Chapter 50

“Is that really you?” Frederick asked in disbelief, “You’ve changed so much?”

Marguerite shrugged it off. “So, are you saying I’m ugly now? All kids look pretty much the same, and mind you, I was only a few days old then.”

Frederick’s eyes were glued to the photo. It was of a lively old lady holding a baby in swaddling clothes, both beaming brightly.

Snow was falling around them, but the old lady’s clothes were thin and shabby. It was a heart-wrenching sight.

No wonder Marguerite was taken in by the Lockwood family. The old lady seemed not to have the means to raise a child.

Did her parents abandon her right after she was born?

Frederick wanted to ask Marguerite about her parents and consider if he should help her find them, but he decided against it.

Marguerite never mentioned her parents or grandma, probably because it hurt too much.

He didn’t want to reopen her wounds.

At this point, she was very much like him.

Even though he now successfully controlled the entire Winston Group, his childhood experience of being driven out of the family by his father was still a painful

scar.

it and didn’t want to recall that

felt a mysterious connection with Marguerite. Their similar experiences evoked deep sympathy in

looked carefully at the photo, then hesitantly handed

he had a more

that he had seen the old lady

seems very kind.”

desk, sitting

of Frederick’s words. She shrugged, looking at the photo. “True beauty comes

world.”

but it had mysteriously disappeared, and she hadn’t found

thought for a moment, then looked at Frederick, tentatively asking, “Do you remember if I lost a

through some documents and didn’t look at her. “Are you sure you lost

lip, her gaze shifting on him.

She wasn’t sure.

necklace, she had been to many

silence made Frederick look up. He glanced at her briefly, then bluntly said, “If you lost it, just

said it so casually. Did he think

a loss for

the company for

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