Lily Adler forced a smile. "Miss Lancaster, I know you feel wronged. If there’s any compensation you want, please, just ask. Money is no object. I just hope you can let go of your hard feelings and not hate Sylvia."
But lody Sumrs shook her head. "That won’t be necessary. I don’t feel wronged at all. Thanks to you, I t my current family. You might not believe it, but I’m actually doing very well."
Then, lody’s smile took on a taunting edge. Staring into Lily Adler’s eyes, she continued, "Actually, I should thank you. If you hadn’t swapped your daughter with , I might have been the one forced to marry Ethan Sutton and tornted until I miscarried."
Hearing this, the smile on Lily Adler’s face finally vanished. In a rare display, her expression turned cold, and she stared at lody Sumrs in silence.
The hellish year Sylvia Lancaster had just endured was a constant thorn in Lily Adler’s side. The thought of her own daughter being tornted to the point of a miscarriage and massive blood loss was heart-wrenching.
Seeing Lily Adler’s face turn cold, lody Sumrs continued cheerfully, "Lily Adler, I have to thank you for using your daughter to suffer in my stead. I’m not the one who was pushed into an arranged marriage. I’m not the one who was tornted to the point of a miscarriage and massive blood loss. I’m not the one who was kicked out by both her birth family and her in-laws. So you tell , what do I have to feel wronged about?"
Lily Adler was speechless. Her face ashen, she could only stare at lody Sumrs. It’s one thing to kill the body, but another to crush the spirit. lody’s words were like sharp blades, riddling Lily’s heart with a thousand wounds in an instant.
Lily Adler could only clench her fists to restrain her emotions, oblivious to her nails digging deep into her palms.
lody Sumrs watched Lily Adler’s expression and twisted the knife. "Lily Adler, you see, fate has a way of balancing the scales. What you stole for your daughter, she eventually had to pay back in full. Everything she went through later—isn’t that just heaven’s retribution for you and your daughter?"
"But I’m sure it’s not over yet. The real karma for you two is still to co."
Lily Adler’s face twitched. She secretly ground her molars, a sudden wave of regret washing over her. ’I should have strangled her to death before I abandoned her.’
Just then, Sylvia Lancaster suddenly spoke up. "lody Sumrs! That’s enough!"
lody Sumrs heard her and looked up at Sylvia Lancaster, utterly exasperated.
Sylvia Lancaster glared at lody Sumrs, mortified and furious. lody’s words had been like a series of loud slaps across her face. "lody Sumrs," she fud, "all that stuff from the past... do you have to keep harping on it?! You’re doing so well now, and my life is a ss. Why do you still care about the swap?!"
Sylvia Lancaster’s tone beca frantic. "Are you still mad that I stole your family? I have my own mom and dad now! The Lancasters—I’ll give them all back to you! Is that good enough for you?!"
Looking at the rims of Sylvia Lancaster’s eyes, slightly red from sha and anger, lody Sumrs suddenly felt a wave of boredom wash over her.
’This Sylvia Lancaster isn’t the sa one from my past life, after all.’ lody suddenly felt that the current Sylvia wasn’t even worth her ti.
The Hayes Family was on the brink of ruin. When the nest is overturned, can any eggs remain intact? What kind of good life could Sylvia Lancaster possibly have then?
At this thought, lody Sumrs smiled and said, "I don’t take in trash. Besides, I never wanted the Lancasters in the first place. Sylvia Lancaster, Lily Adler, you two usurped what wasn’t yours. You deserve the retribution you’re getting."
lody Sumrs took a few more steps forward. As Sylvia Lancaster watched with a hint of panic in her eyes, lody whispered to the mother-daughter duo, "I’m sure there’s more retribution coming for you two. So don’t waste your ti on . Hurry up and enjoy what you have now."
"You!" Enraged, Sylvia Lancaster raised her hand to strike lody Sumrs.
But the mont she raised her hand, lody Sumrs caught it.
Holding Sylvia Lancaster’s wrist with one hand, lody Sumrs raised her other hand and slapped her hard across the face.
