"Dad, you've lived apart from Mom for *seven years*. You have no right to speak! You don't know what she's like day-to-day."
"You haven't contributed to this household, so you aren't *qualified* to butt in!"
And then—the notification that made my jaw drop.
*Jade Long removed Dad from the group chat.*
She kicked her own father out.
Then, she began airing my "crimes" to the entire extended family.
**【You all think she's a saint? You don't know the half of it. We give her a 2,000-buck subsidy every month, yet she's so stingy she won't even buy breakfast for Savannah! She made the child go hungry until she almost fainted during morning exercises!】**
The relatives were stunned.
**【No way. Savannah is the apple of her eye. She wouldn't do that.】**
But Jade came prepared.
She threw an old screenshot into the chat—a notification from the teacher about Savannah having low blood sugar.
Then, a voice message from Savannah herself popped up. Jade must have coached her.
"It was because Grandma wouldn't give me money for breakfast! I fainted because Grandma is *bad*!"
The group erupted. My eldest sister-in-law—who had never missed a chance to undermine me—pounced immediately.