Chapter 675:

She shoved the maid away and put her hands behind her back. “I said I didn’t do it, so I didn’t. Don’t you dare hit me.”

Noticing the way Elyse was protecting her hands, Thea’s eyes gleamed with a cunning light. “Grandma, look! She’s trying to hide her hands; she’s probably scared that if they get hit, it’ll ruin her ability to play the violin.”

With a sneer, she added, “Elyse, you’re a part of the family now, so you’d better steer clear of provoking Grandma. She detests the violin.”

Felicia’s eyes darkened at the mention of the violin, a sore spot that Thea’s words ruthlessly jabbed.

Her voice dripped with venom as Felicia pointed at Elyse. “Still thinking about playing the violin? Hit her palms so she can never play the violin again!”

Elyse’s face drained of color at these words, but before she could protest, the maid raised a ruler high and brought it down with savage force.

Elyse, realizing she couldn’t evade the blow, twisted her body, letting the ruler crash against her back instead.

did not hold back and struck Elyse with

the ruler splitting echoed

the broken pieces on the floor,

at Thea, but the latter was too busy reveling in Elyse’s

stood frozen in shock. She had never anticipated such brutality;

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guilt gnawed at Claire’s

first, the impact was just a dull thud, but soon

people the satisfaction of a pained cry. Once she regained her composure, her gaze turned icy as she

looking at her like that?

with chilling indifference, “Now that I’ve taken the hit,

her voice trembling with uncertainty,

claimed I bullied you. Did I physically harm you?

her chest, retorting, “None of the above—but you did

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