Pearl stood on the podium, tears streaming down her face.
Her honor, her life, all over!
From now on, everyone will laugh at her!
Selene walked up to Pearl to comfort her, her expression somewhat nuanced: "Pearl, what’s going on with your GPA?"
Pearl seemed not to hear Selene’s words, suddenly looking at Selene accusingly: "Isn’t Adrian Grant your son? Why doesn’t your son listen to you, why does he stand against you to bully me? Why can’t you control your son!"
Her eyes were frenzied, and Selene stepped back in shock, looking at Pearl in disbelief, as if seeing her for the first time.
"You... you’re blaming me?" Selene felt hurt, "Pearl, I worked so hard for you, how could, how could you say this to me?"
"But why couldn’t you control your son!"
Selene’s tears immediately welled up, she glanced at Adrian Grant, but his gaze did not stay on her for even a second.
Selene turned her eyes away, stubbornly holding back her tears.
Isn’t it true that she couldn’t control Adrian, her ungrateful son!
"Eleanor Winslow, it’s all your fault, all your fault! You ruined me!" Pearl suddenly rushed towards Eleanor, but was stopped by several teachers.
Meanwhile, Adrian had already shielded Eleanor behind him, gazing coldly at Pearl.
"Pearl, do you want to implicate your parents?" Adrian warned.
"You, you’re threatening me?" Pearl pointed at Eleanor, "Uncle, I’m your blood relative, and for someone like Eleanor, an outsider, you’re threatening me?"
"It’s only a threat if nothing is done." Adrian said coldly.
He meant what he said, he would do.
Have there been few unruly parasites in the Grant Family that he has dealt with?
As for outsiders, Eleanor was never one.
Eleanor couldn’t be bothered to explain, Pearl’s downfall had nothing to do with her.
Pearl stared at Eleanor with hatred, viciously saying: "Eleanor, let’s see how long you can stay smug!"
Adrian looked at the school leaders: "As a family member of Eleanor, I hope the academy provides us with a fair solution. As a donor of the school’s scholarship, I believe the school will give me an open answer."
This was forcing the school to not let things slide.
Pearl fell to the ground as if the sky had fallen. Seeing her unstable mental state, the teachers immediately contacted her parents to take her away.
"Ms. Keane, do you want us to send you home, or—" The staff teacher stopped midsentence, looking at Adrian and Eleanor.
Her son and daughter-in-law were both here.
"No need, I can leave by myself." Selene took a deep breath, trying not to appear too distressed.
Adrian walked over, emotionlessly calling out ’Mom.’
"Mom." Eleanor handed Selene a cup of hot water.
Selene didn’t take it, her gaze shifting between Eleanor and Adrian, she let out a cold laugh: "You two have really come up, making me lose all face!"
Eleanor wanted to speak but hesitated.
Just now, she didn’t directly say that Selene’s review might be non-compliant, which was already quite considerate.
"Blame yourself." Adrian spoke with absolute directness.
Selene was so angry she nearly choked, covering her heart and taking deep breaths.
Eleanor instinctively wanted to comfort her, but remembering what Selene did this time, she restrained herself.
Adrian suddenly asked: "The sapphire ring I gave you a few days ago, why is it in Mia Winslow’s hands?"
Selene was momentarily stunned, then glanced at Eleanor, "What sapphire ring, don’t remember."
Adrian said nothing, just looked at her, as if silently mocking, as if to say: Go on, keep pretending.
"You gave it to me, don’t I have the right to dispose of it as I please?" Unable to blag her way out of it, Selene countered, "What, does your wife want it back?"
Eleanor detected Selene’s sarcasm but didn’t care at all right now.
Her focus was on: the sapphire ring wasn’t given to Mia by Adrian!
Mia was deliberately deceiving her, provoking her!
Something silently blocked within Eleanor suddenly cleared, making everything bright and clear.
So before, could there have been things that Mia intentionally did to make her misunderstand Adrian?
"Adrian, take me home." Selene had calmed down, standing up and tidying her clothes.
"Charles is waiting outside." Adrian planned to have Charles take Selene.
Selene was dissatisfied: "You’re my son, if you don’t take me, what are you going to do?"
She glanced at Eleanor as she finished speaking.
Eleanor just happened not to want Adrian to take her, and followed up with: "Mom, take care of yourself, my car is parked outside, I’m leaving first."
She gave no one any chance to offer her a lift.
Adrian watched Eleanor’s departing figure, furrowing his brows.
Selene silently curved her mouth into a smile: "Adrian, see, she doesn’t care about you, and you’re confronting me for her."
Adrian withdrew his gaze and walked out.
Though he didn’t have much affection for Selene, he still tried to fulfill his filial duties as best as he could.
Adrian told Charles to return to the company first, and personally drove Selene back to the old house.
Selene looked at the beautiful Aethelgard University campus scenery, her eyes filled with nostalgia and regret: "If Jonah was still here, he would have graduated with a doctorate from Aethelgard University by now."
Jonah Grant was granted the opportunity for a combined master’s and doctorate at Aethelgard University at the age of twenty-three. The same year, his illness rapidly worsened, and at twenty-four, he passed away, dying young.
Adrian’s grip on the steering wheel unconsciously tightened.
"Are you and Eleanor planning to divorce?" Selene suddenly asked.
The Rolls Royce Phantom made a sudden brake on the asphalt road.
Selene’s body lurched forward and was pulled back by the seat belt, not having had time to ask what happened, Adrian’s gaze already met hers:
Adrian’s gaze was so cold that it tore open the facade of cultivated decorum, revealing an especially gloomy look.
Selene was startled, but quickly recovered: "Really? You don’t, does Eleanor?"
Adrian parked the car by the roadside and asked, "Who said that?"
Selene rarely interacts with the outside world, unless someone intentionally fed her these rumors, she wouldn’t know.
"Who said it doesn’t matter. Divorce is fine; I didn’t agree with you two being together back then. There are plenty of good girls around you even now; if worse comes to worst, I think that Mia girl is fine too."
Adrian understood, his eyes slightly cold.
So it was Mia who said it.
"Have less contact with Mia." Adrian advised Selene.
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Adrian put one hand on the steering wheel, coldly laughed: "Do you really not understand your son, or are you feigning ignorance?"
Selene’s face turned pale instantly, and words appeared like a spell: "I know, you like Eleanor, you just like to compete with your brother, even over women! But Adrian Grant, Eleanor doesn’t love you!"