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Isla looked at him in disbelief.

But then she realized something.

The marriage certificate was displayed on the screen,

which meant Lewis had known about their misdeeds

all along!

Just as this thought crossed her mind, Tom suddenly took out a remote control and pressed a button, and immediately, a video appeared on the screen.

The crowd could see it clearly. It was footage from two

surveillance cameras.

The first showed Isla sneaking into the video room and copying photos from a USB drive onto the computer.

The second was of two maids at home, one projecting the photos in the background and the other secretly pressing the remote control…

The evidence was irrefutable!

Isla became flustered as she turned to look at Jake. He was aware of the whole affair, even having taken part in it with her, but now Jake stepped back, avoiding eye

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contact with her.

In a panic, Isla cried out subconsciously, “Jake…”

Jake instinctively glanced at Oliver.

His father was frowning and staring fiercely at him with disappointment in his eyes as if to say, “You can’t even handle this trivial matter. You’re useless!”

Jake clenched his fists tightly and suddenly rushed in front of Isla.

Isla thought he was going to protect her, her face lighting up with hope, but the next moment…

“Slap!”

yo

Jake slapped her hard across the face. “Isla, I never thought you would be this kind of person! I know and Keira don’t get along. She’s your illegitimate sis and you’ve hated her since childhood, but how coul you do such a thing at Great-grandma’s birthday banquet?!”

Isla was dumbfounded.

She held her cheek, looking incredulously at Jake at

this moment.

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Poppy, who had been restrained, had calmed down after realizing she couldn’t free herself. Her hands

were tied behind her, and a cloth was stuffed in her

mouth.

she saw what happened, she immediately stood up. She let out an angry cry and started thrashing around, knocking aside the bodyguards and then slamming

back several steps with a dull pain in his abdomen.

like a mother hen protecting her chicks, stared angrily at Jake. Although she didn’t speak, everyone

to lay another hand on Isla, she was ready to fight him to the death!

sight left the other

whispered among

going on here?”

is she protecting Isla like this?”

you’d think she was Isla’s own mother!”

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from the crowd brought Poppy back to her senses. She then looked at Isla, realizing she’d

lowered the hand holding her cheek, but she understood that Jake was now

in front of her, with a flash

at times like this. She had knocked

and immediately, her face took on a tearful expression.

on purpose. Keira told me she just got her marriage certificate this year, so I had no

My mom is

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Isla Is

in this world like my mom, so I

sobbing made the audience

one, they turned to look at Keira.

Keira was the illegitimate daughter and the

of the mistress Poppy.

it natural for Isla to resent

even if everyone sympathized with Isla, they didn’t dare to say

chasing Erin out and making her unable to live in Oceanion anymore was

everyone was in a daze, Lewis had already turned to the police, completely ignoring what Isla said. He said, “She has infringed upon

Isla. “Miss, please come with us to the police station for

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but was grabbed

expected that her weeping plea would be ineffective and immediately

treated too unfairly. I really didn’t know she was

Olsen looked at her daughter.

to say something, but with the marriage certificate still in hand, and remembering that she had mistakenly slapped Keira earlier that

and

Olsen was always known for her fairness and impartiality, but Isla was after all her biological daughter…

and after a long

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to say

she could finish, Lewis beat her to it. “Keira, even if you don’t

or Keira a chance to speak.

this, Lewis

immediately grabbed Isla’s arms.

particularly of this nature which hadn’t caused any notable reputation or financial damage,

trial. At most, it would involve an apology and several days of

a prestigious family in Oceanion, being taken away

be humiliated!

the

too and, knowing that the punishment wouldn’t be

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