"What will he do to ?" Edward Stephens said, "Kill ?"
Charlotte Smith looked down, speaking softly, "You don’t understand him."
Edward let out a scoff, leaned back in his chair, looking ahead with a sowhat indifferent tone: "I don’t want to understand him either."
The man he once regarded as an honor had already turned into soone else.
Turned into a monster.
"I hope you can divorce Miss Ginger as soon as possible. I hope in a few days, you can give a satisfactory answer." Charlotte lifted her head, glanced at the man’s cold profile, sighed gently with a slight sadness, but ultimately dared not linger, retreating out of the car.
Edward sat in place, looking at the street in front of him that had darkened.
The music in the compartnt reached its end, and another started playing.
It was a soft, tender English song.
A liar swallows a thousand needles
A liar,
must swallow a thousand needles.
He closed his eyes, his entire mood cooled down, realizing for the first ti how hard it was to deceive soone.
All his wisdom ant nothing when faced with emotions.
A single tear from Daisy Ginger was enough to make his reason collapse and retreat in defeat.
*
Daisy Ginger didn’t expect, instead of waiting for Edward to co to her, it was that young, beautiful woman who ca to find her personally.
When the receptionist downstairs called, saying a woman nad Chu requested to see her, Daisy was slightly taken aback.
She didn’t know the woman’s last na, but her intuition told her that the person downstairs wanting to see her was the woman Edward had taken away that day.
The eting was in the reception room.
Daisy’s cold hadn’t gone away, her nose was a bit red, and her voice wasn’t as elegant as usual, but with makeup, she still looked very charismatic, with a good complexion.
She thought this woman, who looked like a "white moonlight," would co to provoke her, with sarcasm or pretentiousness. She was prepared to deal with it, but unexpectedly, the woman just sat in front of her, smiled slightly, and handed her a contract.
"This is a divorce agreent I asked a lawyer to draft," the woman’s voice was soft, as pleasant as she appeared, "Miss Ginger, please take a look. If there’s no problem, please sign it so I can pass it on to Edward."
The ntion of Edward’s na from this woman’s mouth ignited Daisy’s anger to the peak.
Where did this woman co from, thinking she had the right to call Edward by such an intimate na in front of her?
The angrier Daisy got, the more pleasantly she smiled.
She leaned lazily against the chair back, took the divorce agreent from the table, and sat there, ticulously reading through the dozens of pages of the contract.
After about half an hour, she tossed the agreent into the trash can.
"Not bad writing," Daisy said indifferently, "it’s just that I have a bit of disagreent with the property division part."
Charlotte said gently, "Please, tell ."
"According to what’s written, if I divorce Edward, I won’t get any compensation, and even my youth compensation is included," Daisy tapped her finger lightly on the table, "My pre-marriage and post-marriage properties are all mine, and I don’t have a share in Edward’s properties before or after marriage, this doesn’t seem to align with marriage law, does it?"
"Young Master is the future heir of the Stephens family. With his current worth, it’s probably over a hundred billion. Dividing the property according to marriage law might not et Miss Ginger’s wishes." Charlotte looked at her earnestly, "If Miss Ginger is concerned about youth compensation, I can shoulder it for Young Master. How much would you like?"
"..." Daisy frowned looking at her, surprisingly seeing a trace of earnestness in the woman’s eyes.
Where did this oddball co from?
"Who are you to him?" Daisy started to feel impatient, looking at Charlotte, vaguely sensing that life was slipping out of her control.
It was as if, inadvertently, she had rged onto a foreign track, faced with landscapes she couldn’t understand.
This loss of control felt similar to when Abigail Perry hired soone to kill Alice Lesser.
Both inexplicable and impossible to resist.
Very much detested.
"I was once Edward’s fiancée."
Daisy sneered coldly.
Another fiancée?
This Edward guy, just how many won has he been engaged to?
"I once stayed by his side for eight years."
The number "eight" finally caused Daisy’s pupils to constrict intensely.
...That ans after Edward left Banyan City, the eight years he spent in the United States were with the woman in front of her.
So, is that why he didn’t want to tell her about this woman’s identity?
Daisy vaguely felt that wasn’t the reason, but couldn’t think of any other rationale.
"You..." Daisy’s throat felt dry, her slender fingers subconsciously curled slightly, then gripped tightly.
"Did you co to Banyan City just to take him back?" Daisy’s gaze turned icy, uncompromising on this matter, "Since you just said ’once,’ then there’s no engagent between you anymore."
"You’re right. Ever since Edward was diagnosed with a genetic disease, I broke off the engagent with him."
Ever since Edward was diagnosed with a genetic disease, I broke off the engagent with him.
She said it lightly, but listening to it, Daisy couldn’t quite fathom why, but she felt a sharp, underlying anger.
This woman, who was with Edward for eight years, just dumped him because of a genetic disease?
"So why are you looking for now?" Daisy said coldly, "Judging by your tone, you don’t love him. Or is it that now his illness is cured, and you’re thinking about him again?"
"No," Charlotte lowered her head, "I ca here hoping you could let go of Young Master. He’s spent too much thought and wasted too much ti on you."
Let go of Edward?
She speaks as if Daisy had Edward tied up.
Daisy icily pointed out, "Edward and I are legally married. It’s natural he should spend thought and ti on . It’s not your place as a forr fiancée to comnt."
"That’s why I hope you can divorce," Charlotte said, "Once you divorce, Young Master can return to the United States. He’s remarkably intelligent; having him inherit the Stephens would be perfect."
Daisy laughed coldly, "Why, marrying ans he can’t inherit the company?"
Charlotte raised her head to look at her, then spoke softly, "Forgive my bluntness, Miss Ginger, although you are very outstanding, compared to standing beside Young Master, you fall short. With Young Master returning to the country, naturally, there are noble ladies to arrange a marriage with him. They are equally outstanding like him. Only then can the Stephens family flourish even more."
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