NovelEnglishThe Substitute Wife: My Poor Husband Is A Billionaire
Chapter 536: What A Difference“Sir, takeright over here.” Lila showed the taxi driver the address on her phone.
“Oh, that looks like a distant neighborhood.” The driver spoke the Barnes dialect fluently, and when he saw the address, he was
obviously grossed out.
Lila was accustomed to living in the rich area and had never left downtown. She knew nothing about this address and as she
furrowed her brows, she asked, “Really?”
“That neighborhood happens to be both poor and messy. I know for a fact that the people living there are all poor families and
hooligans. Why would you ever want to go there?” The driver glanced over at Lila. She was dressed from head to toe in elegant
attire and didn‘t look like someone who would live in such a bad neighborhood at all. With a dry smile on her face, Lila told him, “I
don‘t think that‘s any of your business. Just takethere.”
The Gillian family‘s house was far away from the downtown area. The driver drove the cab into a dilapidated neighborhood.
As soon as Lila got out of the car, she could make out a broken and small apartment building, which looked really like the
haunted houses in those horror movies. The walls looked very shabby and yellow unknown liquid was all over the mottled walls.
In the corridors were piles of garbage that looked like it had been there for a very long time. With her hand covering her mouth,
Lila‘s heart sank in her chest.
She wanted to burst into tears, but she couldn‘t right then. She could only hold back the feeling of nausea and find the apartment
“Who is it?” A man shouted irritably from inside the apartment and the door was opened with a loud squeak. A man with stubble
on his chin and a big mole on the corner of his mouth poked his head out. He stank like an alcoholic.
“Who the hell are you?”
Lila was frightened by this man and she proceeded to take two steps back. She hesitated and said, “I... I‘m looking for Glenn and
Eva Gillian.”
Beal had told Lila that these were the names of her biological parents.
Glenn looked at her up and down, and suddenly, it seemed like he had cto his senses. Then he shouted excitedly at the
woman in the room, “Honey, our daughter is home!”
A middle–aged woman ran out of the kitchen right away. The floor was shaking slightly when she was running out. Her voice was
rough and with a strong local accent, she said, “Lila? Is that my Lila?”
At the sight of Lila, the middle–aged woman embraced her daughter excitedly, “It‘s so good to have you back.”
Glenn and Eva had both learned from Beal that Lila was going to cback They had originally planned to let their daughter
enjoy a lifetof glory and wealth in the White family. Now that Lila had been kicked out of the Whites‘ house, they were both
disappointed but at the sthappy that she was now coming hto them. Lila looked at them disgustedly. When she
smelled the pungent and strange smell on Eva, she wrinkled her nose and
pushed the woman who was her mother away.
whole apartment wasn‘t even as big as her bedroom in the White family residence.
Obviously, they were very poor folks. She had heard from Beal that her biological father, Glenn, was an owner of a small
business. At first, Lila thought that he would at least have smoney. However, it turned out he was only an alcoholic and
untidy man.
As for her biological mother, Eva, she was totally a country bumpkin. They were no match to the likes of her adoptive parents
Beal and Johanna. Lila was growing desperate. She could hardly believe that she had been born from such a woman. Eva wiped
the sweat off her forehead and neck awkwardly and bowed her head down in shame.
“I just cout of the kitchen and haven‘t had the chance to take a shower yet. I shouldn‘t have grabbed you like that. I was too
excited just now.”
She looked at Lila carefully, with moist eyes. “You look exactly the saswhen I was younger.”
After hearing this, Lila becangrier and cursed in her heart. Was this fat bitch trying to humiliate her?
Tears of joy began to well up in Eva‘s eyes. She nervously wiped her sweating palms on the apron and said, “Since Lila is home
now, let‘s go ahead and have dinner now.” Glenn scolded her, “Our son has yet to return.”
As soon as he finished saying that, the door was opened from the outside with a key. A young man, who had his hair dyed red,
walked inside from the door. He glanced over at Lila, shrugged his shoulders, and
said in a rather frivolous manner with chewing gum still in his mouth, “Are you my sister?” He turned to look at Lila‘s Hermes bag
and asked her, “Is that bag real? It‘s not a fake, is it?”
Lila really wanted to roll her eyes. The young man before her was just spunk. The Gillian family was so poor, but he was
wearing all brand–nitems. He must be very spoiled. And what was with that arrogant attitude of his?
Lila was about to go crazy. Everything in this house was an eyesore.
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