Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 358 Can’t Claim the Moral High Ground

“Both exam papers were the same. His score was only higher than mine by one mark, but when I went home, I was punished and wasn’t allowed to eat anything in the evening because I wasn’t number one.”

Arthur took a deep breath. His emotions were undulated in his heart.

Elspeth found it hard to breathe, for she didn’t expect the Winthrop Family’s education to be so cruel.

“So, I stole his exam paper that time and burned it.”

There wasn’t a hint of hesitation on Arthur’s face when he brought it up, nor did he appear guilty, as though he was only talking about something insignificant.

“What are you ready to do, then? Are you going to frame him again just like what you had done in the past?”

Suddenly, an inscrutable smile appeared on Arthur’s face. “Why do you think I was framing him?”

That’s what you said.

Elspeth found the person before her eyes eccentric. It seemed that he was slightly disturbed.

Arthur’s gaze darkened as though he had seen through her mind. “I was just defending my dignity.”

He’s gone mad.

Elspeth could feel him being resigned and his desire to achieve greater heights. However, she couldn’t dissuade him from doing anything at this moment.

That was because she knew that she hadn’t experienced what he had been through, so she couldn’t claim the moral high ground and tell him to be upstanding.

Despite that, she still wasn’t willing to see Arthur falling from grace.

After all, excluding the terrible things he had done before, he had been treating Elspeth and her family members well.

“Arthur,” Elspeth called out to him all of a sudden.

Arthur looked attentively at her. There was a hint of expectancy and inquisition behind his gaze.

“I think the dishes you prepare are delicious.”

What she said was simple to understand, but it didn’t seem to have anything to do with what was going on. She had gone off-topic.

Arthur understood her

to tell me to

frequently prepare dishes for you.” A playful smile appeared on his

hint between the two adults was conspicuous

shook her head. “What I mean is there are some

complex and abstruse emotions undulating behind his cold gaze. Elspeth realized that she could

was slightly moved,

“Ignore me, then.”

his clothes,

up, but it seems that I’ve disappointed her.” Arthur

to her and

leave, she

thought, she

even settled her own issues, so why was she even trying

fished out her phone and found Callum’s name on

realized that Callum, who had always used an ocean photo as his profile picture, had changed it to a photo of

he wanted Elspeth

emotions the entire time, but it all came crashing down at that moment. Before she knew it, her tears started sliding down her

she couldn’t help it, she

tears from streaming down her face. She

moment later, she tapped on Callum’s profile picture and unfriended

also unfollowed him on various social media

game and saw a familiar avatar. Much to her surprise,

tightening, she quickly turned on the

for he was usually swamped with work. As such, they

people wanted to befriend her because she was ‘Elsie’. Callum was a possessive person, so he directly married her in the

look at his achievements and scrolled through the pages. She realized that he had been teaming up with a woman, who seemed to be helpful to him.

tell what kind of feeling it was, but she still deleted him from her friend list with trembling

was done with all that, she felt melancholic deep within. It

…

days later, the engagement party of Elspeth and Arthur

healed. She kept saying that if the two of them got married,

was unable to get any treatment for now. As such, she didn’t want to hold Callum up, and she certainly didn’t want to do that to Arthur either. Hence, she didn’t directly respond to