Book 2 : She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement

Chapter 32

Chapter 706: Showing Off?

Cherry had switched on her webcam during her live-stream that day, so the live-stream was relatively more formal this time.

Every time she live-streamed, her Sponsor Grandpa would definitely be online. Sponsor Daddy occasionally came in to visit, but it was not as frequent as before.

It was probably because he could now see her in person every day.

Cherry wasn’t bothered about these things, though.

However, a Sponsor Grandma had joined the live-stream recently.

Of course, she wasn’t addressing that person as Grandma; rather, “Sponsor Grandma” was that person’s username. Sponsor Grandma was currently ranked second in her virtual gift rankings.

The one in the first place was always Sponsor Grandpa. No one could surpass him.

The one in third place, Sponsor Daddy, no longer cared about the ranking these days, so his score had been slowly dropping. Cherry first greeted Sponsor Grandpa. Then, when she saw Sponsor Grandma enter the live-stream, the little fellow immediately called out sweetly, “Hi, Sponsor Grandma! How are you doing?”

Sponsor Grandma wrote in the comments: ‘Not well.’

As the big boss ranked second in her virtual gift rankings, her comment was highlighted in the live-stream.

Cherry saw the comment right away. Puzzled, she asked, “Why? Did someone make you angry? Beat them up then!”

Iris looked at the live-stream. She wanted to say, “You’re the one who made me angry, you little brat.”

To think she was actually having fun with someone like Lauren…

If Lauren had gotten into a relationship with Herman after the two of them had divorced normally, then Iris actually would not have prevented Lauren and Cherry from having fun with each other.

After all, it was good for her to have another person who loved her.

But Lauren was not a good person at all. She was afraid that Lauren would lead Cherry astray.

Iris was terribly angry and frustrated. When she was about to send another

comment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a princess dress on the sofa behind Cherry.

Was that the gift that Lauren had spoken of? The one that she had delivered to Cherry early in the morning?

Iris suddenly felt very discouraged.

She put down the phone silently and stood up.

To be honest, when she agreed to that condition back then, she had already left the family. It was destined that she would no longer have much of a relationship with her son for the rest of her life.

In that case, why bother disturbing his life?

Iris lowered her head and turned off the live-stream.

She didn’t want to ask Cherry about Lauren anymore-after all, she was the one who had pushed Cherry away with her own hands the night before.

Since she had already made her choice, then what right did she have to demand that Cherry be close to her?

Iris was caught in a dilemma and internal struggle. Mrs. Landis, who was looking at her from the side, was terribly anxious. However, she also knew that once Iris made up her mind, no one would be able to convince her otherwise.

She heaved a silent sigh and changed the subject. “Ma’am, the pot of Jade Orchids you wanted to buy will be delivered soon, right? Where should we put it?”

Sure enough, Iris finally perked up a little when she heard this. She stood up and walked one round in the greenhouse with Mrs. Landis. At last, she said, “That pot of Jade Orchids is very rare and very difficult to take care of. We must treat it with great care.”

“Okay.”

As the two chatted, they got busy in the greenhouse.

Seeing that she was finally no longer so listless anymore, Mrs. Landis breathed a sigh of relief.

An hour later, the two finally made room for the new pot of orchid. Only then did they sit down again.

Night had almost fallen. The sky had gradually darkened, and the surroundings were quiet. Apart from the chirping of birds, there was no other sound.

When one looked up, through the small courtyard, they could see the skies of New York that were hazy all year round.

Iris had lived like this for a whole twenty years.

Mrs. Landis had left to make dinner. As Iris sat in the greenhouse, her gaze fell onto Mrs. Landis’ cell phone again, hardly able to stand the itch in her heart.

Suddenly, she really wanted to hear Cherry’s voice.

She opened the live-stream again. At once, she heard Cherry’s clear and pleasant voice: “Jungler, have you gone invisible? How come I never see you during team battles?”

Iris couldn’t help but smile at the way she spoke when she dissed other players, and she almost laughed out loud.

As expected, Cherry was still the same bundle of joy she knew her to be.

Beep.

At this moment, her cell phone suddenly rang

Iris picked it up casually, the smile still on her face. She saw that someone had sent her a short video. She opened it casually, upon which Lauren’s face immediately appeared. She was speaking to the camera with a smile on her face, “Iris, I am going to go and play with Cherry now. Cherry has always been a very polite and adorable child~”

Iris: “!!”

