Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Even the patients and their families staying on Kathryn's hospital floor had grown tired of the spectacle. Most blamed Holden for his behavior. Only a handful tried

to take the moral high ground, lecturing Kathryn as if they had any right.

She ignored them. Pedro handled those self-righteous busybodies for her. Her only focus was recovering.

"Miss, should I get rid of him? He comes here every day, making the same scene, shouting the same nonsense. He's not tired of hearing himself, but I'm tired of listening to it," Pedro grumbled as he handed Kathryn a peeled apple. Kathryn took a bite and said, "Let him scream. It helps him let off steam. If he bottles it up, it might ruin his health." She chewed thoughtfully. "I don't care what he says. Everyone has heard it all before. Let him talk-his words don't hurt me. But I want my father to live. I want him to live a long, long life-eighty, ninety, even a hundred years. And I want him to watch me live happily. Even if I never take over Farrell Group, I'll still have a successful life."

Kathryn had built her own career.

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discharged, she planned to marry Pedro. In every way that mattered, they were already husband and wife. When Liberty officially took over the Farrell family business, Kathryn and Pedro would step away from that world and focus entirely on their own endeavors. Without the weight of the Farrell legacy, life would be far more peaceful. "For all his noise, my father is

course, that wasn't

wives terribly. Now that they were

were free, those men kept mistresses, betraying

two younger sisters-in-law had stayed in their marriages, swallowing their grievances for

had divorced and was now trying to change her children's

After hearing their father and grandfather constantly badmouth her,