The Seventh Miserable Bride

Chapter 140

She curled up, got into Sebastian's warm embrace, and closed her eyes.

After a moment of silence, Sebastian turned off the bedside lamp. Then, Yasmine suddenly asked, "Sebastian, may I ask you a question?"

"Hmm? What is it? Go ahead and ask."

"Do you like children?"

Sebastian's body suddenly stiffened. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Why do you ask me this?"

"It's just a casual question. So, do you?"

"I don't hate them."

"Then do you want a child of your own?"

Yasmine knew Sebastian's answer without even thinking about it. How could he not want a child? Even when he had no feelings for her, he suggested that they have a child.

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

"Of course."

"I don't want one."

Yasmine was shocked. She suddenly sat up straight in the dark and asked, "What did you say?"

"I said, I don't want one."

She couldn't describe the conflicted feeling in her heart at this moment. She asked in a trembling voice, "Why?"

"Because your focus won't be on me anymore if you have a child. Whether it's real life or those dramas that Tiffany watches, once a woman has a child, she will neglect her husband and focus all her energy on the child."

"Are you serious?"

Yasmine's voice sounded choked, but she tried her best to hold back her tears. If she cried during such an ordinary conversation, it would seem odd.

"Not sure if you're telling the truth."

He pulled her back into his arms angrily and said with his arms around her, "As long as I have you, Yasmine, I don't need anything else."

Yasmine bit her lips hard. Tears gathered in her eyes and she forced them back.

"I thought that you, Sebastian Simons, like every other successful man would want a child of your own."

"I don't think of myself as successful, so I'm different from other successful men. You could say that I'm selfish or ruthless, but I really don't want a child now."

Yasmine's tears finally slipped down her cheeks, but Sebastian did not notice.

Although his words were cruel, for some reason, Yasmine felt much better.

It was as if there was a mountain in her heart, and Sebastian had suddenly moved the mountain away, giving her a chance to breathe. That night, she slept very well. At dawn, when she opened

her eyes, there was a thin and long stream of sunshine shining through the window and right onto her body.

She stretched out her palm and the sunshine passed through her fingers. She clenched her fist, and the sunshine seemed to have been grasped in her palm. She got up and decided to face the sun. From today onwards, she would return to her original self. She would be like a cockroach, difficult to defeat.

After breakfast, she went to school in a good mood. Lily Adams had been discharged from the hospital, and they had plenty to say to each other when they met. Looking at the scar on the back of her friend's hand, Yasmine was distressed, but Lily didn't take it seriously. She said happily, "I should celebrate with champagne."

After a couple of classes in the morning, Lily suddenly came to her in a hurry and said in a low voice during the lunch break, "Yasmine, turn on the computer."

"What's wrong?"

"Turn it on and you'll know."

Yasmine had a bad feeling. She quickly turned on the computer and Lily clicked on the local news. A big title flashed across the screen, 'Gold Digger Abandons Mentally Challenged Fiancee to Get Married in a Wealthy Family'.

There was a loud bang in her head and she almost fainted. With anger and shock in her heart, she quickly browsed through the content of the news report. She didn't know which evil person had discovered the agreement between herself and Richie Lind. Many words were contrary to the fact. According to the report, she promised to marry the mentally- challenged son of the Lind family after receiving a favor from them. However, she didn't abide by the agreement when she became an adult. In order to be married to a wealthy family, she resolutely ignored the engagement and married

a rich man instead. The article portrayed the Lind family as the victims and described her as a shameless whore. Yasmine was angry. She smashed the mouse and ran from the office.

Lily followed her worriedly and ran to a quiet place with her. Yasmine suddenly stopped and cried out loud. Today, she decided to fight against her cruel fate, but now such a terrible thing had happened to her. What kind of pathetic situation was her life in? She was going crazy, and she really couldn't hold on any longer..."

"Yasmine, don't be sad. You're innocent and justice will be yours. I know better than anyone else that you're not the kind of person they portrayed on the Internet."

Lily comforted her in a hurry, and she felt angry and sad.

"What's the point of you knowing? What will others think of me? From now on, in their eyes, I am the gold-digger who hates the poor and loves the rich."

