The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 1231

"You risked your life to save someone else. That’s a heroic act, so why are you wallowing in misery?"

It was a shame to see such a vibrant young man entirely defeated by circumstance.

"Saving someone is great, but looking at where I ended up, I clearly overestimated my own abilities."

Ewan Harding had convinced himself that if he had just trained harder, he could have pulled the victim to safety and dodged that truck.

Failing to get out of the way meant he had no business playing the hero.

He brought this on himself.

"I don't regret saving a life, but I regret not pushing myself past my limits before this happened."

He had relied on his status as a Harding, arrogantly assuming he was naturally better than everyone else.

In reality, there were plenty of people who worked twice as hard.

If one of them had stepped up, they wouldn't have gotten hurt, let alone crippled both their legs in the process.

Claire stared at him.

Was he listening to himself?

Ewan was completely trapped in a toxic spiral of self-loathing.

"Well, it won't be too late to train once you're back on your feet," Claire said, seeing no reason for his endless guilt.

Shouldn't he be focusing on his treatment and saving his ambition for after he recovered?

"That assumes I'll ever stand again," Ewan said with a bitter scoff.

"Do you have any idea that the top orthopedic experts in Cabinda have already declared I'll be in this chair for the rest of my life?"

"That's conventional medicine, but our traditional techniques haven't written you off just yet," Claire replied with an easy smile. "If you refuse to try, then this really is the end of the line for you."

"Even if I fail, your condition won't get any worse. So why keep kicking your doctors out?"

"Or is throwing tantrums your way of keeping your family's undivided attention entirely on yourself?"

It was the most basic reverse psychology imaginable.

But it worked perfectly on Ewan.

"I am not!" The Harding family was expansive, and while Ewan was indeed the youngest of his generation, he despised the accusation.

He would never use his tragedy just to milk sympathy from his relatives.

He just...

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