My Extraordinary Wife

She hastened to catch up with Ashlyn and blocked the latter’s path. With a crazed expression, she demanded, “Ashlyn, did you do it on purpose? What are you trying to do, huh?” She ruined my birthday party and deliberately invited all the big shots and stole my thunder. “You’re just trying to aggravate me. Since when do we share the same birthday?”

Ashlyn snickered. “You’re right. When have you, Mary, or Horace ever cared about how I’m doing? Of course we share the same birthday. When you were blowing out candles and happily counting your gifts, I was brushed off to the kitchen to eat your leftovers! Penelope, nobody in the Berry family remembers that we share the same birthday! I just gave you a small taste of what I have in store for you and you can’t even handle it already?”

Ashlyn couldn’t help but scorn when she thought of the suffering she had endured back when she was with the Berrys.

Penelope shook her head in exasperation. “You did it on purpose. You wanted to humiliate and retaliate against me!”

Ashlyn is such a scheming woman to have picked today out of all days. She’s despicable.

Penelope had been unsure of how she had managed to escape the private room. She had felt lost in a daze as the world spun around her, leaving her disoriented and confused.

When she reached the restroom and saw that Ashlyn was there too, all of her emotions—anger, indignation, hatred—came flooding out.

young lady of the Yates family, and yet I still have to live

Penelope had

Ashlyn could get into the best university, and she could only get

had always handed

eldest daughter of the Berry family, but Ashlyn’s mother had also done the same by stealing Mary’s place in

was trying

at the top of her lungs, “Ashlyn, I hate you! What do you want from me? You’ve been taking everything from me since we were kids. Isn’t that enough? Why do you have to bully me on my birthday? Listen well, I’m the young lady of the Yates family, and you’ll never be able to measure up to me. You’re just a lowlife. No matter what you do, you can never be a part of the

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from the momentum of the slap and took some time to finally regain her composure when she felt the hot, searing pain on her

widened her eyes in disbelief

as if she was no more than an insignificant speck of dust. “Consider that a wake-up call. I don’t want you

pressed down hard onto the sink with a

were crossed behind her by Ashlyn. She gritted her teeth and barked, “What are

droplets on the sink were going to smear the makeup