Evan Cole.

Inside the luxurious suite of the Hilton Hotel.

The room filled with the aroma of liquor, man's shirts and woman's lingerie were strewn together.

A man and a woman slumbered on the bed.

The girl was pretty young, having an oval face, willow leaf-shaped eyebrows, an elegant nose, and adorable lips, she was truly a budding Oriental beauty.

Her slender and delicate shoulders were exposed outside the quilt, with a few suspicious red marks faintly visible on them.

Her eyelashes, akin to butterfly wings, fluttered slightly as Lily Fay slowly awoke.

Heavy!

Lily Fay found it difficult to breathe.

Upon lowering her eyes, she noticed a strong and slender arm across her supple white chest.

Her gaze followed the arm upwards and when it landed on the man sleeping next to her...

Lily Fay's pupils constricted drastically as she suppressed the scream that had burgeoned in her throat.

Last night, she, with him...

Somewhat blurry images of the night before flashed across her mind, Lily Fay momentarily blanked out before hastily dressing up.

As her hand reached out for the doorknob, she looked back at the bed.

It was too dark last night, I didn't see clearly.

The boy slept on his side, with profound and firm contours. The dimples at the corners of his mouth added a touch of softness. Some strands of hair covered his prominent eyebrows, and his long, dense eyelashes cast a faint shadow beneath his eyes. His nose was high and straight; his sleeping figure resembled an exquisite and elegant boy from manga.

However, last night when he held her down in the darkness, his eyes were deep and chilling, with wild ruthlessness.

As he opened the door, Lily Fay withdrew his clenched fist.

A glint of light flashed between his fingers.s, dazzlingly bright.

It was his cufflink.

Crafted with fine black diamonds, its symbolized nobility and respect of his status.

Lily Fay went home right after leaving the hotel.

It was definitely Jessica Young's doing last night!

Jessica Young is her half-sister with the same father. Two years ago, when she returned to the Young family with Young Ethan, she was unwelcome by Jessica Young and her mother.

Jessica Young always bullied her, but she endured!

But she didn't expect that Jessica Young would steal her necklace and threaten her to come to the hotel, otherwise, she'd throw the necklace away.

The necklace was given to her by her mother and she must retrieve it at all costs.

As soon as she entered, she was covered by a towel over her mouth and nose.

In her daze, she heard Jessica Young mention something like "I've taken care of her, you can come now", she knew something was wrong. She took advantage of the moment Jessica Young left the room, and she ran out with a trace of consciousness.

Yet, due to his weakness, he stumbled into a room filled with the smell of alcohol.

And then…

It was all Jessica Young!

Lily Fay clenched his fists and went off to settle accounts with Jessica Young,"Jessica Young, you—"

Click, click!

Shocked by the sudden brightness before his eyes, Lily Fay hastily raised his hand to shield them.

Jessica Young seized the opportunity to yank open Lily Fay's collar, zooming in on the few red marks thereon.

"What are you doing?"

Lily Fay shook off Jessica Young vigorously and instinctively tried to snatch the camera.

But Jessica Young had anticipated this and stepped back several steps, triumphantly holding up her Camera.“I am going to show these to Senior Miles Ethan of course. After he sees how low the girl he likes can stoop, I bet he won't like you anymore.”

Show it to Miles Ethan?

Miles Ethan was in the same class as him, and because Jessica Young liked him, she asked for his help to deliver a love letter. Without her need, he wouldn't even know Miles Ethan's name, let alone the fact that he liked her.

"Are you out of your mind? I've never even spoken to him."

Lily Fay was fuming to the point of trembling all over!

Staring at this half-sister of his from a different mother.

She treated her like a family member, but she was treated like an enemy in return.

Staring at Lily Fay, who was simply attired but more attractive and poised as compared to herself, a twinge of jealousy flashed in Jessica Young’s eyes. "Who allows you to be prettier and smarter than me? I detest you. There can only be one daughter in the Young family. Tomorrow, I will make your photos public in school. You still have dreams to go to college? Wait till you get penalized!"

What?!

So tarnishing her reputation wasn't enough, she also wanted to ruin her future?!

Lily Fay's fists clenched tightly as they made crackling sounds.

