The True Lady Strikes Back by Susanna Lucius - Season 1 Episode 43

Smack! Her slap was loud and hard, snapping Jackson’s face sideways. The corners of his mouth were torn open and began to bleed.
It was the second time Cecilia slapped him. He lost control of his anger because he was tired of being patient.
He screamed in rage and lunged at Cecilia, determined to perish with her.
“You sabotaged our family until we’re almost ruined. How dare you throw a tantrum!” he exploded.
A calm Cecilia kicked off her high heels. With a firm grip, she swung the heels toward the lunging Jackson.
“There is no way to teach such a brainless idiot a lesson than to inflict pain on him repeatedly. Only then will he remember his lesson,” she thought.
The slender, pointed heel grew infinitely larger and closer in Jackson’s eyes.
His pupils suddenly shrank, and he was so scared that he wanted to hide, but the power he threw forward was too great, and his body could not retreat.
Fortunately, Jonathan quickly grabbed his collar and pulled
him back.
The brothers were astonished and frightened. They were drenched in sweat. They stared at Cecilia in disbelief.
They had never expected Cecilia to be so ruthless. If the heels hit Jackson’s face, his face would be destroyed.
Without a target, Cecilia regretfully tossed her high heels to the ground and put them on again.
“You are no match for me. Get lost!” she said coldly.
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The brothers wouldn’t have bothered to find Cecilia if they hadn’t needed her help.
Jonathan took a deep breath and tried to sound friendly.
“Ceci, come home with us,” he persuaded.
Cecilia’s smile was reeking of sarcasm and contempt.
“You deliberately slandered me during the auction to protect the reputation of Juliana and the Yancey family. Now that things have gotten out of hand and you are the target of public criticism, do you want me to go back and cover up the issues?” she taunted. “There is no end to your shamelessness. How did you grow up to be so shameless? You’re so deceitful and untrustworthy!”
Jonathan pretended not to hear her sarcastic derision.
“Ceci, I understand we didn’t pay enough attention to your feelings before. I know you have suffered a lot. It’s normal for you to have resentment in your heart. But Julia has already left the Yancey residence. Our attention will return to you, and we won’t let you suffer any more resentment.”
After the speech, he tried to give Cecilia the emerald earrings he had bought at the auction.
“I was going to give this to Julia, but I didn’t because you seem to like it very much. Here, take it.”
It was obvious to Cecilia. The Yancey brothers were trying to tell her she should be content and grateful because they now valued her more than Juliana.
However, Cecilia knew the Yancey family’s horrible behavior too well.
“The Yancey family will do anything for a profit!” she thought. She looked at the velvet box in front of her. Her eyes flashed with disdainful sarcasm. She sneered.
“Let me guess. You two suddenly came to me, begging like
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dogs because you’re hoping I’ll cover Juliana up when the media exposed the truth of her faking her illness, deceiving and forcing me to transfuse blood for her. Am I right?”
Cecilia continued tauntingly, “Or perhaps it’s because of my good relationship with Christopher? Do you think by making me happy, I will persuade him to become friends with the Yancey family instead of staying as enemies?”
The two points she mentioned were indeed the reasons Jonathan came to Cecilia.
Yet, he was now ashamed to admit his intentions after she had spoken them so bluntly.
When he didn’t say anything, Cecilia had a grin on her face. “It will be a cold day in hell before I help you!”
The words caused their face to turn sullen at once.
Jackson was an impulsive person. If it weren’t for Juliana, he wouldn’t have bowed his head to Cecilia.
There was no way he could control his temper after being ridiculed repeatedly.
“Cecilia, you didn’t just take the money but also the shares. You should keep Julia’s fake illness a secret!”
“I’m not the one who’s said or done anything. It’s your good oldest brother, Jon, who exposed my identity, which led to the public uncovering the dirty deeds of the Yancey family and Juliana.”
With that, Cecilia took out her phone and waved lightly.
“By the way, thank you for your confession. Please remember you’re also one of those who pushed Juliana into the abyss.” Jackson was stunned. He stared at the recording interface on her phone. At that moment, all he wanted to do was kill Cecilia.
“You are despicable!” he shouted.
“So you’re allowed to block my condo entrance and seek
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trouble, but I can’t defend myself? If you don’t want to be invited to the police station for coffee, leave now!”
