So Susan Caldwell chimed in, "You don't know Vera Xavier very well. What you see is just the surface. Her true nature is probably much worse than you imagine."
At its core, slander was nothing more than flapping your lips. When you hated someone, you just said the most disgusting things you could think of.
Upon hearing this, Autumn Rhodes stomped her foot in fury and muttered, "That shameless little bitch, daring to seduce Mr. Yale! I will find a way to expose her true colors!"
Susan Caldwell sighed and said, "You'd better not provoke Vera Xavier. She's deeply manipulative and vicious. You might fail to expose her and end up getting trapped by her instead. That wouldn't be worth it at all."
The highest form of instigation wasn't merely twisting right and wrong, but a combination of slander, provocation, and then appeasement. Susan Caldwell had mastered this entire routine back when she was just a preteen.
