"If you insist on being ruthless, don’t blame me for doing the same."
"Joanna Lawrence, what are you implying?" Rose Liall rose her voice, squawking like an old hen being strangled, "Are you threatening to use violence against your elders, your own family?"
"What if Annie insists on moving in?"
"Are you going to have these men beat her? Huh?"
Joanna looked with cold eyes at her creating a fuss like a clown, a smirk slowly appearing at the corners of her mouth. She scoffed: "Beat her? Of course not. I will only let them throw her out."
Rose Liall was taken aback, her teeth clenched in anger: "you, you dare!"
"Dare or not, you can try." After Joanna finished speaking, she turned to instruct her bodyguards: "You guys stay here. If those two women step into this bedroom, throw them out."
The lead bodyguard respectfully responded: "Yes."
He immediately ordered several bodyguards to guard the entrance to Mrs. Madelyn Lawrence’s bedroom.
Seeing this, both Rose Liall and Annie Lawrence looked extremely upset.
Joanna pointed to a vanity inside the bedroom and said in a stern and chill voice: "Get that vanity out and throw it away. Everything piled at the door, take them and throw them away too."
All this furniture belonged to Annie Lawrence.
"Yes, Miss Lawrence."
The bodyguards were efficient, immediately stepping inside to start moving the furniture.
Several bodyguards lifted the vanity and carried it to the window, dropping it straight down.
Seeing this, Annie Lawrence was livid, so angry that she even forgot to act the part of the "fragile and timid" girl. She spun around, grinding her teeth and glaring at Joanna, furiously stating: "Joanna, you have gone too far! What right do you have to do this?"
Joanna sneered: "I’ve gone too far? Even at my worst, I wouldn’t steal my sister’s man, let alone maliciously take over this bedroom that has special significance for her. Annie, you have committed all kinds of evil deeds. How dare you criticize others for going too far?"
By then, the bodyguards had thrown all of Annie Lawrence’s furniture out the window.
After everything was done, several bodyguards walked up to Joanna. After performing a quick bow, they respectfully asked: "Miss Lawrence, all the furniture has been thrown out, do you have any other instructions?"
Joanna squinted at Annie Lawrence’s face, already distorted from anger. "Annie, have a team return the furniture they moved out of my mom’s room. Piece by piece, put everything back where it belongs. I won’t hold this against you."
Annie was livid and snarled at her: "Who do you think you are? Why should I listen to you?"
Without losing her cool, Joanna hooked the corner of her lips and said with ease: "In that case, I guess I have no choice but to have your bedroom ransacked."
She then instructed her bodyguards: "Miss Annie Lawrence’s bedroom is the third room on the second floor corridor, you guys will need extra hands to help clean it up for free."
The bodyguard immediately responded: "Yes."
"Stay right there. Somebody stop them!"
With her face turning green, Rose Liall screamed in fury: "Joanna Lawrence, you are being just too arrogant! The Lawrence household is no place for your thuggery, I, as an elder, will take on my responsibility to discipline you today!"