If it were before, Rouge Jarvis would definitely have said something to him, but now, the distance between her and Meredith Ford is more than just Tiana Thorne—it’s all the bad things Meredith has done.

Meredith Ford panicked, crawled forward two steps, looked up at her, and anxiously said, "Mom, you raised me, I’m your daughter. Even if she’s your biological daughter, can she just replace the mother-daughter bond between us?"

She still said nothing, just tried to see through the daughter she raised.

All the children were raised by her, why did this particular little sapling grow crooked?

"Mom, didn’t you say before? As long as it’s your children, whether biological or not doesn’t matter, you will love them equally. You said I’m your most cherished little daughter. You can’t stop loving me just because you found your biological daughter, you can’t."

Rouge Jarvis looked at her, just as heartbroken.

At first, it was disappointment in Meredith’s failings, now, the heart that cared for her is practically dead, scarcely left.

"Yes, I have always given the same heart, never bad to any child. Ask yourself, over the years, have your actions hurt your mother’s heart? First Julian, then Poppy, hurting the Ford family, do you expect me to treat you as I did before?"

Meredith Ford shook her head: "Mom, Mama, listen to me, I really didn’t know she was Poppy. If I had known, I wouldn’t have treated her this way. I was just worried she’d cause brother and fourth brother to fight. It was her hiding the truth that led to such a big misunderstanding, I..."

"Misunderstanding?" Tiana Thorne, who had been silent, laughed.

She lightly licked her lips and then asked, "Meredith Ford, do you think you can erase the bad things you’ve done with the word ’misunderstanding’?" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Meredith frowned, looking at her: "It’s you, it was your scheme all along, wasn’t it?"

Tiana Thorne, bored from being stuck in the hospital recently, wanted to hear her bark more, raised an eyebrow: "What scheme? Go ahead, tell me."

"You deliberately made us think you were dating my brother, then you let me see you getting close with the fourth brother, making me believe you betrayed my brother, which led me to hurt you. Then you reconnected with my mom, using her disappointment to stir things up, all just to target me."

Tiana Thorne’s eyes sparkled, enchanting.

Clever.

Meredith Ford was absolutely right; this was indeed a trap set for her, and Tiana wasn’t shy to admit it.

"I calculated against you, but you clearly had many ways to make mom believe the issue with the fourth brother, yet you chose to put me to death. I only opened the road for you; it was you who flipped the switch."

Meredith Ford couldn’t believe she confessed so openly, momentarily at a loss for words.

Tiana Thorne smiled again: "It’s your own dark heart, who else is to blame?"

"We were supposed to be sisters. If you told me you were Poppy, I definitely would have treated you well. How could this happen?"

Tiana Thorne mocked a smile, reminding her: "I remember clearly what happened in Azurea. With your ways, knowing my identity would probably have prevented me from ever reuniting with mother, leaving me long gone."

Rouge Jarvis’s eyes turned icy cold upon hearing this, and her hands clenched into fists.