Substitute Marriage: Reborn As The Top Big-Shot-Chapter 1010 - 283: Is Rachel Barton the killer?! A direct slap in the face_3

A pair of parents can support eight or nine children, but eight or nine daughters can barely support one elderly person.

What's the point of having a house filled with children and grandchildren?

In the end, it's still a solitary and miserable existence!

Mandel Thompson didn't bother to explain.

In this incident, they were in the wrong.

"The willingness to care for parents yet they won't be around to receive it! How you treat the elderly now, that's how your children will treat you in the future!" After finishing these words, Isla Astir's anger subsided quite a bit, and she continued, "Give me your payment code! I'm returning the extra thousand dollars to you!"

She could take her money

But she couldn't, in any way, keep the extra thousand dollars that Mandel Thompson had given her.

After all, everyone gets old one day.

Mandel Thompson immediately took out his phone and pulled up his payment code, "I am truly sorry, Miss Astir. I was not thoughtful enough."

Who would have thought that President Thompson, who calls the shots in the business world, would also have a day when he would be chastised by a young woman.

Isla Astir transferred the money back to Mandel Thompson.

This scene was witnessed by Rachel Barton, standing not too far away.

She was too far away to hear their conversation.

But she could recognize the person.

This young girl was Isla Astir from their class.

Isla Astir was beautiful and had a good figure. Therefore, she had many suitors in her class. But she was somewhat aloof, and preferred to keep to herself, scarcely having any friends.

Everyone would say Isla Astir is a cool goddess.

But today.

The cool goddess was playing tricks like this, trying to grab Mandel Thompson's attention.

Isn't that nauseating?

Rachel Barton never thought Isla Astir could be that kind of person.

It's not that Isla Astir is apathetic to worldly desires, nor that she has no one she likes.

Isla Astir just didn't fancy the immature boys in their class.

Those young boys, none of them were reliable, they couldn't provide her with power, nor satisfy her materially.

How could they compare to Mandel Thompson?

Mandel Thompson was the eldest son of the Thompson Clan.

Not even considering the richness of the Thompson's assets, even the few companies he had established represented a height that ordinary people may never reach in their lifetime.

But Rachel Barton never could have imagined that Isla Astir had set her sights on Mandel Thompson.

Did she really believe she's a fairy or something?

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Would Mandel Thompson really be interested in someone like her?

Rachel Barton sneered coldly and turned to leave.

Just when Rachel Barton left, Fiona Knight walked over from the side. She had witnessed this scene.

With a slight furrow of her brow.

"Fiona," Flora Tiarks approached from another direction with teary eyes, "What are you doing here?"

"I just went to the bathroom." replied Fiona Knight.

Flora sighed, her voice a bit husky, "You think Viola will come to?"

She was devastated.

Fiona Knight nodded firmly, "Viola will definitely wake up!"

Flora then said: "Viola just had her accident, and now Mrs. Thompson has one too....tell me, what are we supposed to do?!"

Fiona narrowed her eyes, "Flora, don't you find all of this very strange?"

"What's strange?" Flora asked.

Fiona continued, "Why would Viola and Mrs. Thompson have accidents at the same time?"

As she spoke, Fiona paused, "What's even stranger is, the medicine was bought by us personally, there's absolutely no chance for it to be tampered with. Besides, given Viola's medical skills, she can't possibly confuse a simple cold for severe sickness. Since she said it was a cold, it must've been a cold. Moreover, we all saw Viola that day at her home, and she definitely looked like she just had a common cold! I suspect someone intentionally drugged her."

Upon hearing this, Flora immediately covered Fiona's mouth, whispering, "Fiona, you mustn't speak irresponsibly!"

Firstly, a slip of the tongue can cause big trouble.

Secondly, if someone had deliberately masterminded this, then Fiona's words would certainly alert the culprit.

Fiona slightly furrowed her eyebrows, "I'm not speaking carelessly, these are all reasonable speculations."

No one but her knew Viola's medical skills better.

Viola was able to cure Fiona's face with the prognosis previously deemed incurable by numerous renowned doctors.

Since then, Viola had become an irreplaceable god in Fiona's heart.

Flora squinted her eyes, continuing, "But if someone did drug Viola, Viola should've been able to tell, after all, she's medically skilled!"

Fiona pulled Flora aside, lowering her voice, "Do you remember something?"

"What is it?" Flora asked.

Fiona continued, "The day Viola was drinking her medicine, she didn't even wrinkle her brows."

Hearing this, Flora nodded vigorously, "I remember, I remember! I even asked her about it then."