“If you had never intended to harm Ellie, why did you mix her medicine with poison and feed it to her?” Charlotte questioned her.

“That wasn’t poison, rather it was a type of medicine which only made her feel unwell, temporarily,” Cynthia explained anxiously, ”If it were poison, I would not be able to make her well again so quickly…”

As she spoke, Cynthia crawled up to Zachary’s feet, crying while making signs. “Zachary, I have saved you before. Please forgive me for this once. As for Ellie, if not for me, something really bad could have happened to her.”

“That was only because they took the medicine given by Ms. Lindberg.”

Lupine was furious…

“After Mr. Nacht was poisoned by snake venom, Ms. Lindberg immediately fed him her life-saving potion so he would not suffer any ill effects at all. As long as he recuperated for a period of time, the snake venom would naturally be ejected from his body.

 

“After that, Ms. Lindberg sneaked into the hospital without telling anyone and fed Ellie the potion as well. That was how she recovered so quickly. In order not to be discovered, we rushed over to the South Sea Hotel. Coincidentally, you arrived to treat Ellie making everyone think that you were the one who healed her. That was ridiculous. If you could heal her, why couldn’t you heal yourself? If I am not mistaken, there is still poison on your silver needle, isn’t it?”

Lupine took of Cynthia’s mask. Sure enough, one side of Cynthia’s face was so infected that it was

 

“Oh, my goodness! Cynthia…”

way. Yesterday, the infection was only

looked at Cynthia coldly, “When you try harming others, you harm yourself.

horrible enough she had

had no intention of hurting Ellie. It

utter hatred in her eyes, gesticulating

the replaceable stand-in? I’ve done so much for the Nacht family. In order to please them, I’ve lowered myself to the level of soil; yet, Zachary has not even looked at me properly even once. As for you…? You go on and on to antagonize him; yet, he likes you so much. Your family and the Nachts are sworn enemies, so you should not have come back. In fact, you should have died two years ago. Then, I would have been Mrs. Nacht by now, and the three children would call me Mommy. We would

interrupted her impatiently, “Even if she didn’t come back,

already decided never to marry again. “If I ever

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