Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 258 - 255: Indulgence

The judge made the final verdict, and the plaintiff lost the case.

The show’s recording finished perfectly, and Sienna Thornton was invited to another newly constructed set for a brief interview.

The host asked her why she wanted to appear on the show "Lawyer’s Talk," and she honestly said it was to raise the profile of her law firm and to find the father she had never met.

Seemingly surprised by her reason for appearing on the show, the host paused and asked, "Can Lawyer Thornton talk about your father’s situation? We have viewers from all over the country, maybe someone knows about your father."

Sienna Thornton looked into the camera, tears glistening in her eyes.

She didn’t give too much information, only saying, "I am Sienna Thornton, born in April of 1991, my mother is Melinda Linton, from Linton Village in Wrayhaven."

The host asked, "Is there more? You can appropriately add some details, like some information about your father."

Sienna Thornton shook her head, "No need. If he’s still alive and wants to reunite with me, seeing this information, he will know."

Finally, Sienna Thornton, at the host’s request, gave some advice to high school seniors who wished to apply to law school for college entrance exams, and the interview ended.

She inhaled deeply and exhaled heavily, her tense spirit collapsed.

If there is still no news after this show airs, he is probably no longer in this world.

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When Sienna Thornton opened the door to leave, Simon Forrester and Ingrid were waiting nearby. Seeing her come out, Ingrid quickly approached, "Change out of your outfit, then we can leave." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Okay."

Simon Forrester also came over, holding her bag in one hand and wrapping his arm around her shoulder, gently saying, "Hungry?"

Having had lunch late and with the tense recording, Sienna Thornton didn’t feel hungry at this moment, "I’m not, what about you?"

Simon Forrester smiled, "The show crew gave us boxed meals, I ate a little."

"Then let’s buy something to take back as a late-night snack to relax," Sienna Thornton suggested.

"I went to the old house this morning and brought a chicken, put it in the stew pot before we left for lunch, drink the chicken soup before bed tonight."

Sienna Thornton wrapped her hands around his arm, softly asking, "Did you add herbs? Otherwise, it’ll be too gamey."

Simon Forrester looked down at her, eyes full of affection, "I added them, just afraid you’d find it gamey."

Ingrid listened from the side, thinking: These two obviously didn’t say sweet words, but how does it feel so warm and affectionate to hear them?

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Sienna Thornton changed her clothes, waved goodbye to Ingrid, and got into Simon Forrester’s car.

As soon as she fastened her seatbelt, Simon Forrester passed over a bottle of hot milk and a fruit cake roll, "Have something to fill your stomach, it’ll take over an hour to get home."

Sienna Thornton took them, drank a few sips of milk but had no appetite for cake. She put the cake back into the bag, placed it on the back seat, and asked, "Did you go somewhere special to buy this? The milk is still hot."

"Just bought it at the nearby Lawson convenience store, eat a little, or your stomach will hurt later."

The car started, driving away from Starlight Film City.

Sienna Thornton stared at the distant night sky in a daze, holding the hot milk with one hand and resting the other on Simon Forrester’s leg. Occasionally when he didn’t need to use both hands to drive, he would free one hand to hold hers.

Sienna Thornton suddenly sighed, mentioning the brief interview she just had to Simon Forrester, finally saying, "You also don’t need to find people there, I’ve already been on TV, if I still can’t find him, either he’s already dead or he simply doesn’t want to acknowledge me. So be it, I won’t insist."

Simon Forrester didn’t know how to explain her biological father’s situation to her for a moment, paused, and comforted, "Maybe he doesn’t watch this show?"

"He definitely watches," Sienna Thornton said with certainty, "If he is the person my mom described as someone who cares about national laws, he would definitely watch this show."

At this moment, Simon Forrester felt impulsive, wanting to tell her about her biological father. But thinking the person didn’t even acknowledge this matter, didn’t want to recognize her, he thought rather than let her face such a cruel truth, it might be better to let her believe that person is already dead.

This way, she would feel better, maybe have regrets, but wouldn’t need to endure the pain of rejection from her biological father.

Simon Forrester felt as if his heart was being torn apart.

He tightly grasped Sienna Thornton’s cold hand, forced himself to be spirited, and comforted, "Okay, we’ve agreed, if there’s still no news this time, let’s assume he’s gone. It doesn’t matter without him, what he owes you, I will provide."

Simon Forrester spoke with determination and sincerity, Sienna Thornton bit her lip and nodded, softly saying "Thank you." She understood, the feelings he gave her were always generous, with indulgence.

From the start, indulging her when she pretended, allowing her to move into his house, indulging her spending large sums to build a guesthouse she couldn’t manage, indulging her in hanging on to him before defining their relationship, even when misunderstanding her spending the night with Zion Quincy that morning, he still wanted to indulge her fickleness.

Not to mention after they became lovers, he offered unconditional understanding and support for everything she wanted to do.

If fate dictated she would never have paternal love in this lifetime, then let it ensure she would be loved and cared for by Simon Forrester forever.

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Two weeks later, the episode of "Lawyer’s Talk" in which Sienna Thornton participated aired on Brimfield Television, attracting widespread attention in the industry, even sparking a trend of protecting women’s rights online.

In today’s push for a second child by the country, many career-driven women feel overwhelmed by spouses and in-laws urging childbirth, some even suffer unilateral actions by husbands leading to unexpected pregnancies, sacrificing careers due to having a second child. Watching this episode, they realized women’s rights take precedence over spousal reproductive rights.

Sienna Thornton’s clear and meticulous speech on the show was edited into various long screenshots conducive for sending and sharing, along with her inspirational background, star-like beauty, and elegant demeanor, she quickly rose to the top three of trending searches, and the episode itself reached the top ten. Her teary-eyed, brief words about finding her father were widely shared by enthusiastic netizens online, even spawning a discussion tag "Did Sienna Thornton find her birth father today?"

Seeing Sienna Thornton about to become a sensation, her episode was suddenly removed from online platforms overnight and couldn’t be replayed on TV. The trending topics about her and the episode were taken down, leaving only the discussion tag "Did Sienna Thornton find her birth father today?"

Initially, Sienna Thornton couldn’t understand what was happening, eventually, Simon Forrester’s hint made her realize, the country is vigorously promoting the second child policy, encouraging women to have the second child at home, the case in this episode didn’t originally have an issue, but with her extension of discussing women’s rights in the case, it became somewhat sensitive.

However, after the show aired, the law firm gradually started receiving cases, even if they were small cases, it was better than none.

And her discussion tag for finding a father remained, its popularity increasing.

She finally didn’t end up working in vain.