Exiting the courtroom, I casually mentioned to Leonard that I was thirsty and asked him to buy me a drink, then I bowed deeply to Grace.

"Grace, I deeply appreciate your trust in me. I'm grateful you believed the story I told you earlier. However, I don't think Leonard and I are meant to be married yet."

To be honest, I didn't care because Leonard had been injured before.

Secretly, I struggled with the temptation of inheriting Grace's vast fortune.

"But the foundation of marriage must be love. I firmly believe in that. So Leonard and me... should follow our separate paths in life."

"Elaine."

The moment I turned around, Grace suddenly called me.

When I faced her again, tears welled in her red eyes.

"Elaine, have you ever wondered why I believed your story?

Why I was willing to help you send Ivy to jail?

Why did the two million dollars in her possession easily fall into Evan's hands?"

My mind raced, unsure how to respond to Grace's emotional query.

"You're right, Elaine. Ivy is inherently wicked. No matter what choices she makes, she'll face consequences. And I'll ensure she pays for them. Because she's her, and you're you."

Grace divorced her husband when Leonard was six years old.

At that time, Leonard's surname was not Wells, but Wilson like her ex-husband.

She raised her son alone and lived a hard life but she refused to accept her fate.

She started out as a small business vendor and was very successful later.

However, her busy career caused her to neglect Leonard,

who grew up in a single-parent household, introverted, and not adept at socializing.

He wasn't mischievous like other boys but excelled in mathematics from a young age. By six or seven, he could solve advanced equations.

The teachers all said that Leonard was a math genius.

Grace was immensely proud of Leonard and spared no effort in supporting his academic pursuits, whether through tutoring or competition preparation.

As his awards accumulated, she failed to notice his increasing silence,

attributing it to the quirks often associated with genius minds like Einstein's.

After all, how can ordinary people understand the thinking of a genius?

Grace was too confident. She was doing very well in business. However, she never suspected the bully would reach out to her quiet and overweight son.

When Leonard was in his first year of high school, he could already use complex calculus to solve problems. That year, probably because of the growth hormone, he grew overweight.

In a mathematics competition, he was the only one in his grade group who solved the additional questions.

Leonard outperformed even the director's son.

The school unfairly revoked his title, claiming irregularities in his solution method.

Despite his protestations, Leonard was subjected to further bullying by the director's son and his cronies,

branding him with hurtful insults like "freak" and "fat pig."

And Ivy was also a member of that group.