That name.

No one was more familiar with it than she was.

No one knew her better than she did.

No one understood her better than she did.

Because she bore that name for seven whole years.

Essie was Cathy Xu.

After divorcing Baron, her mother changed her name to Lucy in the hopes of forgetting her past life and starting a new one. After she married Bob, Essie offered to change her name in order to ease her mother's conflict with her new grandparents. Since her mother's second marriage, they had severed ties with their original family and become members of the new family wholeheartedly.

However, did she actually become engaged to that ice guy?

Wasn't this the biggest joke of the century?

How come she never knew about it?

He was eleven years old then, while she was only six years of age. At that time, Elizabeth took her son and daughter and became part of the family. Essie and her elder sister Alice were too busy fighting with Valery and her little brother, so she knew nothing about this. It was a political marriage arranged by the adults. The children would know about it when they reached puberty.

Hearing him mention her childhood nemesis, Valery became a little furious.

Cathy had always been more beautiful, smarter, and more brilliant than her. She was better than her in every aspect and stole her thunder at every turn that Valery was doomed to live in her shadow forever. Ever since she found out that Zac's grandfather chose Cathy as his future granddaughter-in-law, she had been looking for the every chance to kill her, but the woman luckily managed to escape every time. Fortunately, her mother had finally become the legal wife and kicked Cathy and her mother out of the family. She was no longer a threat to her.

"She has not been a part of our family for a long time. Who knows, maybe she has been living like a sparrow in the slums. Do yo

d, but his expression remained unruffled. After all, he wasn't known as a powerful king in business circles who had weathered countless storms for nothing. He could tell that Zac didn't really want to marry Valery. As stubborn as he was, he would not change his mind no matter how hard anybody tried to convince him otherwise. Ever since Valery got pregnant and Elizabeth came to pressure them to get married, he washed his hands off the matter and let his son solve the problem by himself. However, this strategy went beyond his expectations. Zac used to play hide and seek in the past, but now he went for the direct attack and took a wife home. This was not his usual style.

Stunned by what she heard, Mary felt the onset of a headache. Since the couple had already obtained a marriage certificate, it would be extremely difficult to drive Essie out of the house. She had known Valery since she was a child and treated her as her own daughter. Now that she was pregnant, she couldn't just stand by. Zac had always been cold to women, with the sole exception of Leila. The woman whom he had married must be such an exemplary character to have captivated someone like Zac. He was so obsessed that he gave her the family ring and even obtained the marriage certificate.