Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 494: This... is me?

"Then tell me who the troublemaker is."

Even now, Penny didn't fully understand Hugo. To stop herself from overthinking, she unlocked the phone, revealing a CCTV video from the hallway outside her hospital room. She had been expecting to see a suspicious person approaching her ward to harm her, but what she saw next made her freeze.

Instead of an intruder, Hugo was shown exiting her room, followed by her. They wrestled briefly, slamming each other into the wall, before falling to the floor. Penny was overpowering him, choking him with her arm as she pinned him from behind. Suddenly, Hugo pulled something out.

Without hesitation, he stabbed her leg with it - the same leg that now had a lesion and a faint bruise.

At that point, Penny paused the video, glancing down at her leg. Although the camera angle didn't capture her face, she was certain she must have been shocked. Even so, she made a final attempt to put Hugo in a headlock.

Luckily for Hugo, whatever he had injected worked quickly, and she eventually collapsed to the side.

In the video, Hugo sat up, rubbing his neck, and gazed at her for a moment before shaking his head. Penny's face twitched when she saw her second brother stand up and — rather than carry her - grab both of her ankles to drag her back into the ward.

"Ah, sorry about that last part," Hugo said, noticing her look of disbelief. "I was frustrated and tired. I couldn't carry you."

"..." Penny was momentarily speechless. "This is... this is real?"

He nodded. "Yes."

"This happened last night?"

"There's a date stamp and time in the corner. You can check," he replied nonchalantly. "I got the footage from the hospital records."

ו"

"..." Once again, Penny was rendered speechless. She couldn't believe what she had just seen; it was far from what she expected. To be sure, she reviewed the footage again, confirming that the woman wrestling with Hugo was indeed her.

It was her.

eyes widened, and she held her breath. Her face turned

same question. She couldn't help it—it all

repeated patiently. He found it just as ridiculous. "That's you... after having a drink. So, in conclusion, First Brother isn't paranoid.

at the footage, her face twisting in disbelief. She rewatched it once more, her expression growing uglier by the

back at Hugo,

"How would I know?"

you sure... I did

"I wish I wasn't."

shakily at the marks on Hugo's face, scanning the bruises and scratches in sight. Then,

attacked me last night, then yes," Hugo said, a hint of sarcasm

creeping dread settled in her heart. After a moment, she suddenly remembered Zoren's men-and her own- when she woke

house. Her expression went

dog," she mumbled lifelessly. "No, calling myself a dog is

before pounding her chest again. "Penny, don't feel

know you are,

because I dragged

winced, closing her eyes as she struggled to find a way to salvage her image. She covered her mouth, on the verge of tears. "Now Renren will think I'm just

drunk, but Zoren had fared better than he did. At least Zoren

about it, what

"Huh?"

Brother was the first to react when we're out at a bachelor's party. He's the first to stop you, and he already knows how much of a

Penny's lips formed a small 'o' as she recalled Atlas searching for her after she left the

remember?" Hugo pressed. "I'm curious. I've never seen First

Penny replied. "You're always

I would've heard

Dad, then from Slater. But no one said

"Oh."

"Try to remember."