Chapter 531



The two probably just got into the car and drove off. At that point only their breathing could be heard as well as the sound of the car starting and moving. For a while, neither of them spoke.

Nora looked up as she listened to them – Tanya was holding her head as she looked worried and anxious.

Nora looked around and asked, “Where’s Joel?”

“He’s gone to ask Dad what happened.” Tanya raised her head uncomprehendingly and looked at Nora. She asked puzzled, “Nora, my father? Is he really a bad guy?”

Nora’s jaw tensed. She looked at Tanya and sighed. “In this world there is no such thing as so called good or bad…. Nor is there such a thing as true good or evil…”.

As a child, she had abhorred evil.

But as she grew up and came into contact with more and more things, her multiple identities also came into contact with many people. Only then did she gradually come to understand.

In this world, no one was strictly evil or good.

For example, Jill. To others she was a complete villain through and through, but to Hillary she was a good mother.

And take, for example, Karl…. Indeed, he had a lot of blood on his hands as well as a fierce and menacing look, but in Nora’s eyes, a man like him was, on the other hand, sympathetic.

Tanya, who didn’t get the answer she wanted, ducked her head again.

After a while, the landline phone at home suddenly rang. The nanny took the call, after which she looked at Tanya and said, “It’s Madame Sue.”

Tanya frowned.

It was Sue, again.

Before she could say anything, Nora came downstairs and answered the phone. As soon as she said “hello,” Sue said, “Tanya, did they really arrest your father? Oh, my goodness, a man as fearsome as him is finally going to be brought to justice? What a joy! He even shot at us the other time. Heh, he thinks he can shoot others so casually? He’s a boor.”

Nora didn’t dare listen any longer, so she got straight to the point and asked, “What exactly do you want?”

That’s when Sue realized it was Nora on the phone. Surprised, she said, “Nora? Well, it’s better if you’re the one on the phone. I’ll tell you this, Karl Moore is a big crook. Now that he’s been arrested, they definitely won’t let him out anymore. We’ve already asked around; word is he’s committed murder. Tell Joel to hurry up and divorce Tanya! This is also what your Great Uncle wants, the Smiths should not have a murderer’s daughter-in-law! It would be horrible if the news were to spread.”

Nora frowned and scoffed, “You’re a cop?”

Sue choked. “Huh? Of course not!”

Nora said, “Oh, it’s lucky you’re not. Otherwise, there would be so many cases of injustice in the world!”

Despite being scorned, Sue was not angry. She said, “Oh Nora, I know you’re on good terms with Tanya, but giving her a little money in private will be enough. Someone like her is not fit to be the matriarch of the Smiths. News of the incident has already spread in New York! There are even people saying that Jill was right to leave Karl Moore back then and that Tanya is considering a bad man as her relative. She should be grateful to the Joneses! How can she abandon the Joneses just because she has moved up the social ladder? Isn’t a woman like her cold-blooded? She is so ungrateful.”

“… I’m hanging up,” Nora said.

As soon as she said that, Sue said anxiously, “Wait, don’t hang up yet! I’m talking business. Do you know who spread all this news? It was Jill. She deliberately spread the news everywhere until the whole town was talking about it. Think about it, even if Tanya becomes the Smith matriarch, is there anyone in New York who respects an ingrate like her?”

Smack!

Nora hung up in a bad mood. As soon as anything happened to Karl, an over-eager Jill had immediately started dragging Tanya’s name through the mud. She was too annoying.

She looked down. Just then, she finally heard Jill and her husband’s conversation in the earpiece.

Mr. Jones said, “Don’t fight with her like that-doing that won’t benefit anyone! Can’t you take a softer attitude with Tanya?”

Jill’s voice was high-pitched. “Why should I do that? I feel like killing that bitch as soon as I see her face.”

“That’s enough! You need to change that attitude of yours!”

Jill sneered, “Ha, you weren’t the one who suffered and suffered during that incident back then, of course you wouldn’t care! But I do.”

“Back then, back then? That’s all you keep saying. Why do you bring up all those things from back then again? Don’t talk about it anymore. Aren’t you afraid that Mr. Smith will find out?”

“What are you so afraid of, we’re in our car right now! You’ve never wanted to talk about it all these years. Since you refuse to let me talk about it, all the more reason I will! Back then …”

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