She always thought her eyes were like a cheat code for spotting pretentious women—the pretentious innocence, scheming charm, or venomous manipulator types—she could see through them all. But this time, she didn't expect to be so blind.
"Th-Three… three men?"
Grandmother Wood, being a woman who had lived her entire life in the mountains, was utterly shocked by Sophia Taylor's words.
She belonged to an older, more conservative generation. Hearing that a woman was entangled with three men was enough to shatter her worldview.
Especially since she thought Elly Campbell was highly educated, patient with her students, came from a well-off family, and didn't look down on people—how could such a woman turn out to be so promiscuous? She struggled to accept this reality.
Sophia had precisely banked on the conservative values held by the mountain villagers, especially the elderly women like Grandmother Wood, and deliberately used ambiguous phrasing to paint Elly Campbell as promiscuous.
