"When I saw Farrah, she was so thin she was unrecognizable.
Farrah said that before she had a child, she could tolerate the man's possessiveness and control.
But as their child grew older, she felt more and more strongly that the Gardner family was no place to raise him.
The man, trying to prevent her from leaving, had threatened her with his own death.
And after he died, Farrah's own health collapsed from years of depression.
Alas, the rumors were true.
Anyone who gets involved with the Gardners is touched by misfortune."
Stella sighed silently.
Grandma Connolly continued, "When we brought Marvin back, he was only three years old.
He was a very well-behaved and polite child.
Out of guilt for what happened to Farrah, we decided to register Marvin under Neville's name.
Firstly, it was to give Marvin a father, an emotional anchor.
Secondly, it was to avoid all sorts of untrue speculation from the outside world."
Stella understood Grandma Connolly's reasoning.
The world has always held women to a higher moral standard than men.
Take, for example, an illegitimate child.
If a woman has one, she is labeled as promiscuous and lacking self-respect.
The child, too, faces public criticism.
But if it's a man, people think it's perfectly normal, that it's common for wealthy men to have children out of wedlock.
Moreover, Marvin's father was a Gardner, a family everyone already avoided.
Grandma Connolly wanted nothing to do with them and would never hand the child over to their care.
To protect Marvin from a life without parents and to conceal the truth, Old Mrs. Connolly's decision was understandable.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABEL
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance
Hello! This series has been requested a lot on Reddit, but we’re unable to post the link there ourselves. If you have a Reddit account, we would truly appreciate it if you could help us share the link to this novel to increase its readership. As a thank-you, we will increase the number of free chapters available each day. Thank you so much for your support!...
The same rotation blaming Stella trying to get her destroyed. Isn't the writer tired of writing the same foolishness overand over again? This is exhausting....
Can’t wait to see what joshua will do...
Why would the author of this book do that to Stella? Such cruelty!...
So many chapters are incomplete. Missing pages. Hard to get continuity...
Please move on from Stella's troubles, we need more exiting news. Like Joshua discovering that Stella is the one he has been looking for,the owner of the earring....
Seriously, how long will this get stretched ?? Looks like the whole world is set to trouble Stella... It's not moving anywhere.....
Hey...please update regularly...
Is Jasper gay? He certainly behaves that way....
dont read this... a billionaire in business is a dunce at the truth...duhhh...