Love Beyond the Pages

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"The Smith Family is so powerful. I was worried before that if Andrew Smith were determined to marry Isabella, I would quietly take whatever I could take and then hand over the Brooks Cooperation. But now, that pain in the ass is gone. That foolish little girl poses no threat anymore！" Charles Brooks's face flushed with excitement. "Emily, you've helped Dad solve a major problem. I still remember that you wanted a new yacht? We'll go pick one tomorrow. Custom-made, named after you, no matter how expensive it is!"

"Dad, you're amazing!" Emily exclaimed in joy.

"Sir, Miss Isabella is back." At this second, the servant rushed in anxiously.

"I'm going back to my own house. Do I need to inform my uncle?" This house belonged to Isabella and her parents.

After Isabella's parents passed away, Emily and her family moved in under the pretext of taking better care of Isabella. Not long after, they kicked the five-year-old Isabella out of her luxurious princess room into the servant's quarters. Emily took over her original room, and Charles and Elizabeth moved into the master bedroom.

After living here for more than fifteen years, this family had seemingly forgotten that Isabella was the true owner of this house.

"Isabella, your shameless thing, how dare you to still come back?" Charles slammed the sofa armrest, angrily shouting, "At such a young age, you've learned to steal, cheat and lie? Have you no shame?"

"I'm asking you." Isabella walked into the living room and glanced at that smug Emily.

Emily's face immediately darkened. "Isabella, I didn't bother to talk to you in front of Andrew this morning. Just because I ignored you for a couple of times, do you think I become afraid of you?"

"Emily, why are you getting angry with me? It was your dad scolding you for learning to steal at such a young age, showing no shame or dignity," Isabella said casually.

Charles roared and stood up, "You i***t, I was scolding you!"

Isabella glanced at Charles, who was all chubby and overweight. Images of Charles from fifteen years ago flashed back in her mind when he was thin and dry. How he has turned out completely different from the past, Isabella thought.

"Emily, did you not tell your parents about you and Andrew secretly sleeping together?" Isabella covered her mouth, trying to look surprised.

Emily's face turned pale, "I'll tear apart your mouth today! It is full of nonsense!"

Finishing her words, she raised her hand, trying to slap Isabella in the face.

Isabella reacted swiftly, grabbing Emily's incoming hand and returning a slap. She already showed her dislike of Emily, and now, she won't hold anything back. With just one slap, Emily's face quickly swelled up.

"Ahhh!" Emily covered her face, crying out in despair.

Charles and Elizabeth hurriedly ran over to protect their daughter.

Isabella shook her slightly numb hand, ignoring the noisy trio, lazily sitting on the sofa.

"Isabella, are you out of your mind? Who allow you to sit down? Stand up!" Charles exploded, taking out a small wooden stick from the cabinet.

When Isabella was younger, she had been beaten with this stick thousands of times, developing a physiological fear of it. Every time she saw this stick, she couldn't help but tremble.

"I'm in my own house. I'll sit wherever I want, whenever I want. I don't need anyone's permission," Isabella said, holding her arms and looking at Charles, enunciating each and every word.

The phrase "my own house" made Charles feel greatly insulted and even angrier than before.

"Alright! Not only have you learned to steal, lie, cheat, but you've also learned to talk back, huh?" Charles pointed the stick at Isabella. "If I don't beat you today, I'm not worthy of being your supervisor!"

Charles swung the wooden stick and rushed towards Isabella. Isabella dodged for a moment, then grabbed the other end of the stick, pulled hard, and snatched away the stick.

"Pung!"

A crisp sound.

Isabella decisively, in the shocked eyes of Charles and Emily, used her knee to break the stick in half.

"You…How dare you…I am your uncle!" Charles's eyes were about to pop out.

"Charles, you know how you and your family has treated me ever since I was five years old, do you still think that you deserve to be called Uncle by me? Have you ever feel guilty of what you and your family has done to me?" Isabella sneered.

They abused her.. with scolding and hitting, not giving her food when they were unhappy, dressing her up beautifully when taking her out, ignoring her cries when returning home, stripping off her fake beautiful clothes, making her wear ragged clothes and sleeping in the servant's room.

Does such a scumbag deserve to be her uncle? A biological-related person would not treat her like this!

"Isabella, I think you have gone mad!" Elizabeth couldn't bear it anymore, so she rolled up her sleeves and rushed towards Isabella. Elizabeth, unlike her husband, was tall and robust, like a man. Isabella definitely couldn't bear a hit from her.

