Chapter 1


    Rosalind Jansen walked through the night, feeling the biting wind on her fare. Her hair was a wind–


    blown mess, covering most of her face, Right now, the torrential rain was hitting her so hand that it


    made her look like a drowned rat.


    However, she had no time to clean up her face and long rain wet hair. She ran quickly to Peace


    Hospital with tears in her eyes, clutching a document in her hand tightly.


    It was a divorce agreement.


    It was a divorce agreement from Leonanda Brooks, the man Rosalind had loved for seven years.


    But Rosalind didn’t believe it. She didn’t believe that Leonants would be so cruel. After four years of


    unrequited love, she finally got him and married him for three years. Even if there was a


    misunderstanding between them when they got married, she had done so many things for him in the


    past seven years. So she thought that he still cared about her.


    Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had sex with her a month ago.


    Rosalind wanted to ask Leonardo in person why he sent her the divorce agreement. She believed that


    Leonarda didn’t mean it, so she had to hear his exnation prisonally.


    Rosalind ran to the inpatient department of Peace Hospits, as soon as possible and stood outside


    Maria’s ward,


    Maria Brooks was Leonardo’s mother and Rosalind’s mother inw.


    Even though Rosalind had been living with Maria for so long, the still felt uneasy when she was with


    her


    Rosalind stood nervously outside the ward, carefully tidying up her wet hair in front of the window, and


    used the lipstick to make her pale lips rosier to make her look not too bad.


    When everything was done, Rosalind put on a faint smile. She was ready.


    She knew that Leonardo was taking care of the I Maria now. Maria was sensitive about her reputation


    and she hated it most when Rosalind disgraced the Brooks family.


    Just as Rosalind was about to open the door toe in, she heard Maria’s weak but aggressive voice.


    “When will you kick that woman out of the Brooks family, Leonarda?”


    Hearing Maria’s words, Rosalind felt her heart skipped a bear. She knew exactly who the woman Mara


    was talking about. It was her.


    In the Brooks family, Maria called her “that woman” in front of Leonardo more than once.


    Rosalind felt it was ironic. Although she was Maria’s daughter–inw, she had never been treated in


    the right way. Maria had always been very critical of her and kept calling her “that woman” in an


    arrogant jene.


    “Why does Maria have to ask Leonardo to divorce me?” Rosalind thought nervously


    Rosalind knew that the reason why she and Leonardo got married was not decent at all.


    There was a misunderstanding Someone took a photo of her and him staying at the hotel and posted it


    on the interset,


    The next day, the news that the daughter of the Jansen family spend a night with the son of the Bracks


    family caused a sensation in Haldorin. Although it was just a photo of them entering and leaving the


    hotel room, it was enough for people to throw dirt on their names.


    Even the Brooks family’s reputation was greatly damaged after being criticized days, and all the staff of


    Brooks Group were panicked


    public. The shares of Brooks Group fell for three consecutive


    Therefore, Leonardo had to marry Rosalind for the reputation of the Brooks family and Brooks Group.


    Kana and Leonardo had always thought that it was all Rosalind’s doing, but she didn’t. She didn’t know


    how it happened. She just happened to meet the drunk Leonardo and that was all. But nobody believed


    her.


    “Don’t be angry, Mom. You need rest!” Leonardo suddenly said in a deep voice.


    Rosalind could always hear such a gentle voice when Leonardo talked to his mother, but he had never


    been so gentle to her.


    “How can not be angry? Did you forget how she got into the Brooks family and killed your father! She’s


    just a cunning woman who tried every means


    to get you yet she hasn’t given you a chuld. She’s not qualided to be my daughter inw. She was a big


    disgrace to the Brooks family”


    It seemed that Maria got mad every time the mentioned hosalind in her eyes, Rosalind was a great


    hundation to the Brooks family and even her nightmare


    Rosalind shook her head and thought, “It’s not true. Fichard didn’t die because of me. I would never kill


    a person who was so kind to me.”


    Rosalind was wronged, but she didn’t know how to exin it to them. Because whatever she said, they


    would not believe her.


