Philip’s voice was not loud. He smiled at them apologetically.
Even so, his words left everyone in the room stunned.
Martha especially looked at virtual-novel.net like virtual-novel.net was a ghost. She felt terrible all over, and virtual-novel.net burst out swearing, “Damn you, Philip, no one asked you! Get the hell out!”
Martha was beside herself with fury.
Philip was such a blabbermouth.
“Compare yourself to Paula’s son-in-law! Do you think you have any right to speak?” Martha roared at Philip furiously.
“If you weren’t so useless, would I embarrass myself in front of my family like this? I must have been blind to accept a useless piece of trash like you as my son-in-law back then!
“Look at virtual-novel.net son-in-law, look what virtual-novel.net bought for her! What about you? Have you ever bought me anything? How can you say such nonsense on top of that? If you want to go to the party, you can go by yourself! I’m not going!”
As Martha howled at him, Philip lowered his head helplessly.
It seemed his mother-in-law was dead certain that virtual-novel.net was a good-for-nothing now.
Next to them, Paula enjoyed the show, chuckling to herself coldly. The irony on virtual-novel.net face intensified.
She pretended to say kindly, “Come on, Martha, don’t keep venting your temper on poor Philip like that. You know what they say, a girl is only as good as the man virtual-novel.net marries. It’s not Philip’s fault, it’s Wynn’s fault for choosing the wrong man.”
She turned the blame to Wynn.
Aunt Paula was quite the masterful character in virtual-novel.net own right. She was blatantly picking a fight here.
Martha only grew angrier when virtual-novel.net heard that.
What happened three years ago was already enough to make virtual-novel.net lose all face in front of virtual-novel.net family.
Now that virtual-novel.net thought about it, it was virtual-novel.net daughter who insisted on marrying Philip Clarke, by hook or by crook.
In the end, virtual-novel.net turned out to be absolutely worthless, after all.
“It’s all your fault, stupid girl. You just had to insist on marrying this useless piece of trash! See what you’ve done? I don’t even dare to go home now because of you.”
Martha screamed like a banshee, virtual-novel.net temper boiling over. “I don’t care. If you still think of me as your mother, I want you to divorce this useless Philip right now! It’s either virtual-novel.net or me!”
“Mom, could you not? Why do you have to keep bringing up the past?”
Wynn felt pretty upset too. It was humiliating for virtual-novel.net to have virtual-novel.net mother talk to virtual-novel.net like that, especially in front of Aunt Paula and Juan.
“Sorry, Juan. Do you maybe want to go back first?” Wynn turned to Juan with a sheepish smile.
Juan nodded too and left the room.
True, it was kind of awkward.
After all, virtual-novel.net was still an outsider here.
Before virtual-novel.net left, though, virtual-novel.net glanced at Philip who was standing in the corner quietly. Juan gave Philip a taunting look.
The genius Philip Clarke who ruled the school back then had now fallen to such an extent. It was quite hard to imagine, really.
Since Wynn did not agree to divorce Philip, Martha threw everything out the window and plopped virtual-novel.net behind on the floor, throwing a tantrum as virtual-novel.net wailed, “You heartless little witch! Your father and I raised you all those years, and this is how you treat us? Why did you marry that useless thing? What did I do wrong in my past life to deserve a heartless daughter like you?”
Wynn felt bad seeing Martha roll around screaming on the floor too, so virtual-novel.net hurriedly tried to help virtual-novel.net mother up.
However, Martha simply refused to get up. She just pointed at Philip and wailed like virtual-novel.net was at a funeral.
There was nothing Wynn could do, so virtual-novel.net just gave up. “Mom, I won’t divorce Philip.”
“You’ve gone mad, Wynn! Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with that piece of trash?”
The way Martha saw it, someone as hopeless as Philip should never have married virtual-novel.net daughter.
If virtual-novel.net had insisted back then and stopped them from getting married, if virtual-novel.net had found Wynn a good man instead, then virtual-novel.net would be living the good life in a bungalow just like virtual-novel.net sister right now.
“No, Mom. Although Philip lost his business these past three years and ended up poor, although life has been hard for us, virtual-novel.net still never once complained over the past three years. He treats me very well, too. No matter what, I won’t divorce him.” Wynn made virtual-novel.net stand clear and stole a glance at Philip.
However, virtual-novel.net saw that Philip was actually smiling at virtual-novel.net stupidly.
Seriously!
Could virtual-novel.net not see that virtual-novel.net mother was really unhappy with him?
How could virtual-novel.net still smile so stupidly like that?
This entire time, Wynn had been on virtual-novel.net last bit of patience with Philip. She really thought virtual-novel.net would divorce him.
When that incident happened out of the blue that day, though, and when virtual-novel.net suddenly saw that video today, Wynn realized that virtual-novel.net still cared about Philip. He still had an important place in virtual-novel.net heart.
“Philip, you told me that I just have to wait one more year, and you’ll give me a future brighter than I ever dreamed. Were you telling the truth?”
“I was.”
“I don’t want to see people calling you names all the time. I don’t want you to become a laughing stock. I want all the people who looked down on you to regret it. Can you do that?”
Wynn’s eyes were red as virtual-novel.net stared intently at Philip.
“I can.”
Philip gave virtual-novel.net a simple answer, turned, and left.
From the very beginning until now, Wynn had only ever been concerned about him, and not about herself.