Honey, I can’t live in that house anymore, everything’s gone, they even went after Seraphina, and she’s still so young, what does she know, but look at her, look at what they did to her..."
"Shut your mouth! Vixen, cheap woman! You seduce other men and still think you’re right, I think today’s beating is too light!"
Melody Zachary stood up while yelling and charged towards Vanessa Armstrong, at this moment she was nothing close to gentle, but rather like a shrewish tiger mom, utterly unreasonable.
Melody Zachary reached Vanessa Armstrong and grabbed her shoulders, ready to slap her, Vanessa Armstrong was clearly a lot taller and stronger than Melody Zachary, but at this moment, she appeared fragile, terrified, shrinking her neck and closing her eyes, not daring to resist and waiting to be hit...
"Stop!" Oliver Shaw barked angrily, "Melody, if you dare to make a scene again, I’m divorcing you right away!"
"Divorce?" Melody Zachary clearly disbelieved, unable to believe that her husband would abandon her for a vixen, she let out a scornful laugh and then slapped Vanessa Armstrong across the face right in front of Oliver Shaw, "Mommy..." Seraphina Shaw cried out in alarm and wriggled free from her father’s embrace to protect her mother.
"Bad person, don’t hit my mom, bad person..." The seven-year-old child, who didn’t yet understand she was an illegitimate daughter, was protected so well by Oliver Shaw and Vanessa Armstrong, growing up with a silver spoon, rallied all her strength to protect her mother when she saw her being hit.
Oliver Shaw was extremely furious, his hands trembling slightly on the armrests of the sofa. Felix Shaw was standing on the staircase, not wanting to get involved in this headache-inducing and vexing farce, but at this point, seeing his mother acting like a shrew, he hurried down the stairs to stop her.
However, he was a step too late. In the living room, as the illegitimate daughter kept hitting her, an irate Melody Zachary grabbed Seraphina Shaw’s arm and flung her aside.
Seraphina Shaw let out a loud "Ah..." accompanied by the shocked cries of Oliver Shaw and Vanessa Armstrong, as the little girl crashed directly into the corner of the coffee table, and without even time to cry out, she fainted right there on the carpet.
"Seraphina..." Vanessa Armstrong leaped from the sofa and embraced her daughter, calling her name loudly.
There was a crisp "smack" sound. Oliver Shaw, whose presence Melody Zachary had been unaware of, had come to her side and landed a slap on her face.
"You hit me?" Melody Zachary, covering the side of her face that her husband had hit, was incredulous and hurt.
"Melody, how could I have never realized just how malicious you can be!" Oliver Shaw looked at his wife with heartrending disappointment and then shoved her aside to take his daughter from Vanessa Armstrong’s arms and hurriedly walked towards the mansion’s front door.
Vanessa Armstrong glared at Melody Zachary hatefully, "I won’t let you get away with this!" After dropping this bitter remark, she chased after them with a quick pace.
Watching her husband’s anxious back, Melody Zachary stepped back with her hand on her face, suddenly drained of strength and about to collapse to the ground, only to be supported by Felix Shaw, "Mom..."
A single call, filled with desolation and helplessness.
"Felix, your dad... he hit me..." Melody Zachary turned her head belatedly, her voice full of grievance as tears began to fall.
Supporting his mother as she sat on the sofa, Felix Shaw didn’t know how to comfort her, with the situation having escalated to this point, he knew he had to consider his mother’s next steps.
"Mom, what do you want to do next?"
"Your dad hit me..." Melody Zachary continued to mutter, covering her face, the fragile and slight woman cradled by her son, causing Felix Shaw’s heart to ache, he said, "Mom, let’s get a divorce,"