Rebirth: Ann Winters outsmarts scheming relatives
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After hanging up the phone, Ann Winters couldn't fall asleep either.
She stretched herself, got up and went downstairs. As soon as she walked into the hall downstairs, she saw the visit of her uncle Tony's family. This family had always come with ill intentions. Just because her grandfather had passed on most of the ancestral property of the Ann family to her father before his death, Tony had held a grudge and would come to pick quarrels from time to time. He even colluded with Alex Spencer in secret all along in order to seize the family property, which finally accelerated the decline of the Ann family.
Ann Winters quietly observed the people in the living room and noticed that Tony had brought his illegitimate daughter with him today. If she remembered correctly, Tony's purpose today was to get his illegitimate daughter to work in the Ann Group. Her father was currently in charge of the Ann Group, so his approval was needed. Especially, Tony wanted to get a good position for his illegitimate daughter.
In her previous life, her father did give Tony face and agreed to let the illegitimate daughter enter the Ann Group. However, this illegitimate daughter was so ambitious that she made a mess of the Ann Group.
Having been reincarnated, there was no way she would let them succeed again!
She walked over casually.
"Elder Cousin, have some tea." Anna, the illegitimate daughter, handed over a cup of tea attentively, looking very respectful.
Ann Winters reached out her hand.
The moment she took the cup, Anna's hand slipped, and the boiling hot tea was about to pour all over Ann Winters' hand. Fortunately, after being reincarnated, Ann Winters knew her tricks too well.
In her previous life, Anna had pretended to be pitiful and innocent, but she was actually insidious and cunning, setting traps for Ann Winters everywhere behind her back and even got into bed with Alex Spencer! When dealing with such a white lotus, Ann Winters would not show any mercy.
At this moment, Ann Winters quickly grabbed Anna's hand that was about to pull back, and the spilled tea poured straight onto Anna's hand. The movement was so fast that no one could notice it at all.
All that could be heard in the hall was Anna's scream: "Ah!"
Then came the sound of the teacup smashing on the ground.
"What's the matter?" Tony was a bit nervous.
"I know Elder Cousin didn't do it on purpose." Anna quickly said. At this time, she was crying like a flower in the rain, looking extremely delicate.
No wonder, although she was an illegitimate daughter, she was deeply loved by Tony.
However, the next second.
"Slap!"
Ann Winters slapped Anna hard on her pitiful face.
Ann Winters used all her strength in this slap, which directly stunned Anna on the spot.
Anna looked at Ann Winters, who was full of imposing manner at the moment, in disbelief.
She knew Ann Winters too well. Ann Winters was clearly a woman who followed the rules, had a gentle temperament and would never do such a thing. She even couldn't bear to see Anna cry. As long as Anna cried, Ann Winters would soften her heart, and the whole family would also be softened.
But now, Ann Winters had slapped her.
"Do you know that this tea set was Grandpa's favorite before his death? Now it's broken by you. Can you afford to compensate for it?!" Ann Winters shouted angrily, full of authority.
Anna's face turned red with half of it swollen, and her tears flowed even more. She said pitifully, "No, it was Elder Cousin who didn't catch it just now. It was Elder Cousin who..."
"Did I fail to catch it or did you let go before I could catch it?!" Ann Winters interrupted her words. "What? Have you learned to tell lies now?"
"No, it was clearly you..." Anna quickly shook her head, looking aggrieved.
"Still trying to argue!" Ann Winters' face darkened. "Sure enough, you're not a daughter who grew up in the Ann family. You're really not presentable at all. You can even break the teacup when serving tea."
Hearing Ann Winters' sarcasm towards his daughter, Tony's face suddenly changed.
However, he didn't know exactly whose fault it was just now. Besides, considering Anna's identity as an illegitimate daughter, which was not decent in high society, he couldn't find words to refute for a moment and had to swallow his anger.
"Elder Cousin." Ann Winters turned to look at Ann Zhao, the daughter of Tony's legal wife. "Your sister is really not as good as you."
Ann Zhao actually didn't get along with Ann Winters either.
Obviously, she was the real eldest daughter of the Ann family. But because her grandfather left the family property to Ann Winters' family, Ann Winters became the legitimate daughter of the Ann family, while she became a collateral branch, which had always made her resentful.
But at this moment, because Ann Winters had ridiculed Anna, she felt rather pleased in her heart.
That b***h Anna should have been beaten to death with sticks long ago if her father hadn't doted on her.
"I don't know who she grew up with. She can do nothing but pretend to be pitiful. I've advised my father not to bring her to Uncle's house, so as not to make a fool of herself. Now it's good. She broke Grandpa's teacup before his death. I can't relieve my hatred even if she's beaten to death!" Ann Zhao said with disgust.
"Enough!" Tony's face was extremely ugly. He shouted at Ann Zhao, "Shut up!"
Ann Zhao rolled her eyes unhappily.
"Alright." James stood up from the sofa, playing the role of a peacemaker. "Although it was left by Dad before his death, he surely wouldn't want the family to be unhappy because of a teacup. As the saying goes, broken things bring good luck. I'll ask the servants to come and clean it up."
"Yes, yes." Lily also quickly smoothed things over. "I see that Anna's hand is scalded red. It's better to send her to the hospital earlier and let the doctor deal with it."
Although she meant well, Lily didn't mention the swollen half of Anna's face caused by her daughter's slap at all.
Ann Winters couldn't help smiling.
Her mother also had her own little thoughts!
"We've made Second Brother's family unhappy. Let's take Anna and go back now." Liu Feng, Tony's legal wife, said.
Probably she didn't really want to help Anna enter the Ann Group either. Even though she tolerated Tony's bringing the illegitimate daughter back to the Ann family, she could never treat her sincerely. It was just that she was doing something superficial because of Tony's doting.
Liu Feng said as she pulled Tony.
Tony's face was so gloomy that he had come to talk about Anna's entry into the company today. Now that Anna had been humiliated like this, he couldn't bring himself to mention it at all.
He angrily shook off her hand and left in a huff.
The whole family followed him and left.
When Anna left, it was hard for her to hide the anger in her eyes.
She had never expected that Ann Winters would suddenly treat her like this, as if she had become a different person. She had originally planned to use her weakness to scald Ann Winters, whom she had always been jealous of. Anyway, Ann Winters wouldn't care about it. But she didn't expect that she had shot herself in the foot. Not only was she slapped by Ann Winters, but also her chance to enter the Ann Group was ruined.
No.
She must enter the Ann Group!
Why, as they were all from the Ann family, was she ridiculed like this?
She would make everyone in the Ann family look at her with new eyes and make these people die a miserable death!
...
Ann Winters looked at their leaving backs and sneered at the corner of her mouth.
She knew exactly what Anna was thinking in secret. She was just waiting for Anna to court death.
"Ann." James called her. "Why are you so domineering today?"
In the past, in order to avoid trouble, they had always been tolerant towards this family. Unexpectedly, their usually gentle daughter had suddenly become so tough.
Somehow, he felt rather comfortable in his heart.
Ann Winters came to her senses and smiled sweetly. "I suddenly understand the truth that if you are too kind, others will take advantage of you."
"Even saying it's Grandpa's relic. You're really something." James said in a reproachful tone, but actually full of indulgence.
Ann Winters stuck out her tongue playfully.
When dealing with white lotuses, there's no need to have moral bottom lines!
- Writer
