The love and hatred among the three individuals could probably fill a book. Claire Randall, five years younger than her sister, was only fifteen at the time. Her sister would often hold her in a daze, occasionally calling her "Edward."
Back then, Claire knew that her sister was fond of the cheerful and magnanimous Edward Cullen. "Sister, dont you like Christian Grey?" Claire sat in her sisters arms and asked, "I think Christian is better."
At that time, Claire was still too young to understand Christians tactics. She just felt that Christian appeared alone every time, and no one played with him. He looked so pitiful that she instinctively thought Christian needed more care.
Scarlett OHara would just laugh softly, stroking her head and coaxing her: "Claire, youll understand when you grow up. Who would like someone like him?"
What kind of person Christian Grey was?
Selfish, sinister, ruthless, and indifferent.
But fifteen-year-old Claire still thought he was good because Christian was incredibly good in front of her sister. No matter what happened to Scarlett, Christian would always be the first to stand up and solve the problem for her, as if he would willingly go through fire and water for Scarlett.
Edward Cullen wouldnt; Edward had a bunch of friends and a bunch of troublesome matters to deal with. His brothers and family were all important, leaving little room for Scarlett.
Fifteen-year-old Claire stubbornly believed that Christian was a good person, a perception that wasnt shattered until she was eighteen.
That year, her sister was about to marry Edward, and the Grey family was overjoyed. However, the night before the wedding, Edward was hit by a hit-and-run driver and became a vegetative state. Scarlett OHara disappeared, and the wedding ended without a conclusion.
Everyone said that Christian had hired someone to hit Edward, and everyone couldnt find Scarlett OHara.
But Claire knew where her sister was because her sister had called her, telling her that she was locked up by Christian in a villa and asked Claire to save her.
That night, Scarlett OHara devised a switch, using her own sister in exchange for her freedom.
Claire Randall, waiting in the villa, waited for a drunken and fierce Christian Grey.
Only eighteen at the time, Claire didnt understand the adult world very well. She just wanted to help her sister. Whatever her sister asked her to do, she did.
Everything that happened that night overturned her life.
Since then, Christian became more sinister and fierce, with a perpetual gloom around his brows, as if he wanted to drag everyone to their graves. He went crazy looking for Scarlett OHara.
At first, he would mistake Claire for Scarlett, but he would always come to his senses in the end. After half a year of this torment, Christian seemed to suddenly figure it out.
He no longer mistook Claire for Scarlett, but he vented all his unrequited hatred for Scarlett on Claire.
Christian was just such a person; nothing he did was surprising.
But when he used the Grey familys company to force Claire, she suddenly thought of what her sister had said at the time.
Who would like someone like Christian Grey...
After a series of vicissitudes, Claire gave in. Secretly, she became Christians lover, his tool for venting - but no one in the Grey or Cullen families knew about it.
Suddenly, the sound of a phone ring filled the bedroom, and Claire, standing at the door, was abruptly awakened from her memories. She rushed to the bedside table to grab her phone, glancing at Edward Cullen on the bed.
He was still asleep.
"Hello? Claire, how are you?" On the other end of the phone, her mothers voice was gleeful: "Are the Cullens treating you well?"
The Grey family, now connected to the Cullens, had leaped from a small to a medium-sized enterprise to one backed by a big mountain, almost floating to the sky, and kept asking her, "Is the old lady satisfied with you? Did she find any fault with you?"
Claires throat made a "gulp" sound, and after a moment, she managed to force out a smile: "Satisfied."
Her mother let out a sigh of relief and began to chatter away: "Thats great, as long as they are satisfied with you. I was afraid they would keep staring at your sister, Claire. You and your sister arent that far apart in age, how can you be so different? If your sister were here, the Cullens wouldnt let her do these things."
"Mom." The voice was hoarse, and in the end, all the grievances turned into a few words: "My mother-in-law is calling for me."
At the mention of "mother-in-law," her mother urged her to go, and Claire hung up the phone with her mother for the first time in her life.
After hanging up the phone, she stood there, dazed.
The news of her marriage to the Cullen family was something she had only known two days ago. The Cullens suddenly sent a message, not a relative of the Cullen family, but a secretary. The secretary spoke bluntly and simply, saying that they wanted to use two subsidiaries and tens of millions of orders as a dowry, asking the Grey family if they would marry or sell.
No, it should be said, would they sell.
The Grey family didnt ask Claires thoughts at all and directly agreed - and this matter was settled while Christian was on a business trip abroad.
The Cullen family might have deliberately avoided Christian, and the Grey family didnt think too much about it, just packaging their daughter and sending her over. As for Claire, when she first got the news, she also contacted Christian, but unfortunately, she couldnt get in touch with him at all.
Her relationship with Christian was really like being kept and being kept. Christian had a villa by the sea and would go there on the third of each month to vent. After that, he would leave without even a phone call, not to mention a word to Claire.
So when the news from the Cullen family came, Claire thought Christian had agreed to the marriage. But looking at Christians reaction today, he didnt know about it.
But then again, who needs Christians consent for this matter? The Cullen family wants to marry, and the Grey family wants to marry. Could Christian hit Edward again?
Oh, what was she thinking? Shes not her sister; she cant mess with Christians heart.
According to her understanding of Christian, after she became Edwards wife, Christian might be even happier.
To secretly give Edward a green hat, he doesnt know how happy he would be.
The woman standing at the door returned to bed, wrapped in exhaustion, holding the quilt, and slept with a stranger.