Chapter 7 It's Not Like We Are in a Feudal Society

At a charity banquet three years ago, she fell in love with Lucas at first sight. And when the two families wanted to be united by marriage, Jon Edwards asked her to marry Lucas. She didn't know Lucas was not only familiar with Sophia but actually into Sophia at that time. She just walked into her marriage alone.

It was long after their marriage did she get to know that the Reeses agreed to marry Sophia in the first place. Lucas was overjoyed until he found out that it was her instead.

Sophia, on the other hand, was married to Lucas' best friend. She then became infertile due to an accident and was repelled by her mother-in-law. So, she had been living a very unhappy life for these years. Lucas blamed all of this on Zoe. But in fact, Zoe knew nothing about it herself.

Sophia's misfortune hurt Lucas deeply, but he didn't allow himself to poach his best friend's wife, so he had no choice but to hate Zoe.

Relying on the help of the Reeses and Sophia's husband's family, Jon Edwards' company hung in there, half-dead. But once Zoe got a divorce, the company would lose the Reeses as a patron.

She had probably speculated what she would face when she returned home, so she wasn't very surprised to see her aunt and uncle sitting in the living room for interrogation when she walked in the door.

She was just a little surprised that Lucas was also there.

She had just changed her shoes when a girl came down from upstairs. She was wearing a long skirt with a melancholy temperament like a sick and delicate beauty.

It was her Cousin Sophia, the Edwards' daughter, and the dream-lover of Lucas.

No wonder, she thought sarcastically, that Lucas was at the Edwardses.

Every time Sophia came home, he wanted to come and visit more than she did. Times and times again, she would be a fool if she still didn't get the reason.

Sophia called softly, "Zoe."

Zoe gave her a terse reply without looking at her and went to pour a glass of water on herself. Before she could take two sips of the water, Olivia could no longer hold back her yelling, "Zoe, you got a divorce without discussing it with us in advance. Do you take marriage as a child's game? When you got married, you did it with satisfaction. As your aunt, I didn't force you into it at all. But now you divorced so perfunctorily. Have you ever thought about us, the Edwardses?"

Zoe didn't say anything but took small sips of water meanwhile.

Jon slapped the table and roared angrily, "Zoe! We're talking to you! Are you listening?! Are you deaf!?"

"No." Zoe put down her cup, turned to face everyone, and spoke without any agitation, "Auntie, it's not like we're in an ancient feudal society where you get married thus are tied together forever. Lucas and I couldn't live together anymore, so we got divorced. And he was fine with it. I don't know what you guys mean now. If you just blame me for not discussing it with you guys in advance, then sorry, I didn't know I would do it before I actually said the word."

Instead of looking at the faces of these people, she said in a calm tone from start to finish, "Besides, even if I told you guys, would you agree to my divorce?"

Olivia said, "What are you talking about? Of course, we wouldn't approve of your divorce. What's wrong with Lucas? The Reeses have never treated you wrongly, either..."

"Aunt, don't you know why I want a divorce?" As she said this, Zoe took a look at Sophia, who had already sat down next to Lucas. Olivia stopped talking at once.

They all knew the history clearly. Lucas had been more considerate to Sophia over the years than he had been to Zoe who was his real wife.

But it was one thing to know it, but it was another to say it out loud.

Olivia grumbled with a long face, "How dare you talk to me like this..."