Destined Entwining: Capturing My Devoted Beau-Chapter 481 - 261: Going to the Capital City to See Peach Blossoms (Second Update)
Summer Spencer had a moment when she felt she was Spartan.
Was it her who had gone mad, or was it the world?
Did Ruby Rayner think her son’s misfortune was because she gave birth to him?
Or had Ruby Rayner reached a certain level in her study of Buddhism?
Summer Spencer’s mind was filled with questions.
She couldn’t help but look at Hazel Winchester, who stood quietly to the side.
Hazel Winchester wasn’t wearing a monk’s robe; her clothes were plain. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
A blue-gray wool coat, with ash-gray cashmere inside.
No jewelry on her body, her hair cut short, wearing a hat, as if ready to turn back time fifty years.
Summer Spencer sighed silently.
Hazel didn’t tell her the truth; she later found out from others.
It turned out it was her father who ordered someone to stuff cigar tobacco into Hazel Winchester’s mouth, forcing her to swallow it...
After knowing this truth, she had nightmares for several nights.
Several times she woke up screaming from her dreams, sitting on the bed, shivering with the blanket in her arms.
Since she was young, she had always been competitive, comparing herself with her elder brother Justus Spencer, comparing herself with her sister Spring Spencer, thinking she was her father’s most beloved daughter, and her mother was the most beloved woman of her father.
So she was impulsive, straightforward, arbitrary, very self-centered, and never thought to empathize with others.
This time, when her mother walked on the edge of life and death, she realized that, in front of Cameron Spencer, they, mother and daughter, were not even as significant as ants.
If they angered him, he could easily crush them to death with a snap of his fingers.
Although her mother made a little mistake, Summer Spencer always believed that Hazel Winchester did not deserve to die.
Yet Cameron Spencer actually tried to have her killed.
Summer Spencer knew she shouldn’t hold a grudge against her father, but she just couldn’t help it.
It wasn’t until today, after following her mother to the Spencer Family temple and meeting the now-ordained lady Ruby Rayner, that Summer Spencer gradually recovered.
Hazel Winchester’s experience this time was indeed too shocking, waking Summer Spencer from her previously muddled and confused state.
Their Spencer Family was never a peaceful Eden after all...
She used to pride herself on her little tricks.
Now she only felt she was so immature and ignorant.
The fact that she had survived until now was probably because she hadn’t crossed Cameron Spencer’s most sensitive point.
Summer Spencer closed her eyes, put her hands together, and followed Ruby Rayner with a slight bow.
Ruby Rayner smiled and slowly said, "You look like a smart person, and so does your mother. Back then, it was I who asked your mother to look after Mr. Spencer, and that’s how you came to be. But I don’t regret it."
Summer Spencer’s face instantly turned crimson.
It wasn’t a glorious thing, even if her mom didn’t care, she still cared a bit.
Ruby Rayner clutched a string of rose-colored prayer beads in her hand, heading towards the temple where they stayed, while saying, "I heard your mother got into trouble and came to hide here. My place isn’t all-powerful, don’t stir up trouble again; can you really compete with that one?"
She held up two fingers.
Summer Spencer couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her eye, her unwillingness surfacing again, "I’m not much worse than my sister, why is it she’s capable, and I’m not?"
"Two" referred to Ava Harlow, whose daughter Spring Spencer was someone Summer Spencer had always wanted to surpass.
Ruby Rayner laughed and shook her head, "Your mom isn’t as formidable as her mom, it’s as simple as that."
It was clear that, after so many years, Ruby Rayner still feared Ava Harlow.
Summer Spencer pursed her lips, seeing through it without saying anything.
...
After returning to Z City from the family temple, Summer Spencer first went to admit her mistake to Cameron Spencer.
Cameron Spencer wasn’t initially inclined to see her, but upon further thought, his eldest son was gone, his eldest daughter had voluntarily left the Spencer Family, and his youngest son was only a few months old, the only kin left by his side was Summer Spencer.
Although what Summer Spencer’s mother did was unforgivable, he had already let her die once.
Cameron Spencer then changed his mind and let Summer Spencer in.
After Summer Spencer came in, she saw Cameron Spencer sitting in a wheelchair by the floor-length window.
Outside the window was a small garden, where the forsythias were in full bloom.
She immediately noticed that Cameron Spencer looked much haggard and much older.
Cameron Spencer glanced up and, seeing Summer Spencer in a daze, smiled slightly and said, "Can you see? Do you know why I’m like this?"
Summer Spencer shook her head, bewildered.
Cameron Spencer saw that her expression at this moment was truly reminiscent of her mother, Hazel Winchester, and sighed, "People, the greatest taboo is to be self-willed and think everything is in their control."
"Because there are always those fools who you think wouldn’t dare make trouble, doing some unfathomable things."