"Ah!" Sylvia Lancaster cried out, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared at lody Sumrs. "You dare hit ? I’m the second young miss of the Hayes Family!"
Lily Adler also rushed forward anxiously. "How could you hit soone! I’m calling security!"
lody Sumrs sneered, flung Sylvia Lancaster’s arm away, and then reached out to grab Lily Adler by the hair.
As Lily Adler stared in panic, lody Sumrs leaned in and whispered in her ear, "Lily Adler, control your daughter and wait obediently for your karma. That way, you might live a few more days. If you bother again, I’ll personally send you to hell ahead of schedule."
With that, lody Sumrs ignored them both and turned to leave.
Watching lody Sumrs’s retreating figure, Sylvia Lancaster clutched her stinging cheek, her face pale. "Mom... what do we do? Does she still want to hurt ?"
With a dark expression, Lily Adler straightened her hair, her gaze fixed on the direction lody Sumrs had gone.
Then, she gently patted Sylvia Lancaster’s hand and comforted her, "Sweetheart, don’t be afraid. Don’t worry, Mommy will take care of her..."
******
Ignoring the venomous glares from the mother and daughter behind her, lody Sumrs walked over to Nina Sumrs and led her back into the ballroom.
As soon as Nina Sumrs stepped into the ballroom, she nervously clung to lody Sumrs’s arm.
After making such a fool of herself in the ballroom earlier, Nina Sumrs was terrified of the strange looks she might get from the other guests.
lody Sumrs sighed helplessly at this but let Nina cling to her as she led her back to their table.
Sophie Thorne breathed a sigh of relief when she saw lody Sumrs return. "You’re finally back! Who was that guy earlier? Do you know him?"
Then she noticed Nina Sumrs behind lody and paused, looking at lody with a questioning gaze. "And this is?"
Zane Simmons also noticed that lody Sumrs had brought back a little "tail." His eyes lit up, and he asked with great interest, "Well now, you brought back another beauty. And who might this lovely lady be?"
lody Sumrs gave a simple introduction. "This is my cousin... my uncle’s daughter."
Zane Simmons nodded in understanding. Then he asked with a grin, "Ah, a cousin! And what’s our little cousin’s na?"
Nina Sumrs looked up uncomfortably and answered Zane Simmons in a small voice, "My na is Nina Sumrs."
lody Sumrs froze when she heard the na. ’Nina Sumrs?’
’Caleb Sumrs actually changed her surna...’
lody Sumrs frowned. ’Caleb Sumrs’s thods are just too shaless.’
’Caleb Sumrs is a man who married into the family to get ahead, and the first thing he does after his wife dies is fight for the right to give his daughter his own surna. What an ungrateful bastard.’
lody Sumrs sighed internally, then turned to Sophie Thorne and whispered a few words about what had just happened.
After speaking, Nina Sumrs silently lowered her head and said no more, shrinking into her seat like a little quail.
Zane Simmons found it interesting that although Nina Sumrs and lody Sumrs were cousins, their personalities were complete opposites. He was intrigued and wanted to tease her a bit more.
Seeing this, Joanne White, who was sitting nearby, pursed her lips in displeasure, trying to think of a way to draw Zane Simmons’s attention away from Nina Sumrs.
But just then, a few people walked up to her side—
Zara Walsh pulled out the chair next to Joanne White and sat down gracefully.
Zara Walsh was wearing a dark red formal dress today, her long, wavy hair draped over her shoulders like a fiery, blooming red rose. She gave Joanne White and Lucy White a scrutinizing glance, the corner of her mouth curling into a disdainful sneer.
Then, she looked up and flashed a dazzling, flirtatious smile at Zane Simmons. "Hi, Zane Simmons. It’s been a while!"
Zane Simmons stiffened at the sound of her voice. He hadn’t expected to run into Zara Walsh even while hiding in a corner. He could only turn his head slowly, nod at her, and reply, "Miss Walsh, long ti no see."
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