<h4>Chapter 871: Chapter 871: Ignore Her</h4>


    After saying this, she steeled herself, closed her eyes, and charged toward the wall opposite.


    Scarlett Yates instinctively stood up, intending to stop her, but as she got up, Matthew Saxon pulled her back again.


    He held her down, his eyes cold and devoid of warmth, watching Alice Green dash toward the wall: "Leave her be."


    Alice Green wouldn’t die, and she couldn’t bear to.


    Matthew Saxon was well aware of this.


    She was still the same as before, thinking she could win his pity this way.


    During those three years, Alice Green would asionally throw a tantrum. Sometimes, when she got on his nerves, he wouldn’t visit her for ten days or half a month, and she would pull simr stunts.


    Back then, he wasn’t genuinely pitying her either.


    He just felt that he had ignored her for a while, the purpose of punishment had been achieved, and since she began to act pitiful and admit her faults, he would give her a way out.


    So Alice Green felt that this tactic would always work.


    She just ignored one thing. Back then, no matter how she acted, to Matthew Saxon, her behavior was just minor quirksmon in women, which he could tolerate.


    As long as she didn’t cross his bottom line, he could indulge her.


    But this time was different.


    Her mistakes were getting graver, increasingly unforgivable.


    Whether it was her sneak attack on Scarlett Yates on the ind, or her betrayal, they were unforgivable.


    He had cherished her for three years, not without any feelings. Even raising a pet for years fosters some affection.


    If she hadn’t insisted on following Maxwell Saxon, and if she hadn’t almost cost him Scarlett Yates, he would have continued to protect her.


    Scarlett Yates wasn’t someone who would forget the pain after the wound was uncovered. She had no sympathy or pity for Alice Green, but she couldn’t just watch as the woman crashed against the wall in front of her.


    She wanted to intervene, but Matthew Saxon held her back, indifferently stating that she need not care about Alice Green’s life or death.


    This surprised Scarlett Yates somewhat.


    She still remembered how recklessly Matthew Saxon acted when Alice Green fell into the sea that time.


    The anticipated gory scene didn’t happen.


    Alice Green, screaming that she didn’t care about dying if it meant earning Matthew Saxon’s forgiveness, didn’t actually hit the wall.


    At thest moment, upon realizing Matthew Saxon truly didn’t care about her life or death, Alice Green shielded her forehead with her hand.


    What was supposed to hit the cold wall instead hit her arm.


    Then, her body slowly slid to the ground.


    She crouched by the wall, burying her head deep in her drawn-up knees, and began to wail.


    The cries carried despair, pain, and hatred, perhaps with a bit of regret too.


    Matthew Saxon simply watched her.


    His narrow, deep eyes showed no emotion as he looked at her. A few secondster, he turned his head, reached out to touch Scarlett Yates’s head, then took her hand and lightly kissed the back of it: "I guess Maxwell Saxon gave you a limited visitation time?"


    Scarlett Yates’s attention on Alice Green was diverted by his words.


    She suddenly realized that there were only five minutes left of the one hour Maxwell Saxon had allotted.


    Oh god, how did time pass so quickly?


    She had only exchanged a few words with him, and almost an hour had passed.


    Time had be so pressing.


    Scarlett Yates no longer had the time to focus on other insignificant people and things.