Chapter 7
Ethan looked at us blankly.
But after all, he had been helping manage the Sinclair family’s business for years and naturally knew how to read the room.
Whether it was the reactions of the surrounding guests or my inexplicable confidence, it all made him start to feel helplessly that things were no longer under his control.
“Mr. Grant, please look clearly at the name on this engagement party. If you’re here to congratulate Aria and me, you’re welcome.”
“But if you’re here to cause trouble, don’t blame me for being impolite.”
lead
Liam Kennedy’s voice was deep, carrying an innate pressure of someone born to lead.
Ethan stumbled back a step, turning his head to finally see the flowing script on the congratulatory banner:
Engagement Party of Sinclair Heiress Aria Sinclair and Kennedy Family Young Master Liam Kennedy
He shook his head helplessly, looking up at me with reddened eyes:
“You clearly… clearly said you liked me… Aria, how could you…”
How could I betray him?
When he held Ivy Chen and made me kneel down to apologize, why didn’t he think there would be a day when that love would fade?
At this moment, Ivy Chen ran in, her long hair disheveled as she knelt down and cried out:
“So sister hooked up with the Kennedy family. No wonder she could brazenly kidnap and insult me. I have no face to see anyone now!”
She turned to bang her head against a pillar again, using her old trick.
But this time Ethan didn’t rush to pull her back in time,
9:25 AM
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He kept staring at my hand holding Liam Kennedy’s arm, his eyes red.
Ivy Chen was pulled up by Oliver Lawrence and Zach Johnson who had rushed over. They questioned Ethan:
“What’s wrong with you?! That evil woman Aria almost drove Ivy to death!”
I raised my glass and walked over, directly pouring it on their heads:
“Are you all drunk? I’ve been standing here the whole time, did I do anything?”
Oliver Lawrence shouted at me: “But you kidnapped Ivy!”
At this moment, the big screen suddenly lit up. Liam Kennedy looked at them mockingly:
“You mean this kind of kidnapping?”
The surveillance video on the screen started playing. Ivy Chen impatiently slapped a kidnapper:
“Useless thing, where’s Aria Sinclair?! Forget it, just kidnap me.”
“Today is her big day. I absolutely won’t let her have a good time!”
The video then showed her deliberately letting people tear her dress, crying and wailing as she ran in to complain.
Ethan turned to look at Ivy Chen in disbelief.
But Oliver Lawrence and Zach Johnson were still hugging the softly crying Ivy Chen and arguing:
“If Aria hadn’t bullied her all this time, how could Ivy be driven to this point?”
“If she didn’t fight back, she would have been tortured to death by Aria!”
I had just said “I didn’t“, when Liam Kennedy immediately followed up for me: “You mean this kind of bullying?”
The big screen image instantly switched to villa surveillance footage.
Ivy Chen deliberately falling down stairs, Ivy Chen throwing garbage at herself, Ivy Chen cutting herself…
And she successfully pinned all of it on me!
In the past she would deliberately destroy the surveillance cameras. After I was truly neglected and treated coldly by Ethan and the others,
she didn’t even bother destroying the cameras anymore.
“Go ahead and show it to them if you dare. I’ll just say it’s Al–generated fake footage.”
“Guess who they’ll believe – you or me?”
On the big screen, Ivy Chen’s vicious face was displayed in high definition.
