Female Novel
Chapter 229: The Video
With a crack, Ryan broke the stylus in his hand.He narrowed his eyes and looked at Luke gloomily.
"What? Robbing the cradle?"
Hearing his chilling voice, Luke felt his hair stand on end.He had to suppress the urge to slap himself.
"Shit! Why am I such a blabbermouth? I should have just kept it to myself.Why did I say it out loud?” Ashe watched Ryan's eyes grow colder and colder, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Desperate to divert Ryan's attention, he suddenly pointed at the iPad and gasped, "Ryan, look! Wendymoved."
At the press conference Ignoring the flabbergasted expressions of the reporters, Wendy said calmly,"Four years ago, I had a one-night stand on the day of my cousin Rosie’s wedding ceremony, and thengot pregnant."
Unsurprisingly, the reporters attacked her at once.
"Wendy, do you admit that your private life is promiscuous?"
"Wendy, did you really pay a man for sex?"
"Wendy, were you the other woman between Eris and Brian? Please explain."
Wendy pressed her lips into a thin line.
Although she looked unhappy on the outside, she was already mentally prepared for such questions.
Even though Cacia's cheek was still stinging from Wendy's slap just now, she smirked to herself.
“Bitcht Do you think you can solve everything by admitting it? Let's see how you're going to get yourselfout of this one.”
"Before I explain, I have something to show you," Wendy said calmly.
She unzipped her bag and took out a thick stack of papers from it, as well as another USB flash drive.
Cacia rolled her eyes and sneered, "Wendy, do you think you can use the same trick on me again?"
But Wendy just glanced at her coldly without saying anything.
Then, she handed the USB flash drive to Roger, who trusted her so much that he inserted it into hislaptop without asking any questions.
The laptop was already connected to the big screen behind them on the stage.
Bending over the laptop, Wendy opened a folder and found a video, but didn't play it immediately.
Instead, she handed over the stack of papers in her hand to Roger and said, "Roger, help me distributeone copy to each reporter in the hall."
As soon as Roger glanced at the top sheet of paper, his eyes lit up.He walked off the stage and handedout a copy to every reporter.
A bad feeling loomed over Cacia.
She craned her neck to have a look.When she saw the contents of the paper, her face paled visibly.
"What's wrong?" Ruben asked worriedly, holding her hand.
Cacia gripped his hand tightly like she was holding onto a lifeline.
At this point, she could barely breathe.
As for the reporters, they were just as stunned when they saw the contents of the paper.
It was information about Cacia and Ruben.
Before the reporters could ask any questions, Wendy began to explain.
"With regard to the information you're looking at, I discovered it through a private detective after comingback from abroad.It's about the relationship between Ruben and Cacia.I'm sure you're all familiar withEris.According to her words, she is the daughter of my stepmother and another man."
"Isn't she?" one of the reporters asked with a frown.
"Of course not!" Wendy said, smirking.
"It's true that Eris' mother is Cacia, but her biological father is Reuben, which makes her my half-sister.But she’s only half a year younger than me.When she was conceived, my father hadn't divorcedmy mother yet."
A stunned silence enveloped the room.
Judging by Wendy's shocking revelation, it was obvious that when she was still in her mother's womb,Ruben was already having an affair with Cacia.
And more importantly, it meant that Eris, who the public had always thought of as an angel, wasactually an illegitimate daughter! This was a piece of news that was sure to break every news outlet.
When Eris had started her career as an actress, everyone had perceived her as a pitiful woman,because she had always claimed that her biological father had passed away when she was still a child.
But if what Wendy said was true, then it meant that Eris had been lying this whole time.
For Ruben, the mention of Eris was the last straw.
He stepped forward and reached out to grab the microphone from Wendy.
"Shut up, you bitch! We're talking about you right now! Why are you dragging Eris into this? Are youthat desperate to clear your name? How can you slander Eris? I can't believe I'm the father of a viciouswoman like you! If I had known that you would grow up like this, I would have strangled you when youwere born!"
Before he could touch Wendy, however, he was stopped by Roger.
"If you come any closer, you'll regret it."
When Roger was assertive this way, his aura was so intimidating that no one would dare to mess withhim.
Sure enough, Ruben froze in fear.novelbin
After shooting her father a disdainful glance, Wendy turned back to the reporters and continued, "Asyou can all see, Cacia was the other woman in my parents’ marriage."
"Okay, but...what does that have to do with your pregnancy?" a reporter questioned.
"Please watch this video first, and then I'll give you an explanation."
With these words, Wendy successfully aroused the curiosity of the reporters.She bent over the laptopand opened the video that she was referring to.
As the video began to play on the big screen behind her, everyone saw that it was a video taken on aship.
Judging from the angle, everyone could tell that it must have been shot secretly, but the content of thevideo was clear enough.
The ship was sailing at sea.
Several people dressed up like crew appeared on the deck.Everything looked normal enough at first,but after a while, a woman stepped out of the cabin.
As the camera focused on the woman's face, it became clear that it was none other than Cacia.
When Cacia looked at herself on the big screen, all color drained from her face.
"Stop it...Don't play it!"
She wanted to turn off the laptop.
"Security! Stop her!" Roger shouted.
Kane had hired some security guards on behalf of Glory Media to protect Roger and Wendy.
So as soon as Roger spoke, these security guards rushed onto the stage and grabbed hold of Cacia.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Cacia cried.
"Shut up!"
"I...Mmmph..."
Cacia wanted to say something more, but one of the security guards grabbed a duster cloth and stuffedit into her mouth.
"Mmmoph..."
A string of curse words left Cacia's mouth, but they all came out muffled and unintelligible.
"Wendy, stop it!" Ruben yelled furiously.
However, Wendy barely even spared him a glance.She said coldly, "If you want to be restrained by thesecurity guards too, just say it."
Hearing this, Ruben had no choice but to shut his mouth and clench his teeth in hatred.
The video continued to play.
All the reporters watched with rapt attention as Cacia appeared on the deck.
She addressed the crew members, but the howling of the wind was so loud that it concealed the soundof her voice, making it hard to make out what she was saying.
After a while, the camera zoomed in.It seemed that whoever was taking the video walked up to Cacia.
From this distance, Cacia's voice became much clearer.
"Bring her here," she said.
As soon as she finished her words, several crew members walked into the cabin.
In less than five minutes, they came out with a sack, which they threw onto the deck.
There seemed to be a living being in the sack, twisting around desperately.
Cacia chuckled, squatted down, and untied the rope holding the sack together.
A woman sat up, popping her head out of the sack.She was tied up with ropes, and was gagged.
Her hair was disheveled, and she looked pitiful, but her beautiful features could not be hidden.
The reporters gasped in shock.
"Wait...She looks like Wendy!"
"Yeah! They look so similar.Is she Wendy's mother?"
"No way! She looks too young for that."
"Look! In the video, Cacia looks much younger than she does now.And look at the clothes that she’swearing in the video.This was the popular style more than ten years ago..."
With their jaws dropped open in shock, the reporters looked at Wendy.Wendy's eyes turned slightly red,and her voice trembled as she spoke.
"This video was shot seventeen years ago.The woman who's sitting there tied up is my mother!"
The reporters continued to watch the video, holding their breaths.
Seventeen years ago, Cacia seemed to have kidnapped Wendy's mother.But why?