Emma White looked down on Victoria's family background, and felt that Luis' marriage to a commoner wife was beneath her dignity and lowered her rank, which made her lose face in front of outsiders. She often sneered at Victoria. She usually bossed Victoria around and used her as a servant, beating and scolding her when she was a little unhappy. Not only that, Emma always felt that Victoria married for Scott family's money, so she always took her as a thief.

One of the diaries read like this ...

"It's cloudy on August 9th, and this evening, Mummy came back from the auction in a bad mood. I poured her a cup of coffee to please her, but she poured the cup of hot coffee into my hand, yelling “get away, you hoodlums, don't hang around in front of my eyes.”

The back of my hand was hurt with burning pain, and I burst into tears, but I didn't dare to cry. I kept apologizing to her, saying I was sorry, but she didn't appreciate it, and said that seeing me gave her a headache.

I was really wronged. Usually when she came back, if I didn't come out to meet her, she rushed to my room, pointed at my nose and scolded me as a parasite and only to know stay in the room and do nothing. Now I came out to meet her, but she said I was an eyesore. I really didn't know what to do.

Lucy pulled me aside to help me put on some medicine, but Mommy actually asked me to clean things myself before I could deal with the wound. I couldn't help crying. She pinched my face and said that I knew crying all day long, which made her have no luck at all. She asked me to go back to my room. I really didn't know where I did wrong, as if everything I did was wrong. When would this day be the end? I lived so hard. "

Seeing this, Grace was furious. Emma really went too far to bully her sister like this. She frowned and continued to flip the pages of the diary.

"It rained on August 12th, and today my mood was as wet as the weather. In the morning, Lily called me and asked me to attend a class reunion. I really wanted to go. I have been married for more than a month, and I haven't been out of the house. Just when I was about to say yes, Mommy suddenly came over and hung up the phone forcibly.

She smiled and asked me if I wanted to go out to the party. I nodded and shook my head, not knowing how to answer, for fear that she would be angry. However, my reaction still angered her. She pointed at my nose and scolded me for not keeping my duty, and wanted to go out and seduce men.

I cried and said I didn't, so she poked my forehead with her finger, called me Broomstick who cried all day long and brought bad luck to her. Later, she told me not to come out to my room to avoid enraging her.

I sat in my room for a day and a night without eating anything, and my eyes were swollen with tears. This kind of life was simply not for people. My classmates envied me for marrying into a rich family, but they didn't know that the rich family was as dark and cold as the abyss.

In the evening, Luis came back, and I wanted to complain to him, but when I saw his indifferent eyes, I suddenly remembered that the last time he saw his mother bullying me, he looked on coldly. If I cried in front of him, he would not help me, but would teach me a lesson, so I finally swallowed my words.

Luis didn't say much as before. After taking a shower, he suddenly pressed me on the bed and kissed me. I pushed him and said I was a little sick, but he ignored me and forced me.

That night, I was tortured by him to ache all over again. His desire was very strong, his movements were wild, he never knew how to pity, and he always hurt me, but he never paid attention to my feelings.

After he went to sleep, I turned my back on him, curled up in the quilt, and cried silently while covering my mouth. I really hoped this life would end soon, but I knew that this miserable life would never end unless I died. "

See here, Grace's eyes were wet, she took a deep breath and continued to look back ...

"It rained on August 15th, and today Emma White heard about my family affairs from nowhere. (I called her by her full name here because I really hated her.) Emma sarcastically said that my biological mother used to be my father's lover, a third party involved in other people's families, a bitch, even worse than a prostitute.

I really couldn't stand it, so I explained that my mother was the first wife, my father and mother were childhood sweethearts, and my mother worked to earn money for my father to go to college. When my father became a professor, he didn't keep his promise to marry my mother, but instead married rich Megan Green, my present stepmother, for the promising future. But at that time, my mother was already pregnant with Grace and me and had not separated from my father, so others would misunderstand her.

When Emma heard my rebuttal, she gave me a slap in the face, saying that I should disobey her, and dared to talk back to her. I was really miserable and wronged at that time. She could scold me, beat me or even humiliate me, but why scold my mother? My mother was a bitter woman. She has been a victim all her life. Why should she be abused like this? God is unfair, unfair, so unfair."

After reading this diary, Grace's tears finally slipped down. Victoria's writing was very simple, but it really recorded her sad experience and feelings. Endless grievances and pains were revealed between the lines, which made Grace feel the same way. She imagined Victoria's grief-stricken appearance, and her heart ached.

Thinking of Victoria's suffering, her resentment towards Scott family had become stronger. Emma's vitriolic, sharp and harsh, Luis' indifference and ruthlessness had brought so much pain to her sister. She must turn this situation around and fight for her sister's breath.

Grace was about to continue reading the diary, when suddenly there was a low voice of the servant outside, probably the housekeeper was directing the servant to work. Grace looked back at the wall clock on the wall, and before she knew it, it was already dawn. It was half past six in the morning, and the servants got up to clean and prepare breakfast.

"Good morning, young master!" Outside came the respectful greetings of servants, and then, footsteps came.

Grace immediately hid the diary under the bed, then got into the quilt and pretended to sleep. When the door opened, Luis came in, closed the door behind him, took out a sportswear from the closet and put it on, and then left the room.

After closing the door, Grace heard Luis whisper to the servant, "Go stew some tonic for her."

"Yes, sir."

……

Grace was lying in bed thinking. Suddenly someone knocked at the door. Grace asked, "What's the matter?"

"Madam, your tonic is stewed." A girl's voice came from outside.

"Come in." Grace replied faintly, wondering how to know the maid's name.

When the door was opened, a young maid came in with a cup of tonic. Grace sat up with her forehead covered, and without looking up, she casually called out, "Lucy, bring me my coat."

Victoria's diary mentioned Lucy, the maid. Lucy was the only one in the Scott family who was kind to her. Unlike other servants who looked down on Victoria because of Emma, Lucy always comforted Victoria when she was wronged and medicated her when she was injured. Victoria was very grateful to Lucy and regarded her as the only friend of the Scott family.

"Madam, I'm not Lucy. I'm Jessica. Lucy is cleaning the living room." The maid took out a coat from the closet and handed it to Grace. Grace put on the coat and found that she was secretly looking at herself. Grace frowned and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"No, nothing." Jessica shook her head, smiled, took the tonic to the bedside table, and politely said, "Madam, this is the tonic that the young master ordered me to stew for you. Please eat it while it's hot. I'll go out to work first."