Sandra left the Hudson family villa in a daze.

Thunder and lightning roared in the sky, and heavy rain poured down on her. It was as if God was adding to her misery.

A black sports car stopped beside her as rainwater splashed all over her. The car window rolled down, revealing none other than Keith.

"Sandra, why do you want to go against your parents' wishes? As long as you're willing to accept Ivy, you're still the daughter of the Hudson family. Our engagement is still in force."

Sandra ignored him and continued to walk forward. Keith got down with an umbrella and caught up with her. He pulled her arm so that she would look at him.

"Are you still angry about what happened at the wedding? That's a human life. I can't just sit back and do nothing."

He pulled her arm further, trying to show weakness to persuade her.

"Don't be angry. I'll compensate you with a wedding even more grand than the last one. Although Ivy is the daughter of the Hudson family, my wife will only be you."

Sandra stopped and looked back at Keith. "From the day Ivy returned to the Hudson family, all of you have leaned towards her. It was as if everything I did was owed to her. It wasn't me who switched the two babies, so why do all of you put the blame on me? If you want Ivy—"

"No, my engagement is with you. As for the rest, just bear with her."

Sandra would rather give up everything than be pitied. "If that is the case, I'd rather cancel the engagement."

Keith had never thought that Sandra would cancel their engagement. He was a little angry at her, but he could not bother to explain further. He turned around and got in the car and drove away.

Sandra had nowhere to go.

She walked to the university to see if she could find the backup of the research reports in the laboratory, but she was surrounded as soon as she arrived.

Henry Walker, one of the seniors who had worked with her, grabbed her at her collar and lifted her up. Everyone looked at her with a strange look.

Sandra did not know what had happened.

She grabbed Henry's hand and said, "What's wrong? Why are you so angry?"

A classmate pulled Henry away.

Henry pointed at Sandra and scolded, "You published our research data! How dare you ask me what's wrong?"

Sandra shook her head, not knowing what to say.

Cecilia Johnson, another senior in Sandra's team, took out her cell phone and showed Sandra the article and research data. Those were the reports from their sleepless nights of effort from the past six months.

The article was published under Ivy Foreman.

"Henry, I'm sorry. This is indeed my mistake. I'll give everyone a satisfactory explanation."

Everyone went into a discussion. Some came forward to comfort Henry.

"I believe in Sandra's character. She didn't do this."

Sandra suddenly remembered that there was only one person who knew the password for her computer, it was Keith.

When Sandra arrived at the Farmer residence, it was dark and the rain had yet to stop. She rushed into Keith's room looking like a mess.

He had just come out of the shower and sneered when he saw Sandra.

"I was wondering how long you could stand on your own. You still come to me after all."

Sandra calmed down, trying to breathe steadily. "Did you tell Ivy my computer password? Did you know that she published my research report?"

Keith wiped his wet hair with a look of disdain. "Isn't it just some research data? You've done so many experiments. Ivy needs this experiment to graduate, so just give it to her."

Sandra furiously pulled Keith's arm and exclaimed, "What do you mean by just giving it to her? That research report doesn't just belong to could. It's the hard work of everyone in the laboratory. How can you just give it to her? Who can she blame for failing her exams for so many years? Why should I pay for her mistakes?"

Keith shook Sandra off and sat on the sofa.

"I'm your husband. How can I not have the right to deal with things like this?"

Sandra scoffed, "Have you forgotten that you left me at the wedding to find another woman? We haven't even completed the wedding ceremony. How dare you utter such shameless words?"

Keith hung the towel around his neck and took Sandra in his arms.

"I know you're still jealous. Enough. It's not worth it to be upset over such a small matter. I promise you that I'll give you a wedding even bigger than the last time."

'Small matter?'

Sandra yelled, "No, no!"

Sandra turned around and left immediately . The way Keith behaved at that moment made her sick.

