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“Thea, you are still too optimistic about everything. In my heart, you are unique. I truly like you, which is why i humbled myself to beg you.”
To outsiders, I appeared cold and unfeeling in the face of a deeply affectionate man, prompting whispers and comments from everyone around.
“Recently, you’ve been quite high–profile. If I make a scene, how quickly do you think the news of the Lewis Group heir forcing someone to love him would spread?”
Theo seemed helpless yet pleading, “Thea, think about Mabel. She’s divorced, has a mortgage, a car loan, and a child. What if I have a word with the hospital?”
“She did help you, after all.”
“She received a high salary for it. That’s compensation, not help.”
“Theo, thank you for asking me out today. It made me completely give up.”
“So, all these years, I loved the wrong person.”
“Are you sure you want to break up?”
“Yes. If possible… I hope we can just be strangers in the future.”
I couldn’t be friends after a breakup. My presence would remind him of that unbearable past, and similarly, his presence would make me feel foolish for my past self.
“You’ll regret this. If you don’t want this ring, someone else does.”
With a slight wave of his hand, Theo signaled the bodyguards to step back.
He gave me a meaningful look before leaving, full of sorrow.
Soon, I understood what he meant by regret.
News of his proposal to me spread quickly. Somehow, it turned into a story that I took advantage of someone’s gratitude
for personal benefit before agreeing.
For a while, various platforms were commenting on how I was capitalizing on gratitude for personal benefit.
Simultaneously, someone claiming to be Cecilia’s former attending physician said that Cecilia left Theo, who was disabled
at the time, to go abroad because she was ill and didn’t want to burden him.
Everyone sighed, marveling at this divine love story, and left messages supporting Theo and Cecilia being together.
Moreover, Cecilia played up the narrative of a woman pursuing a man, declaring she would heal all of Theo’s wounds, defying societal norms, bravely chasing love, and proposing to Theo in public.
She even transferred all her shares in the Brown Group to Theo.
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In this way, the contrast between Cecilia and me in terms of love became starkly apparent.
Netizens thanked me for not marrying out of gratitude and supported Cecilia as a contemporary woman who dares to love
and hate.
Theo agreed, and many netizens created numerous posts about their relationship, making them the couple everyone envied.
Of course, I knew all of this. I stayed at the Miller family home without going out, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t browsing
the internet.
I also knew that the public opinion stayed on the trending list for so long mainly because of Theo and Cecilia.
Of course, my sister Rosalie and brother Jasper also played a significant role.
They capitalized on the situation, pushing the public opinion to its peak before letting it crash down heavily.
I couldn’t stop it. I lost the bet with them, misread people’s intentions, and couldn’t interfere afterward.
However, I didn’t want to stop it either.
He wanted to use all this to make me feel the sting of loss, to erase all my pride and dignity, to make me submit.
If I were just an ordinary girl, I might have collapsed under this media backlash.
I watched the development of public opinion coldly, staying at home, pampering myself with beauty treatments, and taking
care of my body.
Time quickly came to the banquet that my sister and brother were hosting for me.
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