After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan) novel Chapter 1057
"I don't have many memories of my dad, so everything I know comes from my mom. But she always said his cooking was out of this world, and I believe her."
If his food hadn't been good, the seafood restaurant never would have thrived. Later, when her grandparents and uncles forcibly took over the business, their subpar cooking and habit of price-gouging tourists completely tanked the reputation. They only managed to scrape by during the peak tourist season.
Most of the time, they barely made enough to keep the family fed.
Yet, despite their failures, they were pathologically lazy. They figured that owning a restaurant made them 'bosses,' and bosses shouldn't have to work for anyone else.
Her aunts, uncles, and cousins refused to go out and find real jobs. When the off-season hit, their finances completely dried up, and her cousins would occasionally have to take on odd jobs just to afford basic spending money.
Meanwhile, the smart and hardworking families in their village had long since capitalized on the coastal tourism boom, building real wealth. Their living standards left Isabella's grandparents in the dust.
It was precisely because they were struggling financially—and because her grandmother had fallen ill—that they turned into complete bloodsuckers the moment they found out she had married into a wealthy family and had access to endless luxury. They lunged at her, determined to drain her dry.
Did they not understand basic human decency?
Of course they did.
They just didn't care. They only wanted to leech off her. Seeing everything she had now filled them with a rabid, blinding jealousy. The sheer entitlement of the demands they made on the very first day they tracked her down exposed exactly how greedy they were.
She had to harden her heart. She couldn't afford to compromise—not even a little. If she gave them an inch, they would take a mile. The only way to make them give up was to ensure they got absolutely nothing from her.
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I will be devastated if Isabella and Ethan will get back together. Please, writer, Isabella deserves Harold....
Author, please get your characters names right. You always messing them up!...
I wish Harold will win Isabella's heart. I was so sad when Isabela was taken for granted coldly and cruelly by her supposed to be husband, and trapped,mocked and humiliated non stop by Natalie. This was so cruel, both don't deserve Isabela' forgiveness I wish for a happy ending between Isabela and Harold, he has the right to be happy after the long wait....
Frankly, the story initially was going quite good and the pacing was just right. unfortunately after Ethan got the dream of his past life, the story has been going in circles. Ethan's spouting the same nonsense every time he sees Isabella, they both have same conversations over and over. The authors monologue too has been the same for almost 400 chapters. Irrespective of which character the writing the just a repetition of what someone had gone through in the past and what made a certain character feel the emotions. York got introduced in 800 chapters yet nothing significant happened till date. Isabella is soft with Harold and kind of disgusted with Ethan, yet it is not entirely clear with whom she might end up. If she stays single i am fine with it but the story is clearly about Isabella and Ethan so almost 1000 chapters without seeing any progress in their relationship is frustrating. Except for being blindly in love and few aggressive instances with Isabella, Ethan actually isnt a bad person so i am fine if he can win her back. Even though Harold is coming off as a good second lead, i am somehow unable to warm upto him. Even the bad people in the story are not really facing any real consequences. I hate Jackson for his hypocrisy. I hate Jordan and Natalie for their self-righteouness and selfishness. I also hate Deborah, except when she is handing it out to Natalie. I am almost on the verge of dropping this story....
Why are they acting like kids 🤣😭...
Ethan is actually not that bad if we take out his blind love for Natalie...