Chapter 211: Sit Up
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Vivian fell to the ground, but she still stubbornly raised her head and glared at
Caroline with red eyes.
The same situation, the same perspective, how similar it was to the past.
In her childhood and youth, Vivian had been pushed to the ground countless times like this. She was surrounded by people who looked down on her, bullied her with fists and feet, and insulted her with words just to see her shrink on the ground like a stray dog.
Those people were laughing so happily. Their malicious laughter had become a nightmare that she could not escape from in her midnight dreams.
In Vivian’s memory, Edwin was the only one who was different. He was very powerful, unlike other children who needed to bully others for fun.
He was confident, powerful, and an existence like the sun, naturally attracting the attention of others.
Edwin had never shown any help to her, but there were only a few times when he looked at her and those who surrounded her and bullied her automatically stopped.
The calmness on his face made Vivian feel ashamed. It also made those who did it feel ashamed, although it was only temporary.
But in Vivian’s heart, because of Edwin’s appearance, she was indeed saved from those people’s evil clutches.
Therefore, she regarded Edwin as her faith. In order to follow Edwin, she mustered up the courage to leave the Smith family for nearly two years. Then, she risked everything just to make herself better.
However, time seemed to have reversed at this moment.
Vivian found it ironic. After so many years, she had tried her best to break away from the Smith family and paid everything to climb up step by step. But today, everything seemed to have returned to square one.
She had turned back into the pitiful Vivian who was lying on the ground, trembling.
Hearing Caroline’s footsteps approaching, Vivian subconsciously shivered and then smiled bitterly. “What’s wrong? Are you going to torture me too? Then bring it on, you can use any method on me.”
Anyway, she was already used to it.
She glanced at the indifferent Edwin. In the past, when she was bullied, she would fantasize that Edwin would often appear and save her.
But now that Edwin was standing here, she had never been as clear-headed as she was now. He would not come to save her, but would only hate her even more.
However, to her surprise, Caroline did not hit her or scold her. Instead, she squatted down in front of her and looked down at her.
“You know what?” Vivian heard her voice. “When I was still very young and just understood human affairs, my mother told me that when you still want something, you can’t shrink back or be timid. You have to walk forward firmly.”
Vivian looked at her in surprise. “What? Is this a new way to bully people?”
She didn’t understand why Caroline didn’t make a move yet, but she was talking to her with such confusing words.
Caroline sighed and then sat down cross-legged, drawing the distance between them closer. “Although my floor is very clean, I don’t like to see others lying on the ground. So, do you want to sit up and talk?”
Vivian’s pupils constricted, as if she did not understand Caroline’s words.
For some reason, Vivian felt even more panicked and helpless when she saw Caroline like this.
She nervously tugged at her sleeves and opened her mouth for a while. Suddenly, she lowered her head and asked softly, “Can I sit up?”
“Of course you can sit up. But if you don’t like it, you don’t have to force it. This is your own matter. You can decide for yourself,” Caroline said with certainty.
Vivian’s body trembled. Then, she slowly imitated her and sat cross-legged on the floor.
“Look, isn’t this much more comfortable?”
Vivian, who had her head lowered, suddenly looked up at her and then immediately lowered her head again, not daring to look at her.
For some reason, at that moment, she felt that the light emitted by Caroline was even more dazzling and scorching than the light emitted by Edwin. It was so piercing that she could not open her eyes and could only hurriedly avoid it.
“Since we can talk properly, let’s talk about what happened last night.. You just admitted that you instructed the fake waiter to do that thing last night, right?”
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