She stood up angrily. Lauren must have been afraid that she wouldn’t believe that they had a better relationship with Justin’s family, so she had deliberately sent that to provoke her, right?

Iris was jealous and envious, but even more helpless and sad.

She stared at the video. She could see that it was Cherry’s room that Lauren was about to enter.

The next moment, in Cherry’s live-stream, the sound of someone knocking on the door, as well as Lauren’s gentle voice rang out: “Cherry? Grandma’s coming in, okay?”

Iris clenched her fists.

She looked at Mrs. Landis’ cell phone and stared at Cherry’s live-stream.

She wanted to close it so that she wouldn’t see their interaction, yet at the same time, she wanted to open her eyes wide and take a good look at what exactly she had lost.

She felt as though a big invisible hand had closed around her heart tightly. Her chest felt stuffy and tight, and she felt awfully aggrieved.

Just as she was in a dilemma, she heard Cherry’s young and tender voice become impatient: “Who said you could come in here?”

Chapter 707: The Face-Slapping Came So Quickly!

At the Hunts’.

Lauren entered the room with a smile on her face. She’d originally wanted to get along properly with Cherry-after all, she really did want to make Cherry happy.

Once she pleased Cherry, that would mean that she had also pleased Justin.

But she hadn’t expected Cherry to always look so impatient whenever she saw her.

She didn’t know that Cherry was live-streaming, so she smiled and said, “Grandma misses little Cherry, so I came over to visit you.”

After speaking, as if she was on very good terms with Cherry, she walked over to the sofa next to her and picked up the princess dress she had given Cherry earlier that day. She asked, “Don’t you like the princess dress that Grandma bought you? Why didn’t you put it on?”

Cherry blinked with her big eyes and answered bluntly, “Because I don’t like it, of course!”

Lauren looked at her hesitantly. “Then what kind do you like? Pink ones? Purple ones? Or?”

Cherry tilted her head to the side, which made her look very naughty. Her grin made her look even more like a little devil. She replied, “It’s you I don’t like.”

Lauren was taken aback.

Cherry said, “So, as long as it is from you, I won’t like it. Don’t waste your time trying to please me. Please go out! I don’t have a grandmother like you!”

The little fellow’s voice was crisp and clear, and she spoke loudly and sonorously.

Lauren flushed, but she didn’t dare to bully Cherry, especially in this room. Thus, she said, “Cherry, it is not right of you to speak to your grandma like this. It’s very impolite behavior.”

Cherry suddenly stood up and walked straight towards Lauren.

The camera in her live-stream was facing the side right from the start, so it had captured part of the scene.

As a result, everyone saw Cherry pick up the princess dress and then push Lauren out the door. The little fellow was very strong. After she pushed Lauren out of the room, she stood there and said, “Go away you… you… wh*re!”

Cherry had never ever called anyone names.

Even when she was dissing people in her live-streams, she had never called anyone names. Therefore, when she tried to think of a word for Lauren, she had to think for a very long time before she finally remembered one of the insults that Xander frequently used.

After calling Lauren a wh*re, Cherry slammed the door shut.

Cherry continued her live-stream after she returned.

But at this point, she noticed that a lot of reproachful remarks had suddenly appeared in the comments:

“Isn’t the live-streamer’s behavior too crass? What did that gentle old lady do to you? To think you’re actually calling her names?”

“I’ve already found her an eyesore a long time ago. She’s only five, yet she’s so skilled at dissing people in games. To think you guys claim that she has never called anyone names. Ha, didn’t she do just that just now?”

Some of her fans were also trying to correct her:

“sweetcherry, that’s your grandma. You mustn’t call your family such awful names.”

“Yeah. It’s very rude of you to just toss the dress that your grandma bought for you.”

A group of Internet keyboard warriors, who didn’t even know anything about her family situation, started to leave comments in her live-stream.

A bad-ass Cherry replied, “You are not me, so what would you know? She is a bad person! My mom told me to stay away from her!”

The comments instantly became even fiercer.

However, Iris was no longer in the live-stream at this point.

She had closed the live-stream when Lauren knocked on the door. She didn’t want to watch their heartwarming moments, which would only sadden her. She stared ahead of her blankly.

