[The students of Creephia University came to give you a big news, the big scum Dominic went to school today to apologize to Selena, and even tried to make a move on her, but he was beaten up by Selena’s boyfriend. By the way, Selena’s boyfriend is super handsome.]
[Just the fact that he helped Selena beat up that scum is proof enough that he’s handsome. Selena is so good-looking, her boyfriend must be a handsome man, otherwise he would be sorry for her unique face.]
[Scum Dominic finally apologized, I thought he would still be the same as before, to determine it was Selena’s fault before the truth came out. Selena has a boyfriend now, he actually tried to make a move on Selena, he was deserved to be beaten up by her boyfriend.]
[To sum up, Alberto is the number one hypocrite in Creephia, Molly is the number one vicious stepmother, Leah is the number one whore, and Dominic is the number one scum.]
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Inside the castle, when Selena learnt that it was Molly who had been arrested, she smiled, not the least bit surprised. If Leah had fallen so easily, it wouldn’t have been worth wasting so much of her mind playing with her.
Leia huffed, “Madam, do you think she did it on purpose? She used her mother’s old phone when she could have bought a new one.” Without this, it would have been Leah who would have been caught today.
Selena put on a smile, “It doesn’t matter.” If she was going to put Leah in jail, it would have been the statement she sent to the scene last night, not the scumbags.
She would send Leah to jail, but not now. She had said that she would leave Leah with nothing to live for. No one to rely on. Nothing to fall back on. Reduced to the same situation as Selena once was, a loner with nothing to lose.
The net was cast a long time ago, just waiting for her to jump in and kill herself little by little. Selena let go of her hand, a few petals falling to the ground between her fingers, the tips of her fingers stained with rose-red flower juice.
Selena looked at her masterpiece and sighed deeply. It was rare for Leia to see Selena looking so fretful and asked curiously, “Madam, what is wrong with you?”
Selena blinked, “Before Lady Lauren left, she gave me a perfume recipe.” Leia froze for a moment, then said happily, “Lady Lauren is very good at making perfume, with her help, you will win.” She had previously thought that Selena and Lady Lauren had fallen out and was a bit worried about her young master, but now it seemed that for Lady Lauren to give Selena an perfume recipe meant that she liked Selena a lot.
A touch of sadness passed over Selena’s face, “The recipe is very good, but the manufacturing process is too difficult, the failure rate is as high as 99. 9 percent.”
Perfume making was not something she was good at; she could only explore and figure it out based on Selena’s memory and experience, wanting to surpass those perfume recipes of Nevaeh that were dominated by Leah to take the title, but it was not easy.
Selena wiped her hands with a clean tissue and turned towards the outside of the flower room. Leia bounced and followed her out, saying as she did so, “If you encounter any difficulties, you can go and ask young master.”
Selena paused in her tracks and looked back at Leia, her eyes glowing slightly. Leia immediately understood that Selena did not know the background of her husband at all, and said with a smile, “Young master should know how to do it, because his mother likes to make perfume, and young master grew up by her side, so his level should not be bad.”
Most importantly, everything he did was to the utmost. Lady Lauren gave Selena the perfume recipe but did not instruct her personally, obviously wanting her to ask her son. Osvaldo may have been waiting for his wife to take the initiative and ask.
However, Selena is not used to relying on others and has been figuring things out on her own. Selena’s long eyelashes trembled; she tilted her head, seemed to ponder for a moment, and then she walked in the direction of Osvaldo’s study.
Leia did not follow as a third party and walked away.
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In the villa, Leah was sitting in her wheelchair in front of the door when she heard footsteps and looked up to see Dominic walking in with a cold face.
When Leah saw him, the tears she had just stopped flowed down her face. She pushed her wheelchair over to him in a panic and raised her hand to grab his suit, “Dominic, please help me, save my mother.”
Dominic was, in a rare moment, indifferent to her tears. He looked at Leah’s red and swollen eyes and said in a cold voice, “Leah, do you know what your mother has done?”
Leah’s expression stiffened; she stared at Dominic, with disbelief in her eyes, crying with heartbreak, “Dominic, what do you mean by that? Do you suspect that it was me and my mother who joined forces to hurt Selena?”
Dominic’s voice was still cold, “I didn’t say that; I just asked you if you knew about this matter.”
Leah and he grew up together. The image of her as a “generous and understanding woman” had long since penetrated deep into the marrow of Dominic’s bones. On the contrary, he had always known that Molly did not like Selena, and it seemed reasonable that she would use such vicious means to harm her.
So Dominic was convinced almost immediately that it was Molly who had done the deed. He believed that Leah was innocent. But there was doubt after all. It was not so much a doubt that Leah was the mastermind of this matter, but a doubt that Leah knew anything about it.
After all, those photos, which she had once admitted herself, were deliberately taken out to show Selena at that time. And those unsavoury photos are only available to the journalist who was paid by Mrs. Riddle to ruin Selena.
Those reporters, even more explicitly, said that they had not seen Selena since that time. That meant that what Leah had told him before, that she had inadvertently found these photos from Selena’s bag, and that she had lied about this matter for fear that someone would threaten and blackmail Selena with these things.
And how did Leah get her hands on it? Did Molly give it to her, or those reporters give it to her?
If it is the former, it means that she is in the know.
In the latter case –
Dominic clenched his fists.
Leah’s face was white, tears in her eyes, a touch of sadness subconsciously flowed from her face as if she had been greatly aggrieved, “Dominic, are you suspecting me?”
