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Her face twisted with malice, she hacked at the 3.98 million dollars designer gown like a madwoman, utterly destroying it.
The footage was damning-crystal clear and impossible to refute. It utterly crushed Wendy.
No matter how smooth her tongue usually was, she had no words this time.
She stood there trembling in shame when Nancy’s icy voice rang out again.
“Now, are you still going to claim my daughter-in-law deliberately vandalized our store’s merchandise?”
Before Wendy could answer, Nancy continued sharply:
“Destroying a dress in my store and blaming it on my daughter-in-law. Encouraging staff to slander her. Whispering poison to demean her… Wendy, Elsa-you both owe my daughter-in-law an apology. Oh, and the dress costs 3.98 million. Apologize, then pay up.”
“Nancy…”
All color drained from Wendy’s lips.
She was proud-how could she possibly lower her head and apologize to someone so much younger? If word of this spread through their social circle, how could she show her face again?
Besides, she and Elsa only shopped at Aurelia occasionally, picking up a piece or two in the hundreds of thousands.
Simon and John often gave Elsa expensive gifts, but they rarely sent her direct money,
The Quinn family was an empty shell-Wendy had no way of pulling out nearly four million dollars on the spot.
Even if she could, she couldn’t bear to spend that much at once.
So she decided to play the emotional card, hoping Nancy would let it go.
After all, the Luke family was filthy rich. Nancy had shares in the Fu Corporation and ran her own empire. Was it really worth making such a big deal over one dress?
Swallowing her irritation, she spoke hoarsely, “We were college classmates. We’ve stayed in touch all these years-we have such a deep bond.”
“Elsa even saved Simon’s life… With everything we’ve been through, can’t you-“
“Elsa saving Simon is Simon’s business. If he wants to repay that favor, he can do it himself. What does that have to do with me?”
Family-that was Nancy’s bottom line.
And Wendy had crossed it. No matter what sweet words she tried to offer, Nancy wasn’t going to let this go easily.
After a pause, Nancy continued, “Yes, we were college classmates. But no amount of old friendship excuses the 3.98 million you owe. Wendy, Elsa-apologize, pay up, or we can take this to the police. Luke Group’s legal team has been bored for years. I’m sure they’d be thrilled to stretch their legs.”
Wendy was so furious she could taste rust in her mouth.
Nancy really was going to make this as painful as possible!
She didn’t want to apologize, didn’t want to pay. But she knew if Nancy pressed charges-accusing her of willfully destroying property worth millions-the Luke Group’s legal team could absolutely land her in jail.
She had no choice but to swallow her pride.
But even if she had to eat dirt herself, there was no way she’d let her proud, brilliant daughter bow to that tramp Lily.
Choking on bitterness, she forced herself to say, “Nancy, this has nothing to do with Elsa, she-“
“Nothing to do with her?”
Nancy cut her off with a mocking sneer. “What, are her eyes just two bleeding holes? She was standing right next to you and didn’t see you cut up that dress?”
“Mm. She knew you were setting Lily up and still chimed in with those sweet, poisonous words to criticize her… Your daughter is so innocent, so pure, huh?”
Nancy didn’t hold back at all.
Her words smashed Elsa’s so-called pride into the ground.
Elsa’s face turned green, then white. Her expression was utterly hideous.
From the bottom of her heart, she looked down on Lily-this petty, thieving lowlife. She didn’t want to apologize to her.
But if this situation blew up any further, she and her mother would only be more humiliated. In the end, she chose to lower her proud head and apologize-barely.
One day, she thought darkly, Lily will pay back everything she owes me-tenfold, a hundredfold!
She closed her eyes coolly, her expression noble and aloof, as if she were far too pure for the filth of the world.
At last, she said, like a frozen rose, “Lily, I’m sorry.”
No one knew her daughter better than Wendy.
She knew how humiliated her precious girl felt right now.
Wendy bit the tip of her tongue hard to stop herself from lunging at Lily, and forced herself to say hoarsely, “Lily, I’m sorry.”
With the apology done, it was time to pay up.
But all their bank accounts combined still didn’t hold enough for 3.98 million.
The cold, proud rose had no choice but to lower her head again-to ask a man for money.
At first, Elsa thought of asking Simon.
But then she remembered: Nancy was Simon’s biological aunt. If she begged for money in front of her. she’d be looked down on-and that, she couldn’t take. So she called John instead.
She told him she’d accidentally broken something expensive at a luxury boutique and needed to pay four million. She didn’t have enough, and asked to borrow the money-promising to repay him later.
How could John bear to see his beloved beauty suffer?
He immediately had Wayne transfer her twenty million,
Having been forced to apologize to Lily moments earlier, Elsa had been seething inside. But when she saw those twenty million hit her account, her pride returned in full.
Her bright, striking face lit up like moonlight through glass, her confidence and arrogance shining once more.
She would not lose to Lily!
Lily had stood right next to Elsa while she was on the phone, and naturally heard everything she said to John.
Elsa had even gone out of her way to flash her account balance at h?r.
Lily thought she was delusional.
She acted so high and mighty, but when something went wrong, she still had to run to a man for money. What was there to be proud of?
Today, Lily had worn a micro camera.
It recorded everything in 360 degrees-including clear footage of Wendy framing her.
Maybe it was just bad luck that she kept running into people like Elsa or Mathilda whenever she went shopping. So today, she’d come prepared.
Even without the store’s surveillance footage, she could’ve taken Wendy down on her own.
But she had been facing away from Wendy when it happened. Elsa would’ve noticed she hadn’t used her phone to record anything.
The micro camera was her trump card. Elsa and Wendy were bound to come after her again-if she could prove her innocence some other way, she wasn’t about to waste her ace so early.
Once Elsa and Wendy were gone, the store quicted instantly. Even the air felt fresher.
Nancy was having the time of her life dressing Lily up, declaring that every outfit in the store looked like it was tailor-made just for her, coaxing her into trying one after another.
Lily only wanted to pick one or two pieces.
But Nancy insisted every outfit looked amazing on her and ended up choosing more than a dozen.
Nancy was so good to her. Like a mother holding her in the palm of her hand-trusting her, protecting her, loving her unconditionally.
Lily loved being around her.
But she wasn’t someone who would take that kindness for granted.
Lily was determined to grow stronger, to earn more money, and to shower Nancy with gifts-lavishing her with all the kindness and care she could give.
Even if she was destined to one day divorce James, she would always love and honor Nancy like a mother.
“Elsa, I’m going to call John and tell him Lily got married.”
As they stepped out of the mall, Wendy pulled out her phone, ready to call John.
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