Seeing Mrs. Vance's overly resolute attitude, Mr. Sinclair felt slightly flustered and turned to look at his son. Miles stood nearby, his hands tightly gripping the hem of his shirt, his eye sockets rimmed with welling tears: "Mom... I have not done anything wrong, why would you say that?"
"Now..." Mrs. Vance signaled for him to stop: "Do not call me mom, I am not your mother."
Seeing him open his mouth to say something, Mrs. Vance quickly cut him off: "In the past when you called me mom, did I ever respond? At best, it was only because of the engagement that I did not want to make things difficult and cause everyone to lose face."
"You should remember clearly, from beginning to end, I have always opposed the idea of you stepping foot into this house. If it had not been for you and your father using every possible scheme to replace him, the person at that engagement party would have been Lucien."
