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

she trying to tell me

you.” A playful smile appeared on his lips. “Why don’t you just

adults was conspicuous but also veiled at the

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

emotions undulating behind his cold gaze. Elspeth realized that she

slightly moved, he

“Ignore me, then.”

feet and patted his clothes, though there

and cheer you up, but it seems that I’ve disappointed her.” Arthur shrugged and put on his typical polite

the coat back to her and

watched him leave, she couldn’t

giving it some thought, she

was she even trying to help someone

her phone and found Callum’s name

that Callum, who had always used an ocean photo as his profile

as though he

time, but it all came crashing down at

secretly told herself that she mustn’t cry. Even if she

face. She blamed it on the chilly weather for making her

she tapped on Callum’s profile

unfollowed him on various

a game and saw a familiar avatar.

chest tightening, she quickly turned on the

play games, for he was usually swamped with work. As

was ‘Elsie’. Callum was a possessive person,

She realized that he had been teaming up with a woman, who seemed to be helpful to him. Both of them earned many points together, which showed that they could work well as

tell what kind of feeling it was, but she still deleted

done with all that, she felt melancholic deep within. It was as though waves of darkness swept over

…

days later, the engagement party of

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

now. As such, she didn’t want to hold Callum up, and she certainly didn’t want to