Fighting back for the first time

Emily's response took Lily back by surprise and she awkwardly tried to turn the situation around ," Sis, I did not mean that.......Oh look you're hurt!!!! Why don't you go back and have a good rest?? There are so many people looking at you, Uncle Lu will definitely be upset if he sees you in this horrible condition??"

If the old Emily heard that she was making the Lu's unhappy, she would have chosen to remain silent, but now she knew that if she did not explain herself in front of everybody today itself, who knew what terrible rumors would start to spread tomorrow?? Emily looked at the guests and laughed hollowly even though she could feel her body weakening.

"I'm upset too you know, the Lu family is holding a party and yet someone had the audacity to try to murder me!! I've just narrowly escaped death, and here you are, accusing me of debauchery. Such great care and concern you have for me, My dearest little sister!!??" Lily was unable to respond to this. The word 'murder' itself sent the crowd into another uproar. They were all people of high status and power but feared for their lives too. If not for the fact that they trusted the Lu's and were bound by social rules, they would have started running around in panic by now!!

John Petrov finally came back to his senses and quickly rushed over to Emily ,"What? Someone wants to kill you? Who??"

The elegantly dressed lady standing beside him merely frowned while taking a step forward and smiled

,"John. Don't listen to Emily babble on. She must have gone out just to have fun. This is not some lawless country and we are currently standing in the Lu household — "Who is so daring as to attempt a murder here??"

What she really meant to say was that Emily had gone out to have so much 'fun' that she ended up looking like this and then simply said that someone was trying to kill her to cover up!!!! How hilarious!!!

The moment she started speaking, Emily turned her gaze to Roseline Young, her stepmother.

How lovely........we meet again.

Roseline Young froze in shock when she saw the way Emily looked at her 😲 and stopped herself from saying more slanderous words. She was shocked — before Emily was normally a very timid child, why did she looked so frightening now??

"Mum, be careful what you say. Today is a happy day for my fiance's family. Are you trying to make things difficult for the Lus' by slandering me??" upon hearing the phrase 'make the things difficult for the Lus' Roseline young panicked and quickly replied ,"What are you going on about?? I was very concerned about you!! I am so afraid that you are only interested in having fun and end up embarrassing the Lu family!! Look at what you look like now!! Who knows what you have been up to again??"

Only heavens knew that Emily had grown up under the tight rein of her stepmother, and her stepmother's cruelty to her had traumatized her psychologically. And so even after she had grown up and became more capable, she still did not dare to go up against her stepmother, the result being her personality growing more and more timid, allowing everybody and anybody to step all over her but now that she actually managed to cheat death — why should she still be afraid??

"Thank you so much for your concern!" Emily looked back down towards herself and laughed bitterly. She was standing all wet and dirty in the cold of early spring, yet their first show of concern was to malign her??

"So this is what concern look likes huh — you are not worried about why I look like this instead you twist the truth about me being chased down by a murderer, and you even join my sister and slandering me. Your sort of concern makes me really frightened!!"

Her words left no room for mercy, and each of the words slowly drained the colour from Roseline and Lily's face. "You little ingrate what nonsense are you spouting??" Roseline glared back at Emily and couldn't contain her true self.