Zella Kane, who was standing to the side, also chid in hurriedly, "Yeah, that’s right! Your Caleb was married to his ex-wife for over twenty years and never managed to have a son. Our Zoe marries into your family and imdiately gives you a grandson. No matter how you look at it, Zoe is a great benefactor to the Sumrs family, right? If it weren’t for her, your Caleb might have died without an heir!"
"When Zoe got married last year, forget about visiting our family with betrothal gifts or performing the traditional rites—your family didn’t even treat us to a single al! That’s just unacceptable, isn’t it? We didn’t even make a big deal out of it and still let Zoe marry him."
"Now that we’re in trouble and have co to you for help, you won’t even lift a finger? Even for the sake of the grandson Zoe gave your family, you can’t let her family stay here for a few months?!"
Zella Kane truly didn’t understand why the Sumrs family was so cold-hearted. ’Aren’t they afraid that Zoe’s son will refuse to acknowledge them in the future?’
After hearing what the Kane family had to say, the mbers of the Sumrs family exchanged glances, seeing confusion and exasperation in each other’s eyes.
Caleb Sumrs had never told his family about remarrying or having a child. They knew nothing about it at all!
’How could the Kane family be blaming them for this now? How could they fault them for not paying a formal visit with betrothal gifts or observing the traditional rites?’
Grandma looked at Mrs. Kane and replied with a hint of helplessness, "Your daughter went through a lot to have her child, and you’re right, we should have paid a visit. But... our second son hasn’t been in contact with us for years. We honestly had no idea what was going on in his life!"
Grace Sutton quickly added, "Yes, that’s right! Our second son never told us about getting married or having a child. We didn’t even know when he took a new wife! You really can’t bla this on us!"
Hearing this, Mrs. Kane and Zella Kane looked at each other again, both a bit stunned. It seed they hadn’t expected this situation at all.
They had indeed heard Zoe Kane ntion before that Caleb Sumrs didn’t interact much with his family, and he didn’t let her interact with them either.
Mrs. Kane and Zella Kane had originally assud Caleb Sumrs was just too busy to visit, but they never imagined he wouldn’t even tell his family about remarrying and having a son!
It was as if he intended to cut off all contact with his family for the rest of his life!
While Mrs. Kane and Zella Kane were still dazed, lody Sumrs continued, "Second Uncle doesn’t tell us anything, and our two families haven’t been in contact for a long ti. We can’t get involved in his affairs, and we can’t help. We sympathize with your situation, but we’re truly powerless to do anything."
"Mrs. Vance in 1505 has a spare bed she can sell. It’s only one floor away, so it would be easy to move up here. As for anything else, we really can’t help. All the rooms in our ho are already assigned, and we truly don’t have a spare one for you. Besides, we don’t want to live under the sa roof as strangers."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Kane and Zella Kane knew it was a lost cause. Since Caleb Sumrs had no contact with the Sumrs family, they naturally wouldn’t care much about the son Zoe Kane had given him.
Although Mrs. Kane and Zella Kane were resentful, they had no choice but to turn and leave.
Before they left, the two of them cast a lingering, reluctant glance at the apartnt, their eyes filled with regret.
...
After seeing the Kane family off, lody Sumrs and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Grace Sutton cursed under her breath about the bad luck and muttered, "That second son of ours is just outrageous. He doesn’t contact us for years, and the one ti he does, it’s to ask us to give up our ho for soone else. Where’s the logic in that! He’s never shown any concern for his own family, but he’s certainly attentive to his mother-in-law’s family."
"And his new wife’s family—I can tell they’re not easy to get along with either! ...Maybe the Kane family is even worse than Mindy Walsh! At least Mindy’s family supported our second son and never asked for anything in return from us. This Kane family is the complete opposite!"
"They’re the ones asking for a favor, yet they still have that kind of attitude. All that nonsense about how a divorced woman who takes her child back to her parents’ ho has no right to speak—it’s all just twisted logic! They’re won themselves, yet they’re still going on about how you’ll die without an heir if you don’t have a son. I really don’t know what goes on in their heads."
Grandma also sighed and said, "They’re living right next door in 1604 now. We didn’t agree to give them a room this ti, so I wonder if they’ll co knocking again."
lody Sumrs was about to comfort her grandmother—’she had already bought apartnt 1604. If the Kane family dared to cause any more trouble, she would just pay the breach of contract penalty and have them thrown out.’
But before lody Sumrs could say a word, her phone buzzed with a new ssage.
lody Sumrs opened it and saw that it was from Lucy White.
lody Sumrs had previously asked Lucy White to help her find out which mber of the Lancaster family had initiated contact with Joanne White, because lody felt there was sothing strange about the whole affair.
’If Robert Lancaster wanted Elaine Hughes to use her feminine wiles, he could have just contacted Bernard Simmons directly. Robert and Bernard already knew each other, so why drag Joanne White into it?’
lody Sumrs just couldn’t figure it out.
The ssage from Lucy White said that the person who contacted Joanne White claid to be the "young miss of the Lancaster family."
Staring at the ssage on her phone screen, lody Sumrs was utterly dumbfounded—
’The young miss of the Lancaster family?!’
’It was actually Sylvia Lancaster?!’
Now lody Sumrs was even more confused. ’How did Sylvia Lancaster get mixed up with Joanne White?!’
’Logically, the two of them should have never crossed paths in this lifeti!’
Speaking of their connection... lody Sumrs suddenly recalled sothing from her past life.
In her past life, lody Sumrs hadn’t tricked Austin Hale and Joanne White into buying her school district apartnt, so she hadn’t emptied their life savings. As a result, the two of them were still together after the natural disasters began, and Joanne White never beca Zane Simmons’s mistress.
Back then, Sylvia Lancaster had sohow gotten to know Joanne White. After the floods, lody Sumrs had once run into the two of them going to a party together.
’But in this life, the trajectories of Sylvia Lancaster’s and Joanne White’s fates have completely changed. They shouldn’t have any connection at all. So why would Sylvia suddenly contact Joanne, and how would she have leverage over her?’
lody Sumrs walked slowly back to her room, her thoughts in a whirl.
The details that lody Sumrs had previously found unsettling now surfaced in her mind one by one...
After Sylvia Lancaster and Clara Hayes fell from the building together, the next ti Sylvia contacted lody Sumrs, lody sensed that her tone of voice was distinctly different from before.
Sylvia’s tone no longer had the maturity that ca from the hardships she’d endured in this life. Instead, it had reverted to the flamboyant willfulness of her past life, where everything had always gone smoothly for her.
At the ti, lody had just assud that Sylvia must have hit her head during the fall, and the trauma had caused her personality to change.
’But thinking about it now, was it really because of the fall? Can a fall really cause such a drastic change in soone’s personality?’
’Besides, they fell from the sa height. Clara Hayes died instantly, so why was Sylvia Lancaster still alive and kicking?’
And then there was that phone call from Sylvia Lancaster, asking for fever dicine.
Sylvia’s tone back then... it was as if she was absolutely certain that lody Sumrs would bring the dicine over.
’Why was Sylvia so sure?’
’Why, upon seeing Simon Lancaster with a high fever, would Sylvia’s first instinct be to call her and ask for fever dicine?’
The only explanation lody Sumrs could think of was that in her past life, when Simon Lancaster had a fever, she had braved a blizzard to go out and find fever dicine for him!
Connecting all the questions and clues, lody Sumrs arrived at a possible explanation—
’Could it be...’
’Could it be that Sylvia Lancaster was reborn, too?!’
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