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After returning from Howard's house, Edith was smug as hell. As soon as she entered the house, she was called out by Peter, "Edith, where have you been?" Edith just entered the house, didn't notice her father sitting on the sofa and was startled, "I ...... I went to Howard's. Didn't you tell me to approach Alan?" "Nonsense!" Peter slapped the table and stood up, "Did I let you get close to the Howard family to do something nonsensical? What's with the news?" Edith said sheepishly, "What news, I ...... I don t know." "You don't know?" Peter's face turned livid with anger, "You're my daughter, there's absolutely no way I'd let you marry Alan. You've never seen his tactics, so you don't know how sinister he is." Having fought with Alan many times, he had long known that Alan was a man who would do whatever it took, otherwise he wouldn't have risked offending Alan by marrying Lexie instead in the first place. Edith thought otherwise, seeing Peter's face easing, she immediately took