Keith stopped her. "Don't you dare to even think of exposing Ivy. You know how powerful the Farmer family is. There's no way you can go against us."

Sandra and Keith grew up together, and their engagement was decided on by their parents before they were born.

Keith had always protected Sandra in school since they were little. He would always tell everyone that Sandra was his when they were only in kindergarten.

Sandra had always felt that she would be Keith's wife. She had never imagined that she would experience the darkest moment of her life that day.

Keith paused when he saw Ivy the moment she returned to the Hudson family. Ivy's pitiful and weak appearance was something that he had never seen on Sandra.

Sandra had always been a top student since she was a child, so she was never in second place when it came to her studies.

The hearts of humans could change, and the grass was always greener on the other side. When Sandra was constantly compared to Ivy, Sandra's parents and Keith gradually favored Ivy.

After leaving the Farmer residence, Sandra wandered aimlessly on the streets.

Just when she was in deep thought, a black sports car drove by and splashed water all over her.

'Again?'

That was the second time that day.

All the events that happened in the past two days made her feel suffocated. She finally lost control of her emotions.

Sandra sat on the ground, broke down, and cried hysterically.

A man got out of the car. He was flustered and apologized immediately.

Sandra cried endlessly, and passersby on the sidewalk cast strange looks at them.

The man did not know what to do, so he squatted down to comfort her. "I didn't see you. I'm so sorry for splashing water on you. I'll compensate you in any way you want, just please stop crying."

Sandra looked up and asked, "Do you have a spare room in your home?"

The man brought Sandra to a hotel.

Sandra followed behind him, but when they reached the front desk, she realized that something was not right.

Did he think she was a slut or something?

Sandra pulled his sleeve and explained immediately, "I didn't mean that."

The man smiled and replied, "Don't worry, I didn't mean that either."

After arranging for a room at the front desk, he handed the room access card to Sandra. "Go ahead, clean up yourself and get changed."

Sandra got a good look at the man. His handsome face and positive outlook gave her a completely different feeling from Keith.

"Thank you."

The man turned around as he waved and left.

Sandra washed herself from head to toe in the room. She cleaned her clothes and laid on the bed, but she could not fall asleep.

She figured she would go back to the university the next day to see if there was still a chance to make things right.

When Sandra came to the university the next day, she was shunned by everyone. Her professor, Marcus Fowler, walked over to her and patted her shoulder.

The moment she saw Marcus, Sandra's tears welled up in her eyes and she almost cried out loud.

"It's alright, Sandra. I understand your situation. Let's try to restore the samples we made previously."

Next, Marcus gathered everyone together and started looking for a remedy to the situation.

Under Marcus' instruction, the students began to put things into action. One of Sandra's seniors came to comfort her. "We'll definitely solve this problem. Don't worry, Sandra. This issue won't delay our research and experiment exchange program."

Sandra began to tear up, and she could no longer control herself. Tears started to fall and dripped on the marble floor.

After two days of hard work, just when everyone was finally about to produce the experiment results, a teammate shouted while holding onto a phone, "Mr. White, Ivy published our data and has now been awarded the copyright."

Everyone swarmed over, voices of discussion disappeared instantly. Everyone stared at the live interview on the cell phone.

Someone asked in the interview, "This project was previously proposed in the laboratory of one of the major universities. How did you manage to publish it so quickly?"

Ivy did not panic at all. Instead, she chuckled and said, "I don't know about their research. Perhaps when we were doing the experiment, my sister, Sandra, saw our information…"

The reporter was surprised, "Are you saying that your sister copied your experimental data?"

"You may not believe me if I were to say Sandra plagiarized my work, but she did enter my room and read my experimental data. "

Ivy's eyes turned red as she said pitifully, "Sandra repeatedly ordered me not to achieve better results than her. She threatened to take action against me if I got a better place than her.

"She even claimed that due to her boyfriend being the son of the Farmer family, the consequences would be terrible."