    “Mom.” Leonardo wanted to say something, but he was soon interrupted by Maria.


    “Stop, You’ve already given the divorce agreement to her, right? Tell her to sign it and leave quickly.


    You said earlier that you kept her in the Brooks family just to let her alone for her mistakes. But now I


    don’t want to see her again and she doesn’t have to atone for her mistakes anymore. I only want


    Virginia York to be my daughter inw. Even if you don’t like her, you have to think about the baby she’s


    carrying. He’s my grandson Do you make him a bastant before he is born?”


    I want to


    “Don’t worry about this, Mom, I have asked someone to take care of it already. I’ll get everything done.


    You only have to take a good rest. It’s not worth it to get because of her?”


    Leonardo frowned and carefully stroked Maria’s back, trying tofort her.


    “If it weren’t for that shameless woman who pissed me off, how could I be so mad? Tell her to sign the


    divorce agreement now and go back to the Jansen family. Otherwise, she’s gonna kill me sooner or


    later”


    Maria snorted andy on the bed with the help of Leonardo.


    Rosalind froze outside the ward. She couldn’t believe what she just heard.


    She thought, Atone for my mistakes?


    Did Leonardo marry me and let me be abused by Maria so that I could atone for my mistakes?


    What mistakes have I made?


    Is it because of Virginia? Or the baby?


    Are Leonardo and Virginia going to have a kid?


    How can it be possible? How?”


    The shocking news came into Rosalind’s ears, making her suffocate. Tears streamed down her face


    again, and she withdrew her slender hand that was holding the doorknob, trembling


    The conversation between Maria and Leonardo kept echoing in her mind.


    Leonardo and Virginu…


    Virginia..


    Leonardo had always cared about Virginia.


    There was a bitter smile on Rosalind’s pale face.


    She wasughing at herself.


    She had been her and loved Leonardo for so many years, but still, she was just a nobody in his life.


    She was nothingpared to Virginia.


    ‘Atonement


    How ridiculous! Did I marry him just to atone for my mistakes?


    What on earth did I do wrong? For god’s sake, my biggest mistake was to fall in love with Leonardo.


    What am I waiting for? What am I expecting She thought.


    Rosalind grabbed the divorce agreement in her hand tightly and suddenly felt disappointed.


    She didn’t want to do this anymore She just lived with no dignity in a failed mariage, and she couldn’t


    even get love from Leonardo.


    Rosalind took several steps back in a daze.


    She walked towards the gate of Peace Hospital with a nk mind but happened to see someone she


    didn’t w


    Virginia!


    want to see again in her life.


    Virginia was still as beautiful as she used to look like in college. She was like a fairy from heaven and


    looked more mature than before.


    However, Virginia had a slight bulge in her belly now. She naturally protected her lower belly with her


    right hand while she was holding a color ultrasound report in her left hand. The image on the report


    was clear, which could show that it was a head image of a child whose face was blurry.


    Thinking of what Mana and Leonardo had said before, Rosalind felt furious. She asked, “What are you


    doing here?”


    Virginia seemed not to be surprised to meet Mosalind here. She smiled viciously and said, “Why can’t


    be here?”


    “You… The baby.. Is i…” Rosalind had been preparing for a long time but sh


    | couldn’t finish her words to ask whether it was Leonardo’s kid.


    However, Virginia guessed what Rosalind was trying to say. So she smiled happily and said, “Yes, it’s


    Leonardo’s kid. It’s our kid!”


    “Leonardo. Looks like you’re very close to him. Don’t you know he’s married? You shameless


    Rosalind showed a bitter smile on herce. Seeing Wirginia’s proud face, she felt that there was a


    volcano in her heart that was about to erupl.


    “Married? So what? Leonardo doesn’t love you! Don’t forget how you seduced him, how your father


    forced him to marry you, and how he forced me to break up with Leonardo. Who are you to question


    me? You are the one between me and Leonard!”


    Hearing Rosalind’s words, Virginiaughed and mocked her. Even the smile on Virginia’s fice became


    terrifying


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    “I didn’t!” Rosalind denied it subconsciously.


