Chapter 367 You Are Still ming Me


    Johanna exploded at Vanessa''s cold interrogation.


    “What the hell did I do wrong for both of you to toss me aside like rubbish?” she screamed at Vanessa.


    “If you guys never loved me, why even have me in the first ce? Was sending me off to be alone in a


    strange country when I wasn''t even an adult your way of taking care of me? All of my other ssmates


    went home for the holidays. What about me? All I could do was go back to that condominium. For my


    birthday, I had to buy myself a cake. Whenever I called you, you barely spoke for a minute before


    hanging up.”


    Johanna began to sob, and her tears started to blur her vision. “I was just a kid then, too. Why should I


    have to shoulder the problems that you two caused?”


    “If I''d never taken care of you and left you with your father, do you think you would have a good life


    now?” Vanessa hissed coldly. “Do you think you got to go to school for free? If I hadn''t paid all of your


    school fees, you wouldn''t have been able to graduate.”


    Johanna chuckled drily. “So you''re still ming me, is that it?”


    Vanessa was about to speak when her phone rang.


    She nced at it and picked up the call immediately. Her voice softened as she answered, “Hey,


    Darling. I''m out buying some things now. I''ll be back soon.”


    After hanging up, Vanessa turned back.


    She shoved the card into Johanna''s hand and warned, “You better leave tomorrow morning. Stop


    contacting Timothy and nevere back!”


    After leaving those words behind, she hurriedly turned to leave.


    Johanna stood there motionless, her hands and feet freezing. She loosened her grip, and the card fell


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    to the ground.


    She had run into the convenience store, all excited to see her mother once again. She had even


    foolishly hoped that her mother would hug her and talk about how she regretted sending her overseas


    on her own for so many years.


    She certainly hadn''t expected for her mother to p her across the face and even used her of


    ruining her life.


    Am I not your daughter?


    Johanna felt as if a ck hole had opened up inside of her, sucking her happiness dry. She crouched


    down and began crying, her teardrops hitting the ceramic tiles.


    The cashier walked over and asked, “Miss, are you all right?”


    “I-I''m fine,” Johanna said as she wiped her tears away. She made a beeline for the alcohol section and


    took out as many cans of beer as her hands could carry.


    After paying, she sat on the curb right outside the convenience store and downed them one by one.


    It was already extremelyte at night. Apart from the streetlights, there was no other hint of life except


    for the asional car that drove past.


    She stared at the empty streets and tried to think about the happier memories that she had of her


    family, but soon enough, they dissolved into nothingness.


    She couldn''t help but think about how lonely she had been when she was living alone overseas.


    When she had just reached that country, she hadn''t known anything, and she had lived far away from


    school. The condominium that Vanessa had found for her wasn''t in a good ce in town—its tenants


    were mostly old men who were either alcoholics or hardcore gamblers.


    She had even been targeted by a sick pervert who had noticed her walking home alone every day.


    If it hadn''t been for the surveince cameras she had installed in a blind spot of the condominium and


    her nightly habit of checking the footage after going into her unit, she would really have been in trouble


    if she had just walked in.


    She had gritted her teeth and held on for so many years on her own. The only time she came back was


    because she missed her mother. Yet, Vanessa had only thought of it as Johanna trying to ruin her life.


    Even now, Vanessa didn''t let Johanna exin anything and simply med everything on her.


    If she doesn''t love me, why did she even give birth to me in the first ce?


    Johanna sniffed and saw her phone lit up next to her with a WhatsApp message from Timothy.


    Timothy: Johanna, did you get home with your mother?


    Johanna''s eyes immediately reddened, and she swung her phone onto the ground harshly.


    I don''t have a mother anymore!


    A cold night breeze blew into her face and cut against her cheeks painfully, which woke her up and out


    of her trance. She bent down to pick up her phone.


    She tested it and it seemed to still be working fine, so she made a call.