Chapter 88

Before Rose could speak, Calla said, "Mom, do you have anything else you want to know? You can ask everything all at once, and I'll tell you everything."

This instantly provoked Rose to anger. She put her teacup down on the coffee table heavily and said angrily, "Do you know who you're talking to? I'm your elder! How could you be so rude? Don't you have any manners at all?"

In the face of Rose's anger, Calla answered calmly, "Mom, you say that you're an elder of mine. Does that mean you accept me as your daughter-in-law?"

This put Rose in a difficult position. Her original intention had been to ask Calla some questions which she knew would humiliate her, and then she would reject her as her daughter-in-law on the pretext of their unevenly matched family backgrounds. She hadn't expected Calla to pull this move.

Mercer had been planning to step in if Calla was defeated, but the latter had managed to anger Rose with just a few sentences. Rose wasn't an easy person to deal with and ha