Daphne remained silent for a long time before waving her hand with a somewhat dejected expression. "Good girl, it's not your fault."
Penelope breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Grandma, Lady Selena didn't send us an invitation, but everyone in the capital knows about it. It's just that no one in the Riddle family knows, so she must be angry with us and deliberately didn't tell my brother and Hattie to inform us..."
She looked at the bustling banquet hall, smiled to conceal her worries, and said, "I am just a foster daughter of the Riddle family. This birthday banquet is not a big deal. I will accompany you and grandpa to the Turner family and apologize to Lady Selena in person. She will be very happy to see you and grandpa, and Hattie will no longer be angry with you..."
One is a granddaughter who has been doted on for more than ten years, and the other is a granddaughter who has never even met. How can they be compared?
Daphne grasped Penelope's hand, looked at her slightly red eyes, and felt extremely heartbroken. "What nonsense are you talking about? The guests are at the doorstep. How can we turn them away?"
She hugged Penelope in her arms and coaxed her like her own child, "You are the most noble lady of the Riddle family. How can a birthday banquet be a child's play?"
There was a hidden trace of displeasure in her tone, "If Selena ever uses the fact that you are a foster daughter to humiliate you again, you tell grandma, and I will never forgive her lightly!"
Penelope leaned on Daphne's arms and finally laughed after being coaxed.
She looked at the center of the hall, where the distinguished sons and daughters of most of the capital's noble families had come to the Riddle family, and the pitiful situation of the Turner family could be imagined.
Only through such a comparison could she suppress the sharp jealousy and panic in her heart.
...
The Turner family.
Hattie walked up to the second floor and gently pushed open the door.
She saw a row of servants holding various dresses and jewelry standing neatly on one side. In the center, Selena sat in front of a huge dressing mirror, wearing a smoky black one-shoulder dress with a skirt adorned with sparkling diamonds. Her long hair, which was tied at the waist, was made into a starry wave of curls, and the stylist carefully picked up a silver crown, also studded with diamonds, to put on her head.
Hearing the sound, Leia, who was sitting next to Selena, turned to look at Hattie and immediately smiled. "Hattie."
Hattie snapped out of her amazement and ran in, "Selena, Master..."
Leia rubbed her stiff face.
Selena smiled and pulled her close, "Why did you come so early?"
Hattie didn't mention Penelope's birthday and sat next to Leia, propping her chin with her hands, "I miss Selena."
Selena looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes accentuated by black eyebrow pencil, and smiled slightly, "Wait longer, I will take you down to eat."
...
At the same time, in the Turner family's hall.
The hall fell silent for a while due to the unexpected arrival of Leon and Christ.
Most importantly, among the three remaining men, except for James who drank on the side, there was an obvious and unsettling tension.
Freddie stared at Christ, "What's going on between you and Selena?"
Leon's arrival was understandable since Selena had a blood relationship with the Riddle family, but Christ's transformation caught him off guard.
His repeated attempts to have Selena killed were not a secret within the capital.
If it weren't for Osvaldo protecting her, Selena might have died at his hands a long time ago.
But this man suddenly had a change of heart and was easily arrested by Selena and even convinced Dexter to apologize to her, and today he came to the Turner family's door himself.
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