Chapter 188: No Second Chance

“But what if… your score isn’t as good as before?”

Evelyn Grant still felt it was a bad idea.

“Sis, that means you don’t believe in me!” Alex Grant was extremely confident in himself.

Besides, he was well aware of his family’s situation.

‘I shouldn’t be a burden. I can’t cause any more trouble! I need to do something to help.’

“I believe you! Of course, I believe you. But who can predict the results of the college entrance exam? What if the test is harder next year?”

‘These are all things we can’t be sure of!’

“If the test is harder next year, then all the other students taking it will get lower scores too. The admission cutoff will just be lowered to match!”

Alex hadn’t even told his sister that he’d already turned down an early admission offer. He was set on taking the college entrance exam to win the one-million-yuan prize for top scorers, aiming for a score above seven hundred!

“Alex, I know you’re doing this for my sake, to start earning money for our family sooner. But there are some things you shouldn’t be worrying about right now. You just need to focus on your studies and nothing else.”

“Sis, I’m not a kid anymore. I know what I’m doing.” Afraid of worrying his sister, Alex Grant quickly changed the subject. “That Ms. Sterling who came by earlier, she was obviously here to convince you to get back together with him! Sis, you can’t go soft, no matter what! Even if you went back to a guy like that, he wouldn’t cherish you.”

Evelyn Grant just smiled.

‘Her little brother was still young and didn’t understand matters of the heart.’

‘He thought being cherished or not was the most important thing!’

‘But a marriage is built on trust, on both people being able to treasure the relationship.’

‘She had already given her trust to Julian Sterling, but he hadn’t cherished it at all, so…’

‘There are no second chances.’

Evelyn Grant was very clear on that.

…

Florence Morgan left the hospital, fuming.

In all her years, she had never been so humiliated by an underage brat!

When had she ever been lectured so harshly? Not even her parents-in-law or her own husband had ever dared to speak to her like that!

And the worst part was, for the sake of her son’s marriage, she had to swallow her anger and couldn’t even talk back!

That was what infuriated her the most.

“I don’t know what sin I committed in a past life! No, what sin *you* committed in a past life to be so bewitched by that Jane Jacobs! And now look, not only is your marriage in shambles, but I have to lose face over it too!”

Florence Morgan couldn’t lecture Alex Grant, so she could only take her anger out on Julian Sterling.

Who told him to throw away a good life and make such a mess of things? Only now that there was no turning back did he finally regret it.

“Mom, how is… Evelyn Grant now?” Julian Sterling ignored his mother’s fury and asked about what concerned him most.

“She’s so skinny she’s almost unrecognizable! There’s no color in her face, and lying there, she looked like she was on the verge of death.” After saying this, Florence Morgan sighed. “Ai! You two had a good life right in front of you, why did you have to—have to end up like this!”

“Yeah, it’s all my fault. I admit it.”

Even though Julian Sterling had been unwilling to admit it before, deep down, he knew.

He had caused all of this himself.

“What’s the use of you admitting it now? Now Eve and her brother are completely hostile toward our family! When I went in there, I was practically chased out! If you ask me to go find Eve again, I don’t have the face for it anymore!”