Capítulo 1554: 1554. Purely out of personal courtesy and cultivation
Leanne Richards walked up to her, placing a genuine leather custom-made handbag worth over a million to one side, the kind of exorbitant price tag that seemed to mock her poverty.
“Don’t think that flattering me will allow you to marry into the Hall Family.”
Although Helen Melendy had lost her memory, she wasn’t a fool. From the condescending, scornful look Leanne Richards had given her upon entering, she knew Leanne didn’t like her.
In her current memory, she had never had any interaction with Leanne Richards.
But she could easily guess that during her years dating Harry Hall, she must have had countless confrontations with Leanne Richards.
That’s why, as soon as she appeared in front of her, she didn’t bother with any superficial niceties and went straight to the point.
Despite not remembering her past interactions with Leanne Richards, she had seen plenty of Leanne Richards’ interviews since she was Harry’s mother.
Beyond showing off her own talents, everything she said and did revealed an unabashed snobbery.
For someone like her, the standard for choosing a daughter-in-law would naturally be someone matching the Hall Family’s status and definitely not someone as poor, orphaned, and ordinary as her.
Though she had a silent crush on Harry Hall, to the current Helen Melendy this amounted more to the admiration and idolization of a fan for her idol.
Even though Leanne Richards looked at her with sarcasm and disdain, it didn’t make her feel particularly self-conscious.
She hadn’t eaten the Hall Family’s rice nor was she raised by Leanne Richards. No matter how poor she was, she could stand before Leanne Richards with integrity.
She smiled and looked directly at Leanne Richards’ aloof posture, and said with a smile:
“Mrs. Hall, the reason I’m speaking to you politely is simply out of personal courtesy and upbringing. I didn’t realize you’d interpret that as flattery. If that’s the case, I wonder what it’s like when Mrs. Hall isn’t flattering someone; I would love to learn.”
“You…”
Leanne Richards’ face turned red with Helen Melendy’s rebuttal.
She could detect the obvious sarcasm hidden in Helen Melendy’s seemingly gentle tone.
Helen’s politeness and culture were described as flattery, so if Leanne Richards weren’t flattering people, did that mean she was rude and uncultured?
Leanne Richards was infuriated, glaring at Helen Melendy’s slightly curved lips, but she was at a loss for words.
“Hah! Who knew after lying in bed for a year, your tongue would still be so sharp.”
After a long while, Leanne Richards managed to squeeze out this sentence against Helen Melendy’s infuriating smile.
“Thank you.”
Pretending not to catch the sarcasm in Leanne Richards’ tone, Helen Melendy graciously accepted what she interpreted as the “compliment” in Leanne Richards’ words.
Previously, out of fear that Harry Hall might use the Hall Clan as leverage against her, Leanne had refrained from provoking Helen Melendy and even tolerated her son wanting to marry this little Fox Spirit.
But now it was different; William Hall was in prison, and the mistress and her son had been behaving for some time and hadn’t appeared to bother her.
Her son is now in charge of the Hall Clan, and it’s a done deal. What’s there to threaten her now?
No way her own son would kick his own mother out of the Hall Family, would he?
And wasn’t afraid of others gossiping?
Before coming, Leanne had figured out these key points and now had no psychological burden in putting down Helen Melendy.
“I came to see you this time to say something, which I’m sure you already know and there’s no need for me to emphasize it, right?”