In that moment, her hopes for a family had shattered. She had thought that if she tried hard enough, if she was obedient enough, her mother would eventually see her worth and come to love her, her own daughter.
But in the end, what did she get? Wendy's heartless humiliation and a signed disinheritance agreement.
Lost in her own thoughts, Natalie was pulled back to the present by Sophia's mocking voice. "Wendy, don't try to make yourself sound so noble. You say Natalie is your daughter? But we all know she's just your adopted daughter."
"You don't even have the courage to acknowledge your own biological daughter. What right do you have to call yourself Natalie's mother?"
Wendy's greatest regret was hurting her own daughter for the sake of that wretched Joanna.
She said painfully, "You're right. Family is the most precious bond in the world, and no excuse can justify denying that connection. But I did. For Joanna, who cried and schemed against my own daughter while playing the victim, I made my biological child into an adopted one."
"I didn't know the truth back then. My immediate instinct was to protect Joanna, to shield her from any burden or second thoughts. I even refused to acknowledge my own flesh and blood for her sake."
Her hateful gaze fell on Joanna. "But what about you, Joanna? You turned out to be nothing but an ungrateful snake I warmed in my bosom."
Joanna was thrown into a panic, her face flushing with embarrassment. Wendy's words would completely destroy her public image.
Mumurs rippled through the onlookers.
"So she really is a lunatic. No wonder she's been screaming and shouting here."
Another woman replied with a cold laugh, "Even if she is mentally ill, it was Nathan and Sophia, those two scoundrels, who drove her to it. Wendy raised a mistress's child to be an outstanding woman, and in return, that ungrateful viper publicly declares her adoptive mother insane, disregarding years of love and care. Is a woman like that truly worthy of sympathy?"
Joanna heard the comment and shot a sharp, furious glare at the woman who had spoken. She was seething. If you don't know how to speak, then shut your mouth.

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