The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 352 Mess Up (Part Two)

Wendy smiled bitterly and patted Yvonne on the back of her hand. "Let's go. We are not wanted here."

"No, I won't go. Now that we are here, we have to make everything clear." The troublesome half sister gave her mother a wry smile. "Mom, you have the heart to bear it, but I don't. What does she mean by doing that? Why is she so hell bent on severing ties with us? Is she worried that we will ask her for money?"

Yvonne stepped closer to Autumn. "You should know, when my mother heard that you were going to change your surname to Zhao, she was so angry and stressed that her old illness re-surged. Today we had just come from the hospital just to congratulate you on your birthday. She sticks up for you at any time, but you still decide to change your surname. Do you think you are worthy of what she had gone through because of you?"

People naturally had a soft spot for mothers and began to condemn Autumn. The lovely birthday party was finally ruined halfway, which annoyed the celebrant. At this time, Arthur Zhao, who was standing on the stage, opened his mouth to speak.

He gave Wendy the coldest stare and said, "I didn't want to say these words at first, because Autumn once said that you were still her mom after all. And I will also show you some respect for Autumn's sake. But how shameless of you to come here and ruin this birthday party. But I have to clarify my position even if it upsets Autumn. Since Autumn is my only granddaughter, I must protect her from being misunderstood by other people, which is clearly your intent in coming to crash this party."

Arthur had lost all his tolerance of Wendy Ye. He continued, "You eloped with my son, Bowen, many years ago just because you thought that he was a man of wealth. But when you found that Bowen was not as rich as you expected, you thought of leaving him. As a result, after you gave birth to Autumn, you thoughtlessly left her for Bowen to raise her alone. You then, disappeared with an amount of money which you extorted from Bowen. I haven't wronged you with these words, right? The heavens bear witness that every single word is true."

Arthur smiled with scorn. "Bowen died of depression shortly after you abandoned them. You haven't taken good care of Autumn at all. She was brought up only by Emily. Everything I said also matches the fact, right?"

"Stop talking nonsense here." Yvonne retorted. "My mother certainly took her back home and looked after her closely for a long time. It was she herself who was unwilling to stay with the Gu family anymore. My mother is not the one to blame for it!"

The esteemed doctor ignored the troublemaker. His gaze did not leave Wendy, and he said with surety, "Autumn and Emily could only depend on each other. Life was hard enough for them, but you were so heartless that you kept adding to her pains and giving her a hard time. Your pathetic family business needed financial support from Shining Company to survive the crisis, so you came up with the connections by marriage. At the very beginning, you wanted your wretched daughter to marry Charles, but Yvonne Gu ran away from the wedding. So, in order to still make your plan work, you blackmailed Emily with documents and forced Autumn to marry Charles in Yvonne Gu's place. Now in a beautiful twist of fate. Autumn is now getting along with Charles perfectly in this marriage. Your regret must be killing you and eating you alive, every time you see them happy together."

By this time, no one had an idea whom to believe, but Arthur's words could well explain why Autumn would marry Charles. His story seemed more credible.

"Wait. There's more. That was not the end of it. Later, you found that Charles was a man of striking appearance and he treated Autumn quite well at the same time. So you egged Yvonne to seduce Charles. However, to your burning disappointment, during Yvonne's disappearance, Yvonne had an affair with other man and got pregnant. In the end, the baby was aborted, and you had not choice but to give up the Charles plan." Once again, Arthur's words caused an uproar among the guests. Everyone began to feel sorry for Autumn. Supposing that Arthur Zhao didn't distort the facts, then how much hardship did Autumn Ye suffer to get where she was today?

"Emily didn't get timely cure for her illness, and now she can hardly see anything. It's all caused by you. As for all these things that I stated just now, I didn't do you any wrong, did I?" The head of the Zhao family asked her with great eloquence, which made Wendy melt with embarrassment. Part of her wanted to fade away, but on second thought, Wendy still decided to stay. She should try her utmost to achieve her goal, otherwise, her coming here would go for nothing.

She turned around to look at Autumn on the stage, saying with pretended grief, "My daughter, if these accusations against me make you happy, then I will make a confession."

She gave a bitter smile to Autumn and then deeply bowed to the reporters. "Yes, I am such an irresponsible mother. I hope that you never put my daughter in an awkward situation. Whatever she wants to do, I will give her my support. I hope that you can understand a mother's great pains."

Dumbfounded, Autumn could say nothing. She just looked at Wendy. At first, Autumn thought that Wendy would contradict grandpa's words, but she acknowledged all of it. Her act of humility made people believe in her words more.

Autumn could not bear it. She stepped down the stage and stood in front of Wendy. She asked angrily, "Wendy Ye, what the hell do you want from me?"

"I just wanted to come and see you." Wendy wanted to take Autumn's hand, but she drew her hand back with embarrassment because Autumn avoided her. "I know that you have been resentful that I treated Yvonne better than you. But I have to clarify that in my heart... both of you are my precious daughters. There is no difference between you two."

"Can you stop acting here?" Autumn shouted at Wendy, getting impatient. "What will you get from doing this? Or are you happy enough that you embarrassed me on my birthday?"

"You are not as important as you imagine." Yvonne pulled Autumn aside and said, "Mom only came to see you. As for me, I cannot restrain my anger anymore. I came here today to lay bare your true character You can refuse to accept me, because I don't need you to accept me anyway. But you have to keep my mom, the one who gave birth to you, in your life."

"Miss Ye, excuse me, could you respond to what Doctor Zhao has said just now? Are those all true?" The reporters asked Autumn one after another.

Autumn hesitated and said nothing for a long time, but finally she nodded. "Yes, it's all true."

"Could you please show us some evidence?" A verbal statement without any proof had no credibility.

Autumn thought it over and wondered, 'How could there be evidence for such things?'

Autumn frowned a little. Yvonne sneered before Autumn could say a word, "What kind of proof can she bring out at this time? Even though she shows any right now, it must be forgery."

"I..." Autumn still knitted her eyebrows. Now, she felt quite helpless that the two conniving bitches had the advantage over her. After a long while, she shook her head and was ready to tell the reporters that she had no evidence at all. But salvation came at the perfect time. Behind the crowd came a male voice, "I am the evidence."

Hearing the voice, the crowd parted to give way to this man who appeared out of nowhere. When the man eventually walked to the front of Yvonne and Wendy, they stood gazing at one another, looking very tense.

"What are you doing here?" Wendy put her hands on her hips and asked him.

"Thanks to you, Autumn and I have become good friends. I have come to take part in her birthday celebration." It was Aron. Arthur had divined that such situation was likely to occur today, so he also invited Aron here just in case.

"Aron, I think you had better mind your own business." Yvonne warned Aron nervously. To a large extent, Aron was a very favorable witness. Without his appearance, Autumn was doomed to be defeated in her own party.