Chapter 657 – A Turning Point in My Lord, My Billionaire Master by Karen
In this chapter of My Lord, My Billionaire Master, Karen introduces major changes to the story. Chapter 657 shifts the narrative tone, revealing secrets, advancing character arcs, and increasing stakes within the Romance genre.
Hearing that, Elizabeth nodded her head and said sorrowfully, "That's right, it's precisely because of this that I am unable to give up on him for dozens of years."
"If he dislikes me, then I'll give up. But he's cold to me, and even colder and harsher to others. I've always wished that I was different from others." Elizabeth raised her eyes and looked at Alice's calm face, "Women are always so suspicious, right?"
"Yes."
Alice nodded in agreement. She also had all kinds of suspicions about William.
As Alice ended her speech, they became silent. As Elizabeth sat there, she was no longer in a hurry to go to the engagement ceremony.
After a long while, she looked at Alice and asked with some disbelief, "Do you believe that those flowers are specially grown for me?"
After so many years, Elizabeth was still unable to accept that Master Cullen cared about her.
"Otherwise I can't think of any other reason." Alice said, "I believe if I think carefully, there are still a lot of things father had done for mother, but it might all be ignored."
Hearing this, Elizabeth suddenly became a little nervous while sitting there, "There's still a lot of them, is it possible?"
She was like a woman who had just stepped into love. She was perplexed, feeling inferior, and also eagerly desiring it.
Alice felt a little guilty for tricking such a woman, but she still said, "Yep, it's just like this flower. If I didn't ask someone about it, I wouldn't have known that this flower would be so hard to grow. Father did something for you but he didn't say anything about it."
"Did you see anything else in the diary?"
Elizabeth asked, looking at Alice with anticipation.
Alice shook her head, "The diary only records your activities, I am not able to investigate much, but I think that father has been ambitious throughout his life, other than Cullen Family he must have cared about you."
Elizabeth's eyes dimmed.
"Didn't Father leave anything for you?" Alice asked.
"It's just Cullen Family, a double. You saw it too." Elizabeth smiled bitterly, "Other than these, he left me nothing."
"Is that so?" Alice replied, "I thought that someone with father's character would definitely leave something behind for you."
"Nope." Elizabeth shook her head, "When he died, he was already terminally ill, other than me, there was only his favorite watch, there was nothing else."
Therefore, how could she not blame him? No matter how much she blamed him, sha could not change the fact that she had been married to that man.
"Is that the watch on father's hand?" Alice asked, "Why does father like that watch so much? Was it from mother? "
"I did buy it, but he liked it because it had a collection value and a the timing function was perfect."
Elizabeth said.
Hearing this, Alice smiled.
"What are you smiling at?" Elizabeth asked.
"I remember that William is a person who doesn't mean what he says. Every time he says that the thing I bought was bad, he likes it and he always carries it on him." Alice said, she did not make her meaning too clear.
Elizabeth was an intelligent woman, if she said something so straightforward, it would only raise her suspicion.
This was what William taught her.
However, Alice didn't know if she could succeed, and could only wait quietly.
Just as expected, after Elizabeth heard her words, she was stunned for a moment. She suddenly stood up and left, but Alice pretended to look at her in shock, "Mother, where are you going?"
Elizabeth stopped in her tracks, turned her head and looked at her, she said, "Come with me."
"Alright."
Alice followed her.
Elizabeth walked all the way to Master Cullen's study room, opened the bookshelf and walked inside. The cold air inside still made Alice unconsciously shiver.
Elizabeth hastily pressed a button. She opened the glass coffin and took off the watch on Master Cullen's hand.
"What are you doing?'
Alice pretended not to understand.
"My husband has been wearing this watch for a long time, and it has become a symbol of him. The double does not look so similar to him, so I tell the double to wear the watch whenever he meets with ones who are fimiliar with Master." Elizabeth said.
"So that's how it is."
No wonder the double was wearing the watch when she saw him. Maybe he thought she was someone who was fimiliar with Master Cullen, so he took the watch off Master Cullen's wrist in a hurry, and that was the reason why the watch was so cold.
Alice stood there silently.
Elizabeth's exquisite makeup could not cover her paleness. She raised her hand but retracted it as she did not have the courage to open it, "Alice, take a look first."
"Mother?"
"Take a look first."
Elizabeth said again as she turned her face away. There was a glimmer in her eyes as she tried her best to control her emotion.
"Alright." Alice took a deep breath, reached out, picked up the paper and opened it. She looked down at the words on it, each word was something that she and William had thought of together, and she thought of the content, William decided the tone of the letter.
This was a big lie.
Alice glanced at Elizabeth and then slowly said, "Elizabeth, I'm sick. I didn't expect that I'd get such a sickness at such a young age, how am I going to settle the future of Cullen Family and you? William acted on his own, he only has talent but is unwilling to apply it in the Cullen Family. If the Cullen Family were to wane, if you don't have a powerful family to protect you, how can you live? "
Elizabeth stood at the side and listened, her hands covered her face, tears unceasingly flowed down.
Alice paused for a moment and then continued, "No matter what, before I die, I will arrange everything for you, so that you won't be looked down upon. This family must continue to prosper, so that you can always have a place amongst the nobles."
Elizabeth sat down in front of the bookshelf and started sobbing.
"It's over." Alice lowered her eyes to look at her, and said, "Mother, this doesn't seem to be his last words to you.
Elizabeth took the paper and her fingers trembled. She lowered her eyes to look at the words written on it, it was Master Cullen's handwriting, but the words were in a mess "This should be written when he was sick. He has always been calm even in the face of terminal illness. So it turns out that he is also in disorder. I actually didn't notice it, I never noticed it."
Elizabeth was a little incoherent.
"Mother, don't be like this. Father will feel sad when he sees it."
Alice said, she felt guilty from her lie.
"I always thought he didn't think of me other than Cullen Family." She didn't care about her image at all as she pulled Alice and said, "But look, when he was sick, he thought of me, and he thought that only a prosperous Cullen Family could make me live better, so that's what he thought."
She didn't know.
She never knew that her husband's heart was in such a mess when he was ill, that he had always been thinking about her future life.
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