Chapter 1 Make Edie Take My Place
“I won’t marry him! No matter what, I’m not gonna marry him,” Eliza Lane wailed, her voice tearing through the room as she held a fruit knife against her neck.
Ten feet away, her biological mother, Violet Thornton, was pacing back and forth, wanting to persuade Eliza to marry but terrified of pushing her into really hurting
herself.
Unable to approach, she could only soothe Eliza anxiously and cautiously, “Alright, alright… If you don’t want to marry him, then don’t. I’ll cancel the engagement right away… Eliza, please don’t do anything rash…”
Eliza’s biological father, Clay Thornton, angrily shouted at Violet, “What did you say? The Brooks family gave us 30 million dollars as engagement gifts. Don’t you know our company’s situation? This isn’t up to her!”
Clay’s words made Violet furious; she was like a shrew, lunged at his face. “Eliza has suffered for twenty–three years. We just found her not long ago. How can you bear to make her marry a vegetable? She’s your flesh and blood; how can you be so cruel? You‘ re heartless!”
Clay caught Violet’s hand before it could reach his face and pushed her onto the couch. “How am I heartless? If our company goes bankrupt, will you and Eliza have an easy life? You won’t be able to keep living a high life.”
Clay thought about the company’s current state, watching the chaos at home, and he felt extremely irritated. He added, “Carl is a vegetable, but once Eliza marries him, his family won’t just stand by while our company goes under, right?”
Hearing that, Violet’s mind cleared a bit. She couldn’t bear losing her luxurious lifestyle but was also afraid Eliza might really hurt herself. “So… What should we do? Should we really let Eliza spend her life taking care of a vegetable…”
Eliza was the biological daughter of the Thornton couple, but twenty–three years ago, they had mistaken another baby girl for their own. Eliza had suffered a lot because of this and had only recently been found and returned to the Thornton family. Violet wanted to make it up to her and basically gave in to all her requests.
Hearing her mother’s sudden hesitation, Eliza screamed in fright, “I won’t marry him. I’ll marry him over my dead body!”
Violet was startled, “Don’t do anything rash, Eliza. Calm down, please…”
Then, Eliza suddenly thought of something and said, “Edie… Let Edie marry him. You raised her for twenty–three years. Let her take my place and marry Carl as a way to repay your upbringing.”
Violet suddenly came to her senses. “Right… There’s Edie! The Brooks family didn’t specify who had to marry Carl; let Edie marry him!”
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Chapter 1 Make Edie Take My Place
Edie Thornton, the girl whom the Thornton couple had mistaken for their biological daughter twenty–three years ago.
At the thought of her, Clay’s face turned very troubled. He hesitated, “But…”
Before he could finish, a voice appeared at the entrance of the Thornton family villa. Thank you to all the media reporters for coming to the press conference…
“We have found our biological daughter, who has suffered greatly… Having raised Edie for twenty–three years, we have done our duty. From now on, Edie is no longer a member of the Thornton family and has nothing to do with us-”
At the entrance of the Thornton family villa, Edie paused the video on her phone, a cold and sarcastic smile playing on her lips.
She said, “Don’t forget, you said it yourself that I have nothing to do with you anymore. And it was Eliza who insisted on marrying Carl in the first place.”
This press conference was announced half a month ago. The Thornton family acknowledged Eliza and severed ties with Edie. The bride for the Brooks family’s engagement was changed to Eliza, and now everyone knew about it.
As it turned out, on the day of the press conference, Carl Brooks, the powerful head of the Brooks family in Clerlun, had an accident and became a vegetable. –^=The Brooks family wanted to bring good luck to Carl and asked the Thornton family to fulfill their engagement contract immediately, but Eliza refused to comply at all costs.
In her heart, Edie scoffed, ‘You were so decisive when severing ties with me, now you want my help? What a joke!‘
