Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Russell was about to scrutinize Melody’s expression, but she had already carefully concealed her true emotions as if the moment of sarcasm just now had been a figment of Russell’s imagination.

I probably have misjudged, thought Russell. “This matter ends here.” He shifted his gaze away, not wanting to look at Melody any longer, and turned to Yolanda. “You too, stop worrying about yourself. Go upstairs and persuade Mabel. Her temper, I understand it too, Both parties are at fault in this matter,”

Yolanda felt a thousand grievances in her heart, but Russell felt guilty towards Melody. Until Melody made another mistake, she couldn’t show her hostility towards Melody in front of Russell.

Thinking of this, Yolanda nodded falsely. “Yes, I’m also at fault. You just came back and have to deal with these trivial matters. You haven’t had dinner yet, have you? I’ll have the kitchen prepare your favorite. You should take a bath first, you smell of smoke…”

She spoke while leading Russell upstairs, deliberately not giving Russell and Melody a chance to communicate again.

Soon it was dinner time, Maria hadn’t recovered her spirits, so she didn’t go to the dining room for dinner.

Melody didn’t want to see the cozy scene of Yolanda’s family, so she made up an excuse to accompany Maria for dinner and didn’t go to the dining room.

However, when it was time to decoct the medicine, Melody found that the amount of poison in Maria’s medicine ingredients had increased significantly compared to before.

Previously, the poison was from soaking Corydalis Rhizome in mercury sulfide, but now, she could smell the mercury sulfide without even opening the medicine package, indicating that the concentration of soaking had increased

Is it because Grandma is too protective of me, making Yolanda and her daughter even more eager to kill her?‘ asked Melody in her heart. That was the only possibility. She narrowed her eyes coldly. After quickly disposing of the mercury sulfide, she took the medicine ingredients to

the small kitchen to decoct the medicine.

The medicine itself was not a problem; it was all nourishing, but without targeting the symptoms, it only had a tonic effect and couldn’t cure

Maria’s illness.

Fortunately, she could use the excuse of going to buy medicine ingredients for Margaret from the Swanson family tomorrow to secretly

switch Maria’s medicine.

But for that, she needed to gain Maria’s full trust as soon as possible to reveal Yolanda’s actions in front of her.

Although Maria trusted her now, it was only in terms of character, and that trust was still precarious.

In terms of medical skills, Maria trusted her even less.

She had to cure Margaret’s illness as soon as possible to let Maria know that she indeed had good medical skills. Only then would Maria believe that she had discovered the poisonous ingredients in the medicine ingredients.

Everything had to be done quickly; Melody had no time to catch her breath. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be her acting in secret while Yolanda acted openly.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next day. Melody was still asleep when she was awakened by Maria’s personal maid, Hattie. “Miss Melody. wake up quickly. The Swanson family is here to pick you up to buy medicine ingredients.”

Melody had been studying Margaret’s prescription last night until dawn. She hadn’t slept for more than three hours.

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Being awakened now, her mind was still not clear. She asked in a daze, “Have breakfast?”

Seeing Melody’s confused look, Hattie couldn’t help but smile.

Everyone thought Melody was ugly, but she didn’t think so. If one looked carefully, one could tell Melody’s features weren’t inferior to

Mabel’s

If there were no red patches on Melody’s face, she might be the next reigning debutante of Silverlake.

Thinking of this, Hattie became even more gentle and said, “Breakfast is already prepared. Mrs. Fox was worried that the people from the Swanson family would wait too long, so she had me pack it for you. You can take it with you in the car.”

Melody was finally awake at this moment. Upon hearing this, she quickly sat up and said, “Sorry, Hattle. I wasn’t fully awake just now, I’ll get up right away.” With that, she glanced at the clock on the wall.

It was only seven o’clock. She had slept for less than three hours.

The people from the Swanson family are even more anxious than me, aren’t they?‘ asked Melody inwardly.

But haste was a good thing; she also wanted to cure Margaret’s illness as soon as possible.

With this in mind, Melody quickly freshened up.

When she looked closely, Melody had already freshened up, dressed neatly, and

Hattie felt like a gust of wind had passed by in front of her. W

stood before her.

“I’m ready, Hattie. Where’s my breakfast?” Melody asked.

Rubbing her eyes, Hattie sighed. “Miss Melody, you’re too quick. Don’t you want to put on some makeup and dress up a bit?”

Melody chuckled self–deprecatingly. “Do you think makeup would help my face?”

Hattie choked for a moment and muttered, “I actually think you’re quite pretty. It’s just your face. Would you li department at the hospital when you have time?”

like to go

the dermatology

“No need, it can’t be cured.” The red patches on Melody’s face were caused by poison.

The poison her master had administered couldn’t be cured by the hospital.

Hattie felt a pang of regret and felt. ‘Miss Melody must be saying that because she already saw the doctors and they couldn’t cure her. What a pity.”

Suddenly, she remembered something and reminded Melody, “But it’s better for you to dress up a bit today. The person accompanying you to buy medicine ingredients isn’t a servant of the Swanson family.”

Melody’s eyelids twitched. “It’s not Astrid, is it?”

“You’ll know when you see for yourself,” Hattie said mysteriously.

Melody had no choice but to take the breakfast from Hattie and stride out of the backyard towards the gate.

Breakfast consisted of two sandwiches, a cup of hot milk, and two peeled tea eggs

Although the sandwiches were simple, with a combination of meat and vegetables, they were nutritious and well thought out.

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Most of the household servants listened to Yolanda, so it was unlikely that they would go to such trouble for her. Surely, Hattie had prepared this breakfast especially for her.

Melody felt warm in her heart.

In this family, there was more than

than just Maria who cared for her. She was satisfied.

Just as she was about to reach the door, she suddenly saw Russell preparing to go out.

Russell still felt guilty about last night. Seeing Melody, he took the initiative to greet her, “Melody, are you going out so early?”

He tried to put on a fatherly smile, but facing Melody’s face, he couldn’t force a smile.

Melody nodded, seeing the disdain in Russell’s eyes. She pretended not to notice and smiled. “Yes, I’m going out to buy something.”

“Ah, indeed, you need to buy something. Your clothes are too old. Buy some new ones.” Russell inquired, “By the way, do you have enough money? Your mother should have given you some pocket money, right?”

Melody sneered inwardly. “Yolanda gives me pocket money? It’s just impossible.

But she didn’t bother to say anything. If he told Russell that Yolanda didn’t give her pocket money, Yolanda would just cry and say she wasn’t used to Melody being back and forgot to give her money, and then that would be the end of it.

Last life, because Yolanda didn’t even want to give her a penny, she had to tell Russell, but in the end, it was she who ended up worse off.

Experience taught wisdom; she couldn’t be bothered to say anything

Just as she was about to speak, Hattie behind her suddenly spoke up.

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