Madam Banners crawled over to Roxie's feet as she cried bitterly and begged, "Roxie, your father is old and needs my care. I'm old as well and not in good health, so I need him too. Just let us rely on each other for the remainder of our lives."
Roxie looked at her as if she was a joke. "Madam Banners, do you remember that your current situation is exactly the same as the situation my biological mother was in ten years ago?"
Madam Banners' face instantly turned pale.
Roxie said angrily, "Do you know how desperate my mother was back then? She was seriously ill and bedridden, yet you couldn’t care less about her life or death. You took away the only man she could rely on. Now, you’re asking me to take pity on you? Do you think I should show you mercy?”
Madam Banners fell to the floor.
She finally understood what Roxie’s method of revenge was. Roxie wanted to distort everything. She was reversing the roles so that she and Bebe could go through what Roxie and her mother went through when Charles abandoned them. Now, Roxie was the one at the top while she and Bebe had become the helpless and pitiful worms who were being abandoned.
Roxie said complacently, "Madam Banners, I deliberately made the two of you go bankrupt so that you could experience my mother's pain. I want you to live in guilt forever. I'll let you repent for your actions until the day you die."
Madam Banners muttered, "I regret it now. I truly do. I was too young back then, Roxie. I fell for someone and wanted to take him all for myself. I never thought that it would bring you so much pain. I'm sorry."
Roxie said, "If you're truly sorry, then quickly divorce my father. Return my father to my mother."
At the moment, Madam Banners felt like a fallen leaf swaying in the wind and rain. She was utterly helpless. How could she be willing to let Charles go?
"No. I can't leave your dad. I'm old now and don't have the energy to start another relationship."
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