Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime

“Those in power, they don’t casually let women outside their circle become pregnant with their children,” Evelyn Willard said. “When I was with him, he always took precautions.”

Jade Carlson felt cold all over.

So… George Carlson had been using her all along.

Her father was not the mayor, but some meaningless man!

Jade Carlson’s body shook even more fiercely. After all her efforts, what had she gained? Her life, was it all just a joke!

Subconsciously wanting a smoke, the cigarette in her hand was taken away by Evelyn Willard.

“You’d better stay away from this stuff,” Evelyn Willard snuffed out the cigarette.

Jade Carlson watched the ash in the ashtray break into fine strands, her heart continuously sinking into an endless darkness.

Perhaps this time, she really needed to burn her bridges…

…

The next night, Purple Summers was sleeping soundly at home when she suddenly heard some uproar outside.

The weather in April and May was comfortable, and the night breeze was cool. The windows in the room were open, and the sound from outside came in waves, clearly audible.

However, by the time Purple Summers got up to see what was happening, the noise had subsided, as if it were just a minor interlude in the night, soon over.

She found it strange, but now, in the dead of night, to ask for clarity, she would have to change clothes and go out looking for someone.

Purple Summers couldn’t be bothered to move and went back to bed to continue sleeping.

Not until the next day did she hear from the servants that Nathaniel Summers’s fiancée had come last night.

They said she arrived in a sorry state, with tattered clothes and several slashes on her luggage.

Nathaniel ordered a guest room to be arranged for Jade Carlson.

The servants were buzzing with talk.

“I heard she had nowhere to turn, got chased out of several hotels,” one said.

“…Couldn’t rent a place to stay, couldn’t stay in hotels, had to find those informal little motels. Then, she encountered a robbery in the middle of the night, nearly got raped…”

“How pitiful…”

“Pitiful? She had it coming! She schemed against Mrs. Farrell’s child; this is her just desserts!”

People always tendentially sympathize with the underdog, even knowing Jade Carlson’s past misdeeds. Now seeing her wretched situation, some still felt pity.

Some servants also lamented that Mrs. Farrell’s methods were too cruel.

Purple Summers found it strange. She knew Camilla Farrell’s retaliation against Jade Carlson, but arranging a robbery and even attempted rape, such lowly tactics, didn’t seem like Camilla Farrell’s style.

Camilla Farrell was forceful, and her methods of suppressing Jade Carlson tended to be hard-hitting.

Moreover, how could it be such a coincidence that this happened right after the engagement news broke out… as if waiting for this opportunity to legitimize Jade Carlson’s stay in the Summers Residence.

Purple Summers was full of doubts. She wasn’t afraid of Jade, but having such a person in the house did make her feel less secure.

However, after a few days of calm, Jade Carlson’s behavior surprised everyone.

—It was as if Jade Carlson had seen the light, completely reforming herself.

Seeing an old servant cleaning the garden, she would eagerly join in to help;

Staying in the kitchen, the maid suffered from bad skin due to the fumes, so Jade Carlson gave her many skincare masks;

The housekeeper had an old knee problem, and Jade Carlson specially obtained a recipe for medicinal wine from a traditional medicine practitioner…

All of a sudden, the Summers Family, up and down, stopped gossiping about her; instead, they all felt she was quite nice.

Purple Summers found it inconceivable.

Jade Carlson suddenly turning good? …She didn’t believe it for a second.

One day on her way to school, Purple Summers encountered Jade Carlson, who gave her a bottle of eye medicine.

“Reading every day strains the eyes. This eye medicine can relieve fatigue; it’s very effective, just two drops a time.” Jade Carlson’s smile was sweet and harmless.