Chapter 82 Will I Kowtow to You?
Helena was not a saint and did not have that much kindness.
She rejected Rebecca outright, her voice cold and emotionless: “If she is good to me, I can treat her well. But she put me to death and I have to take care of her? Does she want to break my head again?”
Rebecca shed tears: “Sis, Mum already knows she was wrong. She hurt you and she regrets it. She wants to apologize to you, but she fell awkward. Sister, it was her fault for hitting you, but there was always a time in these 24 years when she treated you well!”
Helena did not deny that.
If Lyla had been abusing her for 24 years, she would not have lived today.
When Rebecca saw that she was moved, her tears fell more quickly: “Mom’s world only has dad, and he is the first person she thinks about in everything she does. When he was happy, she was happy, but when he was unhappy, she felt bad. Sister, mum is actually very pitiful, she has lived without herself.”
Then she showed a video to Helena
In the first video, Lyla was in tears with a bruised nose: “He won’t let me go home, and he won’t let me take my things. I don’t have anything, not even clothes. Helena, I was wrong, I was really wrong, please forgive me for once!”
In the second video, the bruises on Lyla’s face turned black and purple, her hair was messy and she looked haggard: “Helena, I have a fever, this is the temperature I just took, the thermometer shows 39 degrees.”
In the third video, Lyla was lying on the bed, her clothes were unkempt, her face were ashen, and her words were out of breath: “Helena, I am dying, I don’t know how long I will live, if the hotel calls you, you should come over and help me collect my corpse.”
In the fourth video, Lyla closed her eyes, her lips were dry and cracked, and she could hardly hold the phone: “Helena, I miss you, let me see you one last time, okay? Helena, I am going to die, can you come back to see me one more time?”
Rebecca amplified the voice.
Lyla’s dying plea echoed in the silent space. The designers who were around were attracted by the sound and gathered around.
“What’s going on here?”
“What’s wrong?”
“Whose mother is dying?”
……
The fourth video looped, and Rebecca fell on her knees in front of Helena with a poof, crying and wailing, “Sister, please, go and see Mum! Mum really misses you, she really wants to see you!”
Helena’s face was expressionless.
Stronger accusations came from all around.
“Is she so hard-hearted?”
“Don’t you even want to care your own mother?”
“Is the game important, or is mother important?”
“Why is she working at Angle Jewellery? Had a falling out with the family?”
……
Rebecca cried uncontrollably and quietly glared at the Yip’s employees. They came forward in droves, blaming Helena.
“Helena, you’re so thin-skinned, you’re ungrateful.”
“In the past, when you worked late, your mother braved the rain to bring you food. When you were sick and suffering, your mother ran around to get your medicine and deliver it. Now that your mother is sick, this is how you repay her?”
“Without her adoption back then, you would have starved to death outside. She worked so hard to raise you and this is what you do to her?”
“Helena, behave with some conscience. If you are so heartless, what good works can you design? The works you design are all cold, heartless and impersonal, whoever uses them will be cold! Whoever uses them will be unlucky!”
“The Yip family has been so good to you, you copied designs and they didn’t even disclose you.”
……
It exploded.
Plagiarism was a big no-no for originality.
The uninformed designers were led astray and they began to attack Helena.
“What is wrong with the organizing committee?”
“Can designers with previous convictions also enter?”
“Even if it’s the Howard Group’s first time holding a design competition, this entry threshold can’t be this low!”
“Angle Jewellery is really nasty.”
“Mr. Campbell took the lead in cheating, he also let designers who are good at plagiarism participate in the competition. Who can win in a competition like this? Just let the Campbell’s win first place.”
……
Helena let them speak.
The more they talked, the more energetic they became, and Rebecca cried so loudly that she was hoarse: “Sister, go and see Mum! This is mum’s last wish, I’m begging you, I’m begging you.”
The noise alerted the organizing committee.
The management of the organizing committee rushed out.
William was in the middle of a fight when he saw the management running out in droves, so he knew something was wrong. Lottie had chased them in the wrong direction and when she heard the noise and chased them back, she met William.
“Where’s Helena?”
“Quick, go and help Helena!”
They spoke in unison, and William understood her meaning in a second, he burst out, “Damn Rebecca, if I don’t get rid of her, she can keep on haunting, can’t she?”
He ran in the direction of the sound.
After turning two corners, he saw a group of people.
William pulled Lottie and rushed over: “Get out of my way! Get out! Get away!”
There were so many people gathered around that they couldn’t move. William was afraid of crowding Lottie and asked her to wait outside.
He forced his way in and saw Helena and Rebecca face to face. Rebecca was on her knees, crying her heart out. Helena’s face was expressionless and calm, as if she was unaffected by them.
“Helena, what’s going on?” William pulled Helena behind him and asked Rebecca, “You didn’t go after your man since he ran away, all you know to do is to be a demon here. Rebecca, aren’t you afraid that Scarlet is pregnant with Elias’s child? When she is pregnant with Elias’s child, what use will the child in your belly be?”
Rebecca’s cries rattled to a halt, and then she realized: now was the time to join forces against Helena, and she couldn’t let William spoil her plan.
She continued to cry, her face as water-washed with tears: “How can I have the energy to care about that now …… My mother is dying …… I’m going to lose my mother… Helena, I kowtow to you ……”
Rebecca kowtowed.
She knocked on the floor tiles with a thud.
The eliminated designers were fearless and shouted at the top of their voices, “I protest against Angle Jewellery, they are bullying and breaking the rules of the competition. I protest against such an unequal competition, I want the organizing committee to disqualify Angle Jewellery from the competition.”NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.
It started with a few people shouting.
Later it was dozens and hundreds of people shouting.
The video went viral and fans in the live stream demanded that the anchor switch the footage. The anchor had to switch and rushed to the place where the incident took place with his team.
The anchor Sarah: “Please move over and let us in for a live broadcast, fans are demanding to see the scene and want to know what’s going on there.”
Anchor Aya from the President’s Office of the Howard Group: “Excuse me! The senior management of the Howard Group is waiting for the live broadcast and they want to know which part of the process has gone wrong.”
Esther of Kan Kan Live: “Thank you all! Thank you all! Kan Kan Live will always be the first to give you all a live report of what’s going on at the competition. When I get in, everyone will be able to see the real truth.”
Helena was in no hurry.
Waiting for all three anchors to enter, she said leisurely, “Rebecca, which hotel is mum staying at?”