Chapter 426 Wedding Party (Part Two) (1/2)

She went straight to the point, no holds barred. It seemed that the lady wanted to know who Carla really was when stripped of all the glamour.

Carla took a deep breath, paused for a minute before she could gather all her strength to answer the question. ”Yes, it is true. I won't deny it. The truth is that my foster parents passed away when we were young, so I have been raising my brother on my own,” she frankly replied.

”Really? Oh my, you really have been through a lot. We admire your courage and strength to push through with life's twists and turns. But everything turned out well in the end. The Hua family finally found you and now you are Mr. Terence's wife,”

the young woman said as she raised her glass for another toast. ”Mrs. Carla, congratulations,” she added.

Carla, on the other hand, felt a bit odd about the whole questioning. She went silent and took a sip of the wine.

After a while, Carla finally came to her senses and realized that these women were not really there to congratulate her. They were there just to gossip about her and Terence's relationship.

But none of these ladies dared to ask her directly about why she married Terence. They just beat around the bush, because they knew that they were no match for Carla's current social status.

They had an obvious strategy. They would first ask Carla tons of seemingly irrelevant questions and then leave, so that she wouldn't notice that they were trying to piece the stories together.

Carla realized that these women were trying to pry into her personal life.

She started to doubt if most of the greetings and the congratulations were even sincere. She then felt tired of having to assess each and every question if it had any hidden agenda.

And this led her to exhausting ment