She looked at everyone in the room, their expressions were all cold and harsh, as if they were looking at an unforgivable villain.

Especially the fourth brother, since Miles Xavier returned, he hadn’t looked at her once.

Now, he looked at her, but those deep cold eyes were like ice picks, piercing her painfully, making it impossible to breathe.

She couldn’t accept it no matter what, clearly being the young lady of the Ford family, but in the end becoming a stranger.

Tiana Thorne shrugged, her smile like a blooming flower, with a touch of disdain: "It’s fine if you don’t say, if it’s possible to verify that you have no blood relation with the Jarvis family, it’s naturally possible to find out who told you initially. It’s just a matter of time; you’ve waited twenty years, so what’s a short while more?"

Meredith Ford hung her head, tears blurring her vision, finally saying: "When I was very young, in elementary school, I met a woman at school who said I was the only young lady of the Ford family..."

"Do you know who she is?"

Meredith Ford’s eyes were unfocused, lost: "I never saw her again, she was dressed well, likely a lady from a wealthy family, she told me she saw it herself, that Celia Ford died, and I should be at ease being the young lady, no one could compete with me."

Upon hearing this, Rouge Jarvis’s face turned pale.

She couldn’t imagine how an elementary school child, upon hearing all this, didn’t find it absurd or frightening, and never mentioned it to her family.

Tiana Thorne narrowed her eyes slightly, her voice gaining a chill: "So, at that time, you believed it and were very certain you were the only young lady of the Ford family?"

Meredith Ford laughed, her voice sharp: "Of course I believed her, she was very beautiful, dressed nobly, and spoke to me so gently, claiming she saw it herself, and told me not to reveal this secret to anyone. But at that time, I clearly understood that no one could compete with me, no one!"

Rouge Jarvis took two or three steps forward and slapped her hard.

The blow was heavy.

The slap sent Meredith Ford tumbling to the ground, her ears ringing, unable to come back to her senses for a while.

A trace of blood appeared at the corner of her mouth, she turned back to look at her, full of anger: "Why did you hit me? What gives you the right to hit me?"

"I wouldn’t have known that even at a young age you could be so vicious; still in elementary school, and you never told me about such a big matter. Earlier, I thought you were driven mad by jealousy, now I understand, from a young age, you were a demon in human skin."

If she had known about this matter at that time, she would have been deeply perplexed.

Because, the news of Poppy dying was known only to her and Old Ford, and a few people at the police station, but she was certain those few would never betray her.

So who was that wealthy woman?

Why did she know, and also tell Meredith Ford these things?

If she had been suspicious back then and followed that lead, she might not have been separated from Poppy for so many years, how many twenty years does a lifetime have?

She had already missed Poppy’s childhood...

Thinking of this made her angry, this was all because she had raised a thankless wolf.

Meredith Ford no longer needed any disguise, her eyes were full of malice, she wiped the blood from her mouth and said coldly: "Why blame me? Without verifying whether your daughter was dead or lost, you adopted me; what right do you have to blame me?"

Her words were venomous like a snake and scorpion: "Did I ever say I wanted to recognize you as my mother? When you took me from Third Aunt...from Pearl Jarvis, I was just an infant, did I have the right to choose whether to be the young lady of the Ford family?"

"I had no rights, you never gave me any, because you were heartbroken over the loss of your daughter, you took someone else’s daughter, and since I was already at the Ford family, what’s wrong with wanting the exclusive affection of brothers and parents? This is all your fault, not mine."

Rouge Jarvis listened to every word she uttered, her eyes reddening, like knives piercing her heart, making her face pale with pain.

What on earth had she raised over these twenty years?

"Since you took me back, you should have loved me well, because Poppy is dead, from a certain perspective, I replaced her, and gave you twenty years to make up for the regret of losing a daughter in your heart."

Saying this, Meredith Ford laughed again sinisterly, word by word: "My presence was a consolation, why should it be this way now that Poppy’s back? In the end, you are the ones who are selfish; when you needed me, I was precious, when you didn’t need me, I was just a rag."

"Heh...!"

Tiana Thorne gave a soft laugh, then clapped. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

With each clap, it seemed to carry endless satire, her lips curled lazily: "Sure enough, not only is your heart venomous, but your mouth is too, turning good into bad, black into white, truly worthy of this applause."

Meredith Ford swallowed, looking at her indifferently: "Am I wrong? And you, abandoned long ago, they never truly looked for you, you should have self-awareness, now suddenly running back like a begging dog, isn’t it just to steal wealth and glory?"

Tiana Thorne wasn’t hurt by her clever twisting words, instead she laughed, the disdainful look as if watching a jester: "You’re right, I did come back to fight you for it, you can choose not to be taken by me, but can you stop it?"

Meredith Ford pressed her lips tightly, her heart filled with a burning rage.

"The Ford family owes you nothing, from the day they took you in, they treated you with all tenderness; you never lacked anything the brothers had. Back then, when Third Aunt Pearl was in a car accident and ended up in critical care, at the same time Third Aunt gave birth to a daughter, became depressed, and couldn’t care for the child; my mom as her sister adopted you, what’s there to blame you for?"

Meredith Ford remained silent; she was not wrong at all.

If not for almost dying in an accidental car crash, how could Pearl Jarvis have been depressed?

"Back then, who could have known you weren’t actually my Third Aunt’s daughter, even if you weren’t, as long as you were content and didn’t ask for too much, would my mom, dad, or brothers have driven you out of the Ford family? My mother adopted so many without blood relations, who has she ever removed from the family genealogy?"

Tiana Thorne paused for a moment, smoothly curling her lips: "Even if you weren’t Third Aunt’s biological daughter, the emotions over twenty years can’t be faked, you could have had brothers, had parents, and now, you have nothing."

Meredith Ford was nearly suffocated by her words, bloodshot eyes trying hard to hold back tears: "Tiana Thorne, your mouth is so cruel."

She shrugged: "I’m merely stating facts, from start to finish, it’s your dark heart at play, and now, blaming my mom? Blaming my bro, blaming me? Heh, Meredith Ford, blame yourself!"