Dominic looked down at Leah and raised his hand to wipe her tears, but his eyes didn’t soften in the slightest, “Leah, I don’t suspect you, I just want to know the truth as it is.”
Previously, she sent Selena the bed photos, although later he did not pursue the matter to the end, but ultimately became a thorn buried in Dominic’s heart. He doesn’t mention it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Or Leah will be upset.
Leah was flustered by Dominic’s sharp eyes, and the cynicism in her heart grew deeper; she shook her head in a panic, her face pale as she denied, “I don’t know. I…” Dominic looked at her coldly from close range, obviously having to have an answer.
Leah burst into tears, her hands covering her face, her eyes haggard and helpless, crying, “Dominic, do you have to do this to me at such a difficult time? What do you want me to say, to accuse my mother of being cruel? She did something wrong, but it was for my own good. Everyone under the sun is qualified to accuse her, but not me.”
Dominic looked at her pale face, her slender shoulders trembling as she cried, which looked pitiful. His heart softened slightly. Her father was seriously ill, her mother had been arrested, and the Riddles had suffered great hardship, all relying on her alone for support. And, she was badly injured and, at this time, clearly mentally exhausted.
It was indeed too cruel of him to force her at this moment. Dominic hid the complexity of his heart, “Okay, I won’t ask, don’t cry.”
Leah tugged on his hand and said pleadingly, “Dominic, help me, help me save my mother.”
Dominic’s face, however, turned cold, “Leah, your mother should be punished for her wrongdoing.”
He had always known that Selena might not have had a good time in the Riddle family. But he thought that, at best, she would be without her mother’s care, suffer in trivial matters, and remain the high and mighty lady.
But he didn’t expect that Selena would have such a difficult time in the Riddle family. He had seen with his own eyes the coldness and ruthlessness of Alberto, and the viciousness and domineering of Molly could be glimpsed in its entirety in this incident.
Dominic could not imagine how much warmth Selena had received growing up under the noses of such two people. He closed his eyes abruptly, and the always silent face appeared before him. Why had he not realised, until this moment, that those dark, clear eyes were always heartbreakingly quiet and dead.
It was only when he had seen that Selena smiled. But what did he do? He had been accusing her viciousness.
At Dominic’s heart, hatred sprang up. Leah cried with tears, “But if you don’t save my mother, she will go to jail. Selena will not spare my mother. She hates us; she wants our whole family to die-”
“That’s enough.” Dominic shouted angrily and looked coldly at Leah, “Selena let her go, did she ever let Selena go?”
Leah was frozen. Dominic had never spoken to her in such a stern manner before, for Selena.
She was unbelievable; she shook her head, “Dominic, that’s my mother, how can you do this to me?”
“This matter is not negotiable.” Dominic was hard-hearted as he said, “If Selena hadn’t been lucky that day, what would have happened to her? A woman as vicious as your mother deserves to spend the rest of her life in jail.”
What Molly destroyed was Selena, his marriage to Selena, and all the love Selena had for him. Without that incident, he would not have repented of his marriage in public, and he would not have lost Selena completely. Selena would not hate him. Much less would she become so strangely, which was a panic to him.
He would never choose to forgive this. Dominic turned coldly away. Leah sat alone in her wheelchair, teardrops still on her pale face, and after a moment, she trembled and smiled madly.
Molly had hurt Selena, so he was so angry, so cold and heartless. What would he do if he knew that the person who hurt Selena and wanted to ruin Selena was actually her?
Leah’s eyes were filled with sneers and resentment, and as she laughed, she burst into tears.
In the castle. Selena stood outside the door of Osvaldo’s study. The study was a very sacred and forbidden place for her. Her study, like her bedroom, was her most private domain, and no outsiders were ever allowed in except for those who cleaned it. Even Stanley never went inside.
She wasn’t sure if Osvaldo had such a taboo; after all, for a manager, there were a lot of secrets in the study. Selena raised her hand, originally wanting to knock on the door and ask about it, but just as her finger touched the door, the door opened a crack.
Selena was stunned, and with her hands on the door frame, she carefully peeked in her head and looked inside. He met the gaze of Osvaldo.
Osvaldo looked at her big, pure and beautiful eyes, and his lips curled slightly. He put down the pen in his hand, walked over, took her hand and led her straight in.
Selena was surprised that she had gotten in so easily? Osvaldo looked at her somewhat confused expression and gave a low laugh, “What’s wrong?” Selena’s delicate red lips twitched, “I….” Osvaldo’s deep black eyes were like a pool of ink, and he looked into her eyes with a touch of encouragement, “Yes?”
Selena took the perfume recipe out, “Leia said, you know this.” Osvaldo finally saw Selena come to his door and laughed delightedly; he opened the perfume recipe and took a look at it, a hint of surprise darted across his eyes. Selena looked at him with glowing eyes and blushed, “I tried many times and failed.”
Osvaldo smiled and soothingly touched her forehead. Then he took her hand and went to the desk, placed Selena on a chair, then took out an A4 sheet of paper and laid it on the desk.
Selena was sitting in a chair, and Osvaldo was right behind her, so close that when she tilted her head, she could touch his face. Selena’s ears were burning, and she was just about to back away, but then she saw that Osvaldo put a pen in her hand, “Look at this.” Selena blinked, understanding that this man was trying to instruct her, and immediately stopped moving. Osvaldo smiled, his lips pressed to her ear, his compelling masculine breath creeping up her neck as he gave an extremely gentle whisper.
Selena listened to his low, raspy voice, and her legs inexplicably went weak.