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Chapter 232
The Wallen family also looked eagerly at Adam.
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In the bitter winter wind, they wore nothing on their upper bodies, shivering violently. Their faces had already turned pale. If they persisted any longer, they would freeze to death.
All three hoped that Margaery would forgive them.
Andrew was nearly unable to endure the cold. stammering, he asked Adam, “Adam, what did Margaery say?
“Did she say she will forgive us?
“Tell her we know we were wrong. She can hit us or scold us, just please don’t ignore us.”
As he spoke, he lowered his head and shed tears of regret.
Avery nodded repeatedly and said, “That’s right, Adam. In the end, we’re still family. We were simply tricked by Tessa, who used the wrong water for the blood test, and that’s how the misunderstanding happened.”
Joshua looked at Adam and said, “Adam, we are all victims here. It was Tessa who sowed discord and blinded me, which led us to make mistakes.
“It’s truly not that we don’t love Margaery. We just misunderstood!
“Why don’t you hit us on her behalf?”
The surrounding people murmured among themselves, “The Wallen family, the dignified Chancellor, actually got played around by Tessa, unable to tell his real daughter from a fake one?”
“With this level of intelligence, can he really be Chancellor?”
“Why do I feel like I could do it too?”
Andrew, Joshua, and Avery looked embarrassed, and all lowered their heads.
Adam looked at their expressions and felt a chill in his heart. He said, “The three of you are really good at evading the main issue. Even when apologizing, you absolutely refuse to admit your own mistakes.”
Joshua felt a pang in his heart and looked up at Adam, saying, “Adam…”
Avery and Andrew also changed their expressions slightly.
They had come to apologize, but some matters truly could not be spoken aloud, so Avery said, “Adam, family matters should be resolved within the family…”
Family scandals should not be made public,
Adam sneered at these words and said, “Then why aren’t you kneeling at home? What are you doing kneeling here in front of everyone? Isn’t it just to play the victim and guilt–trip Margaery?”
One person said, “Exactly, at least you should show sincerity and state clearly what you did wrong. Things like the Sullivan incident, the midwife, and the Mark incident… If you keep hiding and covering things up, who can understand?
“If you can’t make things clear, your apology lacks sincerity.”
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The three members of the Wallen family looked grim.
Seeing that they still refused to speak, Adam snorted. “If you won’t say it, then I’ll say it for you.
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“A year ago, the midwife brought Tessa to the Chancellor’s estate. Without verifying anything, you accepted her into the family, drove Margaery out of her Blissom Hall, and sent her to the desolate Gracewind Garden.
“Tessa took away her residence, took away her maids, took everything from her. You all pretended not to see.
“Tessa bullied Margaery, and you helped her.
“Dominic and Tessa engaged in an illicit affair in the courtyard, and you acquiesced, ostracizing Margaery.
“Tessa falsely accused Margaery’s servant of scalding her, and you caused Margaery’s servant to die.
“Tessa bullied Margaery, ran to the rockery to tell her that from now on this family would have only herself and not Margaery, and staged her own fall from the rockery. You made Margaery kneel for a whole day and night in a blizzard, then locked her in the woodshed where she nearly died.
“You knew she was about to be married, yet you deliberately ruined her reputation and forced her to apologize at the family recognition party.
“You wanted Craig’s prescription, so you drove Margaery to the brink of death. If not for Dashnell’s jeweled hairpin, you would have thrown her straight into the cellar.”
The onlookers, upon hearing this, were so shocked their eyes nearly popped out. “My goodness, Margaery is so unlucky! How could she end up with a family like this?”
The Wallen family trembled all over. Joshua glared at Adam and said, “Adam! This is a matter for the Wallen family!”
“But now, it is no longer a matter for the Wallen family!” Adam remained unmoved. “Raul forced Margaery to cut herself to provide blood for Tessa as medicine, and secretly took the blood for a blood kinship test.
“As a result, right under the noses of the Chancellor and the imperial guards, Tessa switched the water used for the blood kinship test. After more than ten years in the Chancellor’s estate, Margaery was inexplicably declared the daughter of a midwife!
“Raul wished her dead and summoned Sullivan assassinate her.
“And that was still not enough.”
At this point, Adam’s expression grew especially grim. He continued, “Just this noon, Tessa colluded with her accomplices to stage a kidnapping, specifically demanding that the Wallen family exchange Margaery for her.”
The surrounding people were utterly shocked and asked, “Did they make the exchange?”
Observing Adam’s expression, they almost guessed the outcome, and their gaze toward the three Wallen brothers grew increasingly contemptuous.
“Then we must ask Joshua!” Adam said.
He glanced at Joshua and sneered, “Joshua, unable to take Margaery away, impersonated Phillipa’s handwriting to invite her out. Then, outside Mercelo Pharmacy, while I went to fetch medicine, he seized the opportunity to abduct her!”
“My heavens, has the Wallen family gone mad?”
“They worry about Tessa, but does Margaery’s life not matter?”
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“Exactly, aren’t they siblings? Even if not by blood, they’ve grown up together for sixteen years. How could they bear to deceive, abduct, and send someone to their death?”
The crowd erupted in curses.
The Wallen family could only endure it.
Margaery sat in her room, listening to the commotion downstairs. She poured herself a cup of coffee and drank it slowly.
She thought, ‘Won’t let me sever ties with the Wallen family?
‘Then I will cut it off with a blade. Let there be blood today!‘
At this moment, more than two hundred people had gathered below. As there were many inns nearby, all filled with guests due to the bad weather.
The Chancellor’s estate’s explosive scandal. Who wouldn’t want to know?
At this moment, Adam revealed the main event, saying, “If Margaery hadn’t anticipated this, captured Tessa’s accomplice, drugged her to ruin her face and let her dumb, and had her take her place, then today Margaery would have been dismembered and died tragically in the Icy Pool.”
This statement contained a lot of information.
The surrounding people said, “So, the Wallen family mistook someone else for Tessa, which is why Margaery was unharmed?
“Then, what is this about dismemberment?”
At this point, the three Wallen brothers were already collapsing. Joshua suddenly stood up and lunged at Adam. “Adam, I ask you to keep quiet!” he said.
“It seems your act of seeking forgiveness carries no sincerity whatsoever.” Adam looked at his demeanor, thoroughly disappointed.
Adam recounted what had happened today at the Icy Pool, saying, “Today, above the Icy Pool, Joshua cut out the substitute’s tongue to rescue Tessa,”
“My heavens!” People were stunned, and their gaze toward Joshua changed completely. “He comes here to admit his guilt for this? Is this something that can be resolved by admitting guilt?”
The angry voices drowned out Joshua.
Joshua felt icy cold all over, his head spinning, barely able to stand in the wind and snow.
Avery rose to leave.
But someone stopped him and said, “Avery, weren’t you here to apologize? Not apologizing anymore?”
They had incurred the wrath of the masses. “The God watches what people do, and besides, Margaery is the Star of Fortune, not just a girl of the Wallen family!
“Since this concerns the fate of the nation, it concerns every one of us! It’s only tight that we stop you!”
Avery could not leave.
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Because ahead were filled with people, each one glaring at him fiercely. “Does the Wallen family want chaos in the Eastvale Empire? Do you want us to suffer as well?”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
