Chapter: 1396

She vividly recalled the look on Jonathan's face when he said that, as though she were something dirty.

"I saw that I couldn't convince you, so I did my utmost to sway Bethany! Yet, like you, she disregarded my plight entirely. I believed that, being a woman, she might empathize with my feelings. I simply do not want to marry a man I don't love at all. Is there something wrong with feeling this way?"

When she came to understand that her parents favored sons over daughters, she had striven to break away from the Shaw family.

Throughout the years, she dedicated herself tirelessly, often remaining in the laboratory. She avoided even going home, all to escape a marriage of convenience.

But in the end, she found herself ensnared by Godfrey and compelled to marry Jonathan after she had saved Jonathan.