Chapter 521 A Trap on Stage

    “Ahhh! Lily is amazing! Adeline is so beautiful!”

    “Lily and Adeline are a match made in heaven!”

    “Lily and Adeline, get married right now!”

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    On stage, Lily and Adeline leaned gently against each other as they sang with deep emotion. The screams of the shippers below nearly split the air apart.

    But then, the background screen behind them suddenly shifted.

    The elegant duet gave way to a grainy video–an obscene clip of a man and a woman tangled together with nothing on.

    The man was balding, pot–bellied, short and greasy, his sleaze oozing through the screen itself.

    The woman was wild, flirtatious, brazen in her embrace.

    And her exposed profile looked shockingly like Lily’s.

    The man grinned lewdly as he grabbed at her. His voice was unmistakably vulgar: “Lily, my darling, now that you’re carrying my child, I’m so happy! But every time I see you with Mr. James, I get so jealous… Still, for our child’s future, I’ll swallow the pain and let you spend time with Mr. James. As long as the Luke family believes the baby in your belly is his, their fortune will belong to our son sooner orter!”

    The video cut off abruptly.

    Gasps and screams rippled through the audience.

    The meaning couldn’t have been clearer.

    Everyone knew Lily and James were a couple. Netizens had been urging them to remarry, to have

    children.

    And now this–Lily was pregnant, yes, but the video implied her baby belonged to this repulsive old man, not James.

    For the fans who adored their pairing, it was like being struck by lightning.

    “What’s going on? Wasn’t Lily with Mr. James? How could she end up in bed with that creep?”

    “Lily’s pregnant? And the baby’s not Mr. James’s, but that disgusting man’s?”

    “That guy looks so gross… what could she possibly see in him?”

    The performance ended. Just as Lily and Adeline were about to step off stage, the screams rang out, and they heard the man’s voice echoing through the hall.

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    They turned instinctively.

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    On the massive background screen was the frozen image of the man, his belly bulging like he was seven or eight months pregnant, clinging to a woman.

    To make matters worse, their bodies were still visibly connected.

    And in the haze of dim light, that woman’s profile looked exactly like Lily’s.

    A chill like ice shot through Lily’s heart, freezing her from the inside out.

    She didn’t even recognize the man in the video. And the woman wasn’t her–her body, her figure, so many details werepletely different.

    But the lighting, the angle, and that single exposed profile were enough to make it look like her.

    And with the man calling her name again and again, how could people not misunderstand?

    “Lily, I believe you. The woman in that video isn’t you!”

    Adeline, fearing some crazed fan might rush the stage to attack Lily, immediately pulled her behind her in protection.

    The moment Lily felt her hand sped firmly in Adeline’s, much of the cold terror in her chest eased

    away.

    She had already recognized her.

    Adeline was Jaime–the little girl she had met years ago while doing charity work with the Jiang family in the countryside.

    Back then, she had even given Jaime a handmade charm.

    Now Jaime had changed her name to Adeline. Lily knew she didn’t want to recall the pain of the pastb, /bso she had never brought it up.

    At twenty–three, Adeline was just as warm as she had been at ten.

    Zoey, Grace, and the others stared at the screen, their faces pale.

    Yes, the woman’s profile looked like Lily.

    But deep down, they trusted her. They loved her. They knew she wasn’t that kind of girl. They believed the woman in the video wasn’t Lily.

    Nancy’s stunning face hardened into ice. “nc, have someone investigate this immediately and find out what’s going on! If you don’t expose the rat who set Lily up, you’ll be sleeping in the guest room from now

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    “I…”

    nc felt so wronged.

    He wasn’t the one framing Lily–why was he being punished?

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    How could he sleep without his wife in his arms?

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    Still, the matter was urgent. nc wanted answers too. So he pushed aside hisints and quickly called his