Erin subtly curled the corner of her mouth as they were speaking. Ophelia arrived. Seeing that so many people had arrived, a mocking smile curved at the corners of her lips. Before they could speak, she took the initiative and spoke first, seizing the opportunity.

“With everyone arriving so promptly, was my ten million ready?”

In a word, Samuel slammed the table in anger.

“Ophelia! I still doubted whether your cousin had wronged you, but I didn’t expect you to actually do something like this! Apologize to Gianna immediately!”

Ophelia sat down gracefully and said, “Apologize? What should I apologize for?”

“You clearly knew that Gianna didn’t have any money, yet you deliberately tricked her into buying something worth over a million, and in the end, you didn’t help her pay, almost getting her detained by the store. Don’t you think you owe her an apology?!”

“Ha.” Ophelia looked up at Gianna and said, “Did I trick you into buying something? How could I not know about this?”

Gianna’s gaze flickered, and she shrank back a little.

Bessie immediately protected her and disagreed, saying, “Ophelia, how could you threaten Gianna? Mom and Dad, as well as Uncle and Aunt, are still here!”

Ophelia tugged at her lip. She was just asking a normal question, but when it came out of Bessie’s mouth, it turned into a threat?

Penelope cried out, “If she dares to act like this in front of us, we can’t even imagine how Gianna is being bullied when we aren’t around!”

Hudson followed up, “Sister, brother-in-law, are you just going to stand by and watch?!”

“Today, not only did I have to apologize, but that one million four hundred forty thousand also had to be compensated to our family!”

“That’s right, Ophelia deliberately set Gianna up, and this loss shouldn’t be borne by my family!”

The couple spoke one after the other, both equally self-righteous and equally shameless.

Ophelia sneered coldly in her heart. It was really no surprise at all that this family, whenever they found any reason, seemed eager to skin the Greene family and her alive, as if they would die if they didn’t take advantage of the situation. With such a great opportunity, how could they have let it slip away? If it was just a simple apology that was needed, how could the whole family get involved? In the end, it still came down to money!

She also did not speak, listening with a sarcastic expression, and raised her eyes to look at the two people opposite her—Samuel and Erin.

As she had expected, Erin spoke up right after. She told Hudson and his wife, “Don’t worry, Ophelia is a sensible child. Since she knows she did something wrong, she won’t shirk her responsibility. She will compensate you for that more than a million.”

On the surface, it seemed like he was speaking up for Ophelia, but his words clearly condemned her; it was established that this matter was indeed Ophelia’s fault! She hadn’t even opened her mouth yet, and the other party had already made the decision to compensate her with over a million!

Hudson and his wife were immediately satisfied. They all knew how obedient Ophelia was to Erin. Erin spoke up, and even if Ophelia was unwilling, she had to apologize to them and give them money!

Penelope snorted and said to Ophelia, “Just put that more than a million into my account!”

Ophelia didn’t move; her phone rang once, and she picked it up to check the message on her own.

Bessie urged her, “Ophelia? You quickly sent money to your aunt and apologized to Gianna!”

“Ha.” Ophelia put down her phone, a look of confusion on her beautiful face. “When did I say I wanted to pay or apologize?”

“Ophelia,” Erin said with a helpless expression, “stop throwing a tantrum. Just admit your mistake and apologize. Compensate your aunt; they are generous and won’t hold it against you!”

Ophelia almost laughed. Not only did she inexplicably have to apologize and obediently pay, but she also had to worry about whether the other person would hold it against her?

Hearing Erin say this, if she weren’t the person involved, she would have thought that she was the one who had done something wrong!

She looked at Erin with a mocking gaze. Erin’s heart skipped a beat when she looked at her, “Ophelia-”

“No wonder she was my stepmother.”

“…What?” Erin’s smile froze for a moment.

“I said you are my stepmother.” Ophelia crossed her legs and just looked at her like that. “If she were my real mother, she would definitely have asked me about the whole situation, inquired whether I had been wronged, instead of just believing one side of the story and thinking it was my fault, demanding an apology from me and asking for money!”