Ivy's pupils trembled.
If he had confessed his love to her at the beginning, would she have given up Stanley and stayed with him?
It was a question she had never thought about, but it didn't stop her from giving it some thought.
Ivy lowered her eyes in thought.
She met Stanley when she was five years old. Stanley was good-looking, good-natured and knowledgeable, and was the leader of the younger generation in their circle; she worshipped him and thought he was a strong man, so she always followed his lead.
Therefore, many adults began to say that she was Stanley's little wife and that when she grew up in the future, she was to marry Stanley, and although she did not know what it meant to be a little wife, she knew that, just like her mother and father, she could always be together with Stanley, and she liked Stanley, so she wanted to be Stanley's little wife.
Most importantly, she often heard her parents say why they didn't have a son, so that he would inherit the family’s fortune, and often regretted that she was a daughter, so even if she inherited the family’ fortune, it would be someone else's in the future.
At first, she didn't understand the significance of the family fortune, but as she grew older and heard more of these parents complaining, she learned how important it was, and even more so, that her parents actually struggled to have a son all the time because they didn't want to give it to her.
From that moment on, she hated the patriarchal parents, and for this reason, she drugged them so that they lost their ability to conceive and could never give birth to her brother again, so that the family’s fortune would be hers alone.
Yet her parents said that she has no talent for business, and that even if they give her the family, the family may eventually fall into despair. Although she was not convinced, she had to admit that she was indeed incapable of running the family's company, and that the family's company could really go bankrupt in her hands.
And once she was broke, she was no longer a young lady and had to live the life of the poor she despised the most. She could not accept that future, so she was determined to marry into a richer family.
In this way, even if her family went bankrupt, she could still use her status as a wealthy wife for the rest of her life, and the Murphy family was the family she had her eye on and wanted to marry into, plus she originally liked to surround herself with Stanley, so she positioned Stanley as her only goal in this life.
This goal, however, was sabotaged when she was eight years old by someone: Stanley's parents, who said something about wanting a daughter and forcibly adopted her as their goddaughter.
Goddaughter?
She didn't want to be a goddaughter. If she became a goddaughter, she would be Stanley's sister and she would have no chance to marry Stanley, so she hated Stanley's parents.
Because that couple, who somehow knew her true nature, not only wanted to break off the relationship with her as goddaughter, but also wanted to make sure that she could never get close to Stanley, so she directly schemed to kill Stanley's parents. She originally thought that, after eradicating these obstacles, she could marry Stanley smoothly, but in the end, Violet appeared, and then, she was defeated.
Marrying Stanley and marrying into the Murphy family were two goals that had become her obsession, so Ivy knew very well that even if Henry had made his feelings known to her a long time ago, she would not have been with him.
Firstly, Henry was not the type of man she wanted, and secondly, the Baxter family, nowhere near as good as the Murphy family, and on the basis of these two points alone, she would not say yes to Henry.
Thinking of this, Ivy squeezed her palms and answered Henry seriously, "No!"
Henry's face didn't react much, he just looked down and gave a bitter smile, "Really, but it's good, I can let you go completely. Ivy, from today onwards, I, Henry, will not love you anymore, I've loved you for more than ten years, it's time to let go, it's also time to put an end to this ridiculous relationship, Ivy, I don't love you anymore!"
When Ivy heard his words, her pupils shrank and her heart ached.
Why was she so sad, so bitter and resentful when she heard him say that he was going to let her go, that he didn't love her anymore?
There was even an urge to take his hand and tell him not to let her go.
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