{"id":1082,"date":"2026-09-28T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/my-sweetheart-416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:42:20","slug":"my-sweetheart-416","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/my-sweetheart-416\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 416"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 416<br \/>\nMy Sweetheart novel Chapter 416<\/p>\n<p>When they reached the doorway at the hotel, Kathy said to the man beside her, \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reece nodded indifferently. When he raised his vision, he immediately met with a sharp gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph was staring at him coldly from a distance away.<\/p>\n<p>Curling his lips slightly, Reece asked Kathy,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want me to send you back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s okay, I\u2019ve already gave you a lot of trouble today,\u201d Kathy replied.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, she quickly headed for the door. However, a familiar figure emerged in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>Black suit, white shirt, and the aloof good-looking features.<\/p>\n<p>He was standing in her way.<\/p>\n<p>Why\u2026 why was he here?<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of thoughts ran through Kathy\u2019s mind in that instant, and one stood out particularly- he didn\u2019t marry Ella.<\/p>\n<p>But she just couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>She said in an indifferent tone, \u201cCan you let me through?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joseph frowned and didn\u2019t move an inch.<\/p>\n<p>His expression in his eyes gradually darkened.<\/p>\n<p>His menacing aura trembled Kathy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoseph,\u201d she said in a colder tone.<\/p>\n<p>Their interaction attracted some passers-by\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHmm.\u201d After a short while, he slowly moved towards the car at the door, which had been long waiting for him.<\/p>\n<p>As she watched him left, Kathy felt Joseph was so lonely at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>But how was that possible.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t he supposed to be with Ella right now?<\/p>\n<p>Why was he leaving by himself\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>Kathy looked at him leaving in a daze until he was out of her sight.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan walked up to her and asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you going in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathy finally came back to her senses. But she didn\u2019t reply.<\/p>\n<p>She walked towards the bus station which was at the other side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan  followed her to the bus station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you going back to the school?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy nodded, her mind was filled with the scene of Joseph leaving. She murmured, \u201cHow was the wedding?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot good. The bride was taken away by someone else,\u201d Dylan replied.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy frowned and turned around. \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s up to you to believe what I just said,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>No more words were exchanged after that. After a while, the bus arrived. Dylan followed her onto the bus.<\/p>\n<p>When they reached the school, Kathy finally said, \u201cStop following me around, Dylan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, I\u2019ll leave you here. But I haven\u2019t got your WeChat yet.\u201d He handed her his phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in you,\u201d Kathy said coldly.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan grabbed hold of her wrist when she was about to get off the bus. \u201cI\u2019m not interested in you too, Kathy. What we are having is just a commercial marriage for the sake of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathy was repellent. She didn\u2019t want the marriage even if it was what Jennifer demanded.<\/p>\n<p>She yanked her hand out of his grip and left.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>At the Joseph family\u2019s mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica didn\u2019t attend the wedding. She got a phone call from her brother before she left the house and had been waiting for him there.<\/p>\n<p>They had been keeping this wedding at such a low profile that no media or news reported was aware of it. Thus, Veronica had no idea what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>When she saw her brother came back, he was still in a suit, noble as always, butElla was not at his side.<\/p>\n<p>And he wasn\u2019t supposed to be coming back home alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoseph, what\u2019s going on?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wedding has been canceled.\u201d Joseph\u2019s expression was aloof as always.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not quite sure. But I don\u2019t want to care about anything regarding Joseph,\u201d Kathy said.<\/p>\n<p>That sentence sounded more like a reminder to herself rather than a reply to Zofia.<\/p>\n<p>Zofia actually asked Veronica about this. But all she knew was that Ella got taken away halfway through the wedding. But what really happened remained an unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the families involved must have taken action to prevent any news regarding the wedding from leaking.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the event, it was the final exam period for the semester. Kathy immersed herself in her revision and didn\u2019t meet Joseph even once until the exams were over.<\/p>\n<p>That man seemed to be completely disappeared from her life.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the last exam, her course mates were busy planning for a course trip, but Kathy got a message notified her to join the R&amp;D in Joseph\u2019s Group during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a mandatory commitment but an optional one, since it was during the semester break.<\/p>\n<p>But she seemed to not have any plans for her holiday.<\/p>\n<p>And she found out the other two students who participated in the R&amp;D alongside her had decided to join during the semester break.<\/p>\n<p>As for her\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Kathy didn\u2019t make the decision and stayed in school for a few days after the semester break started. She only left the dorm when Jennifer asked her to go over for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Zofia left for home as soon as the holiday started. It was quiet in the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy\u2019s gaze fell on the podium when she passed by the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The scene of Joseph giving lecture emerged in her mind. He was a strict but kind-hearted lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>He always managed to handle his role as a lecturer well.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, that vague image faded from her mind. When Kathy came back to her senses and turned to leave, her eyes met a familiar gaze.<\/p>\n<p>It had been half a month since the last time they met.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like ages ago.<\/p>\n<p>The same white shirt and black slack, his tall figure looked elegant under the sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t stop to look at Kathy. He simply moved pass her and left.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy could only look at him leaving.<\/p>\n<p>She bit her lips hard, trying to hold back the enormous emotion of despair that had just struck her.<\/p>\n<p>She had really missed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1082","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}