Chapter 2215


    She was livid, so in the dead of night, she fed all those delicious treats to the family dog, Cooper. Her


    grandma, angry, pointed at her and used her of being malicious, saying she wasn''t acting like a


    proper girl and would struggle to find a husband when she grew up.


    During every meal, her cousin would dig through the dishes with his chopsticks before the adults


    arrived. Her grandparents never uttered a word. But one time, she reached for a chicken leg from the


    te and got caught by her grandma, who promptly dragged her in front of her father, using her of


    being a "starving ghost reincarnate."


    Her father nced at her, frowned, and said, "Where are your manners? Who told you to touch the


    dishes before the elders? Why can''t you wait? Always thinking about food, what kind of future will you


    have? I shouldn''t have allowed your mother to raise you!"


    That was the first time she found her father so distasteful.


    She had intended to offer him that chicken leg. If she hadn''t taken it, her grandma would have given


    both to her cousin. Her mother always said her father was studying so hard, he needed to eat well.


    She didn''t know what was nutritious, so she asked her cousin, who snapped off a chicken leg and


    handed it to her, saying, "Chicken legs are nutritious; eating them will make you tall and smart like me."


    She wasn''t greedy, but everyone said she was. Gluttony seemed like a cardinal sin.


    But when Vermont saw her sharing a piece of foie gras with a child, all he could think was, what evil


    intentions could a glutton have? People were truly different from one another.


    "Hey, what''s bothering you?" Vermont called out to her, noticing her reddened eyes and sounding


    concerned.


    Felicity snapped out of her reverie and grabbed his hand, asking, "So were you deliberately trying to


    get me drunk that night?"


    Vermont chuckled again. "At first, I just wanted to tease you, get you to join in the fun with everyone.


    Who knew you''d be so honest about drinking? If someone toasted you, you''d drink."


    As the birthday boy, he had his fair share of drinks too. They both ended up quite tipsy, linking arms to


    watch the little inte sensation dance.


    She grabbed something from the prop box, stuck her tongue out, and said she was going to perform as


    a dead body for him.


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    She mentioned she worked on set, and whenever there was a shortage of extras, the director would


    ask her to fill in. She had the most experience ying a dead body.


    He was half-asleep, wondering what was so special about ying a corpse. Then, inexplicably, they


    ended up booking a room.


    In the room, she undressed, saying she was going to act as someone caught in an affair, then


    murdered by the wealthy man''s mistress. She reached for her neck and chest, creating numerous red


    marks, then grabbed a blood pack she''d taken from the prop box and tried to stick it on herself. After a


    few failed attempts, she called him over to help. When he squeezed it, the blood pack burst, "blood”


    flowing down her leg. He was speechless.


    The day after they shared a room, Vermont suddenly remembered everything that happened on his


    birthday night.


    Nothing had happened between them; it was all a big misunderstanding.


    Recalling it, he couldn''t help butugh at the absurdity of it all, yet he also felt incredibly relieved. If not


    forthat misunderstanding, Felicity might have


    thought they slept together, and she would have had to silence him. They wouldn''t have had so many


    interactions afterward. Fate was truly mysterious.


    Because Jaylene didn''t press charges, Dahlia was released in less than twenty-four hours. However,


    after her release, she started getting hounded by creditors, demanding repayment. That was when she


    learned that ke and Kanrara had already made arrangements, making her the sole debtor of the


    company.


    Dering bankruptcy and liquidating thepany’s assets could settle most of the debts, but Dahlia


    refused. She couldn''t ept the Crosby family going bankrupt; there would be no ce for her in the


    Kane family anymore. If the Crosby family fell apart, what status would she have in their circle?


    After scheming and scraping by all her life, how could she ept ending up with nothing?


    She refused to ept it.


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