Paaaa.
"You are hitting me?" Anne cried out as she covered her cheek while glaring at the older man who was fuming, with steam coming out of his ears.
The man glared at her and angrily retorted, "How can you be so .... You are an adult and you are still going around causing trouble for me? Did I spoil you so much?"
The man’s anger was so vivid that the other people inside the room didn’t dare utter a word or breathe but looked nervously at the two.
Anne looked at her father and felt very wronged. The day wasn’t a good one at all. It ended so miserably and the humiliation she suffered in just hours was so much she wanted to vent out. And yet her father, instead of being on her side, actually slapped her.
How could he do that?
"Dad, you ..... why are you being harsh on me? Haven’t you seen how much I have suffered?" Anne cried out to her father, feeling unreconciled at this unfairness she was facing.
Anne’s father clenched his fist as he took a deep breath, trying to calm down, after a while, he opened his eyes and looked at his wife.
"You better train your daughter and make sure she doesn’t go around provoking everyone that she sees!"
"Husband _" the woman who had been pointed at, looked at her husband and started to speak out for her daughter but was unfortunately cut midway before she could say much.
"You don’t have to speak out for her today. Do you know how many disturbing calls the bank received today because of the mess on the internet? Did you see how pompous your daughter was when bullying others? It would have been better if she won, but she lost by a landslide. I took a look at that other girl and guess what ... where did your daughter find such a crazy opponent in the first place?" the more he thought about the embarrassing situation he faced the whole day, the angrier he became.
However, it wasn’t the first time that Anne used her power to bully others. The perquisite of bullying others is to see if the person you are bullying can’t fight back. When he checked the person who was causing problems for the bank, he was simply so shocked.
That was the first time he had seen a powerful internet celebrity with crazy fans. They dared to leave comments, tag the bank and leave threatening messages.
The PR department was busy for hours trying to delete anything related to his daughter. Who knew that the people bullied by her would all pop up and start to share their experiences?
And yet the daughter who caused all that was doing nothing helpful but coming up with several schemes to deal with that opponent. Didn’t they suffer enough?
Looking at his wife, who spoiled the children so much, he didn’t know what to do to her at all, especially with her looking at him with reddened eyes that were threatening to spill tears at any moment.
"Either she apologizes or I send her abroad. She must pick one!" he angrily said before marching out of the room before he could be forced to waver.
Watching him leave, Anne staggered and fell to the ground, disbelief on her face.
The slap on her cheek had left imprints, and the cheek was swollen, but at that moment she couldn’t feel the pain of the slap at all.
She just didn’t understand why her father would do this to her and even force her to apologize to that vixen. He even dared to threaten to send her abroad. Just because of that person. Why was he doing that?
Anne’s mother, seeing her on the floor, hurriedly rushed to her and held her while shaking, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Darling, don’t worry. Your father is just angry at the moment. I will speak to him and ... you can lose face. Why should you bow down when you are the one who is wronged?" her tone was filled with indignation and those listening would think that Anne was the victim.
Watching that unreasonable scene was a young woman with ordinary looks. She looked at the mother and daughter with a mocking gaze.
’How can these people be so shameless?’
If she hadn’t heard how the story started and ended, she would have believed that Diamond bullied Anne.
Although she wasn’t at the gallery, knowing her sister, it was she who started the mess.
Although she wasn’t a fan of Diamond, she at least checked the important facts of the other person and understood her a bit. She wasn’t a person who truly cared about other people, especially these rich masters and ladies when it came to violence.
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