Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Jingjing Supermarket

Sylvia Lancaster was flanked by two girls her age, each carrying a paper bag with a high-end brand’s logo on it.

"Sylvia, is this your sister?" The girl who spoke had a simple ponytail and delicate features. Melody Summers recognized her as Sylvia Lancaster’s little follower, Wendy Sheffield.

The Sheffield Family wasn’t some prominent clan. Wendy Sheffield’s parents worked government jobs. They scrimped and saved to send Wendy abroad to study, where she happened to become classmates with Sylvia Lancaster.

Wendy Sheffield was very good at sucking up to Sylvia Lancaster. In turn, Sylvia was happy to bring her to parties as a foil to make herself look better. And just like that, Wendy gained access to Anworth’s circle of elites.

"Sylvia, is she that illegitimate sister of yours who was raised in the countryside?" the other girl asked, her tone hostile. She had long, wavy hair, was dressed in the latest ready-to-wear from iuiu, and wore a large ruby ring on her hand, exuding an air of arrogance. Melody Summers recognized her too—the eldest daughter of the Hayes Family, Clara Hayes.

’Illegitimate daughter?’

Melody Summers thought to herself, ’In my past life, after I returned to the Lancaster Family, Mr. Sutton insisted that I be the one to marry Ethan Sutton. At his insistence, the Lancaster Family issued a statement acknowledging that I was their biological daughter and Sylvia Lancaster was the adopted one they had raised by mistake.’

’This time around, since I refused to go back, Sylvia Lancaster is still the one in the marriage alliance. Naturally, the Lancaster Family doesn’t want to admit she isn’t their biological child. It seems that in the face of all the public controversy, the Lancasters have chosen to claim that I’m actually an illegitimate daughter, making both of us their biological children.’

Melody Summers thought that Clara Hayes should be thankful this was all happening before the disaster. If this were the chaotic late-apocalypse, Melody would have thrown her straight into the feed grinder in her dimensional space.

In her past life, Clara Hayes and Sylvia Lancaster had once invited Melody Summers to go swimming. At the pool, when Melody wasn’t looking, Clara had suddenly shoved her head underwater and refused to let go. Thankfully, Melody was a good swimmer and managed to break free. Otherwise, the consequences would have been dire.

Melody had immediately called the police back then. But when they arrived, Sylvia Lancaster testified that Clara Hayes hadn’t done anything.

There were no security cameras near the pool, and Melody couldn’t produce any evidence, so the matter was dropped.

When the Lancasters heard about it later, they all believed Sylvia Lancaster and thought Melody Summers was deliberately stirring up trouble.

Silas Lancaster had even tried to drag Melody Summers to apologize to Clara Hayes, only stopping when Melody resisted with all her might. Elaine Hughes then wailed about how disappointed she was in Melody, and Robert Lancaster said he regretted bringing her back to the Lancaster family.

Recalling all these events from her past life, Melody Summers sneered at Sylvia Lancaster. "I’m the illegitimate one? Then why do I look so much like your mother, Elaine Hughes? You’re the biological daughter? Then why don’t you resemble anyone in the family?"

Sylvia Lancaster’s face went pale. Clara Hayes and Wendy Sheffield were also stunned, apparently still processing the meaning behind Melody’s words.

Seeing this, Sylvia Lancaster didn’t dare say anything more to Melody. She grabbed her two friends and hurried away.

Her good mood ruined by the trio, Melody Summers no longer felt like shopping.

Melody Summers went straight to a specialty store for a certain brand and bought five high-spec laptops. She also picked up several large-capacity solid-state drives, planning to download some TV shows.

Thanks to the country’s robust infrastructure, the internet was still relatively stable for the first two years of the apocalypse, only going down intermittently a few times. But she didn’t know what would happen in the later stages. As the saying goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Then she bought three gaming consoles from different brands so the whole family could play together—a decent pastime for the apocalypse.

Finally, Melody Summers bought a few spare phones and tablets for her family.

By the time she left the mall, Melody only had a little over eighty thousand yuan left.

It was already dark outside, so Melody took a taxi straight home.

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