Keith appeared at the live broadcast at that moment.

"I can vouch that everything that Ivy said is true. My Farmer family invested in this research team and the laboratory. I saw Ivy working really hard till late at night."

The situation turned chaotic, everyone in the comments of the live interview broke into discussions.

[So, Sandra's the one who plagiarized.]

[I didn't expect such a smart girl like her to do such a thing.]

[Do you think she's actually smart? She merely has the Farmer family as her support.]

Hate comments filled up the screen of the cell phone.

Sandra was accused of plagiarism.

The teammate turned off the live broadcast and clenched his hands tightly. Everyone looked at Sandra with hatred.

Not only Sandra, anyone who stood up earlier claiming that she did the experiment would be punished for plagiarism.

Everyone was dejected. One of the seniors was so agitated that he smashed the test tube in his hand.

"I've already said earlier that we can't trust Sandra! Well, now everyone's efforts in the past six months have been in vain!"

Sandra froze, not knowing how to explain herself.

She apologized to everyone. "I'm sorry, everyone. I'll definitely give you an explanation for this."

Sandra rushed out of the laboratory and took a taxi to the Farmer's residence. She pushed Keith's room door and saw him working on his desk.

Keith chuckled when he saw Sandra. "You still can't help yourself from coming back to be with me? I'll ignore the fact that you canceled our engagement. The wedding is scheduled for next month, and the venue will be twice the size of the last one."

Sandra walked to Keith. She raised her hand and slapped him. The crisp sound of slapping echoed throughout the room, and Keith was stunned by the slap.

"Sandra, what are you doing?"

"You know clearly how important the experiment data are to me. Why are you helping Ivy?"

Keith grabbed her arm and replied, "Ivy is depressed. What will you do if she hurts herself?"

"Does that mean that I have to be responsible for her for the rest of her life?"

"You already have everything that should belong to her. She just wants a little bit of your experiment data. What's wrong with that?"

Sandra felt that she could no longer communicate with Keith. She turned around to leave, but Keith hugged her tightly from behind.

"Sandra, stop causing trouble. You have your parents and I, but Ivy is an orphan. Once you marry into the Farmer family, you don't need all all this research and honors at all."

Sandra struggled to break free and turned around.

She looked at Keith firmly. "Listen carefully, Keith. When I broke off our engagement earlier, it wasn't out of anger. I was dead serious. Let's just end it here."

Keith's eyes turned red. He had never seen Sandra look so fierce before. He knew Sandra was serious.

Keith picked up Sandra and carried her on his shoulders. He carried her to the wine cellar in the basement, and locked her inside. He would not open the door no matter how Sandra banged on the door.

"Sandra, you said you'd stay with me forever. I'll let you out once you figure it out."

Sandra beat the door of the wine cellar fiercely, but there was no response. It was the first time she saw Keith look so scary.

She paced up and down, holding her cell phone and searching all corners of the wine cellar. She thought of all the ways to escape, but it was useless.

No one would come to her rescue.

Sandra finally gave up. She felt dizzy from the continuous rain in the past few days, coupled with the huge emotional fluctuations. She was dazed for a moment.

Everything would be fine had Ivy never appeared. How great would it be if Keith was who he was before.

However, there was no turning back.

The temperature in the wine cellar was only about ten degrees Celsius. There were no windows, so it was hard to tell whether it was day or night.

Sandra's phone was about to run out of battery. The date displayed on the screen showed that there were only three days left before the departure date for the research and experiment exchange program.

Sandra knew she was falling sick. She felt her body burning hot for a moment, but she would be shivering the next second. Her teeth were chattering, but her breath was burning hot. She felt really drowsy as she curled up in a corner.

The ticking sound from the air conditioner in the wine cellar sounded like a thunderstorm in her heart. It gradually drowned her and took away any warmth and hope from her, leaving her in a miserable state.

Sandra's willpower kept her alive. She knew she could not be trapped anymore. She had to go out of there.