About half an hour later, Lauren sent her another text message: ‘Sorry about that, Iris, I was playing with Cherry the whole time just now. I realized that the little girl is really very well-behaved. We had a lot of fun together. She also said that she likes me very much.’

Little by little, Iris’ heart sank as she read the message.

Yeah, how would Cherry possibly not be lovable?

She had always been a good girl who was polite and sweet-talking. Every time she saw her, the things she said made her heart melt.

It seemed that no matter what, she just couldn’t harden her heart towards the little fellow.

Everyone would probably like her, no matter who it was.

Iris didn’t want to think about it anymore, so she straight-up blocked Lauren’s phone number. Then, she stood up and went to dinner.

Mrs. Landis had made mushroom risotto that evening.

The two of them had a plate each. However, the usually fresh and delicious mushroom risotto didn’t taste right to her that evening. She said, “Mrs. Landis, the mushroom risotto doesn’t taste very nice today.”

Mrs. Landis took a bite. “It tastes pretty good, Ma’am. You only think it tastes bad because you are in a bad mood. Every time you are in a bad mood, you don’t feel like eating.”

“Really?”

Iris slowly put down her spoon. She sighed silently. Then, she got up and started walking upstairs. “I’m not eating anymore. I’ll go to bed instead.”

Mrs. Landis heaved a quiet sigh as she stared at her from the back.

Iris had originally thought that she would be fine after she went upstairs and had a good night’s sleep. But after she lay down, she simply couldn’t get to sleep.

The text messages that Lauren had sent to her kept appearing before her eyes, making her feel like there was something stuck in her chest, unable to get out.

At this moment, her cell phone suddenly rang.

When Iris answered, Lauren’s voice came from the other side again. “Iris, why did you block me? Is it because you don’t want me to send you those messages? Well, that makes sense. I’m sure you don’t want Cherry and I to be so close to each other, but the child wants a grandmother too!”

Her words made Iris so mad that she was shaking all over. Right at this moment, she suddenly heard a rush of footsteps. Then, Mrs. Landis opened the door and entered her room. She said, “Ma’am, Cherry is trending!”

Chapter 708: A Real Piece of Work

Trending?

What was trending?

Iris pretty much subconsciously picked up her cell phone. Right away, she saw that sweetcherry was trending on social media because she had called her grandma names out of anger in her live-stream.

To be honest, it wasn’t really trending that high in the rankings.

It barely entered the top fifty in the rankings and had only just made the list. Mrs. Landis had only found out because her attention was on Cherry.

Iris hurriedly opened the article linked in the post, where she saw a video clip from the live-stream footage. In the clip, Cherry had driven her grandma out of her room and called her a wh*re.

Iris stared at the video clip in shock.

Although she knew that it was certainly not right of Cherry to call people names, for some inexplicable reason, she felt really good.

While she was looking at Mrs. Landis’ cell phone, Lauren was still talking to her over the phone. “Iris, Cherry is really adorable. Are you sure you don’t want to come over and spend some time with her? She really likes her grandmother. When she kept calling me Grandma, I felt really sad for you.”

As she listened to the woman, Iris’ lip corners suddenly curled into a smile. She turned on the cell phone’s speaker mode, and then she held the other cell phone with the video clip close to her own phone’s microphone. The sound of a girl scolding someone in anger rang out from it at once: “Go away, you… you… wh*re!”

Lauren’s voice came to an abrupt stop.

She was terribly stunned. She first glanced at her cell phone in confusion, and then looked at the villa at the side in surprise.

If she wasn’t already sure that Cherry hadn’t left the house, she’d have thought that she was with Iris!

But if she wasn’t, then why would her voice come from Iris’ call?

While she was still in a daze, Iris chuckled lightly and said, “By the way, I forgot to tell you that Cherry loves playing games and also likes holding live-streams. Everything that happened between the two of you in the room has all been captured in her live-stream. So, how on earth are you so confident that my granddaughter would like you? You wh*re?”

Lauren: “!!”

She gnashed her teeth in fury!

When Cherry called her names, she had only cursed and ranted inwardly, and felt that the girl was awfully ill-mannered. However, she hadn’t really bothered getting angry with a child.

When she came out of the room, she couldn’t help but still feel irritated, so she had called Iris to provoke her.

But who would have known that everything that had happened just now had been captured in the live-stream?!

This was no different from her personally putting her face in front of Iris and letting her slap it!

This was simply so… torturous!

