Chapter 600


    Crystal had a big mouth, and I had to warn her. She was quite capable of dropping snippets of


    nonsense in my mom’s ears and creating a rift between me and my mom.


    “Tsk, Tsk. I won’t dare to think of any crooked ideas. Besides, I rely on Aunt Isabelle to get what I want.


    Why would I want to offend you, Yvonne Tanner?” Crystal shed a provocative look through her


    narrowed eyes.


    She called me Yvonne Tanner! People now addressed me as Ms. Goldstein or Yvonne Goldstein. Only


    Christopher would refer to me as Yvonne Tanner and that’s because he knew that I liked him to do so.


    But when Crystal said it, it just sounded sarcastic.


    “No doubt, you are now Ms. Goldstein, all high and mighty. You have every right to be so. But, you


    must be thinking, what right do I have to speak to you in such a manner? I’m just a miserable nobody,


    right?” Crystal gave a strangeugh of delight as if she held some secrets over me, of which I didn’t


    even know of.


    “What are you trying to say? I have no time for such chattering. Please leave if you have no other


    business. To put it inly, get lost!” I had no wish to talk to her at all. Her carrying-on with my mom in


    the afternoon had infuriated me enough.


    “You have a guilty conscience because in your heart you are still uneasy about everything.” Crystal


    laughed loudly. “Yvonne, shall we have another bet? Let us say, whether I can get into the Remington


    art exhibition, and hang my painting at the space allocated for you.”


    Crystal’s words were loaded with meaning. Taking my space meant that she wanted to rece me. I


    narrowed my eyes. I had great confidence in my painting skills. “Are you sure that your own painting is


    good enough to rece mine?”


    “Perhaps I don’t even have to paint it.” Crystalughed in an inscrutable manner, but her face exuded


    every confidence of sure sess.


    This made me flustered because, in the past, I had always lost my bets with her. Hearing these familiar


    words and seeing the same old arrogant and dismissive expression on her face made me feel like my


    pathetic old self.


    The more I panicked, the more determined I became. I said between gritted teeth, “What have you


    done, Crystal?”


    “You will know when the timees, Yvonne. You will never defeat me. No matter how high you climb,


    you will never beat me. Haha.”


    Crystal’s words and Crystal the person were a curse to me. I could not be rid of it no matter what I did.


    Because of what she said, I did not get a good night’s sleep. My dreams were nightmares of


    Crystal. You can’t beat me. You are a pathetic worm. It’s only in your dreams that you can defeat me. I


    will take away everything that is yours.


    When I woke up in the morning, I had the self-fulfilled two dark circles under my eyes. There was no


    one around at breakfast. After asking around, I found out that Isabelle and Crystal had gone shopping.


    “What the heck? Who the hell is her daughter!” I mmed down the bowl and cutlery angrily.


    Christopher pped his hand over his mouth inughter when he saw me with my panda eyes. I


    punched him angrily. “Have you never seen a panda before?”


    “I’ve never seen such a lovely panda, indeed. Did our sex chats give you such erotic dreams that you


    couldn’t sleep well?” Christopher said slyly. “I should have broken inst night and gotten myself an


    eager panda. That’s a nice thought.”


    “How can you still joke about it?” If Christopher hade and we were caught in grante by the likes


    of Crystal, there would be a big brouhaha. I sighed gloomily at the thought of Crystal.


    “What’s the matter? Why the long face?”


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