Some pulled out their phones to record.
"Holy shit! He's really going at it!"
"Damn, look at those moves—"
"Who would've guessed? Looks so refined and bookish, but underneath? Total sleaze."
"'Studying medicine abroad'—yeah right. Wonder how many rich women's beds he climbed into over there."
"That's wild. Think he'd actually settle down with just Ms. Fox after marriage?"
The comments grew filthier by the second.
Dora's face had gone a sickly green—the exact shade of the blanched vegetables on the banquet table.
Greg Fox looked like he might collapse. He grabbed my lapel to steady himself, then slammed his fist into my chest.
"I pitied you! Your parents died young, and I treated you like my own son! How could you be this shameless? How could you do this to my daughter?"
Guy clutched at Dora's sleeve, sniffling pathetically, his face arranged in an expression of pure noble sacrifice.
"Ms. Fox, I just—I couldn't stand watching you get deceived by this... this filthy man who's slept with God knows how many people!"
"You've been so good to me. Even if you fire me after this, I'll accept it. I had to tell you the truth."
I folded my arms and let a cold smirk curl my lips.
"Funny. I don't think anyone knows that particular feeling better than you do."
Guy flinched like I'd struck him. His eyes darted away, and he shrank back behind Dora.
That was the final straw for her. Humiliation and rage collided, and she exploded.
She pulled Guy protectively behind her, her eyes blazing red as she glared at me.
"David! How much longer are you going to humiliate him?"
"You're the shameless one! You're disgusting! You think everyone else is as filthy as you?"
Her chest heaved violently, her hoarse voice cracking with the raw anguish of betrayal.
"Ten years! For ten years, I kept you in my heart like you were the only bright moon in my sky—pure, precious, untouchable!"
"And what was I to you?"
I looked at her contorted face and felt a bleak smile twist my lips.
"You say I was your bright moon? Dora, if you ever truly cared about me, why couldn't you believe a single word I said? Not even once?"
"You didn't even bother to verify if the video was real or fake before deciding I was trash?"
"Did it never occur to you that it could be an AI deepfake?"
Guy's shrill voice cut me off.
"Ms. Fox treated you like a god, and this is how you repay her?"