On the auction day, Beatrice was putting on makeup while telling the servants to bring her dress.

But after the servant entered the cloakroom, she did not return for a long while.

Beatrice became slightly unhappy and could only go there herself.

At this time, inside the cloakroom packed with costly jewelry and handmade clothing, Liora was changing clothes.

The gown on her body was exactly Beatrice’s dress. It did not fully fit her size, but the tailor beside her was recording adjustment details again.

The servant who earlier went to fetch the gown for Beatrice was kneeling on the ground, with a visible handprint still left on half her face.

“Miss Liora, this gown belongs to Miss Beatrice. You truly can’t take it!”

“If you act like this, I can’t explain it to Miss Beatrice. Please, I’m begging you!”

Listening to her nonstop talking, Liora impatiently looked at her.

“What does your explanation have to do with me?”

“But Sir gave this to Miss Liora.” The servant became so nervous that tears kept falling as she continuously bowed her head.

“What are all of you doing?” After seeing the situation in front of her, Beatrice coldly spoke, her eyes especially cold when looking at Liora.

Liora told the servant and tailor to leave first and wait outside before slowly replying to Beatrice.

“Big sister, this dress is very pretty. I want to wear it.”

“No.” Beatrice refused immediately. That dress belonged to her. “Take it off right now!”

At that moment, no other people stayed around them. The weak look on Liora usually acted out instantly disappeared after Beatrice refused her.

She brushed up the hair she had just arranged, a little mockery in her voice.

“Older sister, I already tried to leave you some respect, so why don’t you appreciate it? I am telling you this, not asking for your thoughts.”

“You do not need to keep pretending to be the lady of the house anymore. Mom wants Hendrix and me together, and in Hendrix’s heart, there is only me, too.”

She loosened her collar a little, revealing skin marked by intimacy.

“He said he can only feel joy when he is with me. Around his older sister, he cannot feel even a little excitement. If both families did not need a child to keep their relationship connected, he would never want to with you…”

Before her sentence ended, Beatrice raised her hand and gave her a hard slap, directly knocking her face to one side.

“No matter what, I am still Hendrix’s legal wife right now! Even if he already gets tired of me, he still cannot casually remove me from this place.”

“And you! Hendrix only felt sorry for you and cared about you a little, so he stayed with you for a few years. Do you really think you can stand above me?”

“Liora, I already put up with you for a very long time. Stop bothering me again and again!”

Beatrice originally did not want to waste her strength dealing with Liora.

They were the true and false daughters, and that was already a fact nobody could change. Besides, she had already fully decided to leave on her own.

But today, Liora completely ripped away the fake act she always kept, and Beatrice could no longer keep enduring it!

Liora looked at Beatrice with hatred covering her face. After seeing a person walking closer from behind Beatrice in the distance, her expression instantly changed back, showing a slight plotting smile.

At some point, she already held a pair of sewing scissors in her hand. She grabbed Beatrice’s hand and stabbed toward the side of her own waist.

The beautiful gown instantly ripped apart with a tearing sound, and the flesh at her waist became bloody as blood quickly poured out.

“I’m sorry, big sister, I was wrong! I never dare do it again!”

“I beg you, I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!”

Her crying and screams sounded painful, and Hendrix’s footsteps rushed closer and closer.

When he arrived in front of Liora, Beatrice already had no time to respond.

Hendrix quickly held Liora in his arms. The moment he saw blood flowing from her body, his eyes immediately turned red from panic.

“Where is the family doctor? Hurry and bring the family doctor here! And where are the bodyguards? All of you are useless!”

The family doctor came over. Together, they carried Liora onto the bed to clean and stitch her wound. Only then did Hendrix have time to look at Beatrice standing nearby.

Beatrice wanted to explain that she did not hurt Liora. Everything was only Liora pretending and acting by herself!

But Hendrix stood up and suddenly slapped her hard across the face.

This was the first time Hendrix hit Beatrice.

The corner of Beatrice’s mouth split from the slap, and tears quickly fell from her eyes.

“Hendrix, I did not hurt Liora! She is only pretending to fool you!”

“At first, she was also the one trying to take my gown!”

Right after that, Hendrix’s second slap landed on her face again.

“So just because of this dress, you nearly killed your younger sister? Beatrice, you really are insane!”

He breathed deeply, doing everything he could to hold back the anger in his chest.

“You have to apologize to Liora!”

Beatrice held the side of her mouth, tasting blood slowly spreading inside.

“Why can’t you trust me? That dirty woman who plays with men also deserves an apology from me? No way!”

Hendrix got mad again at the way she acted. He raised his hand again, but when he saw the slap marks and blood on her cheeks, he froze for a moment and slowly put his hand down.

Even he did not notice that, because he had panicked from worry before, he had slapped her so hard.

But when he turned to look at Liora again, lying weakly on the bed with her eyes shut tight, he could not completely hold back his anger.

