Chapter 501


    “Eve, I know you’re angry that I didn’t look for you throughout the years. I just… I just didn’t know how


    to face you, so I-”


    Isabelle’s remark was tantamount to pouring fuel on the fire. I jerked my head up and glowered at her


    resentfully even as I roared, “Just because you didn’t know how to face me, so you decided to avoid


    me? For that reason, you simply pretended that you have no daughter? If it weren’t for this party today


    that had us bumping into each other, were you nning to avoid me for the rest of your life?”


    “No, that’s not it. Let me exin, Eve. I-”


    “Then, tell me this—was it you I saw on the street three days ago?” I snarled, all my sanity obliterated


    by rage. After so many years, the image of my mother has be increasingly faded. Sometimes,


    when I dreamed of her at night, I even doubted that I actually had no mother and all those wonderful


    memories were just fantasies my mind made up because I was missing my mother too much.


    “You’ve grown up, Eve.” The look in Isabelle’s eyes as she gazed at me radiated an indecipherable


    sense of sorrow. She stared at me intently. “I’m really d to see that you’ve grown up well and are


    even so outstanding now. It seems that your father took good care of you. It turns out that he has some


    conscience, after all. As such, I can finally rest easy.”


    Haha! Sure enough, she has never paid any attention to me throughout the years. Otherwise, why


    would she say such a thing? Nathan is good to me and took good care of me? That’s the funniest joke


    I’ve ever heard! If it weren’t for my memories verifying the fact that I’m truly a Tanner, a daughter of the


    Tanner family, I’d suspect that I was merely adopted. Thus, they then had reason to be apathetic


    toward me, and my father could also treat me worse than a stranger!


    “You only need to tell me this—was it you I saw on the street that day?” I demanded through gritted


    teeth. “I don’t want to listen to anything else.”


    Isabelle went silent for a moment. At my obstinacy, she finally nodded before heaving a sigh and


    admitting, “Yes, it was me.”


    “Haha!” I inexorably burst intoughter, cackling so hard that I doubled over. “You shouldn’t have


    attended this party. And even if you did, you shouldn’t have asked for a meeting with me. Since you


    didn’t want to see me in the past, what’s the point of doing so now?”


    “Eve, I just… just… missed you too much, so I came to see you. I’m sorry.” Isabelle sighed again. She


    seemed to be enveloped by great sorrow, making her entire person seem mncholic.


    “Did you miss me so much that you didn’t even have the time to give me a call?” Inhaling deeply, I lifted


    my head and tried my utmost best to hold back my tears that were on the verge of falling. I don’t want


    to cry, nor am I willing to do so! If I’m the only one who’d been anticipating this reunion that had been a


    long timeing, why should I shed any tears?


    “It’s not that I didn’t want to give you a call, but I couldn’t do so,” Isabelle murmured.


    “Please stop putting up an act. The moment I reached eight years old, I no longer had a mother. When


    my father beat me, I didn’t have a mother to protect me. When Yvette picked on me, I likewise had no


    mother to shield me. When Crystal pushed me in the water, causing me to almost drown… and when


    my reputation was ruined after my husband was snatched away, pushing me to the brink of ending


    everything, no one around me cared about me. Where were you then?”


    That was exactly how human nature worked—one might not really care when it was something


    unattainable, but when one came to possess it, one couldn’t ept the pain of losing it. I yearned to


    see her, but I didn’t expect that I could actually bring myself to say something so outrageous after


    seeing her now!


    “Nathan wasn’t good to you?” Isabelle demanded furiously as she finally registered the meaning of my


    words.


    I didn’t want to continue talking to her anymore, so I spun on my heels to leave. However, she grabbed


    my wrist. “Eve!”


    “I’m sorry, but I’m not all that close with you, Mrs. Goldstein. Please excuse me if there’s nothing else. I


    still have to attend the art exhibition andpete tomorrow, so I don’t have the time to tarry here.”


    Shaking off her hand, I bolted out of the room.


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    This time, Isabelle didn’t chase after me, and I couldn’t really tell whether I was more disappointed or


    sad. After leaving the room, I couldn’t help bursting into tears. I wailed at the top of my lungs.


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