Chapter 125
Arabella’s face turned pale in an instant. Everyone caught on quickly. Miranda was calling Arabella a drama
queen.
“Haha, what a perfect comeback! Miranda’s speaking my mind.”
“I just love her blunt honesty. She doesn’t sugarcoat anything or care anyone.”
“Queen Miranda, take a bow from me!”
“Miranda, are you insulting me?” Arabella’s tone shifted, her anger no longer hidden.
Miranda added, “Well, perhaps it has something to do with your upbringing.”
Mrs. Hawke, who was watching the live stream, nearly fainted from the shock of hearing that. The Hawkes, too, were visibly upset. Miranda wasn’t just insulting Arabella; she was dragging the whole Hawke family into it.
Miranda continued, “Sure, I was naive and blind, writing Theo a love letter, but so what? Do you think that’s embarrassing?”
Years ago, Miranda did have a crush on Theo. Arabella had discovered this and, pretending to be supportive, encouraged her to be brave and confess her feelings. Miranda thought Arabella had good intention, and unaware of Theo and Arabella’s relationship, she went ahead and wrote the letter. Little did she know, it was all part of their game.
Arabella was taken aback, finally managing to retort, “Isn’t it embarrassing?”
She still remembered how they’d plastered Miranda’s love letter on the bulletin board, how Miranda had been pointed at, feeling ashamed and afraid.
But the livestream audience was having none of it.
“What’s so embarrassing about confessing love?”
“Exactly, is it really embarrassing for young people to express their feelings? Arabella’s got issues.”
“Why is it not? If the person you’re confessing to already has a girlfriend, it is embarrassing.”
“Ms. Hawke, you keep emphasizing that I’m just the adopted daughter of the Lancaster family. So, you must think being an adopted child is something to be ashamed of, right? Then you must feel pretty ashamed of yourself, given that you’re the adopted daughter of the Hawke family, too.”
Arabella tried to interject, flustered, “That’s not what I meant, shut it!”
Miranda chuckled. “And the way you keep referring to ‘my parents‘, they’re actually your biological parents. Do you not even acknowledge your own birth parents?”
Miranda furrowed her brows. “Is that really so? The Hawke family’s upbringing is so poor that you disown your own parents?”
Lysander stepped in, trying to stop Miranda. “That’s enough! Miranda, stop it!”
But Miranda paid him no mind, continuing coldly, “You usurp my identity and then have the gall to lecture me? What do you think you are, barking around in front of me? Does my status as Ms. Lancaster bother you that much? Or is it my competence? Are you so keen on slandering me?”
By now, both the show’s live studio audience and the viewers online were wide–eyed, engrossed in the drama unfolding.
And after giving Arabella a piece of her mind, Miranda didn’t spare Lysander either.
“And you, so fond of playing the devoted brother, why don’t you just pair up with Arabella? After all, you’re not related by blood, right? Who knows, maybe if you are being forgiving, you and your three brothers can share
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her without wreaking havoc elsewhere!”
Lysander’s face turned stone cold. The other three Hawke brothers watching from home looked equally displeased.
“Two years ago,” Miranda paused for effect, smirking. “After all, the Hawke family and your brothers would do anything for you, right?”
With the show already recorded, Miranda felt free to unleash her long–held annoyance towards this sibling duo.
