Chapter 304 Betrayal
Chapter 304 Betrayal
Behind the hill at Rain Village villa.
Sophia was recording the various herbs she had planted in different areas, noting their growth periods and success rates.
Emily was wearing a yellow raincoat, holding a Polaroid camera and taking photos everywhere.
Seeing Joe striding toward them from a distance, his face looked even more refined now that the scars had faded. His naturally handsome features, combined with his bold and unrestrained aura and black trench coat, made him as attractive as the movie stars Lyra talked about.
She pointed the camera at Joe, "Mr. Watson, look at the camera."
Seeing Emily's serious expression, Joe cooperated by standing still for two seconds.
After the photo paper came out, Joe walked over and picked her up, bringing her to Sophia.
"Sophia, look at this."
A video of Lyra's accident with the wire harness on set suddenly appeared online.
In the video, she fell from two stories high and crashed straight into a toolbox. Her face instantly showed a horrific wound, deep enough to expose bone, making viewers' scalps tingle.
This video was clearly did not come from surveillance footage, but shot by someone in hiding with high-definition equipment.
After watching the content, Sophia knew who was behind it.
Cheryl.
After Kaitlyn returned, Cheryl lost all of Philip's attention.
Sophia had someone leak Kaitlyn's information to Philip, then arranged for others to pin the blame on Cheryl. Now the two sisters both suspected each other of betrayal.
Facts proved that Kaitlyn was more cunning than Cheryl.
From the moment Philip rescued her, she had already started plotting to betray Cheryl.
Online dirt about Cheryl kept emerging endlessly, and without Philip's help, she had no connections at all. Commercial endorsements, film and TV scripts, and variety show appearances had all been cut off.
"Cheryl wants to use Lyra to counter Kaitlyn."
Sophia handed the phone back to Joe and said coldly, "Her scheme is quite clever."
Cheryl had obviously forgotten, or was too stupid to remember, that she herself had started this whole mess.
The score between her and Lyra hadn't been settled yet.
But since she was dragging Kaitlyn into this, it was a good chance to settle all the old and new accounts together.
While brushing hair away from Emily's face, Sophia asked Joe, "Have you found out everything about Kaitlyn's four years in Eldoria? Who helped her fake her death and go abroad back then?"
Joe had come specifically to tell her about this. The more they investigated the past, the more interesting it became.
Joe said, "It was Philip's uncle."
The sisters Kaitlyn and Cheryl, who lost their parents young and were raised by their grandmother, started working very early.
When Kaitlyn was working as a server at a club, she met Philip's uncle. One was greedy for money, the other lustful - they hit it off immediately.
Philip's uncle was very generous with money.
During that time, Kaitlyn experienced a lavish lifestyle she had never seen before.
However, Philip's uncle got bored with her after just two months. When he gave her breakup money, Kaitlyn didn't take it.
She was a smart woman who knew that wealthy families would never accept girls without education. Since family background couldn't compete, she naturally needed something presentable, so she proposed going to college.
Joe paused here, glancing at Emily in his arms and noticing her lips were a bit dry. He smoothly opened the water bottle she carried.
Emily leaned toward the straw and took two sips.
While watching Emily drink, he continued, "Someone found out that before choosing a school, Kaitlyn hired a private detective to investigate the Banks family, specifically looking into Philip's detailed situation."
The school she later chose was the university where Philip studied.
For the Banks family's wealth, arranging for someone to enter a school wasn't difficult - just donate a building, which could also earn the Banks family a good reputation for valuing talent.
Philip's supposedly beautiful encounter with Kaitlyn was nothing but Kaitlyn's deliberate scheme.
Seeing Emily finish drinking, Joe put the water bottle back in place. Feeling the small half-bottle of water remaining and worried Emily would find it heavy, he supported the bottle with his palm while holding her.
Thinking about Philip and Kaitlyn's wedding, Sophia's eyes showed mockery.
Philip was so easily fooled by Kaitlyn's few words and even dared to hold a wedding, such "devotion."
Had he forgotten that he and Lyra weren't even divorced yet?
Sophia's eyes were cold as she said, "Use Cheryl's name to loop the footage of Kaitlyn and Philip's uncle at their wedding venue."
If she remembered correctly, Philip's uncle was recently discussing an arranged marriage with a woman from another family.
The young woman was very innocent, while Philip's uncle had truly fallen for her, hiding his past tightly, afraid she would find out.
Joe nodded, "Don't worry, I'll arrange it."
Even though Sophia wasn't in Empire City.
News about Cheryl and Kaitlyn was still very transparent to her.
On top of Lyra's revenge, she didn't mind spending some time adding a few troublesome matters for Cheryl and Kaitlyn.
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Seeing that they had finished talking, Emily cheerfully pulled out the developed photo.
She first showed it to her mother, not forgetting to praise, "Mom, look, Mr. Watson looks so good, like a little prince."
Recently, Emily had become obsessed with reading The Little Prince, and would occasionally pull roses from the vases at home to give to Joe.
Sophia saw right through her nature - she had been someone who valued appearance since childhood.
She smiled and said, "Very handsome. Emily, remember to keep applying the ointment for Joe every day."
Emily raised her head, her voice clear and loud, "I guarantee to complete the mission!"
Emily turned to look at Joe, who was holding her, her bright eyes full of smiles.
She leaned in to examine the scars on his face with great seriousness, saying earnestly, "Mr. Watson, be good. After two, four, six more days... they'll be gone, and you'll be even more handsome."
"When I start kindergarten, Mr. Watson and Uncle Lucas can both come pick me up from school.”
Even someone like Joe, who rarely smiled, couldn't help but lose control of his expression when seeing the child's face, showing she wanted to show off to her classmates.
Seeing him constantly holding Emily, Sophia said helplessly with a smile, "Don't always carry her, you're making her not want to walk."
"It's fine, Emily is very light." Joe's face, with its hard lines, was full of smiles.
Sophia said with a smile in her eyes, "You all just spoil her."
That said, most of the time Emily was basically carried by her too. Sophia went back to the herb garden to continue her observations, while behind her, the sound of Emily’s camera shutter clicked again and again.
Just because she liked it, the house had an entire cabinet filled with Polaroid photos. Her uncles bought her photo paper by the box, and half the storage room was filled with it. Harper even sent her several professional cameras, so Emily went around taking pictures everywhere, every day.
Compared to Sophia's peace here, Cheryl's situation was not so comfortable.