Love Against All Expectations

In a luxury car, heading back to Atheton.

Kaylee Hadley was sitting quietly in the back seat, wearing a plain white dress. A nasty scar covered nearly half of her petite face.

Sitting next to Kaylee was her younger sister, Gemma Hadley. The latter looked at Kaylee's ugly face with secret relish.

Kaylee had always been very beautiful, which had always made Gemma very jealous. Unexpectedly, Kaylee ended up getting a huge scar on her face.

"Mom, Kaylee looks like one of those beggars who rummage for food in the trash. Won't the Stephens family be revolted when they see her?" Gemma glanced at the bag beside Kaylee in disgust. It was filled with ancient medical books and an old laptop.

Their mother, Josie Hadley, waved her hand and said dismissively, "An ugly woman like her is a perfect match for that illegitimate bastard son of the Stephens family."

Speaking of the man that Kaylee was about to marry, Gemma wrinkled her nose in disgust. How dare they pair her up with a notorious love child?

Gemma was Josie's biological daughter, while Kaylee was just adopted. Nine years ago, the family had even driven Kaylee out of the house.

The Hadley family and the Stephens family had made an agreement to marry their children a long time ago. Thus, Gemma was supposed to marry the second son of the Stephens family, Elijah Stephens.

But Elijah was a promiscuous playboy. He had a bad reputation for jumping from woman to woman, showing up with a different girlfriend almost every week.

Naturally, Gemma didn't want to marry him.

The Hadley family didn't dare to cancel the engagement with the Stephens family, so they had no choice but to track down their adopted daughter, Kaylee, and force her to marry Elijah.

Kaylee didn't want to waste her breath arguing with Gemma and Josie, so she kept looking out the window, as though she couldn't hear them.

Seeing this, Gemma felt determined to pester Kaylee even more, so she continued to make sarcastic remarks.

After all, Gemma wanted to feel superior to her sister, and insulting her was one simple way to do that. "Mom, look at Kaylee's laptop. It's so old and banged up. I've just bought a new laptop, so what if I give my old laptop to her? If she goes to the Stephens family with that, she'll disgrace our family!"

Hearing Gemma brag, Kaylee lowered her head and chuckled, but still said nothing.

Unbeknownst to her stupid sister, Kaylee's shabby laptop was full of programs she designed on her own, and the hardware had been modified by her as well. On the black market, someone even offered Kaylee half a million dollars for her laptop.

Gemma was still chattering away when they finally arrived at the Stephens family's house.

Clutching her bag close, Kaylee got out of the car and strode straight inside the house.

However, as soon as she stepped foot past the gate, she was stopped by a servant. "Excuse me, but who are you? Beggars are strictly not allowed to enter this grand villa!"

Kaylee didn't feel embarrassed at all. She explained flatly, "I'm the daughter of the Hadley family. I'm here to fulfill the agreement between the two families."

Hearing this, the servant's eyes widened in disbelief, which quickly turned to disgust. She looked Kaylee up and down and wrinkled her nose in disdain.

Kaylee looked both ugly and shabby. She looked nothing like a lady from a rich family. How could she be Elijah's future wife?

Just as Kaylee was about to walk past the servant, the latter stopped her again. "Stop right there! Your shoes will dirty the floor!"

At this point, Kaylee had had enough of this arrogant servant's provocations.

Her eyes turned cold as she turned to look at the servant. "You are just a servant. I'm about to marry the son of the Stephens family. I am above you, understand?"

The servant was frightened by Kaylee's oppressive aura. Before she knew what she was doing, the servant was already fetching a pair of indoor slippers for Kaylee.

When Kaylee entered the living room, she saw a woman rushing in from the backyard.

It was Elijah's elder sister, Haisley Stephens.

Haisley practically shouted, "Is the daughter from the Hadley family here yet?! The wedding's about to begin!"

The Stephens family didn't hold a big wedding precisely because they knew that Kaylee was very ugly. They just held a simple ceremony in the backyard of their house. They didn't invite many guests, since they didn't want the public to know that such an ugly woman would marry into their elite family.

The servant pointed at Kaylee and said cautiously, "She's right here."

Haisley's eyes followed the direction the servant pointed at. As soon as she saw the massive scar on Kaylee's face, her jaw went slack.

She had long heard that her brother would marry an ugly woman, but she didn't expect his bride would be that ugly!

How embarrassing! How could they let this woman marry into their family?!

Kaylee returned Haisley's dumbfounded gaze calmly.

Unbeknownst to all, the scar on Kaylee's face was actually fake. She wasn't disfigured at all. She only pretended to be ugly, because her beauty had caused her a lot of trouble before.

Haisley gritted her teeth angrily and hissed, "Why haven't you gotten her changed yet?"

Ignoring Haisley's rudeness, Kaylee followed the servant to the dressing room and quickly put on her wedding dress.

Soon, Kaylee walked out of the dressing room in a white lace dress. She had a slender waist and a graceful figure, and thanks to the dress' low back design, the rose-shaped birthmark on her back between her beautiful shoulder blades was exposed. From behind, she actually looked quite stunning.

Haisley urged the servant, "Quick! Put the veil on her! The wedding will begin in ten minutes."

After getting dressed, Kaylee was led to the wedding venue in the backyard.

She looked around, but there was no sign of Elijah, her groom-to-be.

She asked one of the servants beside her in a low voice, "Where's the groom?"

Hearing this, the servant blushed and glanced at the second floor of the villa hesitantly. She hemmed and hawed, as if she felt too embarrassed to explain the situation.