Chapter 698

Seeing Marilla dare to talk back, Edith felt a surge of rage so intense, her meticulously manicured nails almost digging into her own palms.

If it weren’t for the crowd around them, she would have slapped that fool across the face already!

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, Edith’s red lips curled into a venomous smirk as she leaned close to whisper in Marilla’s ear, her voice dripping with mockery.

“That’s right, you’re not an idiot, you’re a lunatic.”

Lunatic.

She was calling her a lunatic.

A buzzing sound filled Marilla’s head, and cold sweat soaked through her pure white cotton dress.

And just then, the piano recital began on stage.

The flowing music filled her ears. That was to Marilla a torturous cacophony, only serving to heighten her psychological burden.

worthy? You know your condition best.

struck right at her sore spot, each word a dagger to the heart!

her head low, her eyes reddening with moisture, her cotton dress wrinkled beyond recognition by her slender fingers. Just

heir to the entire Fairhaven Group, the

was for the Fairhaven Group to become a century–old prestigious family. If you want to be the lady of the Fairhaven group, it’s

your child? Do you want to leave the Fairhaven group without a successor? Do you want my brother to become

her eyes tightly, sweat beading on

having children… would he

woman like you as the future lady of the Fairhaven group? If my brother insists on marrying you, then he’ll only grow further from the role of heir. Grandpa might well

uttered was like a frost–edged blade,

you’re not an idiot, you must understand what I’m saying, right?

her piece, Edith rose to leave.

Jareth, Marilla spoke softly, her head still bowed but her

dilated, “What

so very

been a coward, never fought for myself, never

teeth, Edith was livid.

accept me, it doesn’t matter. I don’t seek a title, I

a brightness so compelling, they

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