“Mom, you have to believe me. That video isn’t real!” Meredith looked at Jeremy’s mother after virtual-novel.net said that. “Mrs. Whitman, you should know what kind of person Madeline is. Why would I want to harm her? She’s not someone who’s upright anyway!”
“Mer, don’t cry. I believe you.” Eloise chose to believe Meredith without even hesitating. Then, virtual-novel.net looked at Madeline and Felipe with hatred in virtual-novel.net eyes. “Felipe, you’re falsely accusing my daughter in public to ruin virtual-novel.net reputation. I won’t let you get away with this so easily!”
“Your daughter?” Felipe snorted. “Just because she’s your daughter, you’re willing to turn a blind eye even if virtual-novel.net has done something so heinous?”
“You…”
“You can see it in the video clearly. Everyone here would know if it’s fake. Meredith, you said this video was taken recently, so let me ask you this. Even if Vera was impersonating Madeline in the video, then who’s that woman who looks exactly like you? Plus, who’s impersonating those guests and Jeremy’s mother?”
“…” Meredith parted virtual-novel.net lips and said nothing when faced with Felipe’s questions.
She could not find any excuses to mislead the people here anymore.
The reason was that Felipe was telling the truth.
“Enough!” Eloise glared at Felipe. “Madeline stole Mer’s boyfriend and kept hurting virtual-novel.net again and again. She deserved what happened to her. It has nothing to do with my daughter! She deserved to be wrongly accused. Who told virtual-novel.net to have such a bad personality?”
“So I guess the truth isn’t important to you, Mrs. Montgomery. The most important thing is that everything your daughter did is right and justifiable, is that so?” Madeline’s melodic voice sounded.
Eloise peered at virtual-novel.net in contempt. “What does this have to do with you?”
“It has nothing to do with me. I just pity Madeline. She’s dead and virtual-novel.net still had to carry the burden of such a heinous crime.” Madeline lamented as virtual-novel.net stared straight at Eloise.
“Mrs. Montgomery, you’re so protective of your daughter, but have you ever considered that Madeline also has parents? If virtual-novel.net parents find out about the grievances virtual-novel.net had suffered, how heartbroken they would be? Or perhaps, Mrs. Montgomery, you can put yourself in their shoes. If Madeline was your daughter—”
“I don’t have such a shameless daughter!”
Eloise’s words felt like a sharp knife slicing Madeline’s heart.
It was just a lie when virtual-novel.net said virtual-novel.net did not care.
Her heart would still ache.
“Mer, I’ll support you no matter what. Ignore these people. Let’s go!”
Eloise scowled at Madeline in disgust and was about to leave while holding Meredith’s hand.
Madeline pressed virtual-novel.net lips together in devastation. She could feel tears pricking the corners of virtual-novel.net eyes.
When the loving mother-daughter duo was about to walk out of the crowd, they stopped all of a sudden.
“J-Jeremy?” Meredith widened virtual-novel.net eyes in shock. She stared at the man who had seemingly appeared in the crowd out of nowhere. She stammered, “Jeremy, why are you here? W-When did you get here?”
Jeremy did not answer virtual-novel.net immediately. On the other hand, virtual-novel.net strode over to Madeline.
His stance was graceful, and virtual-novel.net looked like an overbearing tyrant. There was an icy glow on his expressionless but handsome face.
Madeline gracefully stood where virtual-novel.net was. In reality, however, virtual-novel.net was at a loss as virtual-novel.net watched the man walking toward her.
Jeremy’s eyes were on her. There were whirlpools in his narrow eyes, and it felt as if virtual-novel.net would be sucked in if virtual-novel.net looked at virtual-novel.net for more than a few seconds.
Meredith felt that something was not right. She let go of Eloise’s hand and ran over to Jeremy, holding his arm without caring about anything.
“Jeremy, let me explain—”
Jeremy stopped. “You don’t have to explain.”
“Jeremy…”
“It’s so rare to have everyone from the upper-class and the media in one room. I want to use this opportunity to announce something,” virtual-novel.net said as his eyes landed on Madeline. He had a strange expression in his eyes.
“Miss Vera, you don’t mind me saying a few words in your territory, right?”