    It was all a misunderstanding. She didn’t mean it.


    Rosalind had fallen in love with Leonardo since he rescued her from several gangsters vantly at the


    age of sixteen.


    She followed him to the same university and even asked him to be her boyfriend regardless of her


    dignity and her ssmates ridicule. She even didn’t sleep for two days just to design a sult for him.


    Rosalind’s love for Leonardo was known to all, She had never used any dirty tricks to get the man she


    loved, let alone sleep with him directly.


    She had always expressed her love openly. Even if Leonardo never epted her, she had never given


    up.


    But now, it seemed that she failed


    When Rosalind woke up from the midnight dreams, she wished that she hadn’t done those things. She


    wished that she had never met Leonardo that night, never got curious about this man, and never


    followed him.


    But it just happened. Maybe it was her fate. Everything that shouldn’t have happened had happened.


    Eventually, she became the so called shameless and cunning woman who slept with a man to get him


    and who threatened him to marry her by asking someone to take a photo of them together and post it


    online.


    She became a woman who was used and scolded by everyone, disappointed her parent, and even


    hated by the man she loved.


    She didn’t want any of it.


    “You didn’t? Don’t y innocent with me, Rosalind. You are a cunning bich. You drugged Leonardo to


    take him from me. You made me sick! What are you trying to deny? Are you denying that you get Mr.


    Brooks killed?”


    Seeing Rosalind’s panicked look, Virginia felt very happy. If it weren’t for her, Virginia would have


    already been Leonardo’s wife, the president’s wife of Brooks Group


    It was Rosalind who ruined her n.


    But now Virginia finally got her revenge. Looking at the wrinkled divorce agreement in Rosalind’s hand,


    Virginia smiled disdainfully.


    “Did youe here to ask Leonardo whether he means to divorce you? Did you get the answer you’ve


    been waiting for?”


    Virginia ignored Rosalind’s devastated look. She held her bulging belly with her right hand and


    approached Rosalind.


    Seeing Virginia’s round belly, Rosalind was so nervous that she stepped back subconsciously for fear


    of hurting her baby by ident


    However, Rosalind’s heart ached again when she thought that the baby was Leonardo’s


    “No, he won’t divorce me. He won’t..”


    Rosalind kept shaking her head, trying to convince herself


    “No? Are you still in your dreams, Rosalind? Do you think your father can still help you this time? Don’t


    be silly. There’s no way he can help you out. Stop daydreaming!”


    Virginia’s eyes were full of ridicule and viciousness. When she was about to say something more, she


    suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar person. Suddenly, she sneered and approached Rosalind with


    her bulging belly


    Rosalind moved backwards subconsciously to keep a distance from Virginia, but the next second, she


    heard Virginia’s scream.


    “Oh my goodness, my baby. My poor baby.. Why? Why did you do this to him?”


    Rosalind was scared by the sudden scream of Virginia. She reached out to help Virginia, but her hand


    was suddenly grabbed tightly by someone.


    “What are you doing, Rosalind?”


    Rosalind heard Lennardo’s cold voice and shrank with feat.


    Leonardo’s indifferent look caused a sharp pain in Rosalind’s heart.


    “I didn’L)She did it on purpose.. Rosalind denied.


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    “Shut up! Didn’t ask you to stay


    tay at home? Why did youe to the hospital? How long have you been here?”


    Leonardo didn’t seem to want to hear Rosalind’s exnation at all Instead, he questioned her


    seriously. Apparently, he was very mad about Rosalinding to the hospital without telling him.


    Seeing Leonardo’s impatient look, Rosalind felt sad again.


    However, thinking of why she came to the hospital today, Rosalind didn’t bother to ask about Virginia


    anymore. She still wanted to ask Leonardo abou the divorce in person. There was a voice in her heart


    telling her that if she didn’t ask now, she would never get a chance to do it


    Therefore, Rosalind showed Leonardo the wrinkled divorce agreement in her hand and asked word by


    word, “You didn’t send it to me, did your