Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

Chapter 311

“You accessed the Shaw family’s surveillance footage today. Won’t you get in trouble with that?” Zinnia asked, looking at her worriedly.

“No,” Lydia replied, “the surveillance footage I retrieved had already been deleted by them. I recovered it from the recycle bin. It wasn’t hacked by the Shaw family’s system.”

Lydia wasn’t the type to implicate herself. She always made sure every angle was covered before acting.

“Wow, Lydia, you’re amazing!” Zinnia’s eyes sparkled with admiration. Her classmate really was something special.

“If you’d like, I can teach you,” Lydia said to Zinnia, her voice softening with unusual tenderness.

The trio couldn’t help but notice Lydia’s double standards.

“Hey, Lydia, why do I get the feeling you like Zinnia way more than the rest of us?” Ethan tilted his head and asked teasingly.

Lydia calmly retorted, “Are you as adorable as she is?”

“Whoa, that’s a low blow! No personal attacks. Seriously, who could ever compete with a face like Zinnia’s?” Ethan sputtered, momentarily stunned.

He glanced at Zinnia’s exquisitely sculpted face, a beauty so perfect it seemed almost unreal.

Perhaps flattered by the compliment, Zinnia curved her lips. Ethan felt his ears grow hot and quickly averted his gaze.

“Zinnia!” That afternoon, just as Zinnia was about to enter her apartment complex after school, a voice suddenly called out to her.

Zinnia turned and saw Howard standing there. Instinctively, she took a step back.

Even though it had only been a few days since their last meeting, Howard already seemed to have aged several years. A newly developed air of weariness and defeat clung to him.

Howard stood at a distance, his expression complex as he gazed at her.

“Zinnia,” as he watched her retreat, Howard’s chest tightened with remorse. ‘It was all a misunderstanding. She was the one truly wronged,’ he realized.

Zinnia pressed her lips together tightly, refusing to speak to him, her fingers clutching her backpack straps.

“I heard you moved out of the Lynn residence,” Howard said as he stepped closer, his eyes filled with concern.

He was actually a bit at a loss as to how to approach her.

They had barely spent any time together, to begin with, and after that incident where Betty nearly got him

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Howard hadn’t seen

her to the hospital last time, they

Zinnia said flatly, visibly reluctant to engage with

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We had no idea it was all Betty’s doing. We were

could clearly sense her emotional distance and felt at a loss

the family to meet Zinnia. He

Betty’s position in the family. But when he actually

kept drifting towards

a soft, unhurried way, like a timid little snail slowly peeking out. When she called him Howard in that clear,

had been gently stuck

thought to himself, Zinnia seems pretty sweet.

after returning home, she unexpectedly told Betty to leave. This

tried to kick someone out. What a

doing infuriating things. Just when their anger would subside and their attitude softened a bit, she’d always stir

truth laid bare, every

of them had ever actually heard Zinnia tell Betty to leave. Every accusation had come secondhand

them ever bothered to ask for her side.

just how deeply their prejudice had

them before–if a misunderstanding could happen once, it could happen again. But they all brushed it off. Now, with the painful truth laid bare before

believed a

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Betty had actually loosened the screws on his

loved his

frame Zinnia. She tampered with his car and went through it,

for over a decade tried to kill him, while the one he’d constantly mistreated wast secretly sending him

time, when Howard found out that Zinnia had made Chamomile tea for Timothy and herbal tea for Yosef, the more he thought about it, the angrier he got. ‘Why did both of

anything. He was stunned to learn

the wounds on his forehead, arms,

came in to drop off the ointment, he only heard her say it was from some sister in the

instinctively thought it was Betty, never even considering that he