Chapter 1557: 1557. Being pointed at by others only invites ridicule
“What? Aren’t you a top student from Harvard University? You can’t be naive enough to think that with muscle nerve necrosis there’s still a chance to stand up, right?”
Helen Melendy anticipated that Leanne Richards would mock her, so she didn’t expect much of a response, but she was clearly taken aback when she heard the phrase “muscle nerve necrosis” at the end.
Her expression shifted from calm to slightly panicked, “Muscle nerve necrosis?”
Leanne Richards read the hidden meaning from the look in her eyes.
Did Helen Melendy not know the true condition of her legs?
Leanne Richards’ expression shifted from initial astonishment to understanding.
Of course, with something like this happening, how could her son possibly tell his precious darling the real situation without worrying about making her sad?
Leanne Richards smiled somewhat sardonically, looking at Helen Melendy’s increasingly pale face, as if she felt it wasn’t cutting enough, she asked, “You didn’t know, did you?”
Helen Melendy didn’t answer Leanne Richards, but her hand unconsciously tightened on the wheelchair armrest.
Probably because she found it hard to accept the news Leanne Richards brought her, she gripped the wheelchair so tightly at that moment.
Only in this way could she manage to keep her trembling body under control.
But her deathly pale complexion betrayed her.
And Leanne Richards on the side, upon seeing Helen Melendy like this, didn’t show the slightest bit of remorse. Instead, she appeared a little smug and gloating.
It was as if a long-buried resentment in her heart had suddenly been vented considerably.
Her son was not close to her to begin with, and it was because of this woman he repeatedly distanced himself, even threatening to abandon the Hall business for this Fox Spirit.
In her son’s eyes, she was clearly less important than this Fox Spirit.
She had no status in front of her husband and also had no status in front of her son, which was a pain Leanne Richards had always been unwilling to face.
She couldn’t compete with Mia Brown before, and after finally toppling Mia Brown, if her son wanted to bring this deity back home, would there still be a place for her in the house?
With this thought, Leanne Richards became even more determined not to let Helen Melendy into the Hall Family.
Gloating at Helen Melendy’s helpless appearance, she got up and said with a smile:
“You don’t have to believe me. You can ask your doctor and you’ll know.”
Helen Melendy didn’t look at her. Although she knew Leanne Richards disliked her, there was no need for Leanne Richards to lie with something easily exposed like this.
So what she said must be true.
“My son is a kind-hearted person. Even now that you’re like this, he wouldn’t leave you on his own accord. But Helen Melendy, you ought to have some self-awareness too. You were never worthy of my son, and now that you’re crippled, what reason do you have to cling to him?”
Her words grew sharper, especially the word “crippled,” which was an utterly heart-piercing remark to Helen Melendy.
“If you want to enter the Hall Family, it’s possible. What the Hall Family lacks the least is money. People like you, we could support not just one but ten or a hundred, and it wouldn’t be an issue, just consider it a charity.”
“But think about this, Harry is the head of the Hall Clan. Those business parties, social engagements, he has to attend them regularly. You can’t expect him to attend every time pushing a wheelchair, letting everyone point and laugh at him for marrying a cripple, can you?”
“Even if he doesn’t mind, do you want to be the one people point at and make fun of?”