Nora

Chapter 165:.

His bank records?

Henry was stunned.

So was Wendy.

The next moment, Henry scoffed, “You think you’re a bank teller? How in the world do you have our bank records?”

Nora, however, ignored them and looked at Melissa instead. She said, “Aunt Melissa, the printer at home has already printed them. Please have someone bring them over.”

The printer?

However, she hadn’t noticed Nora go to the computer and do something~.

However, she shut up and went upstairs with the nanny. After a minute, the two came back downstairs with a stack of papers.

Nora pulled a few sheets out of the stack and passed them to Roxanne. She said, “This is the family income data.”

Roxanne was shocked, but still took the papers from Nora.

On them were printed the details of the income their bank accounts had received over the years.

Every month, Idealian Pharmaceuticals transferred a sum of money to one of the bank accounts. It amounted to about five million dollars a year. This had gone on for 25 years without any interruption.

More importantly, it was the sole source of income for all the Smiths’ bank cards!

Roxanne was stunned. “What does this mean?”

Nora’s lips curved into a smile as she replied, “Idealian Pharmaceuticals is a company in my mother’s name before she married.”

A furious Henry replied, “It became our joint property after we were married!”

Roxanne gasped. He said, “In other words, does your entire family’s income come from the company your mother left? In that case, what positions do the two of you hold in the company, Mr. and Mrs. Smith?”

The entire family’s income came from Nora’s mother’s company.

Therefore, Roxanne had unconsciously assumed that they both worked in the company.

But unexpectedly, Henry and Wendy’s expressions changed as soon as she asked the question, and they both became quite embarrassed.

Nora’s lips curved into a smile as she said, “Oh, them? … They have no position there because my mother has turned the company over to a professional manager to handle their affairs.”

Roxanne, “?”

Nora looked at Henry and Wendy, then asked, “They both say they have worked very hard to earn money to support me, right? May I ask how much, if anything, they earned over all these years?”

Her words made Henry blush.

Wendy stood thoughtfully, unable to say anything.

Henry, however, became angry and said, “I’ve already told you that those dividends were our joint property after your mother and I were married, So that makes them mine!”

“Tsk.”

Nora smiled and said, “As I recall, my mother left the company to me. Before I came of age, the company was to be managed by a manager, and the dividends were entrusted to my guardian, that is, to you. But now the company is mine.

All this was agreed upon beforehand. The manager had already shown her the prenuptial agreement some time ago.

Although Nora still looked half asleep, her argument was reasonable and well-founded. She looked directly at Roxanne and said, “Therefore, your claim that you worked hard to earn money is completely invalid!”.

Viewers of the live broadcast also gasped.

‘Damn. So, after all this time, it turns out they’ve been living off Miss Smith’s mother all these years?’

‘What’s this, he married into his ex-wife’s family instead of the other way around?’

‘So, after so many years of spending money meant to support Miss Smith, Mr. Smith, a man who rants about his ex-wife, has found himself with no more money to spend?’

‘How is counting money at home every day without going to work for over twenty years? That’s an annual income of over five million dollars and a monthly income of $40,000 to $50,000! Oh, my God, how do you spend that much money?”‘

‘This plot twist is leaving me speechless.’

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Back at the Anderson’s house, Henry clenched his jaw.

Wendy straightened her neck stiffly and said, “We still raised you! The dividends were spent on you. Money and everything else isn’t what matters; what matters most when a girl grows up is companionship. It’s the fact that we gave you a home.”

A home?

To Nora, that word was a ridiculous taunt in itself.noveldrama

She scoffed and handed Roxanne another thick stack of bills detailing the Smiths’ expenses. She said, “You can check the bills and see for yourselves how much of the money was spent on me.”

Henry swallowed.

Wendy couldn’t help but smile hastily and say, “How could anyone possibly remember every single expense that took place over a period of more than twenty years, Nora? It doesn’t matter, we’re still a family!”.

Nora ignored her. She just looked at Roxanne and asked, “Do you know how to keep accounts?”.

Roxanne replied, “…. Yes, I do.”

For some inexplicable reason, she was now at a disadvantage.

She was obviously a journalist coming to reconcile a family dispute. Why had she suddenly become someone’s assistant?

Before she knew it, that woman had already taken control of the situation.

The corners of her lips tightened as she pulled out the sheets and began to review them.

It would probably take her a long time if she had to actually calculate expenses that way. So Nora politely said, “Just now they said they spent all their savings on my medical expenses, why don’t you calculate how much they spent on that?”

People were obliged to register with their real name when they went to the doctors.

If they took her to the doctors, there were bound to be records of it.

Roxanne nodded and started looking at the bills from 25 years ago. At the same time, she had the cameraman pull out his cell phone and crunch the numbers.

After going through a few pages of the Smiths’ expense records, she was stunned. It wasn’t until she got to the point where Nora was five years old that she finally found a medical record from a hospital. She said, “… $30.”

The cameraman, “?”

Nora looked down.

That one was because she was too hungry, so she had eaten expired food and ended up getting food poisoning.

All in all, Henry couldn’t let her die. After all, if she died before she came of age, the family’s dividends would be cut short.

However, he couldn’t bear to send her to a hospital, so he had sent her to a clinic for an IV drip, which had saved her life.

In reviewing her expenses on the bills, Roxanne also saw expenses that amounted to large sums of money. These were expensive handbags and jewelry – Miss Smith was only a few years old at the time, so they could not have been purchased for her – or stocks or other investments, which, needless to say, had all ended in losses.

The family’s food expenses were indistinct because they were all mixed together.

Another major expense was tuition at an international school, which required almost a hundred thousand dollars in tuition each year. However, everyone knew that Miss Smith did not attend school because of poor health, so it went without saying who the tuition was for.

The more she saw, the more Roxanne was surprised. At the same time, she also couldn’t help but secretly call Henry a “scoundrel.”

Nora looked down.

Truth be told, there was no way to tell from the invoices for whom the children’s food and clothes had been purchased, but she couldn’t be bothered to explain either.

The clothes were all Angela’s. She was fat then, so she had worn pajamas instead, and even then, pajamas were things Angela had refused….

However, you could also say that the things she had experienced in her childhood were a kind of training for her.

Through the camera, the changes in Roxanne’s facial expression and her embarrassment reached everyone watching the live broadcast. Although she hadn’t said anything, everyone was very good at filling in the blanks, so they immediately understood something….

Henry and his family must have mistreated their eldest daughter.

Wasn’t this a classic example of a man marrying into his wife’s family and cajoling her, then hoarding her assets after successfully waiting until she died?

The general opinion of the comments on the live broadcast changed, and they began to attack Henry.

Henry himself also realized something. He immediately dropped all pretexts, glared at Nora and shouted angrily, “Do you know why I didn’t treat you right? It was because your mother cheated on me with a wedding scam! She got pregnant before she got married and lied to me.”

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