However, Jane ignored them and walked straight to the kitchen where she saw Amy still cooking something. She spoke softly, “Amy, is there anything to eat?”
Hearing this, Amy turned around and smiled when she saw Jane. “Miss North, before Patrick left he specifically asked me to cook some soup for you. It’s in the pot now.”
She had already taken out a bowl and spoon. “Miss North, please go wait at the table. I’ll bring it over right away.”
Jane smiled slightly and said, “Thank you for your hard work, Amy.”
As Jane sat waiting at the table, Melissa suddenly stood up from the couch.
“Some people are just naturally lazy,” she muttered in Jane’s ear as Amy approached with the soup.
Melissa deliberately bumped into Amy’s wrist with her elbow causing her to drop the bowl of soup on the ground spilling it everywhere.
“Amy, why are you so clumsy?” Melissa complained as she looked down at her clothes checking if they were stained by any of the spilled soup.
But Melissa felt a bit disappointed that she didn’t throw that soup directly on Jane’s face.
Amy looked panicked for a moment but quickly bent down to clean up while apologizing saying, “I’m so sorry Miss Pansy. Miss North, did you get burned? I’ll go get another bowl right away.”
Jane noticed what was happening and gave Amy a concerned look seeing that she was not hurt before saying softly, “I can do it myself.”
At this moment however, Melissa reached out to stop Jane.
“Oh dear Jane, I apologize for my laziness yesterday. Let me serve you some soup instead.”
Without waiting for any response from Jane, she went straight into kitchen.
Jane furrowed her brows slightly. She really didn’t know what kind of tricks Melissa would play next.
Melissa poured all of the soup from pot into a large basin then walked towards Jane with smile on her face. However, the smile did not reach her eyes. Instead, she suddenly jerked as if something had touched her. Then, she turned around readying herself to pour all of that hot liquid onto Jane.
Jane knew Melissa had such thoughts, so she quickly pulled Amy aside. At the same time, she kicked Melissa’s leg hard.
Melissa cried out in pain.
Jane then stepped on her foot and pulled back, causing Melissa to fall onto the table along with the soup bowl in her hand. There was a loud noise that startled Beatrice who was watching from the sofa.
Melissa was even more embarrassed as she hit her stomach on the table and spilled half of the soup all over herself, including vegetables which made it look ridiculous. “It hurts! It hurts!” screamed Melissa.
“Melissa!” Beatrice finally reacted and rushed to her side but seeing how messy she looked, hesitated to touch her.
She turned around and glared at Jane while accusing loudly, “You bitch!”
She raised her hand ready to hit Jane.
However, Jane would not sit idly by. She took a step to the side, avoiding Beatrice’s actions.
Ignoring Beatrice, Jane directed her gaze at Melissa’s face and coldly said, “Oh, Melissa, how careless of you?”
Turning her eyes towards Melissa, Jane approached and fanned the air with her hand, saying, “If you wanted soup so badly, you could have just asked. There was no need to be so anxious.”
Jane truly admired Melissa’s persistence now. Wasn’t the setback she faced yesterday enough?
Melissa held her stomach, and her facial features wrinkled in pain.
Hearing Jane’s words, her anger intensified, and she almost disregarded everything to reach out and grab Jane menacingly.
However, Jane just dodged backward, and Melissa accidentally stepped on the oily floor, falling harshly once again.
“Jane!”
On the other side, Beatrice screamed but did nothing else, not even attempting to help the fallen Melissa.
This time, Jane turned her attention to Beatrice and spoke softly, “I told you yesterday, don’t provoke me, and I won’t bother you. When will you remember what I said?”
Beatrice was stunned by Jane’s words. She had wanted to say something, but Jane embraced herself and calmly continued, “If you don’t take her to the hospital soon, her face might be ruined.”
Only then did Beatrice react, pointing to Amy and saying, “What are you looking at? Quickly help Miss up!”
Amy was too frightened to speak. She hurried to assist Melissa, but she forcefully pushed her hand away.
“Get away from me!”
At that moment, Mike’s voice came from the door, “What’s going on? Why has everything turned into chaos so early in the morning?”
Melissa stood up, holding her face and crying loudly, “Grandpa! Jane, this wicked person, is trying to kill me. She poured soup directly on my face, and it hurts so much!”
Mike turned to see the disheveled Melissa, and his eyebrows furrowed deeply. Then, he looked at Jane, seemingly waiting for an explanation.
Beatrice, seeing this, quickly spoke up, “Mike, look at Jane. She hasn’t even married into our family, yet she’s so arrogant. What will happen in the future? Yesterday, when she came back, she kept bullying Melissa.”
“Now she’s lazy, waking up so late in the morning. When Amy served her soup just now, she spilled it and specifically demanded Melissa to bring her the soup. Melissa is not a servant in the house. Why should she serve her?”
At this point, Amy walked over with an ice pack. Despite Beatrice’s disdain for Melissa’s dirty clothes, she now played the role of a caring person. She wiped Melissa’s cheeks and applied the ice pack to the red area, affectionately calling her “baby,” making it seem like they were the ones being bullied.
“Jane, what’s going on?” Hearing this, Mike finally shifted his gaze to Jane.