Chapter 133 Sophie, How Do You Still Want to Explain
Lily stood there and let out a cold laugh.
Sophie stumbled back several steps, shocked that Michael was actually here!
What now?
Michael had heard everything she just said!
Sophie swallowed hard. "Michael, I was just looking out for Lily. What she did offended so many people at school. I'm worried about how hard things will be for her here; that's why I said those things. I didn't mean anything else by it."
But Michael didn't believe what Sophie was saying.
He clearly heard the mockery in Sophie's tone just now—her whole attitude was different.
He looked at Sophie suspiciously and couldn't help wondering if Sophie had been two-faced like this before, which led to Lily's relationship with the family getting worse and worse!
Michael turned to Lily. "Lily, if you ever run into any problems, you can call me. I've decided to move the company to Empire City, so I'll be around all the time!"
Lily just felt annoyed. "I only have one request: stay away from me!"
Lily headed down the stairs. Why did the Roberts family people always have to haunt her!
So annoying!
She didn't need Michael's help with anything!
After Lily left, Michael gave Sophie a meaningful look. "Something this big happened to Lily. Why didn't you tell us?"
What's more, what Sophie just said sounded more like kicking someone when they're down!
"I was going to tell you, but Lily told me to mind my own business. I was planning to come check on the situation today before deciding whether to tell you."
Sophie felt extremely guilty right now and didn't dare look Michael in the eye.
Michael was somewhat disappointed in Sophie now. "Sophie, have you lied to us before?"
"Michael, I've never lied to you, really, I swear!"
Sophie's eyes turned red with anger, looking like she'd been wronged.
In the past, Michael would definitely have softened and let this go.
But now Michael felt nothing.
He realized Sophie wasn't what she appeared to be on the surface—maybe he'd been fooled by Sophie all these years, too.
Sometimes, once trust collapses, the seeds of doubt take root and grow!
Michael's tone was cold. "I hope you remember what you just said. Lily is my real sister and will always be part of the Roberts family. What the Roberts family gives you, you can take. What we don't give you, you'd better not dream about!"
Hearing this, Sophie completely broke down inside.
So what did all her years of effort pleasing the Roberts family amount to?
But she held it in, lowering her head and answering quietly, "Michael, I've always known I'm not your real daughter. How would I dare compete with Lily for anything!"
"Better be that way!"
After warning Sophie, Michael left.
Sophie stood there alone. After Michael left, when she lifted her head, her expression was incredibly dark.
She'd always known she wasn't their real daughter.
So if she wanted a good life, she had to fight for it herself, grab it herself!
She would never let Lily return to the Roberts family and take away everything she had!
Lily returned to the classroom—there were two classes in a row this morning!
After she got back to the classroom, quite a few people were still sneaking glances at Lily.
Wendy couldn't help gloating. "Lily, you're back so soon? Did the school punish you?"
Now that Lily's situation had caused public outrage, the school would definitely punish Lily.
Lily answered with a half-smile, "Sorry to disappoint you!"
Seeing Lily's expression, Wendy had a bad feeling. "Lily, keep acting tough. There's no way you won't be punished!"
Just then, Hugo walked into the classroom.
Seeing this, Wendy raised her voice. "Mr. Graves, has the decision about Lily's punishment come out? She caused such a big impact on everyone; she definitely needs to be dealt with to be fair!"
"Yeah, our phones are all locked, it's so inconvenient!"
Everyone complained along with Wendy.
Wendy instantly felt like she had people following her lead, and her confidence surged.
Hugo stood at the front, glancing around the classroom. "Students, regarding the campus forum incident, we've concluded."
"Mr. Graves, announce the results. We can't wait anymore."
"After the school's investigation, the rumor on the school forum that Lily was being kept by someone is false! The student who posted that thread will receive disciplinary action from the school!"
Wendy was very unwilling to accept this. "Mr. Graves, that's impossible! Lily's an orphan whose parents are both dead—how could she be wearing designer brands all over! There's definitely something wrong!"
"Although Lily's parents passed away, she still has an older brother. We've already verified this. Wendy, do you have objections to the school's decision?"
Wendy immediately backed down. "I just find it hard to believe! What about our locked phones?"
"Since the forum post content was false, you should indeed apologize to Lily!"
After Hugo finished speaking, the classroom erupted.
Hugo looked at Lily with complicated feelings. He hadn't expected Lily to be hiding so much—clearly a rich young lady, yet pretending to be an orphan.
Most importantly, Lily was so capable!
After announcing the results, Hugo left, feeling a bit embarrassed since he had also misunderstood Lily.
Soon, the school also released an announcement about the campus forum rumor incident.
Wendy was furious. So Lily just got off without any consequences?
Lily's mood improved quite a bit with this result. It seemed justice did exist after all.
After eating, Lily returned to the dorm.
After washing up, she lay in bed searching for developments on Samantha's bullying incident. The trending topic was long gone, and even searching for it had become a banned term!
Looks like the Harper family spent a lot of money!
But the victim's family was still crying out for justice online, saying the photos and videos exposed online were dismissed by police as photoshopped and couldn't be used as evidence!
After seeing this, Lily hacked into Samantha's phone again and posted the same content as before on Twitter: [Bottom-feeder trash thinks they can sue me!]
She also set up several virtual IP addresses abroad and posted these videos and photos.
[The truth shouldn't be buried], [Samantha should go to jail for bullying a classmate to death!]
The incident about Samantha's bullying became a trending topic again.
After Lily posted these messages, people quickly tried to track her IP address. She had anticipated this and prepared for it.
Those people wouldn't be able to find her!
Since the Harper family wanted to delete the videos and photos and control public opinion, she refused to believe it—she'd keep posting these things online so the Harper family couldn't delete them all!
Thinking about how she was set up by Samantha and Sophie, now only Sophie was left.
She definitely couldn't restore the deleted video herself.
But she had to get video evidence!
Just then, Lily received a message from Michael: "Lily, are you looking for the bar's surveillance footage?"
Lily thought about it—did Michael have a lead on the surveillance?