Victoria immediately moved toward that car.

She caught a glimpse of someone opening the door, and the first thing to come out was a pair of leather

shoes.

Next came black trousers, straight legs, and then…

Victoria deliberately walked unsteadily, pretending to be drunk, and when the person finally got out of the car, she threw herself at him.

“Ouch…

Victoria let out a soft cry, then collapsed onto the man and rubbed herself against him. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry, I just sprained my ankle.”

After saying this, she lowered her head, feigning shyness.

She had expected that the person would be a refined and gentle man, but instead, she heard an elderly voice saying, “Young lady, are you alright?”

Victoria stiffened and turned around abruptly to see an old man holding her: she straightened up

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immediately in fright. “Who are you?!”

The driver also got out of the car, and upon hearing this, he immediately scolded. “This is Mr. Horton. Behave yourself!”

Mr. Horton…

He looked to be in his sixties, so could he be Lewis

Horton’s father, Nathan Horton?

Victoria’s complexion turned pale instantly, and she immediately stood up straight. “Mr. Horton, I’m sorry. I was just…”

She glanced at the ground, pointing to the pebbles beneath her feet. “It was an accident.”

Nathan coughed and looked down at his hand.

The woman who had just fallen into his arms had also rubbed against him, letting him grasp the smooth sensation he had longed for, and in that moment, he felt as though he had grown younger!

He looked at the young woman with a smile. “Which family are you from?”

Victoria laughed with her head down. “I’m a foster daughter of the Olsen family.”

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sigh. “Now I

own.”

“Why do you live on your own?”

and I just didn’t fit in anymore, so

“Living quite well, yet you’re about to cry? Is it because

overbearing, not allowing you to stay at

waved her hands. “No, no. It’s not like that.

was already dissatisfied with Lewis.

arriving in Clance, Lewis spent all his time away from

he was dying over the passing

felt a bit happy, thinking that if Lewis fell apart because of his wife’s death, then the

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might revert to the

branch!

the young

power!

as the head of the

arranged marriages.

an engagement was set up with the Olsen family, solidifying Lewis’s

Lewis would lower himself to

if all that previous

was just like him, a man who would give up a woman for the sake of family business!

fiancée, whom he had not yet met. He said

If I had

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family had someone like you and that Lewis was going to get engaged to

agreed to it!”

to engage him with me, but unfortunately, someone

more she spoke, the angrier

SO

next to him, asking, “Have the Olsens arrived yet? I want to see Uncle Olsen and ask him how he raised such a

the old gentleman and entered the living room through a side door. “I’ll go check. They should be here soon. The banquet is about to start, and the Olsen family is one of the most

Nathan’s other

nodded with a smile,

10:15

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two entered the living room, they saw that the hall was already bustling with people.

Mrs. Horton rested upstairs and

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