Inside the huge hall, I appeared like a woman who had lost control, “You say I betrayed, say I went into beds. Do you have proof? Only using one picture?”
Camille looked at me, the corner of her lips lifting into a mocking smile.
“If there was no proof, would I reveal you at a moment like this?”
She faced the backstage area, her voice soft but harsh. “Other than pictures, I also keep a video. Do you want to show it for everybody to watch?”
With a light motion from Camille’s hand, the huge screen inside the hall showed a video of me sitting inside a car, chatting and laughing with a man.
I looked at the man in that video, and the anger that had gathered to a certain level suddenly faded away.
Because nobody understood better than me that he was my real father.
The ruler of a major overseas financial company.
Yet they actually thought he was the man I had betrayed with.
Russell and Camille really did not know fear because they knew nothing.
And they truly were not scared of death!
All these years, my status had been kept hidden on purpose.
Because I was my parents’ only child, before completing the inheritance of the family wealth, showing myself too early in public would’ve been very risky.
A few days earlier, my father had come to visit me.
He was old now, and his body had started getting weaker. This time, he’d come only to speak with me about the family inheritance.
That day, he bought flowers and gave them to me. It was just a clumsy way for a father to comfort his daughter.
But unexpectedly, someone with bad intent secretly took photos of that moment, edited it, and showed it as ‘cheating during marriage!’
I slowly lowered the hand that had covered my face, my fingertips still a little numb.
“Russell,” I lifted the corner of my lips, my voice rough but clear, “was this your decision?”
Russell looked down at me from above, his eyes cold like he was looking at a stranger.
“What kind of tricks are you still trying to play now?”
His voice dropped very low, but every word sounded sarcastic.
“You, a loose and filthy woman, what reason do you still have to stand beside me? What reason do you have to sit at the same level as me in the company?”
“To the people in the company who work honestly, this is unfair.”
He spoke as if he were standing up for justice for the company.
But I understood clearly.