“I promise on the family’s name, if you keep refusing to say sorry to Liora, I surely will not spare you!”

He told the bodyguards to lock Beatrice in the bedroom and not give her any food or water, wanting to see when she would finally give in.

Beatrice stared at his cold figure from behind. Her heart hurt like it was bleeding, but she still lifted her head proudly. While wiping away tears and blood, she kept speaking to herself inside her heart.

Beatrice, you are going away, so do not cry over him anymore!

Beatrice was shoved into the room by the same bodyguard from before, who had always treated her badly.

His actions were forceful. She dropped onto the floor, pain spreading through her whole body as if every bone had shattered from the hit.

“Mrs. Hawkin’s position without receiving Mr. Hawkins’s affection is only a useless shell.”

Before she could recover, the bedroom door shut, and her adoptive mother called her. The moment the call connected, angry curses and insults came from the other end.

“You ungrateful girl, I told you to give the Mrs. Hawkins role to Liora. Not only did you disobey me, but you even caused her injury.”

“If I had known you were this evil, when I discovered you were not the real daughter, I should have used the Elliott family’s influence to make you vanish completely from this world!”

Beatrice heard her adoptive mother’s remarks while tears kept falling nonstop. In the end, she was still the mother who cared for her for over twenty years. Saying her heart did not feel even a little pain was a lie.

Yet before she managed to speak and explain, her adoptive mother already blocked the number. No matter how often she tried calling again, only busy signals answered her.

Beatrice’s wounded heart fully broke apart.

After that, she spent the whole day unable to swallow even one bite of food or drink one sip of water.

Every three hours, the bodyguards came over and asked her, “Is Miss Beatrice ready to say sorry to Miss Liora?”

Beatrice stayed quiet the entire time.

Again and again, she reminded herself that there were still three days left before the marriage relationship inside the system ended.

After she received the experimental data, she could leave.

Again and again, she pleaded with the servants outside the door to send a message to Hendrix, saying she wished to visit the laboratory to correct the incorrect data.

Yet inside her room, not even one servant came to bring her daily needs. The only moment a servant entered was when they walked into the wrong room.

“Pardon me, Ma’am, where do I place the jewelry sent from the auction house?”

“Oh, forgive me, Ma’am, I got the wrong room, these are for Miss Liora!”

Even though Liora could not go to the auction due to her injury, Hendrix still arranged for people to attend and purchase the presents she wanted.

One after another, the presents were carried into Liora’s room, quietly showing everyone that Beatrice had already lost Hendrix’s care.

Beatrice bitterly smiled at herself and blankly waited for another day to come.

The moment morning arrived, after not drinking even one sip of water, she shakily stood up.

Who could have expected Hendrix to appear while also bringing news that struck like thunder?

“When Liora checks her injury, the doctor finds out she is pregnant, and the baby is mine.”

“If you did not make the doctor handle that matter before, this baby should already have been found much earlier; it does not wait until now.”

“Beatrice, by now, just honestly admit you are wrong. Then take this child, care for it under your name, and I can still let you keep Mrs. Hawkins title.”

Beatrice opened her eyes wide at Hendrix, her lips parting and closing, but she could not say even one word.

If Liora had not done that before, her baby would not have miscarried.

But now, Liora was pregnant and carrying her husband’s baby!

And they still expected her to raise it?

It really was too ridiculous.

Beatrice’s eyes turned red. After staying quiet for a long while, she finally rasped, “Understood.”

She was not bowing down to Liora, but telling herself, leave, get away from this place!

Liora appeared by the doorway at the right moment, holding out a glass of water to Beatrice.

Beatrice unconsciously wet her lips. They felt slightly dry, and she almost naturally wanted to stretch out her hand.

Right after that, she heard Liora speak.

“Elder sister, later on, you should be more accepting; this child still needs to grow up under elder sister’s name.”

“The doctor says this baby will most likely be a boy; later, he might take over Hendrix’s family business.”

“I wish he stays healthy and safe, not like the baby before inside elder sister’s stomach, living for such a brief time……”

Those words plainly wanted to expose Beatrice’s painful wound in front of everyone!

At once, anger rose inside her chest. She shoved aside the cup Liora handed toward her.

Even though she did not use much strength, the cup in Liora’s hand still fell down.

Water spread across the floor. Liora hurriedly tried to dodge it, but fell heavily over.

Terrified, she held her stomach and kept crying loudly.

“Elder sister, why do you treat me this way?”

“Hendrix, can our baby still survive? I beg you to save him, please save him no matter what!”

Everything took place too fast. When Beatrice finally returned to her senses, the bodyguards had already shoved her into the emergency vehicle.

The line of cars looked large and impressive as they drove straight toward the closest luxury private hospital.

Liora was taken for a checkup, while Beatrice stayed under Hendrix’s bodyguards’ watch, unable to move at all.

After not drinking even one sip of water for an entire day and night, and then facing another sudden situation, Beatrice’s sight repeatedly turned black.

