Chapter 423: Isabella Is Not the Daughter of the Taylor Family
"You're right, you couldn't give birth to a daughter like me, and I'm not your biological daughter at all. I came here to suggest you get a paternity test done." Isabella said calmly.
Hearing this, Olivia was shocked and furious. "How dare you! How can you say such things?"
Was Isabella saying she wasn't her biological daughter just to make her die of anger?
"Isabella, do you really have to go this far?" Tobias stared at Isabella intently. "Not only have you taken the Taylor Group, but now you want to cut ties with us?"
"What do you mean, cut ties? We never had any ties to begin with." Isabella said seriously. "I have no blood relation with your family. You got the wrong person. You should never have brought me back in the first place."
However, when everyone heard Isabella's words, they just thought she was speaking out of anger, venting her dissatisfaction with everyone in the family.
"How did you become like this?" Olivia cried in frustration. "I thought you were a kind child, but look at what you've done! I wronged you; I shouldn't have lost you back then. You resent me in your heart, but you can't harm your father like this."
Isabella: "..."
She realized she simply couldn't communicate with these people.
"I'll leave first. When I come back with a new paternity test report, you'll naturally understand."
Isabella decided to leave first.
She had torn up the last paternity test report, so she planned to contact the testing agency to see if they could issue her a new one.
Watching Isabella turn and leave, Olivia's heart grew cold again.
However, she still didn't take Isabella's words about testing their blood relationship seriously.
She knew this must be something Isabella said just to upset her.
——
After the Taylor Group's shareholders meeting, news of Isabella becoming the new chairman immediately spread to all the executives.
Right after that, the Taylor Group signed a cooperation agreement with the Brown Group worth up to 1.5 billion dollars.
The entire Taylor Group was overjoyed.
"Our Taylor Group is about to take off! The new chairman secured cooperation with the Brown Group as soon as she took office! This is what they mean by having a big tree to lean on, right?"
"Ms. Taylor is amazing!"
"How else could she push out Mr. Taylor and become the new chairman if she wasn't capable?"
"I have a feeling that working under Ms. Taylor might lead to better prospects."
"..."
At the same time, news about the Taylor Group changing hands quickly spread across major media headlines.
Online comments varied, but most were business circle congratulations.
"Congratulations to Ms. Taylor on becoming the new chairman of the Taylor Group. Hope we can cooperate with the Taylor Group in the future."
"The youngest female chairman!"
"..."
While Hayden was hospitalized, Chase had been figuring out ways to deal with Isabella.
Finally, he contacted a media outlet.
"Post these things online according to my requirements." Chase took out Hayden's critical condition notice, photos of Hayden in the hospital during this time, and screenshots of the emails about him and Hayden being removed from their positions. He said, "Make the headline #Taylor Group Heiress Nearly Kills Biological Father to Seize Power#."
Isabella became chairman of the Taylor Group by stepping on her own biological father.
Her behavior would definitely be criticized!
With such a topic, he didn't believe it would attract netizens' attention.
Once Isabella got criticized by netizens, she would know she was wrong.
A cold sneer flashed in Chase's eyes. He returned to the hospital room and said to Hayden on the bed, "Dad, I've arranged everything. Isabella will regret this soon."
What Isabella did, though not illegal, violated human morality.
They kindly brought her back, but in less than two years, Isabella put her own biological father in the hospital to seize the Taylor Group. She only cared about profit and money - she was truly heartless, selfish, and self-centered.
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The next day.
The Taylor Group.
As soon as Isabella's car stopped at the Taylor Group entrance, reporters from all directions swarmed over like zombies, surrounding the car.
The scene descended into chaos.
Media reporters held up cameras, constantly pushing toward Isabella, shoving their lenses in her direction.
Seeing the chaos outside, the driver naturally didn't dare open the door or windows.
Security guards rushed out from the Taylor Group to maintain order, but they couldn't handle the sheer number of reporters.
"Ms. Taylor, perhaps you shouldn't go out for now. The online comments about you are very negative right now. These reporters just want to dig up firsthand information from you."
Since last night, heated discussions about her had erupted online.
Chase deliberately exaggerated, saying Hayden was still unconscious and it was all because she upset him, when in fact Hayden had already woken up.
Everyone was saying she was heartless, that she would stop at nothing to seize the family fortune, forcing her own biological father to step down. At such a young age, she was wildly ambitious, and her methods were disgraceful.
Isabella gave a cold laugh. "It's fine. Open the car door."
The driver had no choice but to open it.
As soon as the door opened, various voices came flooding in.
"Ms. Taylor, online sources say that to seize control of the Taylor Group, you upset your biological father so much that he ended up in the hospital, and Mr. Taylor is still unconscious. Is this true?"
"Ms. Taylor, how can you be so heartless and cold-blooded that you would even push out your own biological father?"
"In your heart, does family mean nothing? Is it less important than the Taylor Group?"
"We heard you were switched at birth and only returned to the Taylor family in recent years, so did you plan to take over the Taylor Group as soon as you came back?"
"You're so cruel to your own biological father - do you have no conscience?"
The driver and security guards protected Isabella, who looked at the reporters blocking her way with a calm, composed expression.
"I can answer your questions," Isabella spoke up.
Suddenly, the scene fell quiet for a moment.
Isabella looked at everyone and said calmly, "Before answering your questions, I need to clarify something. I am not Hayden's biological daughter, so I hope you won't confuse this matter or bring morality into it, because these are two different things."
As soon as she said this, the reporters were stunned.
What did Isabella mean?
Isabella wasn't Hayden's biological daughter.
Then who was she?
"Over a year ago, when I was still an orphan, Hayden mistakenly brought me back, but later I discovered the truth - the Taylor family did get the wrong person, and my last name isn't Taylor."
She calmly presented a test report to the cameras. "This is a paternity test report. This report can prove that my background has nothing to do with the Taylor family."
The entire scene fell silent.
This paternity test report was issued by a professional testing agency - there was absolutely no reason for it to be fake.
All the reporters had come for the news that Isabella had taken her biological father into the hospital to seize the Taylor Group, but instead they learned another shocking piece of news—
Isabella wasn't the Taylor family's daughter at all.