Laura Quincy took a deep breath; at this mont, no matter what she explained, no one would believe her. Ruth Leighton sure played her cards well!
She turned to leave. Right now, the only correct choice was to distance herself from the conflict. Arguing with Ruth Leighton in the street was aningless; the audience had too subjective a view on the matter. There was no need for her to explain everything to everyone—that would be too exhausting.
Ruth Leighton would not miss such a good opportunity and imdiately stepped in front of Laura Quincy, "What? Feeling guilty and want to leave? Now that you’ve latched onto Fourth Young Master Hawthorne, you’re living large and have no regard for us, but Laura, you can’t be so lacking in conscience! Even if you want to punish , you can’t ignore your father!"
She spoke with deep emotion, almost on the verge of tears.
Laura Quincy could only think to herself how it’s a pity Ruth hadn’t beco an actress!
"Ms. Leighton, I understand that you’re desperate to turn the tables, and having run into on the street, you want to use the crowd’s sympathy to make baseless accusations against ? Do you dare touch your heart and speak those words honestly? Don’t you have any idea in your mind about what you’ve done to ?"
Laura Quincy’s eyes were cold and sharp, and every word she said filled Ruth Leighton with fear, her eyes flitting, unable to et Laura’s gaze...
The crowd around them began to sense sothing was amiss, and for the mont, no one could tell who was right and who was wrong.
Ruth Leighton stamred, "Am I... not telling the truth? Haven’t you latched onto Fourth Young Master Hawthorne? They even held a press conference about it, are you still planning to deny it?"
Laura Quincy sneered coldly, "You’re good at picking the non-essential parts to talk about. Why don’t you tell everyone how you’ve treated all these years? As a stepmother, you certainly embody all the malice expected of one—you could say, no one could have done better..."
Ruth Leighton hurriedly interrupted her, "Stop slandering with wild tales! You’re the one avoiding the issue and talking in circles."
Laura Quincy’s lips curled into a cold smile, "Ms. Leighton, after all, this is the street. I advise you not to dig a hole for yourself. Compared to what you’ve done to , asking you to clean up trash here is already more than lenient. One shouldn’t be too greedy."
With that, Laura Quincy couldn’t stay a mont longer. As for how the people around viewed her, it didn’t matter! They’re only passersby, and since what she said was the truth, she wasn’t afraid of anyone investigating further.
"This is just a series of plot twists! Honestly, I can’t tell which of this mother-daughter pair is telling the truth..."
"People these days! So difficult to figure out!"
"Let’s just disperse! Other people’s family matters have nothing to do with us. How many stepmothers in this world truly treat their stepdaughters kindly..."
The crowd’s murmurs seed to have changed in tone, but to Laura Quincy, it was all irrelevant, as she simply didn’t care about any of it.
Seeing the situation turn greatly against her, Ruth Leighton shouted in a panic, "Have none of you seen the news online? She’s the one that was scandalously linked with Fourth Young Master Hawthorne recently! In fact, she was sold to Fiorina for a year six years ago; who knows what happened during that year? I don’t believe she was studying abroad there!"
"I’m telling the truth! Honestly! Laura Quincy was indeed detained in Fiorina for a year six years ago. They demanded that we couldn’t contact her for a year, and she never contacted us either, which clearly shows that the life she lived that year was a secret she couldn’t reveal!"
Ruth Leighton shouted desperately, determined to ruin Laura Quincy! Completely ruin her!
Why should she, after going through such things, still be able to flirt with soone like Fourth Young Master while Ruth was stuck sweeping trash? And her own daughter, Fifi, was more suited to be with soone like Fourth Young Master! What is Laura Quincy, really? She was already filthy beyond words!
Laura Quincy paused in her step. Was this Ruth Leighton’s goal? To expose her most shaful experiences to everyone, making her a target of public scorn?
Because, no matter past or present, people always placed a high value on a woman’s chastity; once you’ve done such things, you’d be almost universally rejected...
Many tis, people are srized by appearances and won’t pay attention to the essence of things, just like now...
The spectators imdiately looked at Laura Quincy with disdain and disgust, as if she were a malignant tumor...
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