Ann Winters' Awakening and Revenge opens the book
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Xia Martin stared at Ann Winters for a long time, looking dazed. She couldn't figure out where things had gone wrong.
Inside the car at that moment, a specific ringtone suddenly sounded. It rang for a long time. Xia Martin couldn't bear it anymore.
"Ann, phone!" Xia Martin reminded her, eager to see how she would explain things to Alex Spencer.
Ann Winters lowered her eyes. She really had to exert a lot of self-control to answer the phone in an extremely restrained voice, "Alex."
"Did you have a good time today?" Alex Spencer's warm voice came through the phone.
Ann Winters smiled sarcastically. In a few days, Alex Spencer was going to participate in an influential Outstanding Youth selection. So she had specifically come here to pray for him, hoping he would succeed. In the past, Ann Winters had always put Alex Spencer first in everything. Clearly, she had the ability to reach the pinnacle herself, but she had given up everything for him.
"Ann?" Not getting a response from her, his voice became even warmer.
"Not bad," Ann Winters replied in a very calm tone. "I went to pray for your career."
"Didn't you pray for an early heir by the way?" he joked.
She had. But now, looking at the blessing words in front of her, she just felt disgusted, as if she had swallowed a fly. It was only at the moment of her death that she learned that the reason she hadn't conceived in ten years was that Alex Spencer had been secretly putting contraceptives in her food all along. What was even more ridiculous was that she had endured countless scorn and humiliation from the Spencer family for so many years because of it.
"What's the matter? Are you tired?" Alex Spencer seemed to notice that she was a bit different and quickly asked with concern.
"I came to the mountain with Martin early this morning. I'm indeed a bit tired. I'm driving back now."
"It's my fault for having something urgent today. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let you work so hard," he said, sounding very self-reproachful.
Ann Winters thought that her sarcastic smile at this moment was a waste of her facial expressions. She used to be so stupid that she really thought he was busy. But he was just busy... sleeping with other women.
"Drive safely," Alex Spencer urged.
Ann Winters hung up the phone directly.
Xia Martin looked at Ann Winters' cold appearance and swallowed the words that had come to her lips. She felt that Ann Winters seemed like a different person now, a very strange one. She thought that maybe after a good night's sleep, Ann would return to normal tomorrow.
When the car returned to the city, Ann Winters first dropped Xia Martin off at the Xia family villa.
"Martin," Ann Winters suddenly called out to her.
Xia Martin turned around and looked at Ann Winters with some... peculiar eyes.
Ann Winters was actually just confirming that she was alive and that Martin was also still alive.
Xia Martin felt a bit creepy being stared at by Ann Winters. "Are you okay today? I heard that Qingning Mountain has strange feng shui and a heavy yin energy. You haven't been haunted by something, have you?!"
Xia Martin was still that carefree and innocent woman. Those earth-shattering things hadn't happened to her yet.
Ann Winters smiled. This was the first sincere smile since her rebirth. She said, "Fortunately, you're still alive."
"Sure enough, you're not normal!" Xia Martin was speechless. "My dad said that a troublemaker like me will live for a thousand years. So a small car accident can't kill a sister!"
In the past, Ann Winters had also thought that Xia Martin, who lived so carelessly and freely, wouldn't die easily, and would never commit suicide. However, Xia Martin had jumped from the 28th floor, and it was a horrible sight. That had been a shadow and pain that Ann Winters could never get rid of.
She was very grateful. She had come back to the present, and everything was just right. Just right, nothing had happened yet, and she could take revenge!
She calmed her emotions and changed the subject, "Don't tell anyone about what happened today."
"Which thing?"
"About the agreement with Jack Harrison."
Xia Martin rolled her eyes. "I won't say a word. Anyway, you'll be normal tomorrow."
Tomorrow, she would only be more determined.
"I'm leaving."
"Drive carefully," Xia Martin said worriedly.
Ann Winters nodded and drove the car steadily back home.
She drove back to the Ann family villa ten years ago. It was a familiar yet strange place. Emotions welled up uncontrollably in Ann Winters' heart. When she walked into the hall and saw her parents, her eyes suddenly turned red.
In her previous life, if it hadn't been for her bad choice of husband, her parents wouldn't have died in a car accident. In that planned accident, her parents had shielded her with their bodies, and she had narrowly escaped death. She didn't want to recall those bloody scenes and painful experiences, and she would never go through them again!
"Ann, didn't you say you went to Qingning Mountain to pray for Alex? Why are you back so soon?" Lily, Ann Winters' mother, greeted her gently.
Ann Winters suppressed the tears in her eyes and walked over to them with a smile on her lips.
From now on, everything had changed. In the future, only she would bring down Alex Spencer and destroy everything related to the Spencer family. No one would be able to touch a hair of the Ann family again!
"Why are your eyes so red?" Lily asked with concern as Ann Winters approached.
"My eyes were a bit dry, so I rubbed them."
"Just now, the Spencer family called. They want to discuss the details of your wedding with us..." Lily said.
Ann Winters took a deep breath. "Mom, I want to break off the engagement with Alex."
"What?" Lily looked astonished.
James, Ann Winters' father, who was sitting next to Lily and had been reading the newspaper, also shifted his attention. "Did you quarrel with Alex?"
"Alex isn't a good person. He's marrying me just to seize our family's property and use our family as a stepping stone to the aristocracy." Ann Winters could clearly sense her parents' disbelief and continued, "I don't have any evidence to prove what I'm saying now, but give me some time, and I'll make you believe me!"
James and Lily were silent as they watched their daughter being so resolute all of a sudden. Since childhood, Ann Winters had never been a child who caused them worry. When she was young, her grandfather had arranged an engagement for her. Ann Winters not only didn't refuse but also always behaved herself and never interacted with any male friends other than Alex Spencer, wholeheartedly choosing Alex Spencer. Moreover, the two had had a good relationship since childhood. Why was she suddenly saying such things now?
Ann Winters noticed their doubts. "Dad, I've never done anything to make you embarrassed. I also know very well how many benefits our two families' alliance can bring. But even so, I still want to stick to my decision."
"You're my daughter. Of course I believe you." James, hearing Ann Winters say this, could only go along with her. "But if we break off the engagement now, not to mention the benefits our two families could get, it will actually bring huge negative impacts on our family. How will the Ann family be able to stand in Qingcheng in the future?!"
After all, he was still a bit emotional.
"No, it won't," Ann Winters said firmly. "If I break off the engagement, it will be the Spencer family that bears all the consequences!"
James was a bit shocked. He was suddenly intimidated by his daughter's aura. He always felt that she was a bit different from the gentle daughter he usually knew.
"At next month's wedding, it will be the Spencer family that gets slapped in the face!"
Ann Winters was resolute.
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