Chapter 169 Evening with Crabapple Blossoms
"Buy it," she said.
The crabapple tree was planted in the backyard, diagonal from the old tree, with a newly laid stone path running between them. The evening they finished planting, Adeline crouched beside the sapling to water it, then stood and stepped back to survey the yard's layout. On the le...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Reborn
2. Chapter 2 Every Soul That Hurt Her Pays
3. Chapter 3 Forged Signature
4. Chapter 4 Kneeling in Public
5. Chapter 5 Reacquainting Ourselves, Ms. Stuart
6. Chapter 6 Mutual Suspicion
7. Chapter 7 Let's Chat
8. Chapter 8 I Must Wrong You, Gideon
9. Chapter 9 A Single Blow, Tenfold Retribution
10. Chapter 10 All of Them Are Her Works
11. Chapter 11 The Accusation of the Stuart Family
12. Chapter 12 Special Invited Partner
13. Chapter 13 A Heart-Stirring Moment
14. Chapter 14 Is She Your Girlfriend?
15. Chapter 15 More Enchanted
16. Chapter 16 Latched to Wealth
17. Chapter 17 Who Dares Make a Move?
18. Chapter 18 Truly a Fool
19. Chapter 19 You and Her Are Really a Good Match
20. Chapter 20 A Hundred-Million-Dollar Diamond for Adeline
21. Chapter 21 Breaking News
22. Chapter 22 One of a Kind, Don't Let Him Slip Away
23. Chapter 23 Awaiting Your Counterplay
24. Chapter 24 Make a Bet with Me
25. Chapter 25 Be Good and Wait for Your Owner to Come Back, Yeah?
26. Chapter 26 Fears Lead You Without Resistance
27. Chapter 27 Your Design Is Worth It
28. Chapter 28 Do You Treat Every Woman This Way?
29. Chapter 29 From Now On, I Am K
30. Chapter 30 Three Days For Your Answer
31. Chapter 31 You Care About Me So Much
32. Chapter 32 Don't You Think That Person Looks Very Familiar?
33. Chapter 33 Do You Suspect It Was Murder?
34. Chapter 34 Are They the Mafia?
35. Chapter 35 He Came Up with a Good Idea
36. Chapter 36 I Am a Member of the Stuart Family
37. Chapter 37 Who Says There Is No Evidence?
38. Chapter 38 A Bad Premonition
39. Chapter 39 Don't Scare Her
40. Chapter 40 Give Me a Chance to Pursue You
41. Chapter 41 Do We Really Have to Do This?
42. Chapter 42 Who Said He Is My Man?
43. Chapter 43 Tonight Someone Gets It
44. Chapter 44 You Know What I Want
45. Chapter 45 I Have a Good Idea
46. Chapter 46 Don't Think I Don't Know Your Relationship
47. Chapter 47 Without The Stuarts, You're Nothing
48. Chapter 48 Actually, You Like Me a Little Too
49. Chapter 49 No Woman Resists Him
50. Chapter 50 What Reward Did You Promise Him?
51. Chapter 51 You Owe Me This Favor
52. Chapter 52 Merely Fleeing Heat and Mosquitoes
53. Chapter 53 Did You Think Spiked Water Would Bind Me?
54. Chapter 54 Hug Me, Please
55. Chapter 55 Call the Police
56. Chapter 56 You're Mine
57. Chapter 57 Public Pressure To Break Them
58. Chapter 58 Please, You Must Help Me
59. Chapter 59 His Charm Will Be Enough
60. Chapter 60 Are You Jealous?
61. Chapter 61 Deep Dive Into Dawnside Orphanage
62. Chapter 62 You Bitch
63. Chapter 63 She's Just a Fraud
64. Chapter 64 Drag Them Down With Me
65. Chapter 65 To Meet a Handsome Man
66. Chapter 66 His Foolish Peacock Display
67. Chapter 67 Go Find Felix
68. Chapter 68 Ruined If Louis Discovers Him
69. Chapter 69 You Suspect Their Relationship
70. Chapter 70 You Scumbag Woman
71. Chapter 71 Your Boyfriend Is Here
72. Chapter 72 False Alarm
73. Chapter 73 What Do You Take Me For?
74. Chapter 74 I Don't Regret It
75. Chapter 75 We're Officially Together
76. Chapter 76 Submit to My Arrangements
77. Chapter 77 Your Heart Belongs Only to Me
78. Chapter 78 Don't Touch Me
79. Chapter 79 I Seem to Have Caused You Trouble
80. Chapter 80 One Single Truth
81. Chapter 81 Hidden Recordings
82. Chapter 82 It Is Matthew
