Chapter 1457: 1457. Let you personally experience the taste of being mocked.

She wasn’t exactly short on money, but the cash she had set aside was meant to help her son buy shares in the Hall Clan to ensure he could wrest control from Harry Hall. She couldn’t bear to part with it for donations.

But if she donated too little, people would think she was stingy, which would be worse than not donating at all. At least the children in these mountainous areas wouldn’t feel exploited as part of her publicity stunt.

After much deliberation, she decided coming here to teach was the best option.

Those teachers volunteering in mountain villages always garnered a wave of positive attention online. She, a pampered diva from an affluent family, trekking to an impoverished and treacherous place for the sake of these children—surely it would make her all the more praiseworthy.

The more she thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed.

But now, with her son bluntly laying it all out, her expression was anything but pleasant.

Especially when those things her son just said kept echoing in her mind—

Charity that actually makes a difference…

Chasing clout without sincerity…

son’s reminder, did she realize the scale of

come to volunteer, even teaching music would’ve been fine. But teaching piano to these children? It was akin to the historical tale of Emperor Hui of Jin asking peasants who were starving and surviving on bark, “Why don’t you eat minced meat instead?”—a sheer act

she’d noticed Elly Campbell’s peculiar expression

the scandal where she was scorned as

moral breach. But teaching

all this, why didn’t

Mia Brown accused him.

but feel like her son was acting differently lately, with shades of rebellion

longer the sweet little

Hall shrugged

to personally experience what it feels like to be mocked, so

if he weren’t addressing his own mother

“You… you little

to scold him, but his face—so much like hers—and his history of being obedient and sensible left her unable to utter a single harsh

seemed completely unbothered by whether his mother would be angry.

wanted to meet

lash out at him, but

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