The Heiress’ Return & Revenge

Chapter 343 She Doesn’t Believe

Salma took a deep breath when she noticed the hair on Simone’s shoulder.

Suppressing her last bit of hesitation, she reached out and lightly patted Simone’s shoulder as if she were brushing off some dust.

Then she quickly grabbed the strand of hair and held it in her hand.

Upon seeing Simone’s gaze, Salma felt a twinge of guilt and said, “I noticed some dust on your clothes, so I thought I’d help you brush it off.”

Simone looked at Salma with a cold stare.

“Is that so? Then why did you take

my hair?”

She grabbed Salma’s hand as she was about to retract it and took the hair back.

When Salma looked at her shoulder with a conflicted expression, Simone realized that something was amiss.

She also noticed the hair on her shoulder.

It wasn’t actually her hair; someone had accidentally brushed it onto her clothes earlier.

But she couldn’t let Salma take it away and potentially harm someone else.

As a geomancer, Simone attached great importance to her hair and blood.

She couldn’t let them remain on her clothes and be taken away by someone.

The reason Simone didn’t stop her initially was to see if Salma would choose to take it.

In the end, Salma did, which surprised Simone but also seemed expected.

Salma was caught off guard and suddenly felt a bit panicked.

She didn’t expect Simone to be so perceptive and notice her small actions.

She awkwardly smiled and said, “I noticed some hair on your clothes, so I wanted to pick it up and throw it away for you.”

Simone looked at her firmly and said, “If you look in the mirror now, you’ll see that your eyes and face betray a sense of guilt, Melinda asked you to take it, didn’t she?”

directly exposed by Simone, Salma felt

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to take your hair. You’ve misunderstood. I simply saw some dust on your clothes and

no longer held any hope

of thing would

and said, “Whether I misunderstood or not, you know the truth. very well. You’ve always wondered why I don’t recognize you and want to

da, and use it

have the

take my hair, give it to against me. Are you my real mother or my enemy? After all that you did, audacity to act superior in front of me. What happened to your dignity?” Salma wouldn’t just randomly grab her

side when it came to her and Melinda, but now she took Melinda’s side

expect

stopped caring a long time ago, so

Simone bluntly stated it, Salma’s expression

denying it, but when she saw the sarcasm and coldness in Simone’s eyes, she couldn’t bring herself to say

Melinda did ask me to bring

that you might have been cursed before. It’s like being possessed by something unclean, which is why you became heartless and

hair, she can ask a geomancy master she knows to perform a ritual

with a hopeful look, “I want the old you back; that’s why I agreed. Please, give me back my

and heartless Simone

laughed, “You still like to deceive yourself. Do you really think I’ve been possessed by something impure? Can’t you even recognize your own daughter?” She found it truly ironic, “Deep down, you know that I’m still me.

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can’t accept that you hurt me, causing me to sever ties with you and completely change my attitude towards you. You’re just a hypocrite who holds different people

of a curse? If you truly believed it, why were you hesitating just now? So, you also had doubts and suspicions that Melinda wanted my hair so she could use it against me. Just because I didn’t comply with you and instead confronted you. You convinced yourself that helping me remove the curse was

more she realized this, the more fortunate she felt for

desire such a twisted form of family affection?

am your biological mother, so how could I possibly want to harm you? Besides, you are so capable; how

didn’t fully believe

a slight suspicion that Melinda wanted

Simone was so powerful, just taking a strand of hair

would

if what Melinda said was true, it would be even better

So, she took action.

you’re still making excuses for your coldness and evil. I am capable, so I deserve to be manipulated by you?” She looked at Salma and said, “Mrs.

a close and obedient daughter, she

of time

that happened, her counterattack would

face turned red,

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