When Kendall heard this, she wasn’t scared at all. Instead, she rolled up her sleeves, and her fair, delicate face showed a hint of excitement. She motioned to Luca and Luke provocatively. “Come on, come on. No need for a one-on-one. You two can just come at me together.”
The two of them were the ones who got away this afternoon, and she didn’t get to kick them into the pool with the others. Since they were actively offering themselves up for a beating, she might as well take the opportunity. If she didn’t let her anger out in time, her terminal illness would only get worse!
Usually, Jake would have stopped them. What kind of family was this, fighting amongst themselves? But recalling the humiliating event of being kicked into the pool by Kendall this afternoon, Jake sat on the sofa with a gloomy face, not saying a word.
Instead, Mia, who had been rubbing her head, stood up and blocked the twin brothers. She bit her lip and looked at Kendall, her delicate, fair face looking pitiful. “Sister Kendall, please don’t be angry. What happened at the party this afternoon… it was my fault.”
“Actually, everyone was really worried about you while you were in the hospital. But the show ‘The Spring Palace’ became a huge hit, and Mom, Dad, and my brothers were so happy for me, so they decided to throw a party to celebrate… They didn’t deliberately not go to the hospital to see you.”
It was better if she hadn’t mentioned the party at all. As soon as she did, everyone’s expressions changed. The three Hansen family members, excluding the twins, thought back to being kicked into the pool by Kendall in front of so many people. Their faces turned as dark as the bottom of a pan, and an uncontrollable anger welled up inside them.
Kendall just scoffed, her eyes full of mockery as she looked at Mia. Mia kept saying she should calm down, but she was intentionally stoking the family’s anger. Not only that, but she also once again highlighted that Kendall had woken up alone in the hospital while the family was busy celebrating for her.
Not to mention, the director of that show, ‘The Spring Palace’, had originally wanted Kendall for the role, not Mia. However, Kendall had no interest in entering the entertainment industry. Mia, who somehow found out about this, cried to the Hansen family that she really loved that show and even went on a diet to better fit the role of the female lead, which caused her to faint and be hospitalized.
The director had originally wanted Kendall for the role and had nothing to do with Mia. But Mia acted as if the role was hers all along. After she was hospitalized, the Hansen family became a united front, all pointing their fingers at Kendall, believing she had stolen Mia’s role. Later, the Hansen family invested thirty million, so Mia could join the cast with a financial backing. With the power of money, the director never contacted Kendall again.
Thinking about all this now, Kendall wanted to slap herself and knock all the water out of her brain! The Hansen family had never considered her their own. They only had eyes for Mia. It was just that her past self was blind to this and had given her heart and soul to the Hansen family, thinking that one day she could truly be a part of this family. But if you’re on the wrong path, taking shortcuts is useless, at the end you wouldn’t get want you want. She wasn’t going to fall into the same trap twice.
Now, Mia was intentionally bringing up the popularity of ‘The Spring Palace’. On the surface, she was apologizing to Kendall and telling her not to be angry, but in reality, she was deliberately rehashing old wounds to anger Kendall. Kendall had tolerated Mia’s scheming act before, but she couldn’t stand it for a second longer now.
Kendall glared at her. “The Hansen family doesn’t live in a temple, so why are you pretending to be a saint?”
Mia was stunned. After she understood what Kendall meant, she bit her lip, a look of humiliation on her face. “Sister, why are you insulting me?”
The twins, who were still standing behind her, were also angry, ready to stand up for Mia at any moment.
“If you don’t fit the description, why would you think I’m insulting you? You keep telling me not to be angry, but every word you say is meant to make me angry. Don’t tell me you didn’t know the director of ‘The Spring Palace’ first contacted me? I hadn’t even replied, and you were so eager that you faked fainting to go to the hospital.”
“I didn’t!” Mia’s heart panicked. She didn’t know how Kendall knew she faked fainting, so she immediately tried to argue back, her voice becoming so shrill it almost cracked. She swayed weakly, as if she was about to pass out.
The twins standing behind her immediately held her, their faces full of concern. “Mia, are you okay?”
Mia bit her lip, her eyes flickering, feigning composure. “I-I’m fine… but sister, how could you say something like that about me… I really fainted and had to go to the hospital.”
“Enough!” Luke suddenly yelled. He looked up, his eyes full of cold dislike for Kendall. “What do you want? So what if you heard what we said?”
“Look at yourself! Every time you show up, you make our whole family unhappy!”
“You don’t know how happy we were during the month you were in the hospital! We were always laughing and enjoying ourselves. The moment you show up, everyone gets upset! You’ve always lived on your own, so why can’t you just keep living your life and let us live ours?”
“Just say it! How much money will it take for you to leave this family?”
Luke was young and couldn’t hold his temper, so he blurted out everything they had just said. Of course, this also showed that he genuinely disliked Kendall and desperately wanted her to leave. The Hansen family members all had different expressions, but none of them stopped him.
Mia, who was being protected, couldn’t help but show a flash of triumph in her eyes when she heard what Luke said. But she was looking down, so no one saw it. Kendall squeezed the water bottle in her hand, slowly repeating Luke’s words. “Give me money? To leave this family?”
Luke rolled his eyes. “What else? What do you want?”
Kendall looked up at him and smiled, then suddenly threw the water bottle she was holding at him. Unlike when she came back just a moment ago and simply threw the bottle at them, Kendall was clearly angry and serious about her beating this time!
She grabbed Luke’s collar, pulled him down with force, and used the water bottle in her hand as a weapon, pummelling him over the head.
“Since you don’t want to accept me, why didn’t you just say so earlier?!”
“If you had expressed this attitude before you even brought me back, I wouldn’t have come with you at all!”
“You think you’re so precious? You’re just a bunch of rotten fish and smelly shrimp. Why would anyone want you?!”
“And you’re offering me money?”
“Can you give me 100 billion? You’re just all talk! Why don’t you just admit you’re looking for a beating?!”
The more Kendall talked, the angrier she got, and the more she beat up Luke.
(End of Chapter)
