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.

threat. By the time she revealed her true self, it was too late-she had already secured her place. 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

severed ties

me to care for my father, but as his daughter, I

glances

daughter, they thought, was far more compassionate than a fake one. Everyone in Jensburg had heard

the once-favored successor of the Farrell family

the nurses finished changing Kathryn's bandages, Pedro spoke to her briefly

Holden refused to leave. He stood at the

heartless! She had a conflict with her brothers and got them arrested! I'm an old man, begging for mercy, and she won't even see me! She had me thrown out by

a cold-blooded daughter? I

of me and is sending

didn't care if people believed him-he just wanted to badmouth Kathryn to