Chapter 205: Chapter 217: Lovers Also Have Self-esteem (2) Chapter 205: Chapter 217: Lovers Also Have Self-esteem (2) “Besides, I have a different surname too, Father. Your biological daughter has a different surname. Does it not bother you deep down? After so many years, people still suddenly ask me why I am a daughter of the Smith Family, but my surname is Osbert. Those who don’t know might even think I am the child of Mum and another man. No matter what, I will be labeled with a ‘burden’ hat for the rest of my life. Father, are you really willing to accept that?” Evelyn said, and as she spoke, she touched upon the pain in her heart. Her voice sounded somewhat resentful, “Father, since childhood, I have been going to the same school with her. I have seen her basking in glory while I was an illegitimate child without a father. Now, even though I have a father and a family, I still bear the ‘burden’ identity. Even Grandma let Isabel be the dance partner at Amelia’s birthday party. You don’t have a son, so no matter what, the Smith Corporation in the future will be Amelia’s.”

As Sebastian Smith listened to Amelia’s and Evelyn’s words, his anger gradually subsided, and his expression became colder. After a while, he sighed, “Isabel is just a girl. There’s not much trouble she can cause. The key is that you don’t want to repel Madam. I understand what you’re saying, but don’t worry, I will make sure that the great power of the Smith Corporation ends up in my hands. The future successor of the Smith Corporation can only be my daughter, Evelyn Osbert!”

While saying this, Sebastian reached out, pulling Evelyn into his arms and gently wiping her tears away, “Evelyn, I was a bit harsh just now. Okay, okay, don’t be angry anymore.”

…

Isabel herself walked up to Percy Stanton’s car in her high heels, opened the car door, and got in.

Percy followed and got in, and as he started the car, he glanced at Isabel, who was leaning her head against the car window, lost in her thoughts.

Percy had many questions for her, but he didn’t know where to start. In the end, he moved his lips but never spoke, simply starting the engine and leaving the Smith Courtyard.

As the car was about to leave the Villa District, Isabel suddenly raised her hand, pointed to the roadside and said with a hoarse voice while holding her throat, “Stop the car.”

Percy hurriedly hit the brakes, and before the car had completely come to a stop, Isabel opened the car door, got out, and took a few steps to a roadside trash bin. She bent down and began to vomit.

She vomited up all the mango sago and lunch she had eaten earlier, yet she still felt nauseous. Unable to help herself, she leaned against a tree pole and threw up some more.

She had not eaten mangoes for many years, and suddenly having it again made her vomit.

Isabel couldn’t tell if it was her stomach feeling unwell or the sudden encounter with the mango that made her miss the young man whose memory she had sealed away in her heart at this moment.

The young man she had only seen five times.

Back then, both of her parents died, she was inexplicably pregnant, and the heavy hatred weighed on her, making her hopeless and oppressed, with no time to care about her romantic feelings. Later, when she went to the United States, and things gradually eased, perhaps it was because of the time that had passed since she last saw him that the fleeting encounters, though they left a deep love, faded the young man’s figure and appearance in her mind.

For a while, she tried her best to remember, but all she could recall was a blank.

That year when she was eighteen, she lost all the beautiful things in her life, including her first love which had just begun… As she thought about it, her hand gripping the tree pole tightened involuntarily.