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Bella Woods looked up at Oliver Hughes.
This was the first time he spoke to her with such arrogance, even condescension.
Over the past four years, Oliver Hughes had always spoken softly, with a tenderness that made Bella Woods feel like she had hit the jackpot in life by gaining the favor of someone like him.
"Ask yourself, haven't I done enough for you all these years? The position of Young Mistress Hughes is reserved for you, and the Hughes family's business is left to your Woods Family. Where do you get the nerve to lose your temper with me?"
Oliver Hughes said this not in anger.
He just found it amusing.
Amused that after a few years of good life, Bella Woods had forgotten what she originally was.
"Did you come just to flaunt you and the kindness your Hughes Family has given me and the Woods Family over the years?"
Bella Woods just looked at Oliver Hughes like that.
She needed to reassess this person.
Previously, Oliver Hughes was the best in Bella Woods' eyes, shining.
His every movement, even every smile towards her, seemed perfect to Bella Woods.
She often wondered how there could be such a gentle and perfect guy in the world, and this guy chose to give her so much favor.
Now, it seemed she was merely foolish.
"I'm here to give you a chance," Oliver Hughes said arrogantly.
"A chance?"
"Retract the so-called breakup message, and I'll pretend I never received it. The engagement party next week will proceed as planned, and the position of Young Mistress Hughes will still be yours, Bella Woods."
He graciously offered Bella Woods one last chance.
Bella Woods found it quite amusing and indeed laughed out loud.
Oliver Hughes frowned: "What's so funny?"
Bella Woods didn't answer but instead opened the door, catching Jade Patel eavesdropping outside.
Bella Woods said, "Thank you, Young Master Hughes, for your generosity. I've already sent the breakup message; it's over. I won't attend the engagement party. Anyway, you have so many bed partners. Just pick one to get engaged to."
"Bella Woods!"
Oliver Hughes was angered by Bella Woods' offensive attitude: "I really did give you too much face all these years."
"Fine, breakup, cancel the engagement!"
"Then also cancel the cooperation with the Woods Family, including the debts the Woods Family owes the Hughes Family. Please repay them immediately, with interest."
"I'll be waiting for you to elegantly sever ties with the Hughes Family."
After saying the last sentence, Oliver Hughes gave Bella Woods a disdainful look and then strode away without looking back.
"Oliver, Oliver..."
Jade Patel hurried to catch up.
Bella Woods could hear the sound of Oliver Hughes slamming the door heavily even from inside the room.
After a while, Jade Patel entered Bella Woods' room.
There was no furious condemnation as Bella Woods imagined.
Jade Patel just calmly asked Bella Woods, "Bella, let me ask you, are you really not marrying into the Hughes Family?"
"Yes," Bella Woods replied firmly.
Since being left in the countryside, her life had been about compromising for her parents, for her younger siblings, time and again.
This time, she would not compromise.
"Alright," Jade Patel turned and left Bella Woods' room.
Bella Woods found Jade Patel's attitude a bit strange.
When she stepped out of the room, she saw Jade Patel rushing into the kitchen and coming out with a kitchen knife.
Ron Woods was not at home.
Bella Woods' sister Rose Woods just happened to come home and screamed in fright when she saw Jade Patel coming out of the kitchen with a knife.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
Rose Woods' scream attracted the neighbors around.
Jade Patel pointed the knife at Bella Woods: "Since I married Ron Woods, I've worked hard for this family, sacrificed everything for the kids. I ask myself, from nothing to what we have today, I have never wronged you."
"But Bella, today, because of your stubbornness in breaking up with Oliver Hughes, you will be throwing away everything your father and I have worked hard for decades, ruining the bright future of your siblings who barely made it to the city."
"Bella Woods, remember, if I die today, it's your fault, the future of your siblings is destroyed by you, and you will bear the lives of our whole family for the rest of your life!"
Jade Patel, filled with tears, held the knife to her neck and made a cut on the spot.
"Mom!" Rose Woods screamed and rushed to grab Jade Patel's arm, preventing the knife from cutting her neck further.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
"If something happens to you, what will we do?"
Rose Woods cried loudly, turning to shout at Bella Woods: "What exactly do you want? The fact that the Hughes Family chose you is already a great blessing. You can't just be capricious and reckless after being pampered by Oliver Hughes for a few years and still want to break up?"
"Who do you think you are?"
"You've been like bad luck since you entered this family, and now you want to force my mom to death?"
Rose Woods shouted loudly, pointing at Bella Woods in accusation.
Bella Woods was shocked when Jade Patel rushed into the kitchen for a knife.
She never thought Jade Patel would act like this.
And she, though unwilling to be the sacrificial victim, couldn't bear it when facing her birth mother threatening to commit suicide in front of her.
The neighbors, watching the scene unfold, began criticizing her.
"What kind of daughter drives her mother to suicide, it's utterly unfilial!"
"She's indulged by the Hughes family over the years, being so capricious and arrogant. I wonder how the Hughes family saw her in the first place?"
"A person like her, cold-blooded and heartless, willing to sacrifice her mother's life and her siblings' future just to throw a tantrum—such a person is really frightening."
"Rose, let go!" Jade Patel wanted to push Rose Woods away: "Mom is sorry for you; Mom can't take care of you and your brother in the future; Mom can't stand to see your future destroyed, to see everything your father fought for with his body ruined in an instant."
"Mom! What will we do if you're gone?"
Jade Patel looked at Rose Woods with eyes full of reluctance: "You're an excellent girl. It's our inadequacy as parents that we couldn't provide you with a better future. I'm sorry, Rose."
"Mom, I don't want any future, I just want you!" Rose Woods cried: "I've always said, ever since Bella Woods came into this house, nothing good has happened. We were so happy before her—what's this now?"
Bella Woods just watched the deep affection between Jade Patel and Rose Woods as mother and daughter.
She envied Rose Woods so much.
She always envied her since childhood.
Rose Woods could cuddle up to Jade Patel, act spoiled, get red envelopes and gifts from Ron Woods, while she could only stand timidly on the side watching Rose Woods like a cherished little princess.
To be loved like Rose Woods, to be the little princess of parents.
She obeyed in everything and swallowed her grievances.
From the moment she stepped into this place from her hometown four years ago, she diligently played the role of a good daughter, a good sister.
Even when Rose Woods and her brother insulted her as a bumpkin in private, called her a free maid, she didn't mind.
She believed if she obeyed enough, behaved well enough, she would be loved, become her parents' little princess.
Sadly, it was all just naïve thoughts.
"Bella."
Jade Patel suddenly called out to her, took a step forward, and knelt down before Bella Woods with a thud.
Bella Woods instinctively stepped back.
"Bella, just take it that your mom begs you. For the future of your brother and sister, don't be capricious. If there is any unhappiness, talk to Oliver Hughes, be good together, get engaged properly, okay, mom begs you."
Jade Patel said while throwing down the knife and knocking her head against Bella Woods.
"Oh dear, I really can't stand this, it's a heaven-defying act, letting the birth mother kneel and beg like this."
"Heaven is watching what people do; Bella Woods, you will have repercussions."
Bella Woods stepped back one step at a time: "I will agree to get engaged."
As soon as she said that, Jade Patel's eyes brightened: "Bella, thank you, thank you."
"But I have one condition."
"Say it, say it, I'll definitely do it."
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