But she wasn't panicked at all. She looked down at her fingernails and said, "If you are to touch one single hair of me today, tomorrow, the video of your daughter and Andrew Smith sleeping together in my room will be spread everywhere. A very fine-edited, hot, clear version and steamy one."

Elizabeth raised her hand high but couldn't bring herself to slap down at last.

"What did you say?" Elizabeth looked extra shocked.

"Isabella, did you record a video??? You actually recorded a video of me and Andrew??" Emily was already somewhat panicked. As soon as she heard a video, she began screaming and rushing over. Elizabeth gently pulled her back.

Just now, that crazy girl Isabella said that if any of them touched her, she'd make the video public. Elizabeth and her husband both wish to stay in the top luxury social circle. So, they can't afford to ruin their reputation with a dirty video.

"Who made you so fond of bringing Andrew to my room to make out?" There was obviously no video, but knowing everything, Isabella spoke with such vivid details, making a video seem as if it were real.

"b***h! You b***h! Andrew doesn't even like you! He loves me! Being with you is just to get closer to Brooks Cooperation!" Emily screamed.

She had hated Isabella since she was little when Isabella's parents weren't dead yet. Isabella lived like a princess, pretty and well-dressed; everyone wanted to be around Isabella.

The reason Emily liked to make out with Andrew in Isabella's room was for a kind of psychological satisfaction, feeling like she was winning over Isabella.

Now, Isabella exposed her actions all of a sudden, and she felt her self-esteem being trampled underfoot once again.

"Emily, are you really with Andrew…" Charles was astonished.

"Dad, is now the proper time to ask me about this?" Emily gritted her teeth.

"Isabella, While I'm still being reasonable, hand over the videos you recorded!" Charles said viciously.

"Do you still think I'm that little girl who would give you everything when you threatened me? I won't give you the videos. If you want to cause trouble, go ahead. But still, like I have said, if you dare to hurt me, I promise you that the videos will find their way to be on the internet by themselves." Isabella mocked with a laugh.

"Emily is your sister, how can you treat her like that? Aren't you afraid of driving her to commit suicide out of shame? At such a young age, your heart is full of malicious thoughts already!" Elizabeth scolded.

"Emily, I am your sister, and you still dare to seduce my fiancée? Aren't you afraid of driving me to commit suicide? At such a young age, your heart is too malicious!" Isabella retorted with mockery on her face again.

Elizabeth's face turned pale, wishing she could rush over and tear Isabella's mouth to shreds.

"Isabella!" Emily was so angry that her whole body trembled.

"I've said what needs to be said; the rest is up to you." Isabella went straight back to her room in the servant's quarter and, according to her memory, took out a card from the compartment of her drawer.

These were the savings that Isabella had secretly accumulated over the years.

In the book, Isabella uses this savings to buy an expensive watch to make up to Andrew, and Andrew throws the watch into the sea in front of her.

Although Nathan didn't say how much he wanted, she couldn't be so naive, taking everything for granted. She would have better given him some, treating him well like she had promised. This saving was better given to Nathan than that scumbag Andrew.

Isabella ignored the solemn expressions on Emily and her parents' faces and walked straight out.

"What a b***h!" Emily's face was swollen, and her eyes were turning red because of her crying.

"Dear daughter, I'm asking you, when did you and Andrew start?" Elizabeth asked in a deep voice.

"We love each other!" Emily frowned, "In love, the one who isn't loved is the third wheel! It's Isabella who meddled in the relationship between me and Andrew!"

"Excellent!" Elizabeth suddenly clapped her hands and swept away her previous gloom, "It's true that no one can meddle with true love! Fifteen years ago, our family lived in poverty. Still, after Isabella's parents died, we got the chance to move to this wealthy mansion. Now, seeing that the Brooks Corporation is about to be taken away from us, you and Andrew got together. You drove Isabella crazy, and now she can't get married. Therefore, she can't inherit the Brooks Corporation. You can marry Andrew and use help from his family! How many people will envy our family in the future?"

Emily was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Right! I've made Isabella so angry, she's about to become a penniless heiress!"

"It's best for her to release the videos, so that everyone in the world will know that you and Andrew are together as a couple. In that case, Andrew won't stand a chance to deny it!" Charles said excitedly.

"How could Andrew possibly not want me? Dad, don't talk nonsense!" Emily frowned, but she couldn't help but feel ecstatic inside, like her dad.

"Yes! My bad! My daughter is the most beautiful girl in the whole world, he must love you to death!" Charles said happily.

Emily's mood finally improved a bit.

Just wait, once everything settles down, she will make Isabella's life a living hell!