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After a one-night stand with a stranger, Bella Woods was blocked at the hotel entrance by her biological mother.
"Go to the hospital for a hymen repair."
Bella Woods was forcibly dragged into a car. Her mother, Jade Patel, handed her a medical card: "This is the best private cosmetic hospital in the city; your hymen will be as good as new after the repair."
"Are you sure?" Bella Woods looked at the medical card with a mocking smile.
"What do you mean by that?"
"In the circle, I've been designated by Mrs. Hughes as the future young mistress of the Hughes Family. If I undergo such a surgery, it will spread immediately," Bella Woods said, looking at Jade Patel.
"You know that, and you still dared to do such a thing?"
"Why I did it, aren't you the one who knows best?" Bella Woods laughed with tears in her eyes.
How ridiculous!
She discovered her boyfriend, Oliver Hughes, was sleeping with someone else, and unable to bear it, chose to break up.
To prevent her from breaking up, her parents meticulously planned her eighteenth birthday party, personally handing her a glass of spiked wine, wanting her to consummate her relationship with her ex-boyfriend!
And she, just before entering the hotel, was still thrilled, thinking she was finally seen by her parents after being a sensible and obedient daughter for so many years, and could finally celebrate her birthday.
But what was the result?
"Your father and I were doing it for your own good!" Jade Patel said sharply.
"You weren't doing it for my good; it's because with Oliver Hughes I can bring you business resources from the Hughes Family."
"What are you saying? It's normal for men to fool around outside; a woman's whole life is just about marrying well, isn't it?"
Jade Patel poked Bella Woods on the forehead, scolding her for not knowing what's good for her: "Can you find a better man than Oliver Hughes?"
"Besides, don't you know how ruthless a city like Peace City is? After all these years, isn't it for your sake that your father and I have struggled?"
Jade Patel looked at Bella Woods incomprehensibly.
"Sensible..."
Bella Woods looked at the window with a bitter smile, feeling that this city was unfamiliar and indifferent to her.
Before the age of fourteen, her parents said they couldn't take care of her due to work and left her in the countryside, while giving birth to a brother and sister in Peace City.
After turning fourteen, because her grandparents passed away, they had to bring her to the city.
She stepped into the city filled with expectations, cautiously being a good daughter and sensible sister.
Thinking she could finally receive family warmth and the love of her relatives.
But the result was that she was just a tool to maintain business relations.
Just her precious hymen!
"I don't have the patience to discuss this with you. Give me the details of the man you slept with last night, and I'll handle it," Jade Patel said directly.
"The man I slept with last night was a male prostitute, I let him go after, and I don't know how to find him."
Recalling last night's man, Bella Woods still felt a shock in her chest.
For the first time in her life, Bella Woods was shaken by a man's face and charisma.
She still couldn't describe that masterfully crafted face, with such a lazy yet immensely powerful presence.
If it wasn't for the hotel staff mentioning that he was a male prostitute, Bella Woods wouldn't believe that a male prostitute could possess such qualities.
"You..."
Jade Patel was furious, pointing at Bella Woods for a long time before angrily saying, "Keep this matter to yourself. I will arrange for the hymen issue differently."
"But your engagement party with Oliver Hughes next week, as scheduled, will still happen."
"I can't possibly engage with Oliver Hughes," Bella Woods stated firmly, "I don't accept betrayal."
"You're not clean either now, consider it even."
Bella Woods was stunned, how could this be considered even?
Jade Patel reminded her, "At the engagement party, Oliver Hughes' uncle will also be present. Do you understand what this engagement party signifies?"
Bella Woods understood instantly.
Oliver Hughes' uncle has the surname "Marshall."
The most prominent family in Peace City carries the Marshall surname.
Oliver Hughes' uncle, well-known in Peace City, is called Third Young Master Marshall.
The year Third Young Master Marshall became famous, the Marshall family was embroiled in a power struggle, and Third Young Master Marshall's mother was schemed against and killed; Old Master Marshall intended to elevate his illegitimate son to power.
As a result, Third Young Master Marshall, barely an adult, stepped into the Marshall Clan Group as an absolutely dominant heir, using thunderous methods to defeat the illegitimate son.
It's said that in those years, the Marshall family was a river of blood.
The Marshall Clan Group was restructured again and again, while Oliver Hughes' uncle became the fearsome and sought-after Third Young Master Marshall.
However, Third Young Master Marshall is elusive and never appears publicly; even within the internal branches of the Marshall family, few have seen Third Young Master Marshall.
Such a figure attending a public engagement party would attract the entire upper class of Peace City.
Any mishap, and both the Hughes Family and the Woods Family would be doomed.
But why should she care?
The car arrived at the Woods Family residence, interrupting the conversation between Bella Woods and Jade Patel.
When Jade Patel dragged Bella Woods inside, someone stepped in front of Bella Woods and slapped her hard across the face.
The force was so great that Bella Woods' head was whipped to the side, the burning pain surged up, and her father, Ron Woods, yelled in anger by her ear: "Shameless slut!"
He kicked Bella Woods hard again, causing her body to fall heavily to the ground.
Ron Woods pointed at her as if looking at trash: "The Hughes Family happened to take a liking to you, and you're ungrateful enough to commit such indecent actions."
"Bella Woods, I see you've been living too comfortably these years."
After saying that, Ron Woods was about to raise his foot and kick Bella Woods again, but Jade Patel hurriedly rushed over to hold him back: "Calm down."
"Let me go, I'll teach this insensible brat a lesson today."
"Bella, go to your room." Jade Patel called out.
Bella Woods propped herself up, limped back to her room, and closed the door.
But the sound of her parents arguing still echoed clearly in her ears.
"What are you doing? Don't you know if this engagement party is ruined, it's not just the Hughes Family we'll offend, but all those looking to connect with Third Young Master Marshall through this engagement? How will we survive in Peace City then!"
"We could end up with our family's business crushed. At worst, after twenty years of struggle ending up with nothing. At worst, returning to our hometown to be ridiculed, at worst, it's the future of our two kids being destroyed."
Jade Patel's cries penetrated into Bella Woods' room one after another.
Bella Woods frantically took out her earphones from her bag and put them in her ears, turning the music up to the maximum to drown out the outside noise.
She knew Jade Patel's sudden defense of her was simply to use family affection to emotionally blackmail her, to make her sacrifice.
In the past, as long as Jade Patel talked about how difficult things were at home, she would compromise, thinking her grievances were nothing.
Nothing was more important than the family being okay.
But the two glasses of wine from her parents yesterday finally woke Bella Woods up.
Her sacrifices and sensibility would not earn her parents' compassion.
Tears soaked the bed as Bella Woods buried her face in it.
That man from yesterday barely gave her any rest the entire night, and it was her first time, she couldn't handle it at all.
Combined with being kicked just now, her body was exhausted, and eventually, she fell asleep.
When Bella Woods regained consciousness, it was the vibration of her phone ringing that woke her.
"Hello?" Bella Woods spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Why didn't you contact me?"
A man's deep voice came from the phone speaker.
"You've dialed the wrong number." Bella Woods didn't understand, and immediately hung up.
She turned over wanting to sleep again, but her phone started vibrating once more.
"Lady, try hanging up one more time."
"I don't know you, I'm telling you, you've called the wrong number, you..."
"When you cried for me not to stop last night, why didn't you say you didn't know me?"
"Psycho."
Bella Woods decisively hung up once more and tossed her phone aside.
But as she turned over, her eyes snapped open, and she sprang up from the bed.
It's him!
That male prostitute from yesterday!
He was coming to collect payment.
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