Chapter 68: 068. Besides Letting Go_1 Chapter 68: 068. Besides Letting Go_1 “Elly…”
Elly Campbell interrupted the Old Lady before she could continue. She pressed her lips together, smiled faintly, and said, “Grandma, do you know how much more relaxed and comfortable my days have been without Adam Jones?”
The Old Lady was taken aback by Elly’s question, and for a moment, she couldn’t come up with an answer.
Seeing Elly suddenly laugh at herself, a delicate beauty was evident on her face, yet it was tinged with a hint of desolation, “After marrying Adam Jones, I almost forgot I was the daughter of the Campbell Family.”
The Old Lady looked at Elly. Over the course of four years, she had thought Elly’s anger towards Adam had subsided, but she hadn’t expected that this time, Elly had returned even more determined to get a divorce.
“During the three years of marriage, the words spoken between him and me… No, I should say, the words he spoke to me… could be counted on the fingers of my hands. I admit, I once loved him very much, so much that when I found out he agreed to marry me, I would wake up from dreams laughing.”
“I dreamed of marrying the man I loved, bearing children for him, and growing old with him.”
As she looked into the Old Lady’s eyes full of compassion, she said with emotion, “Grandma, I am also a proud daughter of the heavens, but in front of him, I put away all my edges, willingly becoming the woman behind him.”
“I knew he didn’t like me at all, he even despised me. I thought that one day I could touch his heart, make him like me too, so for those three years, I constantly tried to ingratiate myself in front of him, liking what he liked, disliking what he disliked.”
“Even when it came to Lily Jones, no matter how unhappy I was with her in my heart, all I knew was that she was the person he cared about most. So, I told myself that the people Adam Jones cared about, I must try hard to care about as well.”
Originally, she had said these things just to make the Old Lady give up the idea of persuading her to reconcile with Adam Jones, but once the words were out, they became like floodwaters breaking through a dam, gradually spiraling out of control.
Especially since tonight she had once again experienced how Adam Jones would defend Sophie Baker in such circumstances.
“Grandma, what can I do besides letting go?” she asked.
In her eyes was a vast emptiness, a question to the Old Lady but also to herself; what could she do besides letting go?
The Old Lady hesitated several times, wanting to say something but, faced with Elly’s bewildered eyes, she ultimately couldn’t utter a word.
Seeing the state Elly was in, it was clear her decision to divorce was extremely firm.
What more could she say? All she could say was that Adam had it coming!
“Grandma didn’t realize you had so much grievance in your heart. I got it wrong; indeed, I shouldn’t have indulged Adam so much. He obtained this relationship too easily, which is why he has been so presumptuous,” admitted the Old Lady.
The Old Lady had always been a person of clear understanding, which is why Elly was especially fond of her.
Seeing that she wasn’t speaking up for Adam anymore, Elly let out a sigh of relief and showed the Old Lady a genuine smile.
The two did not continue with the previous topic but rather shifted the conversation elsewhere.
The Old Lady came from a family of scholars with a wide range of interests. Even with a fifty-year age difference between them, they never ran out of topics, and before they knew it, they had talked for several hours.
“Look at us, every time Grandma talks to you, we get so caught up we forget the time. It’s already so late.”
She glanced at her watch; it was already after 11 p.m.