83. Chapter 83 Heat and Shadows
84. Chapter 84 You Knew It All Along
85. Chapter 85 It Was Done by Helen
86. Chapter 86 A Break in the Case
87. Chapter 87 Major Breaking Scoop
88. Chapter 88 I Want to Bring Him Back
89. Chapter 89 Did You Go See Matthew Last Night?
90. Chapter 90 No Escape Once in His Grasp
91. Chapter 91 Why Are You So Impulsive?
92. Chapter 92 How Do You Plan to Repay Me?
93. Chapter 93 Kate's Death Has Nothing to Do with Me
94. Chapter 94 Do Not Dare Distort Facts
95. Chapter 95 I Have an Idea
96. Chapter 96 I Will Expose Myself
97. Chapter 97 Here to Make the Arrest
98. Chapter 98 A Dire Emergency, Sir
99. Chapter 99 Cut Ties with Him Immediately
100. Chapter 100 Have You Any Shame to Lie Here?
101. Chapter 101 Let's Talk About Your Engagement
102. Chapter 102 Do You Believe in Past Lives?
103. Chapter 103 Robert Was Hospitalized for a Heart Attack
104. Chapter 104 He Will Only Crave More Power
105. Chapter 105 Sent to Orphanage by Birth Mother Revealed
106. Chapter 106 Do You Think I Can Do It?
107. Chapter 107 Do You Recall the One I Mentioned Before?
108. Chapter 108 You Must Break Away from the Stuart Family
109. Chapter 109 Investigate Raven
110. Chapter 110 No, You're Wrong
111. Chapter 111 Mother's Intimate Photographs
112. Chapter 112 Unknown: Friend or Foe
113. Chapter 113 Her Composure Is Fraying
114. Chapter 114 Be My Paramour, and You Shall Be Well Provided For
115. Chapter 115 Count the Cost
116. Chapter 116 There Is No Such Person Here
117. Chapter 117 She Must Know Something
118. Chapter 118 Eliminate Her Completely
119. Chapter 119 I'm Being Followed
120. Chapter 120 I Can't Wait Another Second
121. Chapter 121 I'm Back
122. Chapter 122 She Refuses to Tell the Truth
123. Chapter 123 You Think You Won?
124. Chapter 124 I Will Not Be Broken By This
125. Chapter 125 No One Will Help You Anymore
126. Chapter 126 Robert Is Dead
127. Chapter 127 No One Would Harm Me
128. Chapter 128 Was There Another Puppeteer?
129. Chapter 129 Seek the Hidden Hand
130. Chapter 130 He Is Not Robert's Son
131. Chapter 131 I Cannot Father Children
132. Chapter 132 He Is Unhinged
133. Chapter 133 Spread Word of the Engagement
134. Chapter 134 What Is There Left to Fear?
135. Chapter 135 Only a Fight Can Leave Us a Way Out
136. Chapter 136 He Might Make a Move Against You
137. Chapter 137 Only I Dance This With You
138. Chapter 138 Your Problem Lies in Your Mindset
139. Chapter 139 A Clash of Titans
140. Chapter 140 He Doesn't Seem Out to Hurt Me
141. Chapter 141 On to Another Matter
142. Chapter 142 One More Tear, and Cut All Contact
143. Chapter 143 Do as I Say
144. Chapter 144 I Really Can't Hold On Much Longer
145. Chapter 145 Hurry and Save Me
146. Chapter 146 I've Laid Every Path For You
147. Chapter 147 How Could It Be Him?
148. Chapter 148 Set Your Plan in Motion
149. Chapter 149 What History Lies Between Them?
150. Chapter 150 You Saved My Life
151. Chapter 151 Unexpected News on Their Wedding Night
152. Chapter 152 Honeymoon
153. Chapter 153 Helen Is Dead
154. Chapter 154 Evidence Left by Raven
155. Chapter 155 Words Spoken Before the Grave
156. Chapter 156 Going Home
157. Chapter 157 Helen's Funeral
158. Chapter 158 Felix's Healing
159. Chapter 159 The New Arrival
160. Chapter 160 Three Months Later
161. Chapter 161 The Final Trial
162. Chapter 162 A Long-Overdue Farewell
163. Chapter 163 She Is Not Forgotten
164. Chapter 164 A New Life
165. Chapter 165 A Good Deed Done
166. Chapter 166 Christmas Eve
167. Chapter 167 New Year
168. Chapter 168 Spring
169. Chapter 169 Evening with Crabapple Blossoms
170. Chapter 170 The Grand Finale
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