Chapter 110 We Are All One Family
The live chat fell silent, unable to respond.
In a corner where no one was paying attention, Lily quietly opened the door and rushed out.
Everyone's attention was on the comments on the screen, so no one noticed her sneaking away for the moment.
As soon as she got outside, Lily called Alice.
Alice had already seen the results through the live stream and felt disgusted by Lily's incompetence, but she still comforted her on the surface and told her that the most important things to Sophia were her three children.
"Lily, as long as you grab her kids, you can make any demands you want."
"Then you can have Sophia come to replace the children, and make Raymond, who likes her, apologize to you. How about that?"
Lost in the scenario Alice described, Lily broke into a crazy smile.
She got into her car and sped toward Baker Villa.
Just two or three hours.
This drama that had lasted a week finally ended.
Sophia left all the follow-up matters to her lawyer to handle. Everyone who had slandered her in this incident, whether students or others, would all have to take responsibility!
Today's revelation of her connection to the lab was a bit sudden, but it wasn't a bad thing for Sophia.
At least the domestic branch that ZN Lab was setting up wouldn't have to worry about investment for future research.
And they only said she had a connection to the lab, without revealing that she was Professor X.
Sophia and Raymond went to the CEO's office upstairs and quickly signed the relevant cooperation project.
As she was leaving, she glanced back at the corner.
She had a feeling someone was secretly following her.
The person hiding in the shadows immediately pulled back their phone and sent the content they had just filmed to their employer.
In a shabby community clinic, Alice's entire face was wrapped up tightly, her eyes staring at Sophia in the video like a poisonous snake.
On the Johnson family's side, Sophia never expected that the first person to come looking for her...
Would actually be William's stepmother, Hannah Nguyen.
When she married William, they moved out of the Smith Manor after the wedding to live in their own place.
Hannah lived at the Smith Manor. She went back at most once a month. Sophia had been polite and respectful to Hannah, which inadvertently gave the latter the illusion that she could boss her around.
So when Hannah came to the Johnson family, she still carried that superior attitude.
As if Sophia was still the abandoned wealthy wife at the Smith Manor who could be pushed around and used at will.
The second day after the live stream incident.
Considering the children's safety at school, Sophia planned to transfer James and Michael to a kindergarten with better security.
She was looking up information in the study when she heard Allan say that James and Michael's grandmother had come to see them.
William was okay with his half-brother Randal, but had always been cold and distant toward Hannah.
When James and Michael went to the Smith Manor for meals, Holden never allowed her near the children.
Since more people had been coming to the house, Sophia had Allan clean out the outer guest room on the side, making it convenient for receiving visitors.
This also avoided exposing Emily.
Hannah sat on the sofa in the outer guest room, secretly observing the surroundings. When she saw Sophia coming, she immediately raised her chin and ordered her in a commanding tone.
"Sophia, I heard you have some connection with ZN Lab. My brother's company has a VIP client who's seriously ill, and no hospital in the country can cure him. Since ZN Lab is so great, hurry up and arrange it."
"I've looked into it. ZN Lab has internationally operating medical aircraft. Get one here right now."
The client said that as long as the illness could be cured, all the real estate in several southern states would be handled by her brother.
That was several hundred million dollars in pure profit every year. Just thinking about it made Hannah happy.
Ever since William took over Peace Group, he wouldn't let Hannah's family use Peace Group's name to take orders, and even sent out word that Summit Real Estate had no connection with Peace Group.
Facing Hannah's superior look, Sophia just found her ridiculous. To show off her authority in front of William's ex-wife - she really didn't know any better.
She sat on the sofa farthest from Hannah. A servant immediately brought her favorite coffee, and she took two unhurried sips.
Only then did she slowly raise her eyes and ask Hannah, "Why should I?"
Hannah's face darkened. "Because I'm James and Michael's grandmother. If I don't want you to, you'll never see them again!"
She had done her homework.
Sophia came back this time to fight for custody of James and Michael. As long as she used the children as leverage, Sophia wouldn't dare refuse.
Hannah's brother had already promised that client that he would definitely get him on ZN Lab's medical aircraft and provide him with the lab's best treatment team.
He and the client had already signed the contract. If the client didn't get the treatment he was promised, the signed project contract would require double compensation.
Hannah absolutely wouldn't accept that!
Sophia leaned back into the sofa, holding her coffee cup and looking at Hannah. No matter what she said, Sophia only had one response: she couldn't arrange it.
After several such responses, Hannah started getting anxious.
"How can you not arrange it? You arranged it for Marshall, so why can't you arrange it for me?"
Sophia said, "I really can't arrange it."
She glanced at her watch and said, "If you don't have anything else, please leave."
Sophia put down her coffee cup and got up to leave.
"You!" Hannah was so angry her chest heaved.
Thinking of the contract already signed with the client, she changed her expression and got up to grab Sophia's hand.
"Sophia, we were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for five years after all. We're family. You can't help outsiders but not your own family, right?"
"I watched James and Michael grow up, too. As long as they call me grandmother, I'll always treat them as my own grandchildren."
"And you, Sophia, no matter how much William rejects or dislikes you, to me, you'll always be the daughter-in-law I recognize."
Hannah felt that, having said this much, she was giving Sophia plenty of respect, and she should compromise now.
Once that client got on the plane, she'd definitely come back to the Johnson Villa to vent her current frustration!
"So... hurry up and arrange it."
"That client is already outside the neighborhood and can't wait too long."
Sophia looked at Hannah's fake gentle appearance and felt like she wanted to throw up the coffee she had just drunk.
"Thank you for thinking so highly of me, but I can't accept that title. However that person got here, you can send him back the same way."
She shook off Hannah's hand and walked toward the door of the side guest room, once again glad that she had Allan arrange a separate reception room in advance.
"Sophia, you stop right there!"
"If you don't arrange this today, I'll take James and Michael back to the Smith Manor immediately, and you'll never see them again."
Hannah's words were full of confident manipulation, but before Sophia could respond, they heard William's voice.
"Who gave you permission to come here?"