Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse Chapter 338: The Scapegoat

lody Sumrs and Winnie Sumrs had stayed out late at the party last night. By the ti they got ho, the rest of the family was already fast asleep, and the entire house was steeped in tranquility.

They tiptoed into the bathroom, quickly washed up, and climbed into bed, drifting off to sleep soon after.

The chance encounter with Elaine Hughes didn’t affect lody Sumrs’s mood. She slept soundly and peacefully.

For the first ti in a long while, she dread she was back on Mount Anworth.

Heavy snow had fallen on Mount Anworth in the winter. She and Ian Sumrs, bundled in padded jackets, were rolling in the snow, having snowball fights, and building snown...

When she woke up, it was already light outside.

lody Sumrs shook off the dream, rubbed her eyes, stretched, and climbed out of bed.

She walked to the window and pulled open the curtains, a gust of bone-chilling wind hitting her face. lody Sumrs took a deep breath. The frigid air stung her lungs, a refreshing sensation she hadn’t felt in a long ti.

The snow had started late last night, and by this morning, a layer had already accumulated outside, blanketing the entire world in white.

Flakes drifted down one after another. Unlike the black snow from before, these snowflakes were pure white, like swarms of white butterflies dancing in the air.

lody Sumrs saw people on the floors of the opposite building placing bowls and basins on their balconies to catch the snow, likely to use as drinking water.

It was still early, and property managent hadn’t started clearing the snow yet. Many residents were standing in the plaza with basins and buckets, collecting the snow from the ground.

After such a long drought, any source of water was incredibly precious.

During breakfast, lody Sumrs took out her phone and saw that Lucy White had sent her a lot of ssages.

She hurriedly opened the ssages to read them. From what Lucy White wrote, she pieced together everything that had happened last night.

After she left yesterday, Zane Simmons had quickly investigated the whole affair based on the information on Joanne White’s phone and her "confession."

It was The Lancasters who had contacted Joanne White, asking her to help them connect with Bernard Simmons.

The rest was just as lody Sumrs had guessed. Robert Lancaster and Bernard Simmons hit it off imdiately. Robert made his wife, Elaine Hughes, sell her body in exchange for shelter and supplies from Bernard.

To ensure Elaine Hughes’s cooperation, Robert Lancaster and Bernard Simmons drugged her food. Once the drug took effect, Robert made an excuse about having sothing to do and left, leaving his own wife to another man.

Bernard Simmons took Elaine Hughes to the room and was just about to get down to business when Paige Walsh, who had rushed over, caught him in the act.

Paige Walsh was furious. She had soone take Elaine Hughes out and send her directly back to the Lancaster Family.

And that led to the scene lody Sumrs had witnessed in front of the elevator.

Everything up to that point was within lody Sumrs’s expectations, but what happened next was a complete surprise.

When the whole affair ca to light, Joanne White was terrified. On top of that, this pregnancy ca very soon after her last delivery, and her body hadn’t fully recovered yet.

Joanne White had a frail constitution to begin with, and her pregnancy had been unstable. Due to the combination of all these factors, she had an unexpected miscarriage last night.

Fortunately, The Nimbus Hotel had plenty of doctors and was well-stocked with dical supplies. Thanks to the doctors’ best efforts, although the baby was lost, Joanne White’s life was not in danger. She would recover after a period of rest.

Unfortunately, Joanne White’s miscarriage didn’t earn her any pity from Zane Simmons. He had investigated and found out that it was Joanne who had secretly added food that Paige Walsh was allergic to into her als.

Furious, Zane Simmons had people send the bedridden Joanne White back to the White Family that very night.

He gave her no severance paynt, cut off the monthly supply deliveries to the White Family, and recalled the bodyguards he had sent to protect Mr. and Mrs. White.

Lucy White said that Joanne White was completely unable to accept this outco.

Joanne White had originally thought that Zane Simmons’s defense of her in front of Zara Walsh, and the fact that he brought her to The Nimbus Hotel for shelter, ant that he genuinely liked her. She believed she was different from the other won he kept on the side.

Joanne White had always felt she was just one step away from securing her position. She was about to go from being the Canary to the real Mrs. Simmons, marrying Zane Simmons.

But she never expected Zane Simmons to abandon her so decisively, leaving no room for recourse.

And then there was Bernard Simmons.

Bernard Simmons had always praised Joanne White for being a gentle and considerate girl. He had even told her that he, as a father, felt at ease knowing a girl like her was by Zane Simmons’s side.

Joanne White had once believed this ant she had earned Bernard Simmons’s admiration and approval, that she could rest easy and beco the Simmons family’s daughter-in-law. But unexpectedly, after the incident ca to light, Bernard shifted all the bla onto her.

He flatly denied that he was the one who told Joanne White to add the allergenic food to Paige Walsh’s als, claiming Joanne had done it all behind his back and that he knew nothing about it.

He even said that a malicious woman like Joanne White was unworthy of remaining in the Simmons Family and told Zane Simmons to "deal with" her as soon as possible.

And so, Joanne White beca the scapegoat for the entire incident. Silenced and sent away from The Nimbus Hotel in the middle of the night, she vanished completely from the world of the elite.

It was as if she had never existed.

Fortunately, although Zane Simmons had driven Joanne White away, he let Lucy White stay.

Zane Simmons told Lucy White she could stay at The Nimbus Hotel without worry, and that he would help her find a new place after the blizzard ended.

Seeing that Lucy White was safe, lody Sumrs could finally relax.

lody Sumrs thought for a mont and sent a ssage back to Lucy, asking if she could try to find out who it was that had contacted Joanne White, claiming to have dirt on her.

lody Sumrs just couldn’t figure out which of The Lancasters would have had any dealings with Joanne White.

’Was it Robert Lancaster?’

’Or Simon Lancaster?’

The Lancasters shouldn’t have had any connection to Joanne White. lody Sumrs couldn’t wrap her head around how they had contacted each other.

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After breakfast, lody Sumrs logged into The Arcadia Store again. She had sent Paige Walsh a ssage earlier and wanted to see if she had replied.

She hadn’t been worried, but one look gave her a shock.

Paige Walsh had sent her over sixty ssages yesterday!

Seeing the red dot indicating a double-digit number of ssages, lody Sumrs quickly tapped it to see what was going on.

Frowning, lody Sumrs scanned through all the ssages and realized that Paige Walsh seed to be using her as a sounding board...

First, Paige Walsh replied to lody Sumrs’s ssage, telling her not to worry. She said that if Zara Walsh had really done such a thing, neither she nor the Simmons Family would cover for her, and they would definitely make her pay for her actions.

Reading this ssage, lody Sumrs felt a little relieved.

However, Paige Walsh’s subsequent ssages were rather bizarre.

Paige Walsh said that she had been resting in the dical room at The Nimbus Hotel last night due to her allergic reaction, but she had suddenly received the ssage from lody Sumrs.

Her allergic reaction had made her feel very unwell, so she had silenced all her work-related notifications, but she had made a special exception for lody Sumrs, setting up a unique alert for her ssages.

So, when lody Sumrs’s ssage ca through, it startled Paige Walsh from her sleep.

After waking up, she casually replied to lody Sumrs. She had planned to go back to sleep right after, but for so reason she couldn’t explain, she had a subconscious urge to go back to her room and check on things.

Perhaps it was a twist of fate. Paige Walsh left the hotel’s dical room and went back to the presidential suite.

And that’s when she walked in on the scene of her own husband having an affair with The Lover, in her own room...