The purpose of Dolores asking this question was to find out from Victoria's answer whether Charles
was lying or not.
Upon hearing Dolores's words, Victoria's face, which had just brought back the roses, instantly turned
pale again. She stared at Dolores and felt like she had fallen into an ice cave, chilling from the top of
her head to the tips of her toes.
She actually knew Nathan?
"Are you uncomfortable talking about it?"
Dolores sensed her hesitation.
She hurriedly denied it, "No."
Kevin had forced her to a dead end, and she had no other choice.
"How did you get into danger?" Victoria asked with concern.
"You don't have to worry about this. Matthew has helped me out and I'm fine now. I want to know about
you, was it also a conspiracy for me to be brought here by Kevin to learn the craft of tea silk making?"
Dolores felt that a huge conspiracy was looming behind her, but she couldn't peer into it.
Victoria closed her eyes and also made up her mind in this short period of time.
What was done was done, and there was nothing she could do to change it.
However, she was afraid it would cause big trouble for Dolores. Her cold, uncontrollably trembling hand
clasped Dolores's hand, "You're a good girl."
Her eyes reddened slightly, and her voice changed its intonation. "I can tell you everything, but you
have to promise me one thing."
Since she was Matthew's real mother, then of course she wanted her son to be good. Now she had
given birth to two children for Matthew, so she must also like her, or at least not hate her. Moreover, she
gave her the Forbis family's ancestral jade bracelets, so she definitely wouldn't hurt her.
Dolores nodded and said, "I promise you, go ahead, what is it?"
"You must keep everything I tell you a secret, and you can't say anything to anyone, including
Matthew."
Dolores's eyelids drooped slightly as she had expected such a request. If she wasn't afraid of Matthew
knowing about this, how could she try every possible way to conceal it?
She just didn't understand what kind of past was there that she couldn't even recognize her own son?
There were thousands of pains in this world, such as old age, sickness, death, love, hate and
separation; however, the most heart-breaking and tragic was that I couldn't acknowledge you even
though you were right in front of my eyes.
Dolores was tempted to ask her what exactly was more important than recognizing her son?
But when the words came to the tip of her tongue, she swallowed them again. If there was no difficulty
that she couldn't mention, how would she like to be separated from her own children?
Dolores looked up at her and replied seriously, "Alright, I promise you."
Victoria didn't feel relieved, on the contrary, she felt increasingly heavy-hearted. She never intended to
pull Dolores into the whirlpool of the past, but the current development was beyond her expectations.
Her involvement was bound to be detrimental to her.
Victoria pondered for a few seconds, but still couldn't muster up the courage to open her mouth.
And Dolores wasn't in a hurry and waited quietly.
About a few minutes later, Victoria slowly opened her mouth, "My last name is Forbis, and my full name
is Victoria Forbis. But after I got married to Jayden, I didn't dare to use my real name and just said my
name is Victoria…I didn't even dare to admit that Matthew is my birth because he can only have one
identity, that is, he is the son of the daughter of the Harris family, Jolene Harris and Jayden. I was just
their surrogate.
Back then, just after my 20th birthday, my dad passed away from a sudden heart attack and the factory
my family operated…"
Speaking of which, she raised her eyes to look at Dolores, "The product my family dealt with was tea
silk, but because of the special material, we didn't stock up on a lot of finished products. However, my
dad had taken a big order during his lifetime. Due to his sudden death, my brother took it over, but he
failed to meet the delivery quantity within the deadline. The other party demanded compensation, and
according to the contract, we had to pay five times the price if we couldn't complete it on time. We
could still afford this compensation, but the devastating blow to us was that the previously delivered
product had quality problems and the buyer demanded compensation for the loss.
As you know, the cost of manufacturing was already a large sum of money, and if we added
compensation to it, it would be a sky-high price.
We later learned that it was caused by our workers putting the materials in the wrong order when
making the cloth. The successive accidents not only made the public question the quality of the tea silk
we produced, but we also had to pay a large amount of compensation…"
In desperation, she turned to Nathan, her first love. Both of their families had met, and their wedding
date had been set.
She was at her wits' end and wanted to seek help from her boyfriend. However, she didn't see Nathan
when she came to the White family, but only Nathan's mother, Mrs. White.
"Nathan has gone abroad on a business trip and won't be back for a while." Mrs. White sat in the living
room, not as gentle and kind as usual, but showed a contemptuous expression to Victoria at this
moment.
"Victoria, you haven't married into the White family yet. Isn't it too much to want our money?"
Mrs. White's words caught Victoria off guard. In the past, Mrs. White liked her a lot and treated her well.
But since her dad passed away and her family got into trouble, her attitude towards her changed and
she was no longer the same Mrs. White, who liked her and was amiable.
"I just want Nathan to help me once, and I'll pay him back in the future." Victoria stood in the courtyard.
It was midday in summer and the sun blazed down on her.
Victoria's face was sunburned and her sweat rolled down like rain, but Mrs. White didn't let her into the
villa and said without mercy, "Pay back the money? How can you pay back the money? As far as I
know, your family has already compensated a large sum of money, and the amount is even more
staggering for this time. Without your father, what does your family have left? In fact, it isn't impossible
to help you, if you're willing to pass on your craftmanship of making tea silk to me, I can also consider
lending you this money."
Victoria never expected that Mrs. White would want her family's cloth-making technology.
At that moment, she realized that humans actually had two faces. They could change in an instant to
catch you off guard, to make your heart ache like being cut with a knife, to show you what a fool you
turned out to be. You treated them as your family, but they only wanted to take away what belonged to
you.
"What if I don't want to?" The Forbis family's cloth-making technology had been passed down from
ancestors and had never been passed on to outsiders. Only the blood relatives of the Forbis family
were entitled to the true teachings.
How could she hand over her ancestors' belongings to others? Besides, if she handed over the
technique of making tea silk, would it still belong to the Forbis family?
She couldn't let the technique of making tea silk be ruined in her generation.
Mrs. White snorted, "I tried to give you a favor, but you gave me shit. Your engagement with Nathan will
also be terminated. From now on, you have nothing to do with him, and there is no longer any
relationship between the Whites and the Forbis!"
Mrs. White's ruthlessness let Victoria know that Mrs. White initially agreed to her being with Nathan
only because she was interested in the Forbis family's cloth-making technique. Now, since she refused
to hand it over, and the Forbis family was facing a major crisis, she showed her true colours.
However, her feelings for Nathan were real.
"If you want to break off the engagement, you ask Nathan to talk to me in person." Victoria didn't cry,
even though her heart was dripping blood at the moment. She stubbornly refused to shed a single tear
in front of Mrs. White.
Mrs. White sneered, "Good, good, very good, you're doing it the hard way now!"
Soon, Victoria received a blow from the White family to her.
The White family unilaterally announced the cancellation of the engagement with the Forbis family. As
a result, the Forbis family, which was already on shaky ground, suffered an even more difficult situation.
The buyers, who had previously promised to give them time to raise money, immediately asked the
Forbis family for money as soon as they heard that the White family had drawn a line with them. If they
couldn't pay, those buyers would take their villa to auction and rob their cloth-making technology.
Just when Victoria was at the end of her rope, a woman reached out to her.
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