SIGNING IN: BEING SHOWERED BY HEAVENLY BLESSINGS FOR FIVE YEARS
Chapter 136 - 134

Chapter 136: Chapter 134

Rita offered Diamond a seat, and she took it naturally, as it was the best to make herself comfortable.

"Do you want water, coffee, wine or juice?" Rita asked as she walked towards the bar.

"Water will suffice," Diamond responded.

She didn’t want to spit expensive wine later in case Rita started preaching to her again.

Rita was stunned, but it was only for a moment before she hurriedly took two mineral water bottles from the fridge.

She took out two water glasses, placed them on the tray, and brought them to where Diamond was seated.

Rita poured the water into the glasses before she sat across from Diamond, in a position where they could see each other properly.

Diamond reached for the water glass and took a few sips before placing it down.

"So, big sister, why do you want to see me?" Diamond asked calmly as she looked at the older woman.

Rita felt disheartened as she looked at Diamond. She could tell that the enthusiasm she once had for her was no longer her and she couldn’t blame Diamond at all.

She was the one who overreacted and couldn’t accept what she had heard before. She still couldn’t accept it and she knew that after the talk she was about to have, their relationship might end up being unreconcilable again.

Nevertheless, Rita didn’t regret what she was about to do as she still believed that Diamond’s ways were crooked and that she should be set on the right path.

"We parted on bad terms the last time and I just wanted us to talk about it," Rita honestly replied as she found no reason to evade and beat around the bugs.

Diamond’s brows rose upon hearing that. She still didn’t believe that Rita was up to anything good. Especially with the way she reacted the last time.

"Indeed, we need to talk about it."

Diamond agreed as she was curious about what Rita was thinking and planning to tell her on such a beautiful night.

"Diamond, you know that I like you, right?"

Diamond nodded her head as she answered, "Um, I know. It’s been like that from when we first met."

She wasn’t going to paint the old lady in black simply because she wasn’t in favor of her harem idea.

Rita heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing that.

"I am glad that you are aware. And you also know that I will be wishing you for only great things, right?"

"Um, I know. That’s what you do to someone you care for."

"Then I sincerely hope that you thought about it since we parted. I don’t really understand why you want to go on such a path. Can’t you just find one person and settle down with him?"

’I knew it she was up to no good!’ Diamond scoffed inwardly as soon as she heard Rita’s question.

Diamond softly chuckled as she looked at Rita.

She was indeed tired of people trying to decide for her. This woman wasn’t even her relative, so why was so adamant about controlling her?

"Rita, I respect you so much, which is why I can’t have this talk with you. However, respecting you doesn’t necessarily mean that I will listen to or obey you. It doesn’t work like that!" Diamond slowly said as she looked at Rita with scorn on her face.

Rita was slightly taken aback when she saw what Diamond was doing. She had never talked to her in such a cold tone and it was chilling to the bones.

Rita wasn’t a fool to not see that Diamond was no longer taking into consideration the fact that she was older and probably around her parents’ age.

The way she was looking at her, Rita could tell that it wasn’t going to end well. Diamond looked determined, and she knew that Diamond was about to tell her off.

"You don’t know me well. Just because we spent a couple of hours together doesn’t mean that you get to control what I want in my life."

"I have never told you how to control your husband, kids, or even relatives. What you do with your life is none of my business and so you shouldn’t meddle with mine."

"I thought that you would respect my life choices the same way I did when we were getting to know each other. Which was why I honestly told you about what I wanted in life. And yet instead of accepting it since you won’t be the one living it, you just had to look at me as if you were looking at a disgusting person."

"Rita, I hate it when people give me that look. I am my parents’ beloved daughter and I am very precious. I am not something that can be looked at like that."

"I don’t know what exactly you think in your head, but what does that have to do with me?"

"You don’t know anything about me, so please stop trying to convince me to become a person that I am not."

"Since my family is okay with that. Why are you bothered by it? It’s not like I am your daughter and I am making your family lose face."

"All the money I have, I earned it myself. Even if I lose it, then that’s it. So why are you making it look as if I am about to make several generations of my family turn into their grave?"

"So, what if other people won’t accept it? Am I living for them in the first place?"

Diamond at this moment no longer cared about what Rita would think. She had made her nearly have insomnia because of her words that night. Why did she make her feel so low as if she didn’t deserve everything that she had?

When was it ever her turn to criticize her and make it look as if she was about to go on a diabolical path?

"Diamond, you ..... is that how you speak to your elders?" it infuriated Rita after being told off like that.

Although she was expecting Diamond to retaliate, she just didn’t expect her to be so blunt and make their relationship so clear like that.

"Haha, elders! Rita, please play that role in your own family and stop interfering in other people’s business. So, what if you mean well? The first thing you should have done was to ask me nicely why I wanted to go down that road and not act the way you did."

"So, you still insist what you are doing is right?" Rita asked angrily, as she just couldn’t believe how stubborn Diamond was.

Diamond chuckled softly, enjoying Rita’s reactions so much.

"So, what if it isn’t? Who made the rules for others to follow? I will forge my path and walk it. No one will stop me from doing so!" Diamond declared as she emitted a chilly aura, forcing Rita to shiver.

’Why is it suddenly so cold?’

"Do you think that those men’s families will accept such a daughter-in-law?"

"Hehe, they will be begging me to take in their sons. So don’t bother with it!" Diamond recklessly threw her hand as she looked at Rita with scorn.

"You .... You are a lost cause!" Rita yelled angrily as her chest heaved due to anger.

"Bang!" upon hearing that, Diamond stood up angrily as she hit the table.

"Ahhh!" Rita was taken aback as she wasn’t expecting Diamond to react that way. So, she screamed as Diamond’s reaction had indeed scared her.

"Rita, Rita, Rita. I hope that this will be the last time you call me that. You and everybody else don’t have the right to call me that!" Diamond said with gritted teeth as her fists were clenched.

Rita was so scared as she looked at Diamond, who was literally trembling with anger.

Her eyes were narrowed into slits, and the way Diamond was looking at her, Rita knew that it was the end.

"You ... I ... I didn’t_"

Diamond didn’t bother to let Rita finish as she cut her off.

"Whatever you want to say, keep it to yourself. I hope that we will not meet and if we ever bump into each other, let’s pretend as if we don’t know each other!"

After saying that, Diamond didn’t wait for Rita to respond or defend herself and angrily left the suite before banging the door on her way out.

Rita looked helplessly at the door and didn’t know what to say.

’I guess I messed up big time!’ she lamented as she went soft on the couch.

To think that her words had impacted Diamond so much to the extent that she flared up the second she opened her mouth. Rita didn’t know what to think anymore.

’Did I really go overboard? But why can’t she understand that I was just doing this for her sake?’

Rita still couldn’t understand it. And she remained in that state for a very long time.