Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Kathryn said, “It’s not surprising that most people don’t know Mr. Jimenez’s full name.”

She figured that only Clarissa might remember it. Holden had told her that Clarissa had feelings for Mr. Jimenez, who was nearly a hundred years old—more than twenty years older than her mother. Even though Mr. Jimenez was already a middle-aged man when her mother was young, she still fell in love with him.

This showed that Mr. Jimenez must have been quite attractive in his youth. It was also possible that since Kathryn’s grandparents passed away early, her mother, lacking fatherly affection, may have developed a special attachment to older men.

“Mr. Jimenez is old now, but he’ll still come back, won’t he?”

Kathryn said this, realizing it was unnecessary. Mr. Jimenez had finally met Audrey and the others, so of course, he would return to Jensburg. He also held evidence of Clarissa’s crimes.

If he wasn’t planning to come back, Clarissa wouldn’t be so anxious and unable to sleep or eat after learning that Mr. Jimenez was alive and had recognized Audrey.

Mr. Jimenez’s testimony would expose her dark deeds, and her downfall would be inevitable. After ruling the family for 40 or 50 years, being exposed as the one who killed her elder and younger sisters, just to seize power, would destroy her. Even if the statute

news spreads quickly on the Internet, such a scandal would become

Clarissa valued her

mother wouldn’t go down without a fight and would have some final scheme to deal with Audrey and the

to avoid the impending chaos. Clarissa likely

discharged