Of course, the one who laughed the most was Katrina.
Everyone laughed at her, saying she was cheap and had no backbone. The engagement ceremony was held at the man’s house, but even the male lead didn’t show up, or maybe he never appeared.
She must have been crazy in love with Heriberto to put up with such humiliation, even going through the whole engagement ceremony by herself.
Another netizen dug up Heriberto’s confession to Iris during a live TV interview before.
Everyone says Heriberto doesn’t like Katrina at all, otherwise, how come he didn’t even show up for something as big as their engagement.
Heriberto didn’t like, and kept chasing after, Katrina, the seemingly aloof Miss Powell from the Powell family, she was really mean to the
core.
Not worth a dime!
Last night, Katrina saw the comments from their friends on the Powell family’s own villa, and she was so angry that she smashed everything in the room.
For nearly thirty years, she’s been treated like a princess, when has she ever been treated like this before?
Since Heriberto treated her like that, not letting her off easy, she wasn’t going to let Heriberto off easy either.
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In the master bedroom on the third floor of Acme Villa
Heriberto was stuck on the couch by the French window, quickly scanning through the trending topics on the tablet and the comments
from netizens.
Reading those comments constantly bashing Katrina, he didn’t feel any satisfaction at all.
He clearly achieved his goal.
But he couldn’t be happy at all.
Because all of this wasn’t what he wanted.
All he wanted now was to go back to when his grandmother told him to marry Iris.
If time could go back, he would give everything of himself, even his own life, to Iris.
He would protect her, spoil her, love her, respect her, never let her suffer any grievances, and do his best to make her the happiest woman in the world.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world.
He closed his eyes, and tears started to well up in his eyes, slowly becoming wet.
In my mind, I couldn’t help but see the image of him and Iris entangled in a fierce embrace over the past three years.
Many times, he didn’t even want to take a shower, just stood in front of the floor–to–ceiling window with Iris, wearing clothes, and demanded
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without restraint
Iris always went along with him without any conditions
Back then, he was really happy, like living in a fairy tale
Even so, he never gave Iris a good look, let alone sand a kind word to her
Why was he such a jerk?
That night, Heriberto sat on the sofa by the floor–to–ceiling window, smoking all night.
This morning, Agnese went upstairs and heard his heart–wrenching cough, it felt like his lungs were about to be coughed out.
Agnese quickly went to knock on the door.
After waiting for a while, she heard continuous coughing inside Without thinking too much, she just pushed the door and went in.
As soon as the door was pushed open, a strong, pungent smell of smoke hit us in the face.
“Mr. Hale,…”
Seeing Heriberto sitting on the sofa, his hands clenched loosely at his lips, bending over and still coughing, the ashtray on the side table had cigarette butts piled up like a small mountain, one of which was only half smoked and still burning without being extinguished.
Agnese was really upset, didn’t know what to say, just quickly went downstairs again, poured a big bowl of the lung–cleansing cough- relieving soup she made early this morning, and brought it upstairs.
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