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That’s right.
Lily Blake was pretending.
Her pitiful appearance was staged, and even her suicide jump in her past life was an act.
On the deserted rooftop, I personally heard her oriole–like voice.
Crying as she pleaded with a man:
“Brother, I’m an orphan. If I don’t use some tricks, how would President Grant ever keep me in
mind?”
“Brother, please help me once more, use another ploy!”
“Brother, Lily truly likes President Grant, but my identity wouldn’t have his family agree to me marrying him.”
“But President Grant initially promised to marry me, I must do something to make him feel guilty towards me.”
“Brother, just help me one more time!”
“As long as I pretend to jump, President Grant will remember he owes me for a lifetime!”
What an act.
She deceived Marcus Grant, she deceived me.
She fooled all the media.
I once asked Marcus Grant why he was so focused on Lily Blake.
“I was born as the eldest son of the Grant Family, everyone flattered and praised me.”
“They respect and love me, only due to my family’s wealth and status.”
“Even you, Emily, if I weren’t the son of the Grant Family, would you still
That question left me speechless back then.
marry me?”
If he and I didn’t have matching family backgrounds, I wouldn’t have grown up with him, let alone get engaged and even married.
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“Only Lily, only she truly loves me, willing to sacrifice everything for me”
“Emily, how could I refuse such pure love?”
I was almost convinced by him.
As the daughter of the Harper Family, I have always been cautious in my words and actions,
I have to consider my parents, consider the family; indeed, I wouldn’t easily sacrifice everything
for someone.
We all overlooked another possibility.
Whether Marcus Grant was drugged or poisoned close to death.
Lily Blake had decided from the start.
To cling onto this high branch.
