Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Of course, Kathryn would never reveal her deeper involvement in the situation. Only a handful of people knew the full truth.

Even Holden and his sons had no idea that their supposed victory had been part of Kathryn's plan all along.

They despised her, wished her dead-but without her, they never would have succeeded in their schemes in the first place.

"After I came back, my father wasn't kind to me. He adored Shiloh more, but he never openly harmed me."

Holden simply didn't have the power to make Kathryn's life difficult.

When she first returned, she played the role of the weak, helpless daughter. Everyone believed she was a lost cause, incapable of achieving anything. She let them think that.

Her father and brothers favored Shiloh, conspired with her against Kathryn, and tried to trip her up in secret.

But they never openly attacked her.

Her father and brothers no longer had the means to harm her. The Shiloh they had loved and protected? She lost Clarissa's favor, little by

ties with

for my father, but as his daughter, I still have a responsibility to provide for him in his

exchanged glances before

thought, was far more compassionate than a fake one. Everyone

the Farrell family

Pedro spoke to her

Holden refused to leave. He stood at the entrance, complaining loudly

is cruel and heartless! She had a conflict with her brothers and got them arrested! I'm an old man, begging for

a cold-blooded daughter? I haven't! And to think, she's my own flesh and

treated me worse. She refuses to take care of me and is sending me back to the countryside! Sometimes, when she cuts off my living expenses, I don't even have food to

believed him-he just wanted to badmouth Kathryn