Lauren took a deep breath at once. She countered and replied, “Even so, I am finally living with the Hunt's, whereas you have been driven out!”

Iris scoffed. “The Hunt's? I’ve already stopped caring about them all those years ago. I don’t even want Herman anymore, so what would I still want the Hunt's for? Things are no longer the same as before. Back then, Herman was the one in charge of the family, but the person-in-charge is now Justin! If you want to stay there, go ahead. Justin has always been bad-tempered ever since he was a child, though, so you’ll have to be more tolerant with him. Sigh, it’s simply not as comfortable as it is at my place, where I can grow my flowers, bask in the sun, and do whatever I want… Tsk, Mrs. Landis, don’t forget to sanitize our house later, in case the wh*re who came over today had dirtied it.”

Iris had originally planned to talk to Nora about the child calling people names, but in this instant, she herself had been subconsciously led astray by Cherry.

Iris, who had always followed the rules and kept her nose clean her whole life, suddenly understood at this moment just how great it felt to call someone a wh*re.

Well, it wasn’t like Cherry called people names that often either, so she would just let the matter pass.

With that in mind, Iris spoke into her cell phone again. “Is there anything else, Mrs. Wh*re?”

“Iris Evans! Do you think that you’re better than me just because of this? So what even if the Hunt's belong to your son? You’re on bad terms with him anyway! I will show you that I am much better than you are now! You…”

“Oh, so there’s nothing else, right? If so, then I’m hanging up. No one likes to listen to barking dogs.”

Iris cut Lauren off and then hung up in a good mood.

This simply felt too good!

Mrs. Landis looked at her lady and shook her head. Ma’am was simply so childish, crying at one moment and then laughing the next…

No, wait, she didn’t come up here to talk about that. She said anxiously, “Ma’am, don’t just smile. Cherry is still being attacked on the Internet. Aren’t you going to do anything about it?”

“What am I supposed to do about it?” Iris glared at Mrs. Landis. The glare from the woman, who was still charming despite her age, only made her look bewitching and alluring.

The colors of the nearly fifty years old woman’s eyes were still well-defined, and her gaze was also clean and clear. God had really given her a good appearance.

After Iris chided her coquettishly, she stood up right away. “If anything happens to Cherry, Justin won’t just stand by and do nothing. By the way, Mrs. Landis, is there still any mushroom risotto left? I’m hungry.”

After saying that, Iris started walking downstairs.

Mrs. Landis: “…”

Mrs. Landis still wanted to speak. She held up her cell phone to show it to her. She said, “Mr. Hunt probably still hasn’t realized, right? Look, the post is going up the rankings again… Huh? Why is the post gone?”

Mrs. Landis stood still in a daze.

Iris, who was walking in the front, waved. “You just happened to see the post in time, and fortunately also showed it to me in time. If you were a step late, I wouldn’t have been able to see it at all! Don’t I know just how efficient Justin is?”

Mrs. Landis silently gave her a thumbs-up in her heart.

As expected, no one knew a son better than his mother!

–

At the Hunts’

Lauren stomped her foot angrily after Iris hung up on her.

“Iris and Cherry sure are real pieces of work!”

Hearing her furious voice, Herman lowered his eyes. “I told you not to provoke them, yet you simply insisted on doing so. See, you’ve been outgunned, haven’t you?”

Lauren took a deep breath. “I did it all for your sake, and for our family.”

When she said this, her eyes widened. Then, she walked up to Herman and took his arm. “Speaking of which, though, why can’t Iris come back to the Hunt Manor? Back then, when your family chose her and Justin over you and made you leave, the Hunt's shouldn’t have been so powerful that they could forbid her from entering the Hunt Manor, right?”

Herman glared at her. Lauren continued to shake his arm. “Come on, tell me why…”

Authors Note

hey guys sorry for the late updates but my service is still spotty right since the typhoon. I've been trying to write and update but the internet cuts off just as I try to save a chapter and resets so I have to start the whole thing all over again lucky I'm smart and saved it on another device before hand to make sure but still it keeps happening eveytime. also having time to do update is not working and I gotta go to work and when I get home gotta do some more work on remodeling my place since it was damaged somewhat. it is a little bit hectic but it's moving slowly but surely. everything just takes time but I will be back again to updating when I can find the time. thank you guys for your patience even though I've been moving so slow with this book.