Silly Bride

Chapter 234

was a random stranger the latter had brought to make it sound more convincing.Yet, the paternity test had proven that the child was his.Rufus hated Cesare to the bone and was utterly disgusted by him. Not only did Rufus not give Cesare a single cent, but he also forced the child to stay at the Fairchild residence.Although Rufus hated the child’s existence, he did not want his own flesh and blood to be brought up by such a despicable person.And that child was Rufus’ second son, Xavier’s uncle, Stuart Fairchild.When Cesare was chased out of the Fairchild residence, he did not give up and continued pestering them. Still, he was not a match for the Fairchilds.Being the lazy and penniless person he was, he ended up roaming and begging on the streets for more than a month before returning home.Upon arriving home, he was cornered by the creditors. As he tried to escape in the middle of night, he accidentally fell into a pond and drowned to death.From that day on, his wife, Camille Pennington, became the creditors’ target. Unfortunately, Cesare had spent all her hard-earned money long ago. There was no way she could pay off the debt.Unable to handle the situation, Camille hung herself in her own home a few days later.With no news of her biological child, the death of her parents, and the terrible abuse she had to endure every day, Jacinta eventually lost her mind and became mentally ill.When Cesare’s creditors failed to find him, they went straight to Jacinta and demanded she paid the debts on his behalf.Seeing that she had lost her mind and her family was deep in debt, Jacinta’s husband decided to chase her away.Jacinta refused to leave and hid in the woodshed. But to her horror, her heartless husband actually set the building on fire.The fire that day was strong. If it was not for the sudden rain, Jacinta would have died in the fire.Just like that, she survived the incident. After roaming the town like a madwoman for over a month, she was finally taken home by her distant aunt.She was nameless in the past, and everyone called her “Young Lady.” Her name, Jacinta, was given by her aunt.Jacinta lived in her aunt’s place for over a decade, and her condition gradually improved. However, she had lost all memory of the painful experiences before she went crazy.Even so, that was great news for her. As soon as she recovered, she carried on living a normal life.She even got married again and met a great partner this time.However, they failed to have a child of their own even after years of marriage.Perhaps the heavens had taken pity on the couple. One day, when they were on their way to the market, they found a little girl.The little girl was Jacinta’s adopted daughter and Winnie’s biological mother, Lorelei Garland.Afte having Lorelei, Jacinta and her husband lived a happy and wonderful life.Alas, good things never last. Jacinta’s husband died in a traffic accident. In the end, Jacinta had to bring up Lorelei alone while enduring the sorrow.At that time, she had begun to be mentally unstable due to her husband’s death.Her condition only became worse when Lorelei was killed by Hamish and Yara. If it were not for Winnie, who needed her care, Jacinta would have lost it completely long ago.When Winnie grew up and was taken back by her maternal grandfather, Jacinta began to suffer again.There was even a period when her memories were jumbled together. The memories of losing her own son and Winnie moving abroad had caused her to be convinced that she had a grandson who had been taken away by the Fairchild family.That was why she had been asking Winnie to help locate her grandson.However, in reality, Jacinta’s son was the one who had been taken away. She never had a grandson in the first place. It was just a mixup between two different memories.As to when her memories got mixed up or when she regained them, it started from the day when Rufus invited her and Winnie to the Fairchild residence.That day, they were sitting at the dining table, and Rufus was talking about giving Winnie the keys and the right to manage the Fairchild residence.He talked about many other things apart from that. As Jacinta stared at him, she suddenly remembered the incidents from the past.She recalled how her parents had drugged her back then and made her sleep with Rufus. She also remembered bearing him a child and realized that Stuart was her son.In fact, she had known about Stuart and Zyon all along. They were never favored by Rufus.In the past, before she regained her memories, she could not understand why Rufus always treated his eldest son better than the second son when both were his children.However, it was at that moment she understood the reason. All that prejudice was because she was the one who gave birth to Stuart.Winnie used to ask Jacinta all the time why she disliked Xavier and thought that men from the Fairchild family were not trustworthy. Jacinta could never come up with an answer because it was her gut feeling.However, she finally had her answer on that very day: all men from the Fairchild family were horrible beings.She was also a victim back then. Her parents were the ones who were guilty, and she had absolutely nothing to do with it.Yet, not only did he leave right after having sex with her, but he even took away her son. When all that happened, no one ever asked for her opinion. If Rufus had taken good care of her son after taking him away, she would have been fine with it. Sadly, he did not. Not only that, but he had been oppressing her son.At that moment, Jacinta’s eyes were burning with rage as she stared at Rufus. It was as intense as the fire her first husband had set back then.She hated her biological parents, but they had been dead for so many years.She hated her first husband as well, but he, too, had already died from an illness.She had nowhere to vent the hatred in her heart.She also hated Rufus, but he was still alive and well. However, as long as he was alive and well, her son and grandson would never get to live a peaceful life.That was why she had taken a few bottles of wine as an excuse to Rufus’ residence and set it on fire that night. She was determined to burn the ruthless man into ashes.After that, she saw Zyon who was running away in the courtyard.The moment she found out that Zyon—the person who had done so many evil things—was her grandson, she was utterly mind blown.She began helping Zyon to flee and raise funds and even cooperated with his kidnapping plan.That was what brought her to where she was today.Jacinta fell into a daze as she stared at the flickering flames. It took her a long time before she walked to the bed and picked up a pillow.She