Even Sheng Jiaoyang didn’t expect that Lina would get married, just like that. Moreover, the wedding date was set so soon, such that the ceremony would take place before the postnatal confinement period[1] would even be completed. This meant that there would be a mad rush to plan and prepare for the wedding. Of course, the concept of having a postnatal confinement period did not exist overseas.

However, Sheng Jiaoyang still respected all of Lina's choices and decisions.

Right after Sven announced the news of their wedding, Lina's flirtatious father, Hugh Bruno, who rarely paid attention to her before, actually came to find her. He even said that he was going to take her back to the Bruno Family to meet the family head.

In fact, Lina had never met her paternal grandfather before. She might have cared about it before, but now she didn’t care about it at all. She didn't even want to ‘return to the family clan to acknowledge her birth rights’ like Lin Yan did. Everything she’d achieved so far was accomplished by herself without relying on anyone, and she didn't want to rely on anyone in the future either.

Hence, Lina turned down Hugh’s offer.

This seemed completely unreasonable to Hugh. Essentially, his thoughts could be summed up like this: With a powerful...