Relentless Pursuit After Divorce
Chapter 357. Cried_1

Chapter 357: 357. Cried_1

Helen Melendy looked at her with a heartache as she watched the smile on her face, reached out, and ruffled her hair, "You did succeed, though. At eighteen, you got your MBA from Princeton, and even a master’s from medical school, but most importantly, you met me."

Elly Campbell was amused by what she said next, but then she thought of something, and her smile faded slightly, a touch of wistfulness on her face, "Indeed, eighteen is such a beautiful age."

At eighteen, she returned home in high spirits, waiting to get engaged to him, only to be greeted with his engagement withdrawal.

Seeing Elly Campbell suddenly fall silent, the sadness on her face was not intense, yet it was heart-wrenching to behold.

Elly Campbell raised her hand, rubbed her face hard, and sighed, "Thinking about it, although we were engaged, we didn’t really know each other, didn’t understand each other. So when he came to break off the engagement, I thought he had someone he liked, even though I didn’t want to break it off, I never spoke up, fearing he would despise me even more."

Her voice became gradually hoarse, tinged with a faint sense of desolation.

"If that was the case, why did he agree to marry you in the end?"

Helen Melendy voiced her confusion; although she felt that Adam Jones was somewhat annoying, she also believed he wasn’t that unprincipled. How could he break off the engagement and then turn around to marry Elly?

Elly Campbell seemed to think of something, her smile growing even more bittersweet, "The year after the engagement was called off, the Campbell company encountered a crisis."

Helen Melendy nodded, remembering that after Elly married Adam Jones, the Jones company invested in the Campbell company, and naturally, the crisis was averted.

But Elly Campbell smiled deviously and pointed at herself, "I caused it."

Helen Melendy was taken aback, then staring at Elly Campbell in disbelief, said, "Are you insane!"

The crisis that Campbell company faced back then was actually orchestrated by Elly herself!

Elly Campbell smiled, "Right, back then, was I not out of my mind?"

She took a deep breath and narrated the story from the past with the calm demeanor of an outsider telling a tale.

"I thought, so the engagement was called off, no big deal. But that year, whenever I saw news about Adam Jones, I felt like I couldn’t live without him, Helen, do you understand? I literally couldn’t carry on living."

She emphasized the last half of the sentence particularly heavily.

Looking back now, I realize how foolish I was back then.

Helen Melendy’s mouth opened as if to say something, but she realized she couldn’t respond with a single word.

When she had just broken up with Harry Hall, she had tasted that sort of living hell too.

"So, I took a gamble. I plunged Campbell into crisis, to bet one more time. I went to beg Adam Jones to marry me, to help Campbell through the crisis. I actually had no hope, just thought..."

She paused there, her voice breaking slightly.

"I should try one more time, just one more time, and if he didn’t agree, then that would be it. I would have tried, right?"

Her gaze carried a sense of confusion, unsure whether what she did back then was right or not.

"And then, when I was totally hopeless, he agreed."

She smiled as tears began to well up in her eyes, bowed her head, and murmured softly, "He actually agreed."

"After marriage, he treated me as if I were invisible. Lily Jones told me that it was his grandmother who forced him, that’s why he agreed to marry me. But I didn’t care. I thought to myself, I tried once and he agreed to marry me, so if I tried again, maybe he could love me. So I kept trying and trying, and just like that, three years went by. But this time, I realized my efforts were futile, he was trying to drive me out of the Jones family."

As she spoke, Elly Campbell’s tears finally began to flow uncontrollably.