Chapter 1457: 1457. Let you personally experience the taste of being mocked.
She wasn’t exactly short on money, but the cash she had set aside was ant to help her son buy shares in the Hall Clan to ensure he could wrest control from Harry Hall. She couldn’t bear to part with it for donations.
But if she donated too little, people would think she was stingy, which would be worse than not donating at all. At least the children in these mountainous areas wouldn’t feel exploited as part of her publicity stunt.
After much deliberation, she decided coming here to teach was the best option.
Those teachers volunteering in mountain villages always garnered a wave of positive attention online. She, a pampered diva from an affluent family, trekking to an impoverished and treacherous place for the sake of these children—surely it would make her all the more praiseworthy.
The more she thought about it, the more feasible the idea seed.
But now, with her son bluntly laying it all out, her expression was anything but pleasant.
Especially when those things her son just said kept echoing in her mind—
Charity that actually makes a difference…
Chasing clout without sincerity…
Only now, thanks to her son’s reminder, did she realize the scale of her misstep.
She could’ve co to volunteer, even teaching music would’ve been fine. But teaching piano to these children? It was akin to the historical tale of Emperor Hui of Jin asking peasants who were starving and surviving on bark, “Why don’t you eat minced at instead?”—a sheer act of foolishness.
No wonder she’d noticed Elly Campbell’s peculiar expression earlier.
Her face burned with sha. Even during the scandal where she was scorned as a howrecker, she hadn’t felt this humiliated.
To Elly, being a mistress was a moral breach. But teaching piano to these village children? That was stupidity at its highest.
“Since you knew all this, why didn’t you stop before I set out?”
Mia Brown accused him.
She couldn’t help but feel like her son was acting differently lately, with shades of rebellion surfacing.
He was no longer the sweet little angel he used to be.
Leo Hall shrugged and replied:
“I wanted you to personally experience what it feels like to be mocked, so you’d learn your lesson.”
Leo’s tone was matter-of-fact, as if he weren’t addressing his own mother but a junior.
Mia Brown: “You… you little brat…”
She wanted to scold him, but his face—so much like hers—and his history of being obedient and sensible left her unable to utter a single harsh word.
Leo seed completely unbothered by whether his mother would be angry. Then, he dropped another bombshell—
“Besides, I wanted to et the sister-in-law.”
Mia was about to lash out at him, but his words caught her off guard. She froze.
Then, disbelief flickered in her eyes. “What do you an? Don’t tell you’ve taken a liking to Adam Jones’s wife.”
Leo didn’t deny it. He just shrugged with an air of indifference. “Is there a problem?”
“Of course, there’s a problem! She’s seven years older than you, and she’s Adam Jones’s wife! Don’t you think your father has enough trouble without you causing more? You’ve got the nerve to ss around with Adam Jones’s wife?”
Leo remained completely nonchalant, and upon hearing Mia’s words, he even laughed as though he’d heard a joke.
“Isn’t my dad already dealing with Adam Jones? Has he succeeded yet?”
It might be a bit ambitious, but one could still dream.
Leo’s response caused Mia’s expression to shift dramatically once again.
For reasons she couldn’t explain, she detected a hint of sarcasm in her son’s words.
A clear look of displeasure crossed Mia’s face as she said:
“Your father is doing all of this for you! If you were as capable as your brother, if you had the skills to compete with him, your father wouldn’t need to wear himself out like this.”
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