Chapter 133 Pretend To Be Poor In Front Of Him

Edmund thundered at the other end of the line. He said that in addition to Lucian, Jonny had stirred up all the shareholders of the An Group, forcing Edmund to give up his position as the CEO.

Emma's hand quivered when she heard Shelly's question—so much so that she almost spilled her porridge. Thankfully, she was quickly able to gather herself. Smiling, she said, "You just woke up. You shouldn't be thinking about these things yet."

Shelly pushed the bowl away, her eyes gleaming in anger. "Am I really your daughter? Why is it that you're so focused on protecting your son so much?"

Back when Shelly was still a child, she felt as if Emma didn't really care about her. Although Emma was kind to her, it wasn't really the same as how she was with Jonny. It seemed as if Emma cared more about Jonny than she did Shelly.

Emma's face darkened. She apologized, "I'm sorry. I neglected your feelings all these years."

"Do you think that's enough?" Shelly sneered as she glared at her mother, eyes filled with resentfulness. "What? Have you been waiting for this day all your life? You willingly take insults and humiliation just so your son can have the power in the family? Are you proud, huh?"

Surprised, Emma didn't expect that Shelly, at her young age, would be occupying her mind with these kinds of things and assumptions.

"Shelly, we're family, not enemies." This only made Shelly even angrier.

"Family?" Shelly snorted and bit back, "Did you ever hug me?"

"Shelly, I know I wasn't exactly the perf

Lucian with him.

"Shelly, don't get mad. Your brother only wants to talk with Lucian because they're in business together. That's it. It doesn't mean anything else," Emma tried to explain.

This only provoked Shelly further especially that Emma was once again defending Jonny. Her eyes full of resentment, she snapped, "You always take Jonny's side no matter what. Is this what you mean when you say you love us equally?"

Emma was rendered speechless.

Her lack of a response didn't mean that Shelly was right, she just didn't want to infuriate Shelly even more. After all, Shelly had just woken up and the doctor did say that she was going to be emotionally unstable for a while.

"Shelly, you can do whatever you want to me but when it comes to mom, I'm drawing the line. Why are you yelling at her?" Jonny's pet peeve was his mom being mistreated and being yelled at so he didn't care that Shelly just woke up—he was angry and he wasn't going to just stand by and do nothing.

"Jonny, you're her brother," Emma said sternly.

"Do you and your son enjoy taking advantage of me when I'm sick and helpless?" Shelly taunted, frowning. Then she turned to Lucian and whined, "Lucian, I want to go home already. I don't want to stay here anymore."

Shelly believed that if she acted weak and miserable, Lucian would take pity on her.

"I talked to the doctor just now and he said that since you just woke up, you need to stay in the hospital for at least a week," Lucian said calmly, feeling a little uncomfortable.