fists, losing control of her emotions for the first time during this incident.
She hadnât expected Henry to actually refute her using this.
However, Henry seemed willing to risk everything as if he had nothing left to lose. The mature manâs eyes had even reddened, and it seemed that he was finally revealing to the public a secret he had kept hidden deep in his heart. He spoke as if he had been forced to do so.
âDo you think I wanted to marry your mother? She was pretty, beautiful and kind. When she courted me back then, how was she even something like a worthy daughter of a wealthy family? Although she owned a pharmaceutical company, I also had a great future ahead of me at that time. I graduated from a prestigious university and also had my own career at the time.â
âShe liked me, while I also had budding feelings for her. Later, we fell in love. I thought I was in for the most blissful married life in the world, but I didnât expect all this to change after we got married!â
âOn the first day of our marriage, she told me that she was pregnant, but that the child was not mine! I was very sad and angry at the time, I wanted to divorce her, but she begged me not to and simply refused to accept it.â
Henry let out a heavy sigh. He stood with his hands behind his back, forming a grief-stricken and dejected look.
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At the hospital.
Ian, who was watching the live feed, was so furious that he threw the cell phone. âItâs impossible for Yvette to beg someone! Lies! Total lies! Sheâs lying through her teeth!â
Yvette was such a strong woman.
Back then, when she was running the Andersonsâ pharmaceutical company, she had once encountered a problem at her academy. Someone told her that they would help her if she gave in and asked them for help, but she instead scoffed and worked hard for a month to overcome the problem.
She worked so hard that in the end she even coughed up blood.
She was exactly like that. She would rather grit her teeth, endure everything by herself and work hard on her own than ask for help. Whatâs more, when it came to love, she had always been the one in the lead.
However, Ian picked up the cell phone again after throwing it away, and continued to stare.
The look in his eyes was very cold.
What kind of death was he supposed to give this man, to appease his anger?
Regardless of the motive, Yvette had kept that piece of trash for many years. She was gone, AND he was still insulting her! He must be sick of living!
Ian clenched his fists tightly. He hated his body for being so useless at this instant. For the first time, he regretted thinking about dying.
If his physical condition had allowed it, he would have gone to the Andersonâs house to sew that manâs mouth shut.
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On the Andersons.
Henry was still airing his grievances. He said, âI really loved her. I couldnât bear to see her on her knees, so I decided to wait until she gave birth before we divorced. I didnât ask her for a dimeâ¦â
âBut humans are emotional creatures. We spent a year and a half together. She was kind, loving and attentive to me. When she gave birth and the time came for our divorce, how could I bear to part with her?â
She knew I would be soft-hearted, so she cried and told me she was terminally ill and didnât have long to live. She wanted me to raise her daughter and even told me that she had fallen out with her family, so I was the only relative she had left in the world.
She was dying and was very thin in bed. I ended up giving in again.
I really love her and hate her at the same timeâ¦.
She also personally chose a second wife, Wendy, for me. She told her to treat me well and wanted the two of us, husband and wife, to take care of her daughter together.
Later, she left the world. I missed her so much that I became ill. After being seriously ill for a while, I quit my job. After that, in the end I could not recover from the pain of her departure.â
I really hate her. I hate her for cheating on me and betraying me by sleeping with another man. We only got married after dating for a year, but at the time of our wedding, she was pregnant by another manâ¦.
But sheâs already dead, what can I do?â
Henry wiped the non-existent tears from his eyes before looking at Nora again. He said, âNora, I know you hate me for not showing you enough care and concern, but if you were me, would you have been able to quietly embrace the illegitimate daughter I had had with someone else?â
Wendy was very cooperative with him. She said, âAfter spending so many years in low spirits, your father has long been out of touch with the times. Before your mother died, he said the company was his way of making it up to her. Thatâs why we didnât work anymore.
The company was his way of compensating him?
Nora looked down and let out an icy laugh.
Henry looked back at Nora. âAnd so did you. Itâs because your mother was afraid youâd make a mistake like her too that she wouldnât let you go to school. Thatâs what she said before she died. And indeed, you turned out to be as easy a woman as she was. Once again, you got pregnant before you got married and embarrassed the Smithâs. Your mother has let me down, and so have you! Itâs all your motherâs fault that Iâm in this state today! You should take responsibility for the consequences you and your mother have caused.â
Nora narrowed her eyes.
Although she didnât really have a great impression of this mother of hers who existed only in legends, her soft but firm voice had kept her company for countless days and nights as a child.
She wasnât going to let Henry slander her mother like that.
She believed that, like her, her mother had her own reasons for getting pregnant before marriage.
She took a step forward and clenched her fists. Her voice was cold and crisp as she angrily demanded, âTake back your accusations against my mother, Henry Smith!â
Henry stepped back and hid behind the cameraman. He said mockingly, âAre you stopping people from bringing it up because you donât have the guts to do it yourself? Besides, I wasnât planning to bring it up either. You were the one who presented the DNA test results and caused the humiliation. Your mother is a promiscuous woman who slept with other men while she was in a relationship with me! I didnât even know who the father of the child was. He was a used commodity just like you.â
Nora suddenly took a step forward. No one saw how she managed to get around the cameraman, but she rushed up to Henry with extreme speed, grabbed him by the collar and said, âI told you to shut up!â
The cameraman pointed the camera at them.
Henry shouted, âLook at her! You really dare to hit me when the police are still here? Sir, help!â
The other policemen were about to move forward when he shouted. However, when they looked at their team leader âCaptain Fordâ and saw that he wasnât moving, the others stopped.
When Henry saw that no one was coming to his rescue, and the hatred in Noraâs bloodshot eyes, with new and old grudges piling on top of each other, fury overwhelmed his rationality and he shouted, âNora, even if you cooperate with the police, and even if you beat me, it will never change the fact that your mother was unfaithful to me and cheated on me!â
Bam!
Nora punched him hard in the face.
In the stream, viewers were also attacking mother and daughter in the comments for their immoral behavior. If that wasnât enough, she was even being violent.
Public opinion once again swung in Henryâs favor.
However, one manâs voice suddenly came to them at that moment.
âThatâs not what happened then.â
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