"So what, you want to hit me? Go ahead!"

Thinking that she wouldn't dare to strike, was she?

Jessica Young provoked, lifting her chin and moving her face closer.

Lily Fay smacked her across the face!

Jessica Young incredulously covered her face, "Mom, come look, Lily Fay hit me!"

The sound of high-heels tapping grew louder behind.

On turning around, Lily Fay saw Natalie Evans's hand raised high.

Slap!

Lily Fay’s face was sharply knocked to the side.

Her ears rang as if echoing with the sound of the slap.

Looking at the delighted Jessica Young, Lily Fay forcefully shut her eyes, her nails digging painfully into her palms.

Isn't it her fate as mother and daughter?

Looking at the beautiful face of Lily Fay, Natalie Evans was reminded of a similar one, her eyes filled with hatred in an instant, "You and your mother are both vixens, destroying families and even daring to slander Emily!"

Her mother ruined others' families?

"Mrs. Ni, I'm older than Emily. Who ruins whose family?”

Just as Natalie Evans was about to rebut, Lily Fay cut her off, "It's actually your daughter who resorts to dirty tricks to steal a man despite her young age. I am going to reveal last night's incident to our father right now, let's see what he has to say!"

In this household, only Young Ethan could stand up for her!

"Go tell him then!"

Seeing the fearless demeanor of Natalie Evans and her daughter, fear crept into Lily Fay's heart. Could it be...

All she saw was Natalie Evans, arms crossed, smirking, "He just left for a business trip today, he won't be back for two to three months!"

Oh no!

Without giving it much thought, Lily Fay lunged to snatch the camera from Jessica Young. Taken by surprise, Jessica Young lost her grip on the camera.

As Lily Fay crushed the camera's memory card under her foot, Jessica Young lifted up her mobile phone triumphantly, "I recorded it with my phone too. Try taking it from me!"

Filled with rage, Lily Fay charged forward, but the household staff held her back firmly.

Watching Lily Fay in her frantic yet restrained fury, like a trapped beast, Jessica Young patted her face mockingly, "What now? Once at school tomorrow, you'll surely be drowned in their contempt. Can you wait till father returns? I'd advise you to scurry back to your downtrodden hometown, instead of embarrassing yourself here."

Natalie Evans angrily threw a bag over, "Take your stuff and get out of the Young family!"

Bang!

Her luggage and school bag were thrown right in front of her, items like her pencil case and toothbrush rolling out.

Such a mess!

Sure enough, it was them, mother and daughter, who had schemed against her, wanting to drive her away while Young Ethan was on a business trip!

Faced with hostile glances from mother and daughter Jessica Young and the maidservants, Lily Fay's nose stung.

She knew her sudden arrival at the Young's would certainly not be welcomed, so she had striven from the start to earn their acceptance.

"Look at this necklace, so low-class! You expect me to wear it?"

The necklace she had painstakingly made for Jessica Young was openly mocked at school.

"Who wants to eat the stuff you make, it's filthy!"

The cake she made for Natalie Evans was discarded straight into the trash bin.

She treated them like family, but how did they treat her?

They were meticulously plotting to drive her away.

Lily Fay felt a chill in her heart.

She gritted her teeth and stood up, nonchalantly dusting off her clothes, "Fine, I'll go. But Dad will eventually come back. I wonder how you'll explain this to him?"

Evan Cole at night is like this, so cold.

Lily Fay had no relatives or friends in Evan Cole. She used the money she usually earned from doing homework for her classmates to buy a ticket back to He River County to find her mother.

After getting on the bus, she felt panic in her heart.

Did her mother want to see her?

Her mother hated her!

When she was a child, she was loved. At that time, her mother always held her tenderly and said that she looked just like her father. As she grew up, her mother's affection for her father was all ground away over the course of more than a decade of waiting.

Her feelings for her also became a tangle of love and hate.

Looking at her, her mother often stared blankly, then vented her anger on her by gripping her shoulder tightly, "Why hasn't he come yet? He said he would come for me. Why hasn't he come yet?"

Scared, she could only hide in the wardrobe, shivering in fright.

At that time, she always thought that everything would be better when her father came to look for them.

Waiting and waiting, Young Ethan came, but he was married and had a child.