As they left the hospital, the two of them had just reached the lobby and saw lody White walking in with a thermos box, her eyes red.
Seeing lody White, May Morgan stood still, waiting until lody lowered her head and walked up to her, and she then finally saw Vincent Vance and May.
"Why, why are you here?" lody stared at May and Vincent with shock, suddenly losing her composure as she pointed at May and shouted, "You wretched girl, haven’t you hard my daughter enough? What are you doing here today? Are you here to see her looking like neither human nor ghost?"
May had been peacefully nurturing her pregnancy, forgetting that lanie was still in the hospital and hadn’t faced legal punishnt yet.
Calculating the ti, it should be ti for lanie to have her sutures removed, and once those are gone, there’s no need for her to stay at the hospital, she should leave.
"Haven’t you handed lanie over to Director Lawson for jail yet?" May looked up at Vincent, asking him seriously.
Vincent had been busy with Maxwell’s wedding in recent days, and thus had forgotten about lanie. When May asked, he hurriedly assured her, "I’ve arranged for soone to handle it these days, won’t let this slip through."
lody, hearing they were going to send her daughter to prison, broke down and cried in the lobby, "May, how can you be so ruthless? Your sister’s already been disfigured by you, with scars all over her face, looking like a ghost. She’s already like this, how can you still have the nerve to send her to jail? Have you no empathy?"
"Empathy? Hah, I’m rely letting her face legal consequences, how am I lacking empathy?" Thinking of her deceased grandmother, May gritted her teeth in anger, wishing she could personally deal with the enemy, "When she stabbed my grandmother to death, why didn’t you talk about empathy then? Do you know how tragically my grandmother died? And you still dare to ask to let her go?"
"But, but she’s your sister, no matter what, she has learned her lesson, can’t you let her off?" lody suddenly grabbed May’s clothes, pleading bitterly.
Those not knowing the inside story saw an elderly woman pleading pitifully with a young girl, assuming May was being overly aggressive, couldn’t help but gossip in whispers around them.
May glanced around, listening to the outsiders’ criticisms of her, but had no intention of backing down, "lody White, don’t think you can make let her go, a life for a life, debts paid with money. Since you didn’t teach your daughter this principle, let teach her then."
May hadn’t planned to deal with lanie, but seeing lody’s relentless pressure, she couldn’t help but turn to head upstairs to confront lanie.
Seeing May about to go upstairs, lody hurriedly blocked May’s way, "May, let your sister go. I know you’re angry, but vent it on , it has nothing to do with your sister. I’ll even kneel before you to make it right."
lody only had one daughter, lanie. If lanie went to jail, her future would turn bleak. To save lanie, she gritted her teeth, kneeling before May.
As soon as she knelt, the elevator doors behind her opened, with people coming out to witness a middle-aged woman kneeling to a young girl.
People gasped, and so quickly took out their phones, intent on recording the scene and sharing it online.
Vincent quickly signaled to their driver, who grabbed the mobile phone from a bystander and smashed it against the nearby wall without a word.
"What the heck, what are you doing, my phone!"
Seeing his phone shattered, the person angrily shouted at the driver.
Face darkening, the driver ordered all the onlookers, "Young Master Vance’s family matters, you all get lost!"
The crowd, recognizing the infamous Young Master Vance, turned pale with fright and quickly dispersed.
lody saw everyone leaving automatically and understood that her kneeling had no further impact, she attempted to stand up without waiting for May’s response.
Vincent sneered, deliberately comnting to the driver, "Since Mrs. Morgan enjoys kneeling, let her continue for a while longer. We’ll let her stand when we co back."
"Yes!" The driver obliged, pressing lody’s half-risen body back to the cold, hard floor, his strength nearly shattering her kneecaps.
lody had initially relied on public pressure to coerce May and Vincent into releasing lanie, but things didn’t go as expected. Vincent anticipated her tactics, purposefully keeping her kneeling.
lody’s vision blurred with tears from the pain. With severe arthritis, she couldn’t stay kneeling for long without paying a grave physical toll.
"Young Master Vance, I was wrong, really wrong, please don’t treat like this, my legs will be ruined." lody begged Vincent for rcy.
Vincent shot a cold glare at lody, ignoring her pleas, as he took May’s hand and intended to leave.
May obstinately turned back to the elevator, "I need to see lanie."
Vincent didn’t want May to visit lanie, considering her disfigured state, worried that lanie might lash out in madness.
"Best not go, I’ll have Jacob personally escort her to Crestwood for surrender shortly." Vincent tugged May, signaling her to leave with him.
Turning to Vincent, May glanced back at him as the elevator doors opened, she released Vincent’s hand without hesitation and got into the elevator. Vincent reluctantly followed her.
"You already disfigured her, can’t you just stop?" Vincent, all the way, pleaded with May to return ho.
May shot a cold look at Vincent, "I’m aware she’s disfigured, but she deserved it."
Vincent shook his head in resignation, sighing, "A life for a life, true. Since she’s in your hands now, hand her to Director Lawson, but your actions do seem excessive."
"Excessive? When she ordered people to seize , dragged to the altar, and carved up my face, why didn’t you say she was cruel?" Recalling how lanie, when she was tied up, slashed her face in a horrifying way, May wished she could dismantle lanie piece by piece; disfiguration was a lenient punishnt.
Vincent cast a aningful glance at May’s face, "You’re unhard now, Dragon Insect protected you; others aren’t so fortunate..."
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