“No! How could it be like this? It’s all fake! The photos are fake. What’s going on?” Florence screamed as she rushed to the projection screen, trying to pull down the curtain while shouting, “Turn this thing off quickly, turn it off now!”
The people around her looked at Florence with different expressions, all wanting to see her embarrassment.
Just then a voice came from behind the crowd and attracted everyone’s attention.
“What happened here?”
Jane stood behind the crowd with a surprised expression. She saw what was on the screen and instantly looked disgusted.
But in the next second, she seemed to recognize the woman in the photo and exclaimed pointing at Florence,
“Isn’t this your photo?”
Florence turned around abruptly but only saw Jane wearing that same dress. She remembered destroying that dress herself so that when she released those photos later, Jane wouldn’t be able to come out and explain immediately.
But now Florence saw nothing wrong with Jane’s dress while someone had swapped out the photo on screen.
Suddenly Florence understood everything when she looked at Jane’s smiling face. She rushed over and pointed at Jane screaming, “It was you! You did all of this! You’re so cruel, Jane!”
Jane took a step back calmly saying, “I don’t know what happened here or what I can do about it. And my dress got dirty earlier so I went back to change into another one which is why I’m late.”
Looking back up at the screen again she smirked, “But too bad for me though because I missed whatever just happened.”
Florence turned pale as everything had already been seen by others even though they managed to turn off that image in time.
She suddenly turned her head and saw Melissa. Hastily, she approached, reaching out and grabbing Melissa’s wrist, pulling her outside.
“Melissa, that day you were with me. You know everything. I didn’t do any of these things. I’m framed, isn’t that right?”
However, Melissa noticed the expressions of the people around and quickly pulled her hand back, saying awkwardly, “Florence, although I went to the bar with you that day, I left early. I don’t know anything that happened afterward.”
Completely unexpected to Florence, Melissa’s reaction left her looking astonished. It seemed like she wanted to step forward and talk to Melissa, but Beatrice, quick-eyed and swift-handed, stepped forward and pushed her aside.
Beatrice knew exactly what Florence wanted to do. Even after seeing the photos Florence brought that day, she gained confidence. So, on that day, she confronted Jane with such arrogance.
Combined with Jane’s reaction, Beatrice was sure that Jane indeed had some connection with the two men in the photos.
However, Beatrice never expected that such a thing would happen now. Seeing Florence was no longer of use, she naturally couldn’t let Florence have any involvement with Melissa.
“Florence, I never expected you to be such a shameless person. Stay away from Melissa. Don’t throw any dirty water on Melissa anymore.”
Beatrice pulled Melissa to the side, and Melissa, looking at Florence’s almost collapsed expression, shifted her gaze elsewhere.
People around clustered together, pointing fingers at Florence, and some even took photos in advance to share with others. Almost in an instant, Florence became the laughingstock of everyone.
“No, it’s not like that, not like that at all. I’m framed!” Florence trembled all over. Suddenly, she looked at Patrick, as if seeing the last straw for help. She rushed over, grabbing his sleeve.
“Patrick, you have to believe me! It’s Jane! Jane framed me. It must be her!”
Patrick frowned, disgust evident, and moved to the side.
“Jane, why are you treating me like this!” Florence’s voice was hoarse.
Hearing this, Jane, who was originally standing beside Patrick, turned her gaze over. “Treat you like this? How did I treat you, Florence?”
“You know everything, you know it all!” Florence looked at Jane with growing anger.
However, Jane lightly pursed her red lips, tapping her fingernails gently on her own arm. “No, Florence, I don’t know anything.”
Saying that, she bent down, getting close to Florence’s cheek, “The only thing I know is a saying, ‘treat others as they treat you.'”
She leaned into Florence’s ear, speaking in a voice audible only to the two of them, “Perhaps, Florence, all of this is what you deserve, isn’t it?”
Although the others didn’t hear what Jane said to Florence, there were no purely innocent people present. Based solely on what Jane had just said, “treat others as they treat you,” they had a sense of what was going on.
It seemed that Florence wanted to frame Jane but ended up being outwitted.
Now Florence also knew that everything had been settled. She looked at Jane, a hint of fierceness flashing in her eyes, reaching out to grab Jane’s neck.
“Jane, I’ll make you die with me!”
However, Jane was quicker and seized her wrist, ruthlessly twisting her arm behind her back, directly subduing Florence.
Florence screamed in pain, falling to the ground ungracefully.
“You scoundrel!”
Mike, who had been sitting with a gloomy expression, finally spoke. He looked angrily at Florence on the ground and said directly, “Pansy family and the Doyle family have been close for generations. I never expected the Doyle family to produce someone like you. Take her back to the Doyle family!”
The butler quickly ordered someone to take Florence away. However, Florence, staring at Jane, had a strangely twisted expression on her face.
“I thought this Miss Doyle, coming from a scholarly family, would be a lady, but unexpectedly, she plays so dirty in private.”
A familiar voice sounded, and Jane looked up, a hint of surprise in her eyes. She hadn’t expected to see another acquaintance here.
Katherine pursed her lips and smiled, walking over from the corner.
She stood in front of Mike and said softly, “Today is Mr. Pansy’s birthday, so I specially brought a gift, hoping you will like it.”
Katherine opened the prepared brocade box. When everyone saw what was inside, they couldn’t help but gasp. It was a piece of exceptionally fine imperial green jade, carved in the shape of a mountain, clearly a valuable item.