From the moment she heard Mrs. Wallace asking Sheila Fletcher to invite Leslie Howard and David Redington home for dinner, Winona Wallace had an ominous feeling in her heart.

It wasn’t until she heard her grandmother personally suggest that Leslie Howard should change her surname to Wallace that Winona realized her ominous premonition had come true.

She was going to marry the old and unattractive William Carter, while Leslie Howard not only got to be with David Redington but also could change her surname to Wallace.

Why, why does the best of the world always go to Leslie Howard?

Why!

Clearly, Winona Wallace was the rightful Miss Wallace.

Winona had been enduring it, telling herself that she couldn’t confront her grandmother in public, couldn’t act impulsively again.

But when she heard Mrs. Wallace casually instruct Bruce Wallace to arrange the marriage for her, she couldn’t hold back any longer.

Mrs. Wallace turned around with knitted brows. Her weathered face remained calm as ever.

She looked deeply at Winona Wallace, who was crying pitifully as if she had suffered a great injustice, and without hesitation nodded, "Yes, you have already been abandoned by the Wallace family. When you recklessly embezzled forty point five million from the family, you deserved to be abandoned.

But your father pleaded for you, so I gave you another chance. Who knew you would be as foolish as a pig, getting involved with someone like William Carter, a married man, and got caught red-handed with inappropriate photos taken."

"Winona Wallace, you have brought disgrace to the Wallace family, the whole Wallace family has suffered because of you. Someone like you does not deserve to consider herself Miss Wallace. Therefore, from today on, Leslie will be Miss Wallace. Conveniently, she’s a bit older than you, and you’ll be the second heir. Remember to behave well when you see your sister and future brother-in-law. That way, when you marry William Carter, you can still be the Wallace second heir. Otherwise, even your father won’t be able to maintain your status and wealth."

Mrs. Wallace rebuked sternly, without treating Winona as her own granddaughter and showed no signs of softness.

For this old lady who had weathered many storms, the revival of the family was far more important than a granddaughter.

"No, it can’t be, it can’t be..." Winona collapsed onto the sofa, completely bewildered.

Tears rolled down her cheeks; she couldn’t believe those words were spoken by her own grandmother.

Even more unbelievable was that as she heard her grandmother’s words, her father, who had always loved and pampered her, stood silently by her side, without saying a word in her defense.

"Dad..." Winona cried, lifting her head as she grabbed Bruce Wallace’s hand.

And Bruce Wallace, with a deep frown, only clasped her hand back, comfortingly and heavily, "Darling, don’t be afraid... listen to your grandmother for now. Dad will try to find another way..."

Winona: "..."

*

While the Wallace family was shrouded in gloom, Leslie Howard’s situation was also precarious.

But her crisis was different from that of ordinary people.

Only because... when she came out of the hotel room after taking a bath, wrapped in a bath towel.

The room that was supposed to be hers alone unexpectedly had an unexpected guest.

Seeing the man by the big bed who had already taken off his overcoat and was undoing his tie, Leslie Howard shouted, "You... how did you get in here!"

As David Redington unbuttoned his shirt, his dark blue eyes darkened slightly at the enticing sight of Leslie Howard, "The room card, your cousin gave it to me. Honey... it seems even your family is eager for us to have a baby soon."

Saying that, the man stepped forward and tossed Leslie Howard onto the big bed.

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