Chapter 17 Planning
Genesis's POV:
I laughed mockingly.
From the beginning, I never planned to get close to Eli. He was the one who appeared in front of me again and again, intentionally or unintentionally. Today he even...
I had done nothing wrong. She knew it was Eli who actively approached me, but she was too afraid of Eli to cause trouble for him. She only dared to take it out on me.
How pathetic she was.
My silence irritated Savannah. She viciously grabbed my hair. "I heard from Maria long ago that you seduced a football captain at school, and now you're still entangled with Eli... I think we should ruin that face of yours!"
She pulled out scissors from somewhere and slashed them toward my face!
I couldn't let her ruin my face!
In my panic, I raised my hand to block her wrist and instinctively pushed her hand away.
Savannah almost fell to the ground.
She looked at me in disbelief. "You actually dare to fight back?"
In her mind, I had always been a weak, silent punching bag. But now this punching bag dared to resist her beating. How could that not make her angry?
Savannah stared at me grimly and called over two strong servants. "Hold her up. Today I'm going to ruin that seductive face of hers. Let's see how she can mess around after this!"
The servants hesitated for a moment, but under her forceful demand, they still held up my weak body.
Savannah gripped the scissors menacingly and slowly walked toward me.
I struggled desperately, looking at Savannah pleadingly, hoping she would retain a last bit of sanity and spare me.
But Savannah remained unmoved, coldly raising the scissors in her hand!
"Stop!"
At the critical moment, an aged voice rang out. Savannah looked at the speaker in panic, not daring to move for a long time.
It was Jordan.
Behind him followed Christian with a grim face. Seeing the scissors in Savannah's hand, he became even more furious.
"What are you doing? Do you want to kill her?" Jordan scolded sternly. "Put that thing down now!"
Savannah looked at Jordan fearfully, then reluctantly threw the scissors away.
She didn't dare offend Jordan, but she glared fiercely at Christian. "It's you! You brought Jordan here! Do you care about this little bitch that much?"
Christian frowned, looking at her with dissatisfaction. "Yes, it was me! Usually when you cause small troubles, I never criticized you. But what you're doing now is too excessive. You even wanted to ruin her face. It's really too much!"
From beginning to end, he looked at his adoptive mother disapprovingly, speaking righteously as if he really cared about me.
But I noticed he never once looked at me, nor did he care how badly I was hurt.
"Enough!" Jordan scolded them both coldly. "Stop fooling around and let her go!"
The two servants trembled and put me on the ground. But Savannah blocked my way, not planning to let me leave.
"Thirteen years ago, if I hadn't caught you cheating, how would I have run to the street in despair and been discovered by enemies?! You made me lose my child!" Savannah suddenly burst into tears. "I called you so many times, but you never answered! What were you doing? You were celebrating this little bastard's birthday!"
I looked up in surprise, never knowing there was such a past.
"I've told you many times, that was all a misunderstanding. Genesis is not my daughter at all!" Christian was also annoyed. "I've explained it to you so many times, but you never believe me."
"Bullshit!" Savannah raised the iron rod. "I've already investigated! Her mother was clearly the mistress you kept outside..."
"Enough!"
Just as I was listening intently, wanting to hear more inside information, Jordan loudly stopped their argument.
Savannah was unwilling, but was intimidated by Jordan's glare.
He apparently didn't want them to say these things in front of me.
Jordan had someone help me up and instructed them, "Send her back to her room."
I thanked Jordan, then was weakly helped away.
As I left, I deliberately walked very slowly, wanting to hear more inside information.
Vaguely, I heard Jordan scold them a few times before leaving. Christian and Savannah seemed to have a fierce argument. Occasionally I caught a sentence: "She still needs to marry for alliance. How could you ruin her face!"
My eyes were full of mockery.
I had long known Christian had no feelings for me, otherwise he wouldn't have let Savannah bully me all this time. But he would occasionally show me a fatherly appearance, which was very contradictory.
It turned out he had already calculated my price, wanting to use me to exchange for greater benefits.
How disgusting.
I asked Susan to help me apply medicine. Although I didn't want to show my wounds to others, the injuries were on my back and I couldn't treat them myself.
I took off my clothes. Susan looked at my back and cried. "My God! Is she a devil? How could she hit you so hard!"
She tried to be gentle while applying the medicine, but I still trembled all over from the pain.
"Sorry, I'll be gentler." Susan apologized with concern, but I silently shook my head.
The person who really hurt me was Savannah, not her.
\[I'm fine. Go rest.\] I forced a smile and signed to Susan.
Susan left with a sigh.
After she left, I took out my phone and looked at a video inside. I fell into hesitation.
This was my evidence against Savannah.
A month ago, Maria had me deliver a set of jewelry to Savannah, who was dining with other wealthy ladies.
That day was my period, and with the cold weather and running around, my stomach hurt and I stayed in the bathroom for a long time.
Just as I was about to leave, Savannah actually walked in kissing a male celebrity!
They didn't even go into a stall. They started doing it right against the sink!
I was shocked to see the usually dignified Savannah acting as wanton as a prostitute. I instinctively took out my phone and recorded the scene.
At the time, I just felt this video would come in handy someday. I didn't expect that day to come so soon.
Coming back from my thoughts, I looked at the disgusting man and woman in the video with disgust and closed my phone.
Savannah always slandered my mother as a mistress, but she was the one who was cheating and wanton.
I wasn't a stupid girl who would just let her bully me.
I took out my computer and hesitated. Would using this video here be too wasteful?
But feeling the pain in my back, I still made my decision.
Whatever. Right now I most wanted to see Savannah get in trouble.
I registered a new email account on the computer and sent the video to Christian through it.
As far as I knew, he had been dissatisfied with Savannah for a long time. Seeing this video should make him even angrier, right?
Suddenly, my door was pushed open!