Chapter 38

Lucille spoke clearly and her words were neither too fast nor too slow.

"The drowning happened last week, on the night of my 19th birthday party. I remember it very clearly. I didn't get along well with my classmates, so I didn't invite any of them, but they all came. Who brought them? It was Zoey who brought them all there without my permission, Lucille began.

"That night, Zoey was with my ex-husband. I went forward to question her, but she deliberately tripped on the stairs and was sent to the hospital so that she could flee the scene."

She continued, "After that, your children, who all of you thought were so pure and kind that they wouldn't even dare to step on an ant, forced me into the water. They did it all for the sake of getting revenge for Zoey, and I nearly drowned to death."

At that point, Lucille smiled, but her eyes were filled with an evil spirit, cold and demonic.

"I'm sure that all of you are more knowledgeable and experienced than I am. Can't you see that all of this is someone making another person do their dirty work?"

All the parents went silent. They glanced around and looked at each other.

beat. She quickly protested, "It wasn't me. I didn't

Lucille questioned with a faint smile. She looked calm and composed. "Deep down, you

course, if the parents were still stubborn enough to be fooled by Zoey when Lucille had already said so much, then it would have been a waste of her

were not

understood the

was it that their children had to bear the consequences while the

Zoey was just making them

of that, Zoey claimed to be Lucille's sister, but everyone in the city knew that she was just an adopted daughter of

kind of disgusting excuse of

anger after being deceived. She raised her

"No. Don't believe Lucille's words. She has bad intentions. I'm on the same side as

children to do your dirty work?"

She had never been in such a miserable

this moment, the reporters who she

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