The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)

"You, you're simply..."

Madam Hans jabbed her finger angrily in Andrea's direction.

Then, Andrea sneered coldly before replying, "What about me? Has this all become very unusual to you? Alas, this is how I truly am! You have no idea how difficult it was for me to pretend to be the perfect granddaughter around you, it nearly drove me insane! You're right, I did drug you. Is that the answer you wanted?"

Madam Hans couldn't believe her ears when she heard what Andrea said.

"Why? Why did you do this? Was I not good enough to you? I did everything for you, and I even pushed my own biological granddaughter away for you. Why did you do this? Don't you know that the Hans Family is a pure and noble family? How could you?"

Madam Hans's heart felt as if a thousand knives were piercing through it, but Andrea felt nothing.

Instead, she burst out in maniacal laughter.

"You were a fool. You refused to believe your granddaughter and instead chose to believe an outsider like me blindly. Did you believe it when my mother told you that Mango was the one who obtained the cure for you when you had a stroke?"

"Was that the truth?"

"Yes, it was! Furthermore, Mango was pregnant at the time, but unfortunately, Nanny Zhang brutalized her so badly that she had a miscarriage when she went to get the antidote. I'm sure you didn't know that right? Nanny Zhang kicked the child out of her! She wanted nothing more than for Mango to die, and Mango's lower regions were soaked in blood by the time Nathaniel arrived. She was comatose, and she nearly lost her life after admitted to the hospital. All your loved ones covered up the truth from you because they were afraid that you would be hurt. Plus, Mango spent a month recovering at home, and the doctor said that any further hope for a child would be slim."

Madam Hans was thunderstruck when she heard Andrea's explanation.

"Is Andrea telling the truth?"

Then, she grabbed Terrance by the arm while asking with an anxious tone in her voice. Guilt and remorse were visible in her eyes.

The truth was, Terrance didn't want to strike a blow to his mother, but he had to tell her the truth.

"Yes, it's true. At that time, Mango had one foot in the casket but none of us wanted to tell you in fear that you would collapse. However, no one expected Andrea to claim that she saved you, and what's more, you believed it! Queena told you, Mango told you, even Nathaniel told you that the antidote was the result of Mango's efforts, but you refused to believe."

Meanwhile, Madam Hans felt as if the entire cosmos was about to collapse on her.

How could this be?

How could the ugly truth of the matter turn out like this?

Madam Hans glared at Andrea ferociously and she witnessed the younger woman was smiling smugly at her. Then, she slapped Andrea across the face.

The crisp and loud crack of her hand against Andrea's skin stunned everyone.

This was the first time Madam Hans had actually hit Andrea.

Everyone presented knew that Andrea was the apple of Madam Hans's eye, and nothing could touch her. Furthermore, Madam Hans was essentially at her beck and call, and yet now the old lady had personally hit her.

Andrea was slapped so hard that her entire head jerked sideways. Blood dribbled down from where her teeth split her lip, and it was a testament to how hard Madam Hans hit her.

"How could you be so heartless? She's your sister!"

"My sister? You're calling me heartless? I didn't hear you calling me that earlier, my dear grandmother. Instead, you kept calling me kind, weak, and a victim of all this. Honestly, do you even know right from wrong? You're just going to blindly believe everything that I say right? You think that you've been an angel to me, but before I even met you, I lived like a queen back in the United States. No one dared to talk back to me. However, I had to serve you and care for you like a maid ever since I came here. Who the hell do you think you are? Do you think I have some sort of weird masochistic tendencies that I enjoy serving you? If you weren't Mango's biological grandmother, I wouldn't even give you the time of day!"

Andrea finally let everything out.

Since the whole truth was revealed, there was no need for her to keep pretending.

"I'm extremely dissatisfied with the fact that everyone loves Mango even though we have the same mother. I'm a person too, okay? Especially my mother. I cared about her deeply, I yearned for her love and I did everything I could for over twenty years so that she could give me an ounce of her love. But in the end, she only ever had Mango in her heart! Back in the United States, all I did was knock Mango out and hand her over to Mr. Tang, but my mother had my father beat me to an inch of my life just because of that and she even wanted to disown me. All I ever wanted was love, and yet all of you gave it to Mango freely. Why? If I can't have it, then neither can Mango! She cared about you so much that she was willing to risk her life to get the antidote, so I wanted her to feel what it was like to be abandoned and hated by you!"

Andrea's manic expression pissed Madam Hans off so much that she was rendered speechless.

She had never imagined that a girl that she put so much effort into caring for would turn out to be such a vicious snake. On the contrary, Mango, who she had hurt time and time again was innocent.