Right when she nearly lost consciousness, Hendrix threw a cup of cold water onto her to wake her up.

The coldness sank deep into her body, making her unable to stop shaking.

“I never wanted to hurt Liora and the child inside her stomach!” Beatrice instinctively spoke to defend herself.

Hendrix said nothing. After seeing her wake up, he brought her away from the hospital.

This time, they headed toward the laboratory.

Beatrice believed Hendrix had finally remembered his promise to let her return to the laboratory and correct the wrong data, and she could finally leave as well.

She did not pause at all. Together, they entered the password and fingerprints, while the laboratory’s huge doors gradually opened.

Inside stood the only things Beatrice had built up, the only belongings that were truly hers!

She felt overjoyed and wanted to step ahead, yet the bodyguards once again held her down.

Hendrix’s hands repeatedly moved across the screen, erasing one completed data file after another from her earlier work.

“What are you doing! Stop! Hendrix!”

Beatrice released a painful scream, her voice rough to a terrifying level, sounding like a mad person crawling out from hell.

Hendrix stopped moving, his hand remaining raised in the air as he gave his last warning.

“You have done far too many wrong things! All I ever wanted was for you to apologize to Liora. That was the last respect I left for you because of the family’s reputation. Yet you kept refusing.”

“You greatly disappoint me. The low background of a fake daughter truly makes it hard to develop good character. So I can only use this method to make you give in. I will ask you once again, Beatrice, do you really still refuse to admit your mistake?”

Beatrice’s tears slowly fell from her face one drop at a time.

During the first year of the arranged marriage, Hendrix followed all her wishes, saying she was his most outstanding and capable wife.

Now he disliked that she was not the real eldest daughter of the Elliott family, believing her character was not noble enough, and thinking she was beneath him.

Hendrix truly reached a point where he hated her this much!

Was she wrong? She was wrong.

She was wrong because from the start, she should never have developed feelings for Hendrix.

The “delete” command in Hendrix’s hand kept running because Beatrice stayed silent.

The work gathered over many years disappeared into nothing in only a short moment.

Pain spread through Beatrice’s lower stomach. She collapsed onto the floor, the pain making her body curl up uncontrollably.

Sadly, Hendrix did not even look at her and instead turned his back on her.

The other bodyguards kept cold looks on their faces, ignoring her pain completely.

A fake daughter, a “fake wife” who was about to be thrown out, was not important enough for them to care too much about.

Beatrice wanted to give in, but her lower stomach felt like knives were turning inside it, making even the words “willing to apologize” too painful to speak.

At last, when only a few files of data were left, Beatrice painfully found her voice again.

“I apologize.”

After Beatrice spoke, Hendrix stopped what he was doing and turned to look at her.

What Hendrix did not expect was that blood had already spread beneath Beatrice, while her whole body lay on the floor, shaking nonstop.

Even though he understood too late, he still realized at that moment what had happened. He quickly lifted Beatrice up.

“Return to the hospital!”

Beatrice tightly grabbed his hand. Even though the pain made her mind go blurry, she still begged him.

“The experiment, the data, please.”

When Beatrice opened her eyes again, she did not know how much time had already gone by.

The nurse informed Beatrice that she had been pregnant for over a month, but sadly, the child could not survive.

Unexpectedly, this kind of thing happened again.

Back when she took the blame for others, she still managed to protect this child, yet now she could no longer keep it.

Beatrice’s face looked somewhat blank, as though the news she heard had nothing to do with her.

The accidents coming one after another made her mind automatically protect itself.

It felt as though she had already lost all human feelings.

After sitting silently for a long while, she finally noticed the dampness on her face, while tears dropped onto the blanket and soaked a large area.

She slowly turned on her phone and saw the message the professor had sent.

[The divorce procedures are finished, and you are free again.]

[Do not feel sad. Remember to take your experimental results with you. The team representing the highest level of scientific research welcomes you!]

Beatrice tightly held the phone, her fingers slowly turning pale.

Because she kept insisting before she lost consciousness, Hendrix finally softened for a brief moment. He saved all the remaining data for her and left it beside the bed.

She finally obtained the thing she wanted!

She carefully stood up and walked away. While passing Liora’s hospital room, she saw Hendrix gently touching Liora’s lower stomach, looking loving and happy.

She had lost her child, but Liora was still lucky.

Right after that, she heard Hendrix speak.

“After Beatrice miscarried, as punishment for the things she did before, I already ordered people to secretly clear her uterus. She will never become pregnant again.”

“Liora, your baby later on will be my only child. Even if I cannot let you become Mrs. Hawkins by name, after many years, everything here still will have your share. This is my honesty.”

Beatrice placed her hand over her lower abdomen, almost like she really felt the emptiness below.

She held back her tears and leaned against the wall while slowly leaving the hospital. After getting into the car, she went directly to the airport.

The people waiting to bring her away had already arrived there.

Hendrix, for the rest of their lives, they would never see each other again!