Alia Garcia was livid, "You, a man with an engagent, utter such shaless words, do you have no sense of decency left?"
"The engagent was broken off yesterday."
"Really? Did Miss Garcia agree? Besides—"
She paused for a mont, sorted her thoughts, and reaffird, "Besides, even if you’ve broken off the engagent and are single again, I still don’t want anything to do with you. I don’t want the outside world to misinterpret our relationship as sothing more, so please, Mr. Hart, handle this situation as swiftly as possible."
After dropping these words, Alia Garcia didn’t want to communicate further and hung up the call first.
In truth, she could have made a post to clarify for herself.
But if Christopher Hart didn’t cooperate, her unilateral clarification would only make netizens think she was being evasive and making excuses, which would direct more backlash towards her.
And indeed, she was Hope’s biological mother.
She didn’t want to deceive the public by claiming she just looked like Hope’s mother and had taken care of the child out of pity only to encounter the drunken master of the house upon his return, leading to all those misunderstandings.
She feared that one lie now would require countless more lies to maintain in the future.
Thus, the best course of action was to watch and wait, letting Christopher Hart take the brunt of it.
But Christopher Hart was just as stubborn.
Asking him to explain his private life to the unrelated masses was as tough as reaching for the heavens.
While neither had yet to respond to the incident, another person used a long heartfelt essay of over a thousand words to plead with and apologize to the onlooking public.
Seeing that essay, Alia Garcia could only lant, "When a person stoops so low, they beco invincible," and was utterly dumbfounded!
"Hello everyone, I’m Lily Garcia, Mr. Christopher Hart’s fiancée.
The recent rumors about Mr. Hart’s intimate contact with a third-party woman spread online due to a misunderstanding, and I urge everyone to be rational and not spread rumors.
Mr. Hart and I fell in love three years ago and got engaged.
Over the years, our relationship has been stable and supportive, and we recently scheduled our wedding.
The lady in the photos is surnad Norton, and because she closely resembles Mr. Hart’s deceased wife, she was mistaken by his daughter as her mother.
Mr. Hart, being deeply affectionate towards his daughter, invited Lady Norton to our ho as a guest to keep the girl company.
On the evening of the incident, Mr. Hart and I returned to the Hart family’s old ho for a family dinner where wedding plans were discussed.
Mr. Hart was in high spirits and drank excessively.
Later, due to feeling unwell, I went to the hospital, and Mr. Hart was escorted back to the villa by family mbers, where Lady Norton had yet to leave, and thus helped to look after him, leading to the misunderstandings depicted in the photos.
I believe in Mr. Hart’s feelings for and trust his character.
Afterwards, Mr. Hart explained the entire sequence of events to , and the villa’s surveillance has clearly recorded the truth.
Indeed, they did not overstep boundaries, nor did anything inappropriate.
The spread of the photo was the work of a narrow-minded maid seeking revenge, who deliberately took out of context, misleading photos and posted them online to use public opinion for her vengeful purposes.
Following the incident, this maid disappeared without a trace which further suggests her guilt.
The whole matter is entirely unfounded.
Even if others harbor ulterior motives, I believe Mr. Hart’s devoted and grateful nature will resist temptation and honor our engagent.
...
I earnestly request the general public to stop spreading this news out of consideration for Mr. Hart’s deep love for his daughter, as a way of showing kindness to the child."
Shaw read the statent and the more he read, the higher his blood pressure soared until finally, with a few hundred words left, he couldn’t bear to read any further!
"Damn! This woman is the epito of a Tricky Woman! How could she have the gall to write this article?"
Kane couldn’t understand Chinese, and Shaw was reading quickly, so after trying to comprehend what was said, he asked, "That Mr. Hart, does he love his fiancée very much?"
"Bullshit!" Shaw imdiately denied, "Sister Snow Fitch said she doesn’t love him at all! It’s this woman who emotionally blackmailed him, clinging on relentlessly."
Alia Garcia wore an indescribable expression, savoring the underlying intentions between the lines of the poorly written article.
No matter who had written this, one thing was undeniable—the angle was cunning and truly brilliant!
Lily Garcia should have been the victim in this incident.
But with her generous and forgiving attitude refusing to pursue the matter, she suddenly elevated her own image.
And throughout the article, she was defending her fiancé.
In the end, it was her, the one allegedly wronged by the mistress, who deserved a million deaths!
One could imagine how the netizens would explode once this statent was released.
She feared not only herself being doxxed, but even her ancestors might be dug up from their graves!
Fortunately, Clarke Norton was just an assud identity; otherwise, it would have been truly impossible to settle this.
Shaw scrolled through the comnts, growing more and more infuriated.
"Nowadays, netizens are so brain-dead! Can’t they see such an insincere and lodramatic statent is fake?"
"They blindly follow and like! Sympathizing with her plight—absurdly ridiculous!"
Alia Garcia remained silent, suffering a headache.
Her phone rang, and seeing it was her best friend’s call, she walked to the balcony to answer, "Hello, Little Snow."
"Lily Garcia responded, did you see? Geez! She’s playing the ultimate Tricky Woman! Those fabrications, even an award-winning screenwriter would have to admit—are sheer genius!" exclaid Snow Fitch.
Alia Garcia frowned, "Are you implying she wrote it herself?"
"Of course! Well, no, definitely not by herself; she’s not that smart! Isn’t your stepmother really quite sothing?"
Alia Garcia slapped her forehead, realizing the oversight; how could she have forgotten Lily Garcia had a master strategist for a mother behind her.
"Right, I forgot my stepmother! The Garcia family is forcing marriage publicly now, deliberately using this opportunity to make everyone aware of the Garcia family’s debt to the Hart family, forcing Christopher Hart to fulfill his promise."
Otherwise, he would be crushed by public opinion.
The entire Hart Family, including the Seal-Cloud Corporation, would lose face and find it difficult to recover.
Snow Fitch continued, "Exactly! And did you see the post online? It’s apparently from soone claiming to be Lily Garcia’s best friend, deliberately leaking stories unknown to netizens."
Another buzz went through Alia Garcia’s mind, "What else was posted?"
"I’ve forwarded it to you on WhatsApp. Essentially, it claims Lily Garcia risked her life to save the younger Miss Hart and has since beco the Hart family’s savior. The Hart family has been deeply grateful to her, and the two families have been bound together ever since, close as one!"
The excitent was clear in Snow Fitch’s voice, "It’s obviously instigated by Lily Garcia herself! It might even be her own alternate account! It’s downright marriage coercion!"
Alia Garcia set her phone to speaker and opened WhatsApp, brows knitting tighter as she glanced at the blog post.
It had been released just over half an hour ago and already had several thousand comnts.
Clearly, there was soone pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Seeing her silent, Snow Fitch asked worriedly, "What does Christopher Hart have to say about this?"
"He contacted this morning, said he had already annulled the engagent. But now it seems that was only his unilateral decision."
Now, with these two online posts, annulling the engagent was definitely impossible, and it was as if their engagent had been fortified with a new layer of defense!
"Ah... your situation is getting more and more complicated."
Isn’t that the truth?
Alia Garcia also hadn’t expected things to turn out this way.
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