York stared at her intently. "Isabella, you're the quickest person to move on from love that I've ever seen. Did you truly care for Ethan in the past? When you genuinely fall for someone, it's never that easy to just let go."
"Unless some massive incident froze your heart and completely killed your love for him. Only then could you walk away so fast."
"Natalie put you through hell. Did you never think about getting revenge? Do you really not care about the pain she inflicted on you?"
His words were laden with the bloody grudges of their past lives.
Isabella replied coolly, "Natalie targeted me and caused me plenty of grief, but I wasn't just a punching bag. She didn't exactly walk away unscathed or get the upper hand."
"I don't need to scheme. Living well and thriving is the ultimate retaliation against her."
Her happiness would drive Natalie insane, pushing her to cross the line and break the law. Once that happened, Isabella would have the hard evidence needed to lock her away.
Otherwise, she really had no legal way to punish her.
In her past life, she had died at Natalie's hands, but that was a different timeline. In this life, Natalie hadn't spent a fortune to hire kidnappers yet. Her current petty tricks weren't enough to put her behind bars for years or earn her a death sentence, no matter how much Isabella despised her.
Natalie was petty, possessive, and wildly jealous. She couldn't stand seeing Isabella succeed. The better Isabella did, the more jealous Natalie would become, desperately wanting to destroy her and strip away everything she had.
Fueled by pure hatred, Natalie would lose her mind and take reckless risks.
Waiting for Natalie to dig her own grave might take a little longer, but Isabella wasn't in a rush. She enjoyed provoking her this way.
An occasional counterattack was enough to make Natalie seethe with rage or lose even more of what she valued.
Take those photos she had handed over to Jordan, for example. The rift in Jordan and Natalie's marriage was now as wide as a canyon. They could never go back to the way things were.

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The readers' comments on the novel: After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan)
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...