BXBX NOVEL Chapter 58 - 58 Outsiders
Purple Summers smiled, her eyes calm as water.
She didn’t continue to entangle the topic of compensation, but instead asked with a smile, “I heard Aunt Jade was just promoted to prosecutor?”
Jade Carlson’s face eased slightly, thinking that Purple must be afraid of her. Kids always have a natural awe of professions like police and prosecutors.
She liked Purple’s awe and gently advised in a soft tone, “Purple, I’m a prosecutor, and I know the laws and regulations best. Continuing to pursue this won’t be good for you. Take the money and buy whatever you want, or go to school. It’s better for the family to get along peacefully. Aunt Jade is saying this for your sake.”
Purple didn’t say anything, just continued to smile.
If she had said something, Jade could at least respond, but her inscrutable smile made Jade increasingly annoyed.
“If you don’t agree, Aunt Jade won’t force you.” Jade stopped looking at her, glanced around the room, “Your mother isn’t here today, so Aunt Jade will come and talk to her another day.”
Only then did Purple speak, “You’re my third brother’s friend, so I should call you Jade Sister, but I always call you Aunt Jade. Do you know why?”
Jade was slightly startled; of course, she knew.
—It was because Purple’s identity was unsuitable.
As an adopted daughter, and the daughter adopted by a mistress at that, even if Old Master Summers insisted on giving her the last name Summers, others couldn’t accept it.
No matter how high Purple’s status was, in the eyes of the Summers Family, she was just an outsider, a guest living there.
When friends and relatives visited the Summers’, Purple would courteously address them as uncles and aunts, being distant because nobody really saw her as Miss Summers. It was just like how Laura Summers never treated Purple as her aunt; if Purple were to insist on addressing Laura as her niece, it would be openly offending others.
Purple smiled and said, “It’s because nobody sees me as part of the Summers Family, right? If my elder brother really treated me like his sister, Laura would never dare to push me into the lake. She has been bullying and picking on me for years, and now almost killed me. Aunt Jade, do you think I would sue her for just intentional injury?”
She looked up at Jade, her serene eyes suddenly flashing with sharpness in the sunlight, “My elder brother wants to protect his daughter, the servants of the house won’t testify for me, and intentional injury will only become unintentional injury. Aunt Jade, as a prosecutor, will push for mediation, and it will eventually be swept under the rug. I’d have bothered for nothing, not even getting a single penny.”
Jade said, “We will try our best to compensate you…”
Purple interrupted her, “No wonder my brother thinks it’s not worth the money. Even if a forensic appraisal determined it as intentional injury, Laura is under 18, and she didn’t leave any obvious injuries on me, so she would probably only be sentenced to a year or so, really only worth 22,500. How about we change the charge? What does Aunt Jade think about an abuse crime?”
Jade’s eyes widened in disbelief, and after the initial shock, she became slightly angry.
Purple didn’t know when to stop!
“Purple, abuse is not something to be thrown around lightly,” Jade barely maintained her composure, “Old Master Summers kindly took you in, and the Summers Family provides you with all your needs. If you call that abuse, then you’re being…”
She stopped, giving Purple a meaningful look filled with warning.
But Purple just laughed, “Are you trying to say I’m ungrateful? Or a traitor? Aunt Jade, you should worry about yourself first. Since you’re a prosecutor, you should know about the new anti-bullying law that was just passed this year. As the law just came out, the Prosecutor’s Office is looking for cases to set an example, and as a prosecutor, if you advocate for a conciliatory approach to such a malicious bullying case, I don’t know what kind of impact it will have on you if this gets out?”
Jade’s heart suddenly sank..