Chapter 538
“They… they’re about to send me to the villa in the countryside. What else can I do?” Isabella broke down, sobbing.
Once morning came, she would be sent away.
She would be completely cast out of the Lancaster estate.
She would completely lose… the identity she had always been so proud of: the young lady of the Lancaster family!
Isabella bit her lower lip, looking completely broken. “Agnes, I don’t want to be kicked out of the family. I can’t be! What if I go beg Serena? If I get on my knees and beg her, and promise to let her have everything from now on, if I try to please her… do you think Mom and Dad won’t send me away p>
She didn’t want to be kicked out of the Lancaster estate.
She didn’t want to lose her status as a Lancaster heiress.
It seemed that whenever Serena was involved, her parents-who had once doted on her now looked right through her.
She couldn’t help but wonder p>
If, from the very beginning, she hadn’t treated Serena as an outsider, but had tried to please her the way she pleased her grandfather, her parents, and her brothers, would she have avoided being cast out of the Lancaster estate?
Faced with being kicked out of the family and becoming a laughingstock among the socialites of Vaelion City, Isabella was now genuinely scared and full of regret.
Her mind was in utter chaos.
“Oh, my dear young lady, how can you be so foolish?” Agnes grew anxious when she heard this. “Do you really think that wretched girl would be so kind? She came back just to take everything from you! If you go and try to please her, she’ll just crush you completely! You’ll end up even more miserable than you are now p>
Isabella’s eyes were blurry with tears. “But… but I feel like… Serena isn’t that kind of person. It’s like… she can’t even be bothered with me p>
All this time, she had been the one treating Serena as her rival.
But Serena, it seemed, had never even paid her any mind p>
If, if from the beginning p>
“My dear young lady p>
Agnes placed her hands on Isabella’s shoulders, her expression serious as she called out.
It broke Isabella from her thoughts.
Agnes frowned, her face a mask of
exasperation “It’s all an act! The old master was fooled by her, the
master and madam wer
fooled by
her, the young masters were fooled
by her, and now you’re about to be footed by her act too p>
“If you really think that, then you truly are going to be kicked out of the Lancaster family p>
“You are the true young lady of the Lancaster family, the one the master and madam raised and cherished
for twenty
Do you have any
idea how arrogant that wretched girl
is being in places you can’t see p>
“She’s the one who encouraged all those opportunistic little sycophants to turn on you, to isolate me p>
At this, she seemed to realize she had let something slip and quickly stopped, looking away.
But the abrupt silence only made one more curious.
Isabella was taken aback. “Agnes, what do you mean by that? What do you mean, isolate me? Isolate you p>
Agnes feigned hesitation, as if contemplating for a long time before finally blurting out, “Since I’ve already said it, I won’t hide it from you any longer p>
“Miss Isabella, you have no idea how badly I’ve been bullied in the garden these past few days! Everyone knows I’m your nanny, that I’m your person p>
“But just because you’ve lost favor, all those people who used to suck up to you are now kicking me while I’m down! Do you know that while theyre physically hitting me they’re really slapping you in the face? It’s an insult to you p>