"Louisa, please just go! And keep it together. After all not everyone is as naive as I was, unknowingly manipulated by you like a fool." About her "friend" Louisa, Claire had figured everything out. So after she thought things through, she didn't feel bad about the current situation at all. On the contrary, she was grateful that she saw through Louisa before she could cause more serious damage. After careful consideration, Claire felt that this was instead most fortunate.
"What, you are drawing a line between us so quickly? Claire, with your intellect, even if I didn't manipulate you, somebody else will pick up the strings, so why don't you go home and buy a pig brain so you can have something to stuff in that empty head of yours? That's in case you're going to be clueless after some man has his way with you." With her arms crossed before her chest, Louisa lashed out with such mean words.
"Then, how come despite your great intellect, you went so low as to seduce a married man, bringing your father shame and disgrace?" Claire was tightly gritting her teeth. She couldn't regret more about helping this evil woman before her in hurting Leena so much.
"What did you say? I seduced a married man? Are you implying that I was a mistress? Don't you forget that you were part of that! I'm going to shut your bitch ass mouth up." Louisa lifted her hand as she spoke. She no longer cared about damaging her reputation and swung her palm towards Claire. But before she could hit her, Leena reached out and grabbed her wrist. An icy condemnation quickly followed.
Louisa, weren't you just bragging about being the daughter of an official? So this is how poorly an official's daughter would behave? Look around you. This is not the place for you to act out like this." Leena forcefully threw Louisa's wrist as she spoke, causing the latter to lose balance and falter back a few steps. "Who the hell do you think you are? This is between me and her. Since when did you have the permission to intervene? Aha! It looks like the two of you are ganging up against me, huh? Then so be it. Come on! The famous fashion designer is not afraid of being embarrassed, so why should I be?" Louisa was not going to take it all quietly, so after she finished, she lounged towards Leena like crazy with all the intention of starting a huge brawl.
"Leena, watch out!" Before Claire could finish, she heard a splash. Leena, who was standing by the pool, was knocked into the water by Louisa's wild charge. Claire barely held her ground and fortunately, did not fall into the pool with Leena.
The moment she hit the water, Leena could feel nothing but the bone-chilling cold surrounding her and soaking her to the bones. Actually she could have dodged Louisa's attack, but she tripped over her long gown, so before she could get out of the way, she was thrown into the water by Louisa.
"I... I..." Louisa panicked slightly. She didn't mean to do this. She only wanted to punish Leena a little out of anger, but she never wanted to push the latter into the pool and let her drown. After all, everybody around was watching. Even if Louisa really planned to take Leena out, she wouldn't have done it in front of so many people.
"Help! My sister-in-law fell into the water. Anyone of you, please help her!" After being stunned for a second, Claire screamed at the top of her lungs. Since she grew up in Capital City and far away from the ocean, Claire couldn't really swim. Under such circumstances, she could only yell for help.
"Someone fell in the water!"
"Seems to be Leena Leng."
"What do we do? Should we go and help?"
"No, I'm not sure. It could be someone else. Didn't you hear the name? The girl was yelling that it was her sister-in-law who fell. Leena Leng is way too young to be already married."
Despite having received Edward's warnings, there were a couple of reporters watching Leena from afar, but they didn't dare come close. They were just looking from a distance since no one wanted to offend the FX International Group.
"Never mind. I don't care who it is. Let's help her out of the water first!" Before they could make a move, a man had swiftly run towards the scene. He didn't even take off his jacket before plunging into the water.
Edward could not have expected that he would witness such a horrifying scene. He just said hello to someone else and was going to take Leena back, only to see her at the exact moment she was falling into the water. So he didn't think twice and ran to the pool as fast as he could and jumped in. Although he was aware that Leena could swim, he still couldn't help feeling shocked and worried.
Leena couldn't understand if it was the coldness that had made her forget how to swim, or it was Kevin's aloofness towards her that really hurt her. At such a moment, she didn't react, but instead she closed her eyes and waited for death to arrive. She thought that maybe this way, her pain and suffering would be alleviated somewhat.
Everybody saw the sweet smile on her face, but no one knew about her badly wounded heart deep inside. In all honesty, the endless waiting had made her a little tired, so Leena wanted to take a break from it all and start her journey anew. Hopefully, she would not make the same mistake of falling in love with someone before someone falls in love with her.
Just after Edward pulled Leena out of the water, Luke almost just as quickly got to the scene. He didn't expect Edward to show up in there either. When Luke left the house, Edward was still at home, so when Luke saw him just now, he was quite surprised. He was just thinking of resuming his guard duties after he finished other business. Yet he could not have foreseen such an accident.
"Mr. Mu, is she all right?" Luke took off his own clothes and quickly covered Leena with them. Because of the drenched gown that had clung to her body, Leena's fine figure was quite noticeable through the thin fabric.