Outside the wine cellar, Keith saw how determined Sandra was.

He was afraid that he would really lose Sandra. He started to make wedding arrangements, wanting the wedding to be held as soon as possible.

Keith arranged the wedding to be held at the biggest hall at the top floor of a five-star rated hotel. The scale of the wedding was even bigger than the last time.

After making all the necessary arrangements, Keith went to the Hudson family with betrothal gifts and the ancestral jade bracelet.

Ivy was hugging Irene, sitting on the sofa. They seemed to have forgotten that there was another daughter in the family.

"Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, I'm here for a marriage proposal and to discuss wedding details with you."

Ivy's face blushed instantly. Keith, the man that she liked, had finally come to propose.

"I think this matter shouldn't be delayed any longer. It won't be good for anyone if it's delayed for too long. It'll only jeopardize the relationship between the two families."

Mike smiled. "Keith, we have long regarded you as a member of our family. You'd be our son-in-law sooner or later."

"The wedding is scheduled in three days. I changed the venue to the newly built five-star hotel owned by my family. These are the betrothal gifts from my family. There's thirty million dollars in this bank card, and this is the emerald jade bracelet passed down by my grandmother."

Ivy stared at the bracelet and could not look away. She looked at Irene and reached out to take it to put it on herself.

However, Keith took it away. "This is for Sandra. It's not appropriate for Ivy to wear it."

Ivy's face turned pale.

Mike stood up and questioned, "You still want to marry Sandra?"

Keith was a little surprised. "Of course. Who else will I marry if not Sandra?"

Mike and Irene looked at each other. They both thought that Keith would marry their biological daughter, Ivy. After all, given the status of the Farmer family, it would be better for his biological daughter to marry into the Farmer family.

Ivy covered her face. She then held the fruit knife on the table against her left wrist.

"Keith, do you really want to see me die in front of you?"

Mike and Irene accused, "Keith, can't you see how sincere Ivy's feelings are for you? She's still sick, so please don't provoke her."

Keith stood up and looked at Ivy. "I have tried my best to accommodate Ivy to please you, but I've realized that there's no way for me to satisfy her desires. I won't marry her. Ivy always threatens to commit suicide. We can't just keep accommodating her each time she cries wolf.

"Furthermore, this is a newly customized wedding dress for Sandra. I don't want her to remember any of the unpleasant things that happened the last time."

Keith put the wedding invitation card on the table. "If you're still willing to admit that Sandra is your daughter, you're welcome to attend our wedding."

What Keith really meant was if Mike and Irene still wanted to have a relationship with the Farmer family, they had to acknowledge Sandra as their daughter.

The sound of Ivy smashing things was heard behind him as he walked out, accompanied by her crying and shouting.

Keith left without looking back. He was completely determined and knew what he wanted. He imagined how Sandra would look like in the wedding dress.

He would never allow any more accidents to happen. He would not allow Sandra to be wronged even if Ivy were to make a fuss.

Keith was a little delighted. He had figured out how to coax Sandra. He did not know that he had no chance anymore.

Sandra was locked in the wine cellar for two days. Keith asked the housekeeper about Sandra.

The housekeeper replied respectfully, "Every day, someone goes to deliver food to Ms. Hudson, but the food is taken out the same way it was delivered. She still hasn't figured things out."

"It doesn't matter. We'll just send her to the wedding venue on the day itself."

Keith needed to manage Sandra's temper. How would she be able to manage such a big family after marrying into the Farmer family?

The housekeeper looked worried. "The temperature of the wine cellar is very cold. Ms. Hudson's body may not be able to bear it."

"Adjust the temperature back to normal room temperature then."

"What about the wine in the wine cellar..."

"Just do it. It's just some wine. They're nothing compared to Sandra."

A helper ran over at that moment.

"Mr. Farmer, it's bad. Ms. Hudson has fainted."