Mrs Fox Heinous Revenge: Can You Love A Villainess like Me?
Chapter 67: Like Mothers Like Daughters

Chapter 67: Like Mothers Like Daughters

Attention that was undivided toward AiLin who felt as if she had became a new pet fox who had fascinated the people around her was now shifted toward the woman who had barge into the room. Seeing the woman, AiLin frowned as it seemed her birth mother was deadly correct. Whenever someone called out Mrs Ruo’s name, she would appear like a devil’s advocate. She turned to see that while her mother and father remained calm as they had filled another teacup with tea, Samuel and Vicky held a different expression.

Vicky’s face turned sullen and dark while Samuel had grown sever. He crossed his legs and turned to his aunt, "Imbeciles are people who don’t know rules and how to respect others." He stood up, making his way toward Mrs Ruo with his expression grim. The air in the room turned tense as AiLin feared that her younger brother would raise his hand after seeing his knuckles that had turned white with how tight he had clenched his fists.

She saw how Mrs Ruo’s face turn into a startle. She took a step back as if she was going to flee with a tail between her legs if it wasn’t for her haughty pride. She clenched her hand and held her folding fan tighter before her face, "A- Are you going to hit your aunt— if you hit your aunt you will—" she shut her eyes and spoke in a hurry moments when she saw Samuel’s feet left only a step away between them. She flinched only to hear that Samuel had knelt beside her. He offered his hand to the maid that had fallen to the ground and helped her stand.

Ignoring his aunt or her words, he pointed to the door, "Leave us," and the maid nodded furiously, thanking him as she closed the door behind Mrs Ruo.

AiLin watched as Mrs Ruo’s face had turned beet red. She was flushed from embarrassment after seeing that Samuel hadn’t moved to hit her but only helped the maid and that she was fearing nothing.

Samuel then turned to her and raised his eyebrows with a puzzled look. "Why do you look so startled Aunty? Aren’t we supposed to be the one who is startled by your most honorable presence? Why are you here? I thought you have told us on your last visit that you can’t bear stepping into this house."

Mrs Ruo gritted her teeth and she scoffed, "This is an adult’s conversation, not something a kid like you should have a say in it. Samuel, aren’t you embarrassed enough? You have dragged the Hua Family name to the ground after your incessant fights in school. As a High School student, you are supposed to study not to play around and beat your classmates. Your mother might have done that in the past but that is your example to not repeat her mistake."

AiLin hummed as she pulled Li ZiChen closer, "She’s so brave."

"You have heard your parents earlier," Li ZiChen said to her back, ignoring Mrs Ruo’s bickering as he took the teapot from Mr Hua and gently poured her a full cup of tea. He placed it on her hand, grabbed another plate of cookies and settled one cookie on her other hand. "This aunt of yours is particularly well liked because she is the wife of your second uncle. Not only that, she’s extremely clever in buttering your grandmother, Elder Hua. She even," he dragged his words and whispered to her, "Killed her own fetus after knowing the gender to be a female. Thanks to that, Elder Hua liked her even more than Mrs Hua, her own daughter."

Now the puzzles fit but all AiLin could feel was disgust toward Mrs Ruo. Abortion is a sensitive topic but it seemed Mrs Ruo’s decision was for to please her grandmother. She didn’t know who in this case is the villain, Mrs Ruo or Elder Hua.

"Samuel is mad," she then noted and Mrs Hua cleared her throat upon hearing her words.

"Samuel," when his mother had called him, Samuel’s face turned less tense. He turned to his mother and gave a nod, before walking to sit back on the seat beside Vicky.

Seeing this, the smile on Mrs Ruo’s lips twitched, "I have to say, that you never fail to impress me, Valentine. You are always good at ordering people but how come you fail in teaching all of your children? Like mother like children I suppose?" She chuckled in mirth. All this time, Mrs Ruo would use every chances she gets to double down on her mother. AiLin couldn’t figure out the reason yet but it was jealousy as it was clear as day how Mrs Ruo’s eyes would turn green whenever she looked at Mrs Hua who was calm and serene even in face of her filthy insults.

"Like mother like children?" Mrs Hua laughed softly. Her eyes, however, wasn’t smiling and that what set her different from everyone AiLin had seen. She almost had no expression on her lips. Her hair was as straight as her expression, her lips usually moving but her eyes were as bleak as someone who had once seen death.

"What’s funny?" Demanded Mrs Ruo.

"Taking your comment from earlier, I just thought it was funny. You had forgotten this but I and Elder Hua are still mother and daughter by blood. Calling me a failure only means that you’re calling Elder Hua a failure too," and when Mrs Hua clicked her teacup to the saucer, the click was so loud that AiLin saw at the same time how quick were the blood on Mrs Ruo’s face fading away.

"T- That wasn’t what I meant! You know that! Don’t you dare twist my words to your liking, Hua Valentine," Mrs Ruo pointed her folded fan toward Mrs Hua, "You’re really a filthy blood. I can’t understand why would you not have a single ounce of integrity as Elder Hua despite being her daughter. If I was Elder Hua’s daughter, I wouldn’t have brought so much shame to her."

"You’ll never be able to become her daughter," Mrs Hua said as she finally turned her eyes to Mrs Ruo. All this time, she had merely looked at her husband who had poured tea to her, glanced at her daughters to make sure they weren’t too uncomfortable, and ignoring Mrs Ruo. Even when they met eyes, her gaze was still abysmal, "If you ever become a daughter of Hua Family, you wouldn’t even survive a single day Hua Ruo. Simply because you have killed a person once, doesn’t make us in the same position. I’m intellectual enough to understand that there are people I wouldn’t try to impress even if they were the one who had given birth to me."

It was a cold sharp words. Each words were like cuts after cuts on fresh wounds. Even AiLin who always taught her words were as sharp as a frosted blade realized that she was nothing compared to her birth mother who had aimed at the sour spot of Mrs Ruo and spoke up about it with almost no hesitation.

"Well that doesn’t matter," concluded Mrs Hua, once again ignoring how pallid Mrs Ruo’s face and how that face had turned into an extreme rage. "I’m sure you were not here only to talk about my failings. Who sent you here?"

Mrs Ruo clenched her fists and tightened her jaw, "What? I can come as I please. You know that too, Hua Valentine. Even if Elder Hua is ill and hospitalized for now, you know well enough that she had allowed me to control Hua Family internal problems as her substitute."

"Go on, what do you need?"

Mrs Ruo gritted her teeth at the unbothered act that Mrs Hua as well as the rest of the family sitting on the circular table. She pointed her finger toward AiLin, "That wench! I need to punish that wench!"