Chapter 7
Soon, Brady went back from work.
The dinner tonight was fancy. When Mira was living in the Boyle’s home, the food there was OK, yet it was nothing compared to that of the Leopold family.
Yet Mira didn’t dare to act recklessly. After watching Brenden and Taryn take the warm towels handed by the servants and wipe their hands, she imitated them and then began to have soup.
She liked to have soup before eating, and she found the soup particularly delicious.
Sylvia looked at the way Mira was eating soup and said with disdain, “Some eat soup alone without knowing to serve some for her husband, who just got out of the hospital. Well, that makes sense. After all, she may not even have seen such a rare soup before.”
Then she placed some soup in front of Brady.
She was determined to make Mira look like some unvirtuous, selfish wife who had never seen the world.
Sure enough, Taryn frowned in the next second.
Hugh looked at Mira with a hint of schadenfreude and said, “You’re right, Sylvia. She is not half as virtuous as you.”
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Mira calmly swallowed the soup and said, “Sylvia, you must love Brady very much.”
“What do you think? We studied abroad together,” said Sylvia, elegantly wiping the corners of her mouth with a tissue.
Mira smiled, “You’re nice to Brady because you love him, whereas I don’t care much about Hugh because I have no feelings for him.””
The atmosphere at the table suddenly changed.
Hugh put down his fork, and his eyes became subtle.
Sylvia said unhappily, “Do you have any idea how outstanding and capable Hugh is? He’s young, and yet he is already in charge of a public company worth tens of billions of dollars. What’s more, he is so good–looking. None of the male stars are as handsome as him. He has been courted by countless rich girls. If you hadn’t been lucky, how could you have married him? Don’t be ignorant of your blessings.”
Taryn nodded approvingly. Although Mira was the reason why Hugh woke up, she cared about Hugh more.
“He is outstanding indeed.”
Mira nodded earnestly. “And I admit that he’s rich and handsome. However, am I supposed to love him, just because he has all that? Do I love his money or his looks? Sorry, I’m not that shallow.“‘
Sylvia choked. Then she said gloomily, ‘What do you mean? Are you mocking those girls who like Hugh? Are you calling
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them shallow? You are the noble one here. Happy?”
Taryn was unhappy, too.
She was pregnant with Hugh at an old age, and she doted
on him.
She found Mira’s words offensive and inappropriate.
“I didn’t mean that.”
In the face of Sylvia’s aggressiveness, Mira blinked innocently. “I didn’t know him before getting married to him. Am I supposed to love him deeply, just because we’re married? That’s so unrealistic.”
Though her words made sense, those from rich families were used to being buttered up, and no one liked the truth.
Seeing how gloomy Taryn was, Sylvia immediately tried to fan the flame. “You…”
Brenden interrupted her, “Enough, Sylvia. Mira didn’t say anything wrong. She is honest and straightforward, and I like her.”
It was the second time he had said he liked Mira tonight.
Mira could feel the cold in Hugh’s eyes.
She thought, “I guess that’s enough.
“I’ll eat before anything.”
Mira had two bowls of soup and a full plate in a short time.
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Sylvia was done eating and couldn’t bear to watch Mira. “She eats that much? Those who don’t know better might think that she’s a refugee.”
Brady nudged her in helplessness, signaling her to stop talking.
Sylvia glared at Brady and ignored his motions.
Mira looked up in pretended bewilderment. “Did I eat too much? I’m sorry. I didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to eat much at the Leopold’s home.”
Then she hurriedly put down her fork.
The room was filled with silence.
Everyone looked gloomy.
Yet Hugh felt somehow great.
He thought, “See? That’s the woman you force me to be
with.
“I can’t wait to see you being irritated by her so that you can get a glimpse of my suffering every day.”
Taryn scolded in a deep voice, “Who said that? Mira, watch your mouth. If word of this gets out, people will think the Leopold family is treating you badly.”
Sylvía took the chance to make things worse. She said, “Mom, don’t be angry. That’s how a woman from an ordinary family acts. We can discipline her from now on so that she won’t embarra** us.”
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Mira pouted. “You lecture me when I eat a lot and when I say I’ll eat less. What do you want from me?”
For a moment, it was as if she had suffered grievance.
Sylvia instantly recalled the word that was used by her daughter the most, “phony“.
Sylvia was utterly irritated.
Before she could say anything, Brenden said angrily, “Can we have a quiet meal or what? Stop blabbering and just eat! Don’t we have enough food to keep you from talking?”
Sylvia and Taryn were awkward and fell silent right away.
Sylvia felt extremely frustrated. In all the years she was married into the Leopold family, she had never been publicly reprimanded by Brenden at the dinner table. Her eyes were red with anger, and she got up and rushed back into the room.
“Ignore her, Mira.” Brady quickly followed Sylvia at once.
“I’m full.”
Hugh, who had been idly watching, gave Mira a glance with a half–smile and turned upstairs.
“Dad, Mom, I’m going with Hugh.”
Mira said and followed him.
She had no intention of facing Brenden and Taryn alone right now at all, not to mention that Taryn was greatly
dissatisfied with her now.
Looking at their backs, Taryn said angrily, “Who knows how the Boyle family educates their offspring? She’s a sharp- tongued poser who doesn’t deserve Hugh at all.”
“Poser? How? You have been stirring up trouble,” Brenden said impatiently. “So what if she eats a lot? Do you want Hugh to find a woman who eats very little and cares nothing but losing weight all the time? Can a woman like that give birth to children?”
Taryn was rendered speechless.
She figured that he had some point.
Mira went to the second floor.
She followed Hugh closely into the bedroom.
It was the second time she set foot in this room. She followed Hugh to the hospital before she could see it, clearly the first time.
And right now, she looked around closely.
Hugh sneered, “Mira, I didn’t know you were so good at acting.”
“I wasn’t acting. I was just telling the truth.” Mira raised her face. “Are you rich people so stingy? I don’t even have enough to eat!”
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Hugh felt embarra**ed.
He was being an onlooker earlier. And now, when he was the one who got humiliated, he was furious. “Only pigs eat as much as you do.”