She recalled how caring and loving Mango was to her when they first met, but what about now?

The last time Mango had visited the Hans Family mansion was because of Rita, and at the time Mango looked at Madam Hans as if she was an enemy.

In fact, she'd always felt like she'd done the right thing and that Mango was in the wrong. She assumed that all Mango said were lies, and that Mango only wanted to curry favor with her. However, only now did she realize what her granddaughter had experienced for her sake.

Regret crushed Madam Hans's chest so heavily that she couldn't breathe.

"So all of this was part of your plan, right? Did you have a hand in those photos of Mango too?"

Madam Hans's mind was still lucid and clear, and she quickly connected the dots when Andrea told her the whole story.

On the other hand, Andrea didn't expect Madam Hans's reaction to be so swift, but she did not deny the accusation.

"Yeah, it was me. Susie found me and she wanted to work together with me to bring her down. Alas, you can't blame me for this. Mango has offended way too many people, and they all want her dead. I'm just a pawn in the game."

As she thought back to how she yelled and cursed at Mango unabashedly before, Madam Hans was filled with shame.

How could she say that about her own granddaughter?

Was it really her?

Madam Hans looked at Andrea and she found a stranger standing in front of her.

On the outside, Andrea looked innocent and adorable. However, she hid a heart of darkness past that innocent facade.

"Then, did you also make up the story about Nathaniel raping you?"

When the topic was brought up, Andrea's expression quickly shifted from smug to angry.

"Shut up! That was all Nathaniel's fault! I only wanted to create the illusion that we had slept together so that he would marry me, but it seems like Mango has bewitched him. No matter how I drugged him, he still did not have any feelings for me. Aside from that, he admitted in front of all the journalists that he was just fooling around with me before he left the room. After that, two men from an adult film company came and raped me! He's an as*hole! He loves Mango so dearly, but yet he treats me like this. Don't I deserve revenge?"

As soon as the memories crossed her mind,

Andrea began to struggle frantically.

However, Madam Hans wished that she could beat Andrea to death with her own two hands once she heard that.

Earlier, she had been so adamant to cause Nathaniel and Mango's divorce. But the truth of the matter was the opposite. Did she deserve to be a grandmother at all?

Was there any grandmother in the world who would force her granddaughter to divorce her husband?

Now that Madam Hans looked back on it, she felt that her actions were inhumane.

How could she have done so many inexplicable things for Andrea?

Hence, Madam Hans's heart turned to stone when she looked upon the savage woman standing before her.

"Did you know that I've left half of the Hans family's assets to you? Even then, you treat me like this. Andrea, do you know that I treated you better than my granddaughter. I always thought that you were good to me, and you suffered because your mother was biased towards Mango. I wanted to fill that void in your heart that thirsted for parental love. Unfortunately, I never expected that you would end up using me in the end. What do you aim to achieve by using the drug to control me?"

Andrea couldn't help but paused for a moment when she heard Madam Hans's words.

Did she regret it?

She had no clue, but there was a trace of heartache when she heard that Madam Hans wanted to fill the void of an absent parent.

However, this feeling only lasted for a fraction of a second.

Andrea didn't need anyone's sympathy!

Not at all!

Then, Andrea turned her head away firmly and she looked at Madam Hans before sneering. "Controlling you means taking control of the entire Hans family and becoming a threat to Mango. Despite how cold she may seem now, she's still warm-hearted on the inside. I had wanted to use you to threaten Mango, I want her to die! I had people inform her to come to the Hans family mansion at two in the afternoon. That stupid woman must still be contemplating whether or not to come. Unfortunately for me, I've been found out and captured before I could do anything to Mango. Ultimately, there's nothing I can do to explain my way out of this, so, do your worst! But if you want me to be grateful to you, then

dream on!"

Madam Hans was astonished when she heard Andrea's words.

They kept on reverberating in her mind.

Andrea said that Mango seemed heartless on the outside, but she cared more than anyone else.

Oh, her poor granddaughter!

The one that she'd mistreated and hurt repeatedly. Thus, would Mango even come to her aid?

On the other hand, Terrance did not share his mother's thoughts and he glared coldly at Andrea. "Did you use my mother's health to coerce Mango into coming here? Or was there another reason? Was Rita's kidnapping your doing? Were you planning on using that to lure Mango here?"

These words reminded Madam Hans of that matter.

Terrance was right!

Mango's last visit to the Hans family was in the wake of Rita's abduction.

Hence, was Andrea responsible for the kidnapping too?