Chapter 167 Jerk

“Why? Isn’t the place the same as always?” Elm asked, peeling an apple and preparing a fruit plate for Ruth. He cut the apple into small pieces, placed them on the plate, and handed her a few toothpicks. He then ate the remaining apple core himself.

“Regardless, Jasper is still your half-brother from the same father. It’s the New Year, you should go home and visit,” Ruth suggested.

“He has already returned to the Smith residence,” Elm responded.

Ruth’s expression became somewhat tense upon hearing that. However, she chose not to say anything further.

After divorcing his previous wife, John married Ruth just a month later. However, Ruth was nothing more than a common farmer’s daughter, a performer from a makeshift burlesque organization. She used to be the leading burlesque performer and met John, an educated youth teaching in the countryside, when she was just sixteen.

At that time. John was twenty-three, and it was almost love at first sight with Ruth.

It wasn’t until the second year of their relationship that John returned to Hulbury.

She had waited for three years. During this time, John had returned once, and they had become involved. He promised that he would definitely return to marry her in three months.

However, it turned out that John had already married another woman.

He had been married to the lady from the Friedman family for three years, and they had a child together.

That child was Jasper.

The Smith family discovered Ruth’s love affair with John, but she was of low status and ordinary. In the chaotic times they lived in, they couldn’t possibly approve of her.

In order to keep it a secret from the Friedman family, the Smith family gave Ruth a substantial amount of money, persuading her to completely abandon the idea of marrying John.

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Ruth didn’t take the money and left in disappointment, all by herself.

And she, too, kept a secret. That secret was the fact that she had a child with John.

was three to four

situation that led to her being scorned by everyone in the village. Despite her beauty, she was seen as a worn-out shoe that had been played with, and naturally, no one held

out of the house, so Ruth left her old village alone, taking Ehn with her. They moved to a fishing village in a remote part of Hulbury. There, she worked orid jobs every day to support the four or

barely getting by each day.

a book. He could only write his own name. This name was given by John, who also painstakingly taught Ruth how

was not rebellious at all.

his

peers.

Later on,

taken into the Smith. family. Elm also started to

her that when he married the lady from the Friedman family years ago, he had no

once.

informed him that Ruth had remarried and moved to another place.

in utter despair and sadness. However, throughout the years of

being bullied while selling fish on the street. He learned about everything she

Only then

the Smith family. even when she married John and faced opposition from

this child, always dutiful and sensible, had

father, but to her surprise.

then on, they no longer had to brave

from the status of being an illegitimate child, Ruth didn’t owe this

twelve years, Ruth felt content knowing that she could

to see

he has been tirelessly looking after everything, day and night. He’s getting on in

they would come back later for a re-examination. If there’s

If he dares to treat you badly, I

you

go lie down for a bit! I’m going to take a stroll downstairs. Tonight, I’ll cook your favorite dishes for

the caregiver

“Got it.”

on a plane, he finally made it back. He lay down on Ruth’s bed

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