Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime

Chapter 527 The Howard Family’s Branches Flourish_1

Around ten o’clock, a car from the Summers Family arrived to pick up Purple Summers.

The bodyguard in the car was a stranger, and Zack Wallace wasn’t present, but the driver looked somewhat familiar.

Purple understood that attending the banquet today as Lily Howard’s bridesmaid meant she wouldn’t know the family head of the Howards. If Alexander Summers had sent a subordinate to pick her up, it would have definitely attracted attention.

A woman personally picked up by Master Xander? No, no, no, Purple didn’t want that kind of attention at all.

Way too horrifying.

Purple got into the car and sent a message to Alexander Summers, telling him she was on her way.

The car left the Summers home.

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Purple arrived at the mansion around noon.

Today, the castle, usually quiet, buzzed with more life than usual. When Purple entered, the bright and spacious hall on the first floor was full of guests.

Suddenly seeing so many people, Purple felt a bit lost; there were too many, chattering away, and she couldn’t see where Alexander and Lily were.

Fortunately, she was accompanied by a bodyguard who had been instructed beforehand and, upon arrival, led Purple to a resting room.

Perhaps to make it more realistic, there actually was a room specifically for the bridesmaids, complete with spare dresses, shoes, a dressing mirror, and various makeup products.

Sarah was sitting in front of the dressing mirror, crying.

Purple: “…”

Purple could roughly guess why Sarah was crying.

It felt a bit awkward… Actually, she should be crying like Sarah. Her beloved was getting engaged to someone else—how unfortunate and tragic.

But she couldn’t cry…

She was feeling a little bit sentimental at first, but now, seeing Sarah crying so hard she couldn’t catch her breath, Purple couldn’t even squeeze out a tear.

How to put it… The sense of absurdity was greater than the tragedy, so tears wouldn’t come, and she found it a bit laughable.

Purple reflected: Could it be because she didn’t love Alexander Summers enough?

Even though Sarah knew the engagement was fake, she cried so heartbreakingly, clearly much deeper in her emotions than Purple.

Purple got lost in thought for a while, then noticed some water nearby, poured a glass for Sarah, and gently placed it on the table in front of her.

With the language barrier, comforting words were also hard to speak.

Sarah, with a poor accent, murmured a low “Thank you.”

She then wiped her tears, sniffed, her eyes red and swollen, looking like a wilted bud, pitiful to the extreme.

Now preoccupied with her sorrow, she wasn’t showing as much hostility towards Purple.

Purple found a pair of cooling eye masks in the makeup box and applied them to Sarah’s eyes.

After a while, Lily came to find them. As soon as Sarah saw her arrive, she ignored the eye masks on her eyes, immediately threw herself into Lily’s arms, babbling in French, and her tears fell again.

Lily cooed and comforted her, finally managing to get Sarah to smile again.

Lily looked up at Purple and explained with a smile, “Sarah just turned 20, and she’s a bit headstrong, loves to throw temper tantrums like a child. You’ve worked hard today taking care of her for me.”

Purple was younger than Sarah but had a much more composed demeanor, which easily inspired trust.

She nodded, showing understanding, “Sarah just misses you too much.”

Lily laughed, then led them out together.

In that short period, even more guests had arrived outside.

Most of these people had traveled from Wheatley and Sutherland City, nearly bringing together all branches and clans of the Howard Family.

The Howard Family was a vast clan, and their family banquets were noisier and more festive than those of ordinary families. But within that festivity, hidden battles lurked abundant.

Lily taught Purple to recognize people: “That’s the third grand uncle over there, the one with a walking stick is the seventh grand uncle, the bald one is the fifth grand uncle, next to him are the third wife and the fourth wife, and the one with slicked hair is the third grand uncle’s grandson… The one with slightly darker skin is Eleventh Young Master Howard, and that one is Howard Sixteenth…”

Lily listed many names: Cooper Howard, Harley Howard, Holden Howard, Jonah Howard, Wade Howard…

There were even a few whose names she herself had forgotten, and she admitted with a self-deprecating laugh, “The Howard family tree is so lush, it’s impossible for me to recognize every single leaf.”

Purple immediately agreed; she couldn’t remember a single one.

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