I know this aunt is very superstitious and has altars for various gods at home all year round, so I deliberately used these words to scare her.
Anyway, I don't believe in this stuff, so I'm not afraid of her using it against me.
Sure enough, when I said that, Evelyn Miller stuttered in anger, "Lily Miller, you... you really are—no wonder Shirley Turner says you are heartless, with a heart of a snake and scorpion."
"Well, you all have good hearts, reincarnations of the Goddess, so you take good care of him, consider it a good deed."
I followed along with my aunt's words, leaving her speechless in anger.
I hung up the phone.
The lawyer hadn't left and, upon hearing my conversation, even as an outsider, he felt sympathetic towards me.
"President Miller, it seems your troubles have come again."
I smiled bitterly, "Who says they haven't?"
