Finally, Clara managed to appease the big boss.
The car drove steadily on the road. Clara was silent for a while before she couldn’t help but ask, “Husband… if I really pushed Nora, what would you do?”
“If you pushed her, then she just needs to get up,” Ethan replied.
What kind of answer was that?
“Wouldn’t you think I’m malicious?” Clara asked.
Although the onlookers didn’t say anything at the time, without knowing the truth and only hearing Nora’s side of the story, they must have thought she was a vicious and unforgiving woman.
Ethan glanced at Clara indifferently and said nothing.
What did that mean?
Just say something.
Was one look enough?
They weren’t that in sync… He looked at her, but she still didn’t understand what he meant.
Clara silently shut her mouth.
Really… she couldn’t have a pleasant conversation with Ethan.
Clara took out her phone from her bag, opened WhatsApp, and started venting to her girlfriends in the group chat.
Clara: Girls, I was set up today!
Emma: How were you set up?
Lucy: Did they target your money or you?
Clara: I was targeted! Today, Ethan and I attended a banquet. Ethan’s first love asked me to talk by the lake. Then, she said some things to provoke me. I guess she wanted to make me lose my temper and embarrass myself in public. But I didn’t. I was very calm! You have no idea how calm I was. Calm without changing my expression.
Emma: By the lake? Based on my years of reading melodramatic CEO novels, something always happens at banquets, and someone always falls into the water by the lake.
Lucy: Correction, not just melodramatic CEO novels. In all sorts of time-travel novels involving princes and emperors, something always happens at banquets, and someone always falls into the water by the lake. This rule applies universally.
Clara: Exactly. I thought at that moment… would she push me into the water? Or would she fall in herself and frame me?
Emma: So which did she choose?
Clara: The latter. Thanks to my extensive reading of novels and watching dramas, I saw through her plot instantly.
Lucy: And then?
Clara: Then she fell into the water.
Emma: And then what?
Clara: Then she started saying things like Clara didn’t do it on purpose, don’t blame Clara, it was her own carelessness…
Lucy: People still use such cliched tricks?
Emma: Yes, men still fall for it nowadays.
Clara: Men are blind; they can’t see through these fake innocent facades.
Lucy: Wrong. They see through it but don’t care because they only care about a woman’s appearance. As long as the face is pretty, they don’t care if she’s fake. If she’s not pretty and tries to act innocent, they’ll just say she’s making trouble because she’s ugly!
Clara: That makes sense.
Emma: So… is your husband’s first love pretty?
Clara: Gorgeous! The kind that stuns you at first glance. The kind that stands there and says, “I’m the most beautiful, and I’ll crush you all with my beauty.”
Lucy: Then why did your husband break up with her?
Clara: Supposedly due to incompatible personalities.
Emma: Ten out of ten men say they broke up because of incompatible personalities.
Lucy: Right.
Emma: You should find another chance to ask your husband properly. I’m telling you, men find it hardest to forget their first love. So you need to be vigilant and not get cheated on.
Clara: … What if I do get cheated on?
Lucy: Then you just have to be strong.
Emma: Right, Clara, we’re not by your side. You have to be strong. It’s okay if your head occasionally gets a little green. As the saying goes: To get through life, you must wear a bit of green on your head.
Ethan noticed Clara typing on her phone and frowned slightly… Who was she chatting with so happily this late?
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The two returned to the Logan family home.
The rest of the Logan family hadn’t returned yet.
They went to their room and washed up.
Then, just as they were about to sleep, the Logan family home started to get lively again.
“Mr. Ethan, Lady Clara…” a servant respectfully said outside the door, “Old Mr. Logan, master and madam have returned and request your presence downstairs.”
She looked at Ethan.
She knew what this was about.
It must be about Nora falling into the water tonight.
Ethan said indifferently, “Got it.”
“Let’s go,” Ethan said.
Clara nodded, changed into loungewear, and went downstairs with Ethan.
All the Logan family members were in the living room.
Except for Azaria’s three-year-old daughter who had gone to bed early.
When Clara and Ethan came down, everyone turned their gaze towards them.
“Grandpa, Dad, Mom, Uncle…” Clara greeted obediently one by one.
“Yes.” Julian nodded and looked at Clara. “Clara… I heard you pushed Nora into the pond?”
Clara looked at Julian seriously and said, “Grandpa, I didn’t.”
Grace said angrily, “You wouldn’t admit it anyway.”
Julian gave Grace a faint look.
Grace’s expression stiffened, and she didn’t dare say anything more.
“What happened then?” Julian asked.
Clara said, “I met Nora at the banquet. She wanted to talk… She led me to the pond. She apologized for losing a game of truth or dare that night and said she still loved Ethan. She hoped I wouldn’t mind.”
“And I said I didn’t mind,” Clara continued. “She apologized, I accepted it. I thought it was over and was about to leave when she suddenly grabbed my hand and then let go, falling into the pond herself.”
Grace couldn’t hold back anymore. “You say Nora fell in herself?”
Clara nodded. “Yes.”
Grace sneered. “Why? Why would Nora fall in herself and make herself look so pathetic in front of so many influential people?”
Clara blinked and said, “It’s obvious. She wanted to frame me! If she succeeded, I’d be seen as a vicious woman while she’d be a pitiful victim.”
Grace said angrily, “Nonsense.”
Clara wanted to speak but was interrupted by Ethan. “So what if she pushed her? What then?”
Such unreasonable words…
Grace frowned and looked at Ethan displeasedly. “Ethan, do you know what you’re saying? Clara pushing Nora into the water is attempted murder.”
Clara frowned.
Ethan said calmly, “Oh… So is the Poole family planning to sue Clara for attempting to murder Nora?”
Grace was stunned for a moment. How could that be?
The Poole family had been close with the Logan family for years. There was no way they’d sue over something so trivial.
“Ethan, you know the Poole family won’t sue Clara. But… this incident shows that Clara is too malicious. Our Logan family won’t accept such a malicious daughter-in-law,” Grace said.
“Malicious?” Ethan raised an eyebrow slightly and looked at Grace. “Nora confessed her feelings for me in front of Clara. What is that? That’s provocation; it’s behavior befitting a mistress. What’s wrong with Clara being harsh on a mistress? Shouldn’t she be harsh? Should she hold Nora’s hand and say: Oh great, you like my husband too. Let’s serve him together?”
The Logan family members were all stunned.
It was rare for the usually reticent Ethan to say so much at once.
And he even added an ‘oh great’ for emphasis.
It felt… really strange.
“Mom, do you think Clara should say that? Should she befriend Nora and serve me together? Is that what makes her virtuous and kind?” Ethan asked indifferently.
Grace’s face turned red with anger as her chest heaved violently.
Ethan, her son, had contradicted her in front of everyone for Clara’s sake without giving her any face at all.
She felt like she was about to explode with anger.
It seemed like everyone else in the Logan family was watching her make a fool of herself.