The gossip in their eyes, the subtle disdain in their tone when they mentioned "mistress," made Elly Campbell’s heart suddenly sink.
"What do you want to ask?"
Her voice was so cold it lacked any warmth.
The woman opposite obviously picked up on her displeasure and curled her lips disdainfully.
From her attitude, it was clear that she was undoubtedly Adam Jones’s mistress.
Otherwise, why would her attitude be so poor when she heard them asking if she was a mistress?
She must be enraged with embarrassment!
"We were just curious and wanted to ask if you’re Adam Jones’s wife or his mistress. There are so many debates online, we’re dying of curiosity, just tell us."
The voices of those two weren’t low, and there were quite a few people in the store; as soon as their words fell, those people’s gazes turned toward Elly.
It was like watching a new species of animal in the zoo, their gaze both eager and gossipy.
Elly’s complexion grew even colder.
Meeting the curious eyes in front of her, she said coldly, "Do I need to explain my relationship with Adam to you?"
The smiles on the faces of the people opposite froze immediately, and then turned into scorn.
"What’s so great about that? She’s just a mistress. Acting all superior as a mistress, I think the people online are right, if you really were Adam Jones’s wife, with all that’s happening online, he would’ve come forward to protect you by now. Pah!"
"It’s laughable, having Adam Jones’s illegitimate child, but still without a proper status. Imagine, once he marries a wife, the child you bore, an illegitimate son at that, will never be allowed into the Jones Family’s door. Just thinking about it, I feel sorry for you, yet here you are acting all high and mighty with us."
"Exactly, that illegitimate child — Ah!!"
As the words ended, the woman suddenly let out a scream.
Seeing Elly pouring the seafood noodles from her bowl directly over the woman’s head, the onlookers gasped in shock.
The woman was about to pounce on Elly in fury when she saw Elly grab her wrist, pull her out from the edge of the dining table, and fling her to the ground.
The bystanders hadn’t expected Elly, who appeared frail and delicate, to be so fierce as to move to violence immediately.
Seeing that Elly seemed unsatisfied, she crouched down, grabbed the woman’s hair, and slapped her —
"Whether my son is an illegitimate child or not, when is it your turn, you ugly freak, to comment on it?"
"No one wants you at your age, and you think all women can only satisfy your pitiful self-esteem by being a mistress?"
The woman was dazed by Elly’s slap, and even her companions hadn’t expected such an action from Elly, leaving them stunned as well.
Only then did they remember, even if this woman was just Adam’s mistress, no matter how illegitimate her status, she was not someone to be trifled with.
They were blinded by jealousy and thought to humiliate her with a few words, not expecting her to resort to violence.
Now that they had come to their senses, they didn’t dare go forward to rescue their companion and just watched as she was slapped twice by Elly.
After the slaps, Elly took a napkin from the table, wiped her hands, and tossed it onto the woman’s face, her arrogant demeanor irritating the onlooking crowd.