lody Sumrs felt her skin crawl under his greasy stare. A wave of disgust washed over her, and she frowned, about to snap back at him.
But just as she was about to speak, the woman in stockings standing to the side walked over.
She reached out, intimately linking her arm with Ivan Warren’s and pressing herself against him, looking as if she wanted to lt into his body.
Then, she glanced at lody Sumrs and spoke in a strangely arrogant tone, "Long ti no see. I didn’t expect to run into you here, what a coincidence... You should still rember , right? I’m Maisie Lynch."
Seeing this, Ivan Warren suddenly slapped his forehead and said with a laugh, "Look at my mory! I almost forgot, you two were roommates back then! Haha!"
Hearing the familiar na, lody Sumrs remained expressionless, silently cursing her rotten luck.
’To think I’d be so unlucky today as to run into Ivan Warren and Maisie Lynch here.’
Maisie Lynch had been lody Sumrs’s university roommate. Like lody, she ca from a rural area and a modest background. Through sheer hard work and grueling study, she had managed to get into a Top 2 university.
Because of their similar origins, when university first started, Maisie naturally gravitated toward lody over their other roommates from well-off city families.
Whether it was for als or classes, Maisie always liked to ask lody to go with her. Over ti, lody ca to consider her a friend.
Later, Austin Hale fell for lody Sumrs at first sight and began to pursue her relentlessly.
To win lody over, Austin also tried to curry favor with her roommates, including Maisie. He often brought along his own roommate and friend, Ivan Warren, to treat lody’s roommates to dinner.
That was when Maisie Lynch t Ivan Warren.
Ivan felt that compared to girls from the city, a girl like Maisie from a poor background was more gentle, virtuous, docile, and pure, and also better at taking care of people. So, he began to pursue her, hoping she would be his girlfriend.
Although Ivan Warren wasn’t as handso as Austin Hale, nor did his family have as much money, his family still owned a car and an apartnt in the city. He was far wealthier than Maisie, who ca from the countryside.
Maisie felt that, for her, Ivan was already a very good option.
So, when Austin Hale and lody Sumrs started dating, Maisie and Ivan Warren also beca a couple.
But what no one expected was that before long, Maisie got pregnant!
Ivan Warren told Maisie to drop out of university, rest, and have the baby.
Torn between the university she had worked so hard to get into and her relationship with Ivan, Maisie hesitated and asked lody Sumrs for her opinion.
lody Sumrs was stunned when she heard the news.
’She couldn’t believe Maisie was pregnant at a ti like this!’
lody advised Maisie to think it through carefully. After all, it wasn’t easy to get from a rural village into one of the country’s Top 2 universities. It was a top institution that students nationwide dread of attending. lody hoped Maisie wouldn’t so easily throw away her future or do sothing foolish.
Maisie told Ivan Warren what lody had said, and he was furious when he heard it.
Ivan told Maisie not to listen to lody’s nonsense, claiming that lody was just jealous of her!
Coincidentally, two days later, lody caught Austin Hale and Joanne White in a compromising situation, so she broke up with Austin.
After learning that lody and Austin had broken up, Maisie thought back on lody’s advice and ca to believe that lody really was jealous of her.
’lody got dumped by Austin, so now she doesn’t want to have a happy ending either!’
Persuaded by Ivan Warren, Maisie ultimately chose to go through the procedures to withdraw from the university and go ho to prepare for childbirth.
At the ti, lody just thought Maisie was out of her mind to actually give up her education and future for the sake of having a baby.
lody had genuinely considered Maisie a friend, so she sent several more ssages trying to convince her not to give up her studies. But Maisie never replied, as if she hadn’t seen them at all.
Later still, Joanne White, playing the victim like a thief crying "stop thief!", posted online, slandering lody Sumrs and claiming she was the "other woman" who had interfered in her relationship with Austin Hale.
Ivan Warren naturally supported his good friend Austin Hale. He also stepped forward, insisting that lody was the other woman and declaring that Joanne White was his one and only "sister-in-law."
And Maisie, for reasons unknown, also ca out in support of Joanne White.
It was because of these people that netizens almost unanimously believed Joanne, subjecting lody Sumrs to a vicious campaign of cyberbullying...
...
lody Sumrs’s thoughts returned to the present. Looking at Ivan Warren and Maisie Lynch standing before her, she found it impossible to put on a pleasant face.
So lody replied coolly, "I rember. But I wouldn’t really call us roommates, considering your wife dropped out so early."
Hearing the two words "dropped out," an embarrassed look flashed across Maisie’s face. She could no longer maintain her arrogant facade and glared at lody with annoyance.
Ivan Warren noticed the hostility in lody’s eyes and tried to laugh it off. "Hey now, beautiful, you’re not still mad about all that, are you? No need for that, haha. What happened in the past, let’s just let it go! We were all just kids back then, too young, bound to make mistakes."
lody couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.
’Let it go?’
’They say let it go, and I’m supposed to just let it go?’
’Easy for them to say. They weren’t the ones who got cyberbullied!’
’The shalessness of these perpetrators!’
As if he hadn’t seen lody’s cold laugh, Ivan Warren shalessly continued, "By the way, do you live here too? In that case, we’ll be neighbors! If you need anything in the future, don’t hesitate to co find !"
The mont Ivan’s words fell, Maisie froze for a second.
She looked up at Ivan with an aggrieved expression and called out softly, "Ivan..."
But Ivan Warren paid Maisie no mind, his eyes fixed on lody Sumrs with an eager gaze.
eting Ivan’s gaze, lody’s brows furrowed in disgust.
She replied icily, "No need. Stay away from , and maybe you should manage your own wife and child!"
Then she turned around and left, heading straight back to 1606.
Watching lody Sumrs walk through the door to 1606, Maisie was a little surprised.
She hadn’t expected lody to be living in 1606...
You have to understand, 1606 and 1605 were the large units!
Whereas 1601, 1602, 1603, and 1604 were all small units.
Maisie knew that her and Ivan’s apartnt, 1602, was only half the size of 1606!
Seeing lody living twice as well as her, Maisie muttered resentfully, "Sh-she must be renting... Right, she’s renting... We bought our place..."
Maisie had always believed that by giving up her studies and choosing Ivan Warren, she would definitely have a better life than lody Sumrs.
After all, in her view, no matter how hard a woman worked, she could never be as successful as a man.
That was just how society was. All the resources were skewed toward n, and most professions prioritized n.
Under these rules, a woman relying on her own efforts was far inferior to a woman relying on a man.
With this ntality, Maisie had given up her spot at a Top 2 university to be with Ivan Warren.
And reality had seed to confirm her beliefs.
After the Cataclysm, the unemploynt rate reached an unprecedented level, yet Ivan Warren had managed to find a respectable job and buy an apartnt in a first-tier city like Anworth on his own rits.
Maisie had always felt her choice was the right one!
Now, being told that lody Sumrs was doing better than her, living in a bigger apartnt than hers—how could she possibly accept that!
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