She was exhausted and had no intention of wasting more time on two irrelevant people.
Jonathan glanced at the yawning Cecilia. His gaze then turned to her phone, which was still recording.
He gnashed his teeth and asked, “Ceci. We’re a family and related by blood. Do we have to fight to the bitter end?”
“The Yancey family drew my blood more than 30 times in three years. Didn’t you lot do that to ensure my death?”
The last question was dripping with mockery and sarcasm. In a snap of her fingers, her expression turned grim and
threatening.
“Get out of my way if you don’t want this recording to be posted on the Internet now!”
The two brothers were too intimidated to mess with her and left with their tails between their legs.
Cecilia turned off the recording and entered her condominium.
She was sleepy before but no longer felt drowsy after the two wretched scu**ags came seeking trouble with her.
She sat on the couch in the living room and watched the playback of William’s livestream.
He didn’t show his face on the camera. The screen was dark. but his trembling voice was distinctive and clear.
“I’m responsible for the serial car accidents on jorden Road because I was the one who hired the mercenaries from the black market to murder Uncle Christopher. The mercenaries I hired have been arrested, and the black market has also been destroyed. But apart from me, Juliana Yancey is also an instigator…”
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In the livestream, he meticulously explained how the five instigators, including himself, paid 200 thousand dollars each to place an assassination order on the black market to
eliminate Christopher.
He also deliberately pointed out be cajoled Juliana into the conspiracy and had her pay part of the total amount because she wanted to kill Cecilia.
Without a pause, he even narrated how Juliana tried to seduce Christopher in the café not long ago.
William knew that he was done. Hence, he wanted to drag every person who had betrayed him down with him.
He exposed every dirty deed of Fabian and Xenia without hiding anything after confessing how he hired the mercenaries. for murder.
When Cecilia heard Christopher had been abused as a child, she abruptly related this to her experience. She felt a tug in her heartstrings.
Now, she suddenly understood why Christopher liked her.
“Maybe he empathizes with me because he feels my experience with the Yancey family was very similar to his childhood hardships,” she thought.
Similarly, she wanted to provide warmth and help to the young Christopher of the past.
Cecilia closed the livestream window and glanced at the news about Juliana.
Juliana had already fallen from her prominent socialite status to disgrace. She was now a vicious imposter who the public would stop at nothing to tr**ple on.
Some agitated netizens had even joined forces and went to the hospital to curse at Juliana.
At this time, Juliana was so terrified that she didn’t even dare to take a step out of her ward.
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She hid under the hospital blanket, trembling in fear, her mind blank as she struggled to think of a way out of this mess.
The loud ringing of the phone shattered the silence in the ward and nearly caused her to fall out of bed in surprise.
She quickly grabbed her phone, knowing she could only receive calls from the Yancey family.
There was a glimmer of hope in her dull eyes at the realization that Jackson was the caller.
Because she knew Jackson liked her very much. He loved her, and he was willing to do anything for her!
As Juliana thought of this, she controlled her emotions and answered his call.
“It’s late, Jack. Why haven’t you gone to bed yet? You won’t look handsome if there are dark circles around your eyes.”
She expressed her concerns for his well-being in a relaxed tone and deliberately choked back s*bs to evoke immediate sympathy from the person she was speaking to.
Indeed, Jackson blamed himself for her sorrows. “Julia, I’m sorry. Cecilia doesn’t agree to help you.”
Juliana was not surprised.
But when she got Jackson’s call, she thought of a solution.
“Jack, please don’t blame Ceci. We’re the ones who wronged her. Besides, she was supposed to be a shareholder in the Yancey Corporation. There’s nothing wrong with her going back on her word. I deserve this,” she said.
With a few so*s in between, she added, “I shouldn’t have searched the Internet for ways to compete for favors just because I was too afraid of losing you and the Yancey family. I was stu*id enough to follow the words of the keyboard warriors and faked my illness to gain sympathy. Not only did I lie to you and the Yancey family, but I also hurt Ceci.”
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She sobbed uncontrollably after saying that, and Jackson felt his heart shattered into a thousand pieces hearing her cry.
He hurriedly comforted her, “Julia, don’t cry. I’ve figured out a way to help you.”