“Besides, Gwendolyn is okay, but Cecilia still won’t back off, insisting you go to jail. It’s all her fault. You should go after her.”


    Thest tone shifted.


    Juniper was naive and easy to fool, but after tasting betrayal once, she wouldn’t fall for it again.


    Cecilia looked at the recording on her phone, her face rxing a little. This recording was enough to prove Larissa pushed Juniper to kidnap.


    She was about to slip away quietly.


    But upon turning, she saw Chu Yue.


    Silent and unmoving, it was unclear how long she’d been standing there.


    Cecilia tightened her grip on the phone.


    Chu Yue approached her, a gentle smile fixed on her face like a mask.


    “Ci, give me the phone.”


    Her tone was soft, yet brooked no argument,


    Just as Cecilia moved to pocket the device, a bodyguard beside Chu Yue snatched it away.


    Chu Yue yed the recording once, then deleted it.


    Returning the phone, she murmured sweetly, “Family should show tolerance. This recording going public would cause trouble. You


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    understand, don’t you?”


    Though the video was already gone, she still demanded agreement.


    Cecilia felt suffocated.


    She left without a word.


    Chu Yue watched her retreating figure, a flicker of contempt in her


    eyes.


    Cecilia remained too petty for important matters.


    She entered the hospital room.


    Larissa spotted her like a lifeline, pleading piteously, “Aunt, save me!”


    Chu Yue sighed, signaling her bodyguard to pull Juniper away.


    Juniper still seethed, “Try scheming against me again, I’ll skin you alive!”


    Tania darted over to shield her daughter.


    Larissa’s hair was disheveled, her face bruised in shades of purple, crisscrossed with scratches and fingerprints–utterly disgraced.


    Juniper huddled in Tania’s arms, sobbing pitifully.


    “Alright.”


    Chu Yue frowned slightly but quickly smiled again. “Juniper, stop this.”


    Only then did Juniper look at her, snapping, “And you are?”


    “I’m Wesley’s aunt. I made the decision to release you from police custody.”


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    Chu Yue spoke kindly, “I know there’s some misunderstanding


    between you and Larissa, but she’s now a youngdy of the Carlton family. You can’t justy a hand on her.”


    “Since you’ve vented your anger, let this matter rest here.”


    Juniper had heard from Holden that her release from the police station was all thanks to this aunt named Chu Yue.


    She swallowed her temper and thanked Chu Yue.


    Then she turned to Larissa, delivering a threat.


    “Out of respect for Aunt, I’ll let you off this time. Don’t ever fall into my hands again, or you’ll beg for death.”


    Chu Yue shook her head, her smile unwavering.


    She yed the role of a loving elder with practiced ease.


    Juniper left the hospital room.


    Chu Yue’s smile faded.


    She walked to the hospital bed, looking down at Larissa.


    Larissa wriggled out of Tania’s embrace and whispered, “Aunt.”


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    Chu Yue withdrew her hand, voice icy. “Fool.”


    Larissa clutched her cheek, stifling her sobs.


    Tania snapped back to reality, shielding Larissa. “How dare you hit


    her?”


    Chu Yue stared coldly. “Out.”


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    Tania was forcibly escorted out by bodyguards.


    Only Chu Yue and Larissa remained.


    Larissa bit her lip as she slowly got down from the bed, fear flickering beneath her curtain of hair.


    “Aunt.”


    Chu Yue strode to the sofa and sat, her gentle aura reced by piercing severity.


    “Larissa, I never realized you could be this foolish.”


    Larissa clenched her fists, her face flushing crimson.


    Yet she dared not retort.


    “Your priority should be returning to the Carlton family. Instead, you’re lying in this hospital bed. What, are you waiting for me to roll out the red carpet?”


    Wesley’s sister snapped harshly.


    Larissa hung her head, stammering, “I… I didn’t mean to, I just…”


    “Didn’t mean to?”


    Wesley’s sister saw right through her. “You’re waiting for Wesley to fetch you, aren’t you? Larissa, do you still imagine you’re the same Larissa who once held his affection?”


    “Honestly, after everything you’ve done, if I were Wesley, I’d have thrown you out long ago.


    Larissa winced at the humiliation.


    “You’re his sister, yet youpete with Cecilia for his attention? Are


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    you a three–year–old?”


    Larissa swallowed hard, fighting back tears.


    It was true.


    She’d remained hospitalized solely hoping Wesley woulde for her -proof she still mattered to him.


    But Wesley… he’d changed.


    Wesley’s sister absently twisted the emerald ring on her left ring finger, remarking coolly: “Tonight, you’ll apany me to apologize to Cecilia.”


    Larissa stiffened in refusal.


    “I don’t…”


    But meeting Chu Yue’s gaze, she swallowed her words.


    She didn’t dare speak.


    Chu Yue gave a coldugh at her expression. “Larissa, I pulled you out of that mess overseas. Disobey/me, and I won’t hesitate to send you back.”


    Larissa’s face paled.


    Those three years abroad hadn’t been kind.


    “I understand.”


    She had no choice but to agree.


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