Serena?!
The person Ms. Rainsford was waiting for at the gate was Serena?!
The person Ms. Rainsford was treating with such respect and anticipation, humbling herself before, was Serena?!
Patrick was utterly stunned.
His expression contorted with shock, and he stood frozen, staring in disbelief.
He saw with his own eyes.
As Daphne approached Serena, she was nothing like the arrogant woman he had encountered. Her face was covered in a fawning, ingratiating smile as she spoke to Serena.
Serena's cold, exquisite face remained calm. She responded to Daphne with a couple of nonchalant remarks before starting to walk away.
Daphne became even more respectful, following behind Serena.
That reverent posture.
It was as if... Serena were a queen she was sworn to serve.
"Dad..." Hailey was also thunderstruck, watching in disbelief as the Ms. Rainsford
she so admired acted so subserviently before Serena.
She was completely dumbfounded.
The person she had schemed to become an apprentice to, the person she hoped to
use to climb into the truly elite social circles...
Was treating Serena with such deference!
Was she seeing things?
Or had Ms. Rainsford gone mad?
Serena was just a worthless country girl who grew up in the slums!
What right did she have to receive such honored treatment?
The Wynn family was blocking the entrance to the Blackwood estate, so Serena had to pass them to leave.
As Serena approached, Patrick couldn't hold back. "Serena..."
He glanced at Daphne, who was following behind, then back at Serena, whose
elegant and noble aura made her seem completely out of reach.
He licked his dry lips. "Serena, you..."
He wanted to ask what her
relationship with Daphne was. He also wanted to take the opportunity to show off his connection to е Serena, hoping Daphne might give the Wynn family a second look.
But Serena didn't even spare him a glance.
She walked straight past him and out of the estate.
Patrick's face instantly turned ugly as he stared at Serena's retreating back, swallowing hard.
"That little brat, who does she think she is!" Marianne couldn't stand Serena's high- and-mighty attitude.
In her mind, after leaving the Wynn family, Serena should be as humble as dust, begging on her knees to survive!
Being treated like a complete non-entity by Serena made Marianne's blood boil with indignation.
Why did Serena get to act so superior and look down on the Wynn family?
If it weren't for the Wynn family, where would Serena have gotten the opportunities
to cling to so many rich people?
The ungrateful wretch didn't even know how to be thankful.
The more Marianne thought about it, the more incensed she became.
She grabbed Hailey's arm and marched toward Serena.
"Mom..." Benedict tried to stop her.
Patrick held his eldest son back. "Let her go. No matter what, we have to get Hailey noticed by Ms. Rainsford tonight!"
Benedict looked at Serena with a complicated expression. "Dad, were we...too neglectful of Serena in the past? When... when did she become so capable? Why didn't we know..."
For some reason, Benedict suddenly remembered what his younger brother, Derek Wynn, had muttered in a daze before he fell into a depressive state at home—
"It turns out Serena's medical skills are so incredible. Why didn't I notice before?"
"It turns out... the herbal meals she used to make for us weren't just from some random books she read. They were actually medicinabmeals specifically tailored for each of us