Eva hadn't been in a good mood since she met Jenny. Originally, Eva thought that she could turn the situation around with her intelligence, but she didn't expect that the incident of Zoe would change Jenny's mind. Damn Zoe, why did he ruin her plan?
Zoe, the b*stard, deserved to go to hell. But he couldn't go to hell at this time! Eva hated Zoe and wished him to die, but what would Madrigal do if something bad happened to Zoe?
Yale must have thought that the reason why Eva tried her best to help Madrigal was that she hated Hannah and wanted to get back at Hannah's daughter. Actually, Eva had her own reason. Madrigal was her daughter.
Speaking of which, Eva had mixed feelings. She loved and hated Madrigal. She loved Madrigal because Madrigal was her own daughter. She hated her because she was the ugliest memory in her heart.
If it weren't for the fact that she could no longer get pregnant again, how could she have given birth to Madrigal at the risk of being humiliated? It was Hannah and Zoe who started all this.
Hannah and Eva were related by blood. According to common sense, they should love each other. But the truth was that they had always been enemies.
Eva's mother was the daughter of a down-and-out family. She was forced to marry Hannah's father because her family had declined. Later, she gave birth to Hannah and Xanjer.
Hannah's father died because of lung disease and left his poor family behind. Later, Eva's mother met a widowed young painter, Andrew Xi. Andrew was a famous local painter. He came from a rich family. His wife passed away after giving birth to Francisco.
Andrew met Eva's mother in a sketch and was overwhelmed by her beauty, so he started to pursue her. Andrew's gentleness naturally attracted Eva's mother, so they became a couple.
Andrew promised to take care of Hannah and Xanjer. This was a good thing but was refused by the Mo family. They gave Eva's mother two choices, one was to stay in the Mo family to take care of the two children, the other one was to abandon the two kids and leave with Andrew.
It was hard for Eva's mother to make a choice between love and family, but in the end, she chose Andrew.
Later, Eva knew that someone in the Mo family had a crush on her mother and was ready to marry her. However, her mother did not like that person, so the Mo family threatened her with her children.
Eva's mother chose to marry Andrew because she was pregnant with Eva. At that time, she had no other choice. Although Eva's mother married Andrew, she had been worried about Hannah and Xanjer. Since Eva was young, her mother had been missing Hannah and Xanjer.
When Eva was a child, she had been very looking forward to seeing her elder sister. Later, when she saw Hannah, she didn't like her at all. Eva remembered that when she was five years old, her mother took her back to the Mo family to see Hannah and Xanjer, but they were rejected. The rough village women of the Mo family scolded her mother with dirty words, saying that her mother was a shameless b*tch, who hooked up with another man shortly after her husband's death.
They even scolded Eva as a b*stard. Later, Eva's mother left with Eva disgracefully, which left a psychological shadow on young Eva. If it weren't for Hannah, they wouldn't have been humiliated like this.
Although Eva's mother and Andrew loved each other very much, the Xi family didn't like her. The Xi family was a family of scholars. They were very disgusted with the fact that Eva's mother got pregnant before she married Andrew. When Eva was a child, she often heard servants gossiping about her mother. She also saw her mother being bullied by others and hiding in the room to cry secretly.
Andrew couldn't bear to see his wife suffer such humiliation. In the end, he moved out of Jiang City with his wife. Without discrimination and gossip, they lived a very happy life.
However, Hannah and Xanjer lived a hard life. They were often beaten and scolded by the people who took care of them. Later, the people who took care of them died of an accident. When Eva's mother heard that they became orphans, she asked someone to pick them up. However, Hannah refused to live with her. Eva didn't know what the Mo family had said to Hannah, but Hannah hated her mother very much. She said that she didn't have such a shameless mother and she could feed herself and her brother herself, which made her mother very painful. Later, Andrew let his servant adopt Hannah and Xanjer anonymously so that Hannah and Xanjer could go to school.
Hannah's grades were very good. She had successfully gotten into the university. Xanjer was not interested in studying. He dropped out of junior high and stayed home.
Hannah was the prettiest girl when she was in college. Many boys liked her, including Eva's brother Francisco. Hannah disliked Francisco at first, but later their relationship became better.
Eva actually saw Francisco coming to Hannah. She'd never seen him so happy except when he was with Hannah.
Francisco was really nice to Hannah, which made Eva jealous. She and Francisco were brother and sister. Why was Francisco nicer to Hannah, who had no blood relationship with him?
Because of this, Eva gradually began to envy Hannah. She would get angry when people around praised Hannah's beauty, intelligence, and talent.
Because of the excellent grades and talent in design, Francisco was invited to study at a well-known university abroad.
After Francisco went abroad, he quickly made great achievements in the design industry and became a famous design teacher. Because Francisco was abroad, Eva went to his place in the summer vacation.
Francisco's friends were all from the upper class. Among them, there were many wealthy Chinese. Jim was one of them. Jim liked carving, and he gradually became Francisco's friend after a meeting. Because he often came to Francisco, he became friends with Eva.
Jim was handsome and gentle, and he was also the heir of a rich and powerful family. Eva took a fancy to him at first sight. She tried her best to get close to him.
Because of Francisco, Jim also treated her well. Fie even invited her to be his female companion at a party.
It made Eva very happy. She had always thought that Jim liked her, otherwise, he would not have invited her to be his female companion.
Eva had a crush on Jim. Francisco had seen through all her thoughts, so he warned her to stop dreaming. Fie said that in Jim's eyes, she was just his friend's sister. Besides, Jim's family background was beyond her reach.
But how could Eva listen to him? She liked Jim so much. She couldn't stay abroad too long and she was about to return to China soon. She hoped that Jim could confess to her as soon as possible so that they could be a couple.
Jim didn't confess to her, but he went back to China with her. At that time, Jim returned to China to visit a famous carving master. But Eva didn't think so. She thought it was just an excuse. His real purpose was to send her back.
Francisco asked Jim to bring gifts to Hannah. When Jim met Hannah, he was surprised by her beauty and fell in love with her at a glance.
For Hannah, Jim gave up going abroad. Instead, he settled down in the city on the excuse of learning carving. It was a good thing for Eva. She had always thought that Jim did it for her.
It was not until she saw Jim and Hannah start dating that she realized what had happened. She began to hate Hannah because she thought that Hannah shamelessly took her lover away.
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