Edward Quinn felt as if all his strength was being drained from his body, his body uncontrollably falling backward.

In the end, their daughter with Clover was not saved, was she?

In the end, he still had to part with his daughter, just like back then... Their daughter couldn’t even call him ’Daddy’ once.

He hadn’t even had a chance to tell their daughter about his mistakes and his love.

He wanted to give her the very best of everything he could, to make up for the suffering she had endured over the years, to tell her that she still had family, that he was her blood-bonded father...

But everything... seemed to have become impossible.

"Big brother, you will regret this one day," Asher’s voice echoed in his ears.

He began to regret it when he lost Clover... and now, this regret was growing stronger, strong enough to drown him completely in destruction.

If he had trusted Clover back then, then their family of three would have had a different life, their daughter might have had a different fate, and maybe she wouldn’t have encountered this shipwreck, wouldn’t be missing.

Is this Heaven’s punishment for him? Or is it Clover’s punishment?

This heart-wrenching pain is so intense, yet so powerless.

All his life, he remained without wife or child, alone; even living is merely tasting endless loneliness.

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After three hours of effort, Alice Conley finally gave birth to a son. In the hospital room, only relatives from the Conley Family were by her side, with not a single person from the Howards Family coming, only her husband stayed by her side.

This was something she had expected; the Howards Family would not accept her because of a child, just like back then, when her mother-in-law could plot for her to miscarry, forcibly making her lose her first child.

For the Howards Family, perhaps the more important thing is the identity of the person having the child. For them, as long as they find a satisfactory daughter-in-law, the number of grandchildren in the future would not be a problem.

However, the Conley Family had endless love for this new little life. The Conley relatives almost all crowded in to see the little one.

One wave of relatives came and went. It was Alice’s father, mother, and Dorian Howards handling them, while Alice Conley seemed to have used up all her energy just giving birth.

After all the relatives left and the hospital room quieted down, Dorian Howards walked over to Alice Conley and said, "If you’re tired, just get some sleep."

"I can’t fall asleep just like that." Alice Conley sighed, looking down at her newborn son beside her with a look full of regret and sorrow.

Dorian Howards thought it was because none of his family came today, leaving his wife feeling neglected and upset, so he said, "How about I go back to the Falling City home tomorrow and talk to my parents..."

"No need," Alice Conley said. "I’m sure you’ve already told them about my delivery today; their absence speaks for their attitude. Why force them to come? Even if they never accept me in their lifetime, I am still your wife!"

"But this way, you won’t truly be happy, will you?" he said.