"Don't care about what others think. Didn't you say that you should follow your own path and let others talk about it? Yasmine, you should be strong. Until now, you have experienced all kinds of challenges, so this is not worth your time."

Yasmine squatted on the ground, covered her forehead with both hands, and let her tears fall, one drop after another. "How can I pretend that nothing has happened now? I am now not only Yasmine, but also Sebastian Simons's wife. This is not just a shame on me, but also on the Simons family. How can I face my parents- in- law, their relatives, and friends?"

Without warning, she felt her heart tear. Once again, she felt powerless and desperate in her own life.

Yasmine cried for a long time, and Lily accompanied her throughout. She said a lot of comforting words, but nothing she said could make Yasmine feel better.

When they returned to the office, many people looked at them with complicated and contemptuous gazes. Most of them were from female colleagues. Yasmine was not too likable at the school. It was not because of her personality, but because she was too good at her job. Excellent people often got isolated. Of course, she was no exception.

Scott Jules' unique love for her had already made her female colleagues jealous. What was more is that she married into a legendary rich and powerful family. Putting these two facts together, it was no wonder that she got isolated. In the past, she didn't care and she just kept in her lane. But now, those female colleagues had seen the news, so they surely wouldn't let her go easily.

"Oh, Miss Taylor, what happened? Why were you engaged to a mentally challenged man despite your good qualities?"

"Yeah, this news is too much. They described our perfect Miss Taylor as an immoral person. You should report them!"

"Now, we have the freedom to love and everyone has the right to pursue wealth. These people had nothing better to do. Why do they bother to report even this?"

A group of female teachers surrounded Yasmine's desk and they kept talking. Lily was so angry that her face turned green. When she was about to speak up for Yasmine, suddenly, someone growled from the door of the office,

"Why are you gossiping? The school hired you to teach the students, not to gossip about other people's private life!"

Every pair of eyes were drawn to the door. The man was Scott. Instantly, they all shut up.

Scott cast a meaningful glance at Yasmine. Without saying anything, he turned around and left.

A random person might not understand the meaning of that look, but Lily could tell that he was concerned about Yasmine.

Yasmine didn't say a word from the beginning till the end. Soon, her cell phone rang. First, there were familiar numbers, then there were unknown numbers. They almost blew up her cell phone. She didn't want to answer any call, so she decisively turned it off.

However, it was useless turning off the phone, because the office phone began ringing one after another instead. Other than her own landline, the other teachers' landlines also began to ring.

She closed her eyes painfully. After thinking for a while, she packed her things and left without looking back. Yasmine was once a nobody. It was very clear that if she was not the daughter-in-law of the Simons family now, no one would be interested in her private life. Firstly, she was not a gold- digger, even if she was, it was normal. But because she was Sebastian Simons's wife, nothing was normal anymore.

Good news spread slowly, but bad news spread like wildfire. Within just an afternoon, almost everyone in the B City, albeit young or old, knew about a woman named Yasmine Taylor who abandoned her stupid boyfriend in order to marry a man in a rich and powerful family. People's thoughts toward this were the same, and their viewpoints were unified. They had a hostile attitude towards the business, and their contempt and hatred for women who associate themselves with the rich and powerful families were intolerable.

When Yasmine arrived at Simons Corporation, she was not surprised to see the same gazes she experienced in the school. However, these gazes, due to her identity, also had fear in them, unlike her colleagues who judged her shamelessly.

When she arrived at the ninth floor, she pushed open the door of the secretary's office and asked with blank eyes, "Is Sebastian here?"

"President Sebastian is inside."

Fynn Jaymond was not surprised by her arrival at all. He must have seen the news too.

Yasmine walked into the president's office right away without knocking, and then stopped in front of Sebastian's desk. After standing there for a while with her head lowered, she said, "I'm sorry."

Sebastian sighed, stood up and walked towards her. He squeezed her shoulders and asked, "Why are you apologising?" Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

She slowly looked up and said with a pair of red eyes, "Didn't you see the news?"

"Yes, I did,"

He replied with certainty, "but I don't think you need to apologize to anyone."

"You must be in trouble because of me. There must be a lot of people waiting to see you make a fool of yourself."

"It doesn't matter. Just let them be. I've never been a person who cared about scandals. Besides, my scandals are not limited to what happened today."