"...My mother was shortsighted?"
Color slowly rose in Lu Yun's fear-paled face, turning into a flush of humiliation and fury.
She gritted her teeth, unable to contain the anger in her chest any longer, and retorted sharply:
"A Manager in your Wang Family is nothing but a fancy title!"
"When you get right down to it, they're just a slightly more valuable expendable."
"The moment I entered the True Source Realm, the Wang Family tried to force me to sign a life-and-death contract with vague terms, talking about how I would inherit my mother's position!"
"If my mother hadn't pleaded with her life on the line, I'd already have become a dog for your Wang Family to use however it pleased!"
"And you call that a bright future?!"
"...Isn't it?"
Wang Jue frowned, clearly puzzled by her anger:
"What sort of place do you think the True Source World is? Being able to sign a life-and-death contract with the Wang Family and shelter beneath such a mighty tree-isn't that bright enough?"
"Even if you disagree, you didn't sign it in the end, did you?"
"No, I didn't."
Lu Yun took a deep breath, gradually calming down, and said with an icy gaze:
"But the very next month, my mother suffered severe injuries for unknown reasons!"
"Her injuries were so unusual that ordinary medicine couldn't treat them!"
"The life-and-death contract she signed should have guaranteed support from your Wang Family in circumstances like that. But what did you do?"
She sneered:
"You told her to get lost and recover at home on her own!"
"Then you sent someone to our door, saying that as long as I agreed to sign that life-and-death contract, I could immediately receive a dose of healing Treasure Medicine that would cure my mother!"
"Wang Jue, are