No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric) novel Chapter 643

Noelle could tell that Salena was making things difficult for her.

Earlier, Noelle and Mia had worked together to ruin Salena's plan with Donovan and successfully embarrass her. No matter how Noelle explained, Salena would always find fault and seize the opportunity to criticize her.

Noelle didn't want to justify herself by recounting the wrongdoings she had suffered. The public would only treat it as a joke and wouldn't sympathize with her.

Salena hadn't expected Noelle to be so blunt. "You're so blunt, Ms. Liddell. You should watch your mouth to prevent crossing people in the future. In fact, you should learn from Ms. Merlock. Who doesn't like someone as tactful as her?"

Cedric glanced at Magnus.

Magnus immediately caught on and fired back, "Mrs. Cantrell, don't compare the Merlock family to my sister-in-law. After all, there's nothing going on between my brother and Ms. Merlock. You're just making the Merlocks a laughingstock."

Salena scoffed, "It was a casual remark. You two are so protective. I'm just curious why Ms. Liddell would cut ties with her family."

Magnus responded, "I heard my sister-in-law was the top scorer in the college entrance exam, but they forced her to attend a local university instead. At one point, they even asked her to repeat a year to accompany their adopted daughter, who got a zero on the exam."

Mia, who had just finished dancing, was shocked when she overheard this. "They made the top scorer repeat a year? Is the Liddell family out of their minds?"

How could anyone do something like that?

Magnus turned to her and continued, "I heard Donovan was the one who suggested it. He didn't want the public gossiping about the family.

"After all, the biological daughter was the top scorer, while the adopted daughter was caught cheating and got a zero. To make things look fair, they asked the top scorer to repeat the year."

Mia was furious. "I can't believe Donovan would do something like that!"

Donovan made his own sister suffer just to maintain a false sense of fairness! Mia was beyond embarrassed.

Salena was uncomfortable. "It couldn't have been that bad, right?"

Alfred spoke up. "That's exactly how bad it was. Yole University's admissions office even contacted Noelle for a meeting, but Donovan rejected them, saying she wouldn't be attending."

Magnus sighed. "It's Yole University. Any parents would be overjoyed if their child was accepted there. Who in their right mind would refuse?"

Salena couldn't continue with how the situation was going. She was growing increasingly irritated. Had Donovan really treated that adopted girl so well? Something about it felt suspicious.

She also hadn't expected Noelle to be so capable.

If Noelle really ended up with Cedric, then she would lose control over Donovan, too.

Mia suddenly spoke up, "Cedric, you should go dance before the party ends."

Noelle looked up and saw Cedric standing before her. After a moment of hesitation, she took his hand, and the two of them stepped onto the dance floor.

Dancing wasn't too difficult since she had learned it before.

Cedric stared at her. "Do you still feel wronged?"

"I don't actually feel wronged. You must know everything that happened at the party. Mia and I planned it together. She didn't want to be engaged to my brother." Noelle saw no reason to hide this from Cedric. He would have found out anyway.