Chapter 108 Neither of Them Are My Children
Lily picked up the coffee from the table and splashed it toward Sophia.
Raymond's first instinct was to use his body to block the coffee, but Sophia pressed down on his shoulder. She pushed her toes against the table leg, and as the chair moved backward, she also pushed him away.
All the coffee spilled on the floor.
Raymond asked anxiously, "Are you okay?"
The concern in his eyes was unmistakable. Sophia looked down, "I'm fine."
He glared coldly at Lily across from them, whose face had turned ugly, anger hidden in his pupils.
Raymond: "Call security!"
The secretary immediately called security, who restrained Lily in her chair to prevent her from moving.
Sophia stood up and walked in front of Lily, looking down at her, "Are you angry?"
"Getting so angry when the truth is exposed - what about those people you've hurt?"
The situation between Raymond and Lily had been clarified, and the accusations of Sophia being a homewrecker fell apart on their own. But some people still couldn't stand to see her clean reputation. Someone immediately requested to connect to the livestream.
The livestream technician asked for her opinion.
Sophia had a good memory and recognized that IP account at a glance - it was the person who had previously accused her of seducing her aunt's husband. It seemed that besides Lily, there was another force behind the scenes smearing her name.
She said coldly: "Connect."
As soon as the video connected, a baby-faced girl on the other end, her face covered in tears, said: "My aunt committed suicide!"
"You're the homewrecker! You seduced my (ex) uncle before, causing my aunt to leave the marriage with nothing, not even getting child support for her two kids. It's all because of you, you shameless woman!"
The baby-faced girl was extremely emotional, shouting angrily, "If you hadn't interfered, my aunt wouldn't have done something so desperate. You killed my aunt, you're a murderer!"
Behind her was a hospital emergency room.
People in the livestream started questioning Sophia again.
She glanced at the comments and sneered, "Did you see me seduce your uncle with your own eyes?"
"I didn't see it, but the private detective my aunt hired took photos!"
The baby-faced girl immediately got excited, as if she had already claimed the moral high ground.
She pulled out a photo. The background was a hotel, and the photo showed a man in his forties looking tenderly at Sophia, who was sitting in a corner of the hotel sofa, his eyes full of undisguised affection.
Sophia said calmly, "I don't know him."
The girl's face was full of disbelief and mockery, "Don't know him? If you didn't know him, why would my (ex) uncle travel so far to find you, not even visiting his child who was hospitalized with a fever!"
Sophia: "Besides this photo, do you have any other evidence?"
"Isn't this photo enough? You're really shameless. The physical evidence is right here, and you still want to make excuses!"
The baby-faced girl's words made Sophia laugh.
One photo could easily define a person's character - was that a privilege the internet gave her?
"So by your logic, as long as I appear in the same photo with a man, I'm seducing him?"
"You... you're just making excuses for yourself! If you hadn't seduced him, why would the detective photograph you together!"
The girl was being completely unreasonable, looking at the camera with teary eyes.
"My aunt was so good to me. Since I was little, she has bought me food, drinks, and clothes. I've never met anyone better to me than my aunt. But such a good aunt was driven to suicide by this woman!"
Faced with her accusations and tears, Sophia calmly asked her back, "Besides me, there are three other men and two women in the photo. Why don't you suspect them?"
"Looking like you do, who else could it be!" Under the girl's contemptuous gaze was jealousy of her appearance.
Sophia: "What do you mean by 'looking like I do'? How do I look? Do I have two extra eyes compared to you, or an extra mouth?"
She changed the topic and asked the livestream viewers, "Is being good-looking a crime? My appearance was given to me by my parents. Just because I'm good-looking, should I suffer baseless attacks?"
Sophia's words resonated with some people in the livestream, who came forward to agree with her.
[I get this because I have a pretty face. All my hard work has been dismissed as relying on my looks. Even though I'm the hardest-working person in the office and work the most overtime, my colleagues think I got promoted by sleeping my way up!]
[I have a great body and seductive features. Whenever my friends start dating, they become defensive around me, thinking I'll seduce their boyfriends.]
Sophia didn't look at the comments.
When this girl posted her first comment, she had already asked Rat to find the uncle the girl was talking about.
Just then, Rat sent her a message.
The truth was opposite to what the baby-faced girl had said.
Sophia: "Since you don't believe anything I say, let your (ex) uncle tell you himself."
The next second, he connected to the line.
As soon as the forty-something man appeared, the girl immediately shouted with a sense of righteousness, "You have the nerve to show your face! Do you know my aunt committed suicide because of your cheating and betrayal!"
The man had a refined face. Hearing the girl's words, he immediately spoke, "I didn't cheat. Your aunt was the one who cheated."
The girl didn't believe it: "You're lying!"
"I know you won't believe me, so I've prepared all the evidence. Actually, I've wanted to explain for a long time. If your aunt hadn't begged me, crying, to leave her some dignity, I wouldn't have taken the blame for so many years."
When Rat found the man, he had already taken out all the evidence he had.
As he finished speaking, a link popped up.
A timeline of the girl's aunt's hotel visits, paired with photos of catching her in the act, and even videos with faces blurred out - the evidence was solid.
She immediately fell silent, but still felt indignant.
Her round eyes rolled, and she immediately found her confidence again, "What about the children?"
"Even if my aunt made a mistake, those two children are innocent. It's been two years since the divorce, how can you not pay any child support? They're still in school!"
Her words were like a fuse, directly igniting the man's anger.
He held up the paternity test in his hand, "Because they're not my children at all!"
"Neither of the two children is mine!"
"I raised them as my own for twelve years. Haven't I worn this green hat long enough!"
The man's words caused an uproar online.
The man had been holding in this anger since he found out the truth about being cuckolded for over a decade.
"Do you know why your aunt was so good to you? Because she's not your aunt at all - she's your mother! Before she married me, she had you with another man, and your family kept it from me for twenty years!"
The baby-faced girl was stunned, not expecting this to be the truth.
The man explained that the photo was taken when he was on a business trip and someone secretly photographed him. He didn't know Sophia at all.
After explaining everything clearly, he left the connection.
The followers who had increased because of sympathy for the girl's aunt instantly dropped to nothing.
With two consecutive reversals, people began to doubt other negative comments about Sophia.
Just then, another person connected.
It was the man who said his father's assets had been scammed.
He looked to be in his thirties, with heavy dark circles under his eyes, holding up a photo of himself with his father, his face full of resentment.
[Hello everyone, I'm Everett Stevens. My dad just retired last year. He's always been so frugal, but he transferred all his money to this woman! Three million dollars! A full three million dollars!]
Compared to the uncle she didn't know before, Sophia actually had an impression of the old man in Everett's photo.
Everett kept talking about how frugal his father was, how his mother died early, and how it was just him and his father depending on each other. Just when his father finally retired and should have been enjoying life, he was scammed out of all his assets.
Her voice was indifferent, "You care so much about your father, how come you didn't know he was sick?"
Everett's father, Yosef Stevens, was a technical expert who worked in a research institute for years. Last year, after retirement, he was diagnosed with a rare respiratory disease.
Before retiring, he had collaborated with her lab and knew that at the time, only her lab had the relevant medication to delay the onset of this disease.
Originally, he hadn't planned to get treatment, wanting to leave more money for Everett to get married and have children. But then he heard that Everett wanted to trick him out of his money to gamble.
Yosef, who had lived his whole life frugally, finally came to his senses. He took out all his money to treat his disease. In the end, the medication treatment was very successful. As long as he took good care of himself in his old age, living to his seventies would definitely not be a problem.