章節 11: The Truth
Shirley turned to Joseph and looked at him sharply, "Can you leave us, Brother?" said Shirley while smiling at Joseph who was still sipping his tea.
"I haven't finished my tea yet," Joseph replied without turning to Shirley.
Hearing that Shirley's hands became tightly clenched, her lips also looked a little frowned, "Please! I have something to say to him," Shirley snapped back.
This time Joseph glanced at Shirley, then turned his gaze towards Noah who was sitting beside him.
"What else do you want to do to him?!" Joseph almost shouted at Shirley this time.
"Hey! I only kidnapped him, not tortured him, damn it!" Shirley became provoked when she heard Joseph accuse her like that.
Then, there was a low deafening voice that turned out to be from Noah, "You seem to have forgotten, but you once told people to beat me up," Noah said casually while sipping his tea.
Shirley gave Noah a sharp glance, but she quickly turned back to Joseph to shoo him away, "I promise I won't do anything to him, so you can relax," Shirley said impatiently.
"Keep your promise, you know we'll be punished!" Joseph chose to get up from his position and waltzed out of the room, leaving Shirley alone with Noah in there.
Seeing Joseph finally leave Shirley sighed with relief, she sat back in her chair when she had made sure Joseph closed the door to this room. "Now is the time for you to tell me what's going on with you?" Shirley couldn't stop herself from finding out about this.
"What do you mean, didn't you do it?" Noah glanced at Shirley sharply, no matter what he was still unhappy with what Shirley had done to him.
"Me? Poisoned you?" Shirley was glaring now, she could not accept Noah accusing her of something she had not done.
Noah chuckled softly, it sounded like he was mocking Shirley at the moment, "Trying to hide the fact?" Noah asked in a dismissive tone.
Shirley snorted in disbelief, "I wouldn't do something risky like that, if I wanted to torture you I have better ways than poisoning you. Aren't you the one who wanted to kill yourself by drinking poison?" this time it was Shirley who threw the bait to Noah.
"I had expected you to think that I was suicidal," Noah replied, this time choosing to pick up his teacup again and take a sip.
"You didn't?" Unlike what she had imagined, Shirley was actually quite shocked when she heard what Noah said to her.
Shirley couldn't think of any other way about what happened to Noah a moment ago, if Noah didn't intend to kill himself, then there was someone who really wanted to kill Noah and shift all the blame to Shirley who had kidnapped Noah.
"You should already know who did it, if you believe what I said before." Noah was only smiling a simple smile at this point.
Currently Shirley could only stay where she was while frowning in confusion, she recalled what information was in the novel, but no matter how much she thought, she could not find any information regarding who had most likely poisoned Noah.
In fact, Shirley didn't remember anything like this happening when the real Shirley kidnapped Noah. Shirley was therefore very surprised when she got the news that Noah was unconscious.
"Judging from your reaction, it seems like you didn't think about that possibility. You hate that person so much." Noah just shrugged his shoulders as he shook his head slowly.
Noah actually thought that it was only natural that Shirley did not think about the person who poisoned her, because that person was known to love her very much and would not do something terrible like this to her.
"You mean Thalia? She couldn't have done that to you." Shirley immediately thought of Thalia when Noah mentioned someone she hated, but no matter how many times she thought about it, there was no way Thalia would hurt her favourite sister.
"Didn't I tell you they didn't love me at all. It really makes no difference for me to be here or at Count Janice's residence." This time Noah rolled his eyes lazily, he was tired of having to explain this over and over again to Shirley.
"Did you mean it when you said that to me? I thought you were just trying to trick me into letting you go," Shirley replied quickly, she still did not think that Noah meant what he said that time.
"No wonder you doubted me." Noah knew that his family was really good at creating happy family portraits and making people believe it.
Feeling very strange about the information she had just received this time, Shirley paused to think about what she should do after this. Given that Shirley was now free from the system's shackles, although she still did not know what the system would do to her.
"Then, what was Thalia's reason for poisoning you then? Did she want to frame me?" Shirley had to know why Thalia was doing this, so she could think of what she would do after this.
"One of them is that. The other reason is that they thought that this would be a good time to kill me, after all, they would benefit if I died here by framing you," Noah explained, clearly seeing that his face was very cold at the moment.
Honestly, after hearing that Shirley felt the back of her neck turn cold, she had not expected that the protagonist's family would do something so evil like this. What made Shirley even more surprised was that none of this was told in the original novel.
"That damn bitch is so horrible!" Shirley folded her arms across her chest, feeling that Thalia was really annoying right now. "Then, what are your plans now? I won't let you stay here, if they're after you," Shirley continued later.
"Why are you asking me? What can I do?!" Noah this time glared at Shirley, unable to comprehend what she was saying to him.
"Oh dear! How come you don't have any plans? Do you want to die in vain at the hands of those bad guys?" Shirley said as she shook her head.
"After all, no matter what I do, my death is already in their hands," Noah said in a soft voice as he turned his face away, not wanting to look at Shirley who was in front of him.
Suddenly, Shirley kicked the table vigorously and said, "What the hell! Your life is yours, why are you leaving your fate to others," Shirley replied passionately.
Noah blinked his eyes in confusion, not expecting Shirley to say something like this to him. Whereas Noah thought Shirley would be just like the people who called themselves his family, he thought Shirley would also tell him to just die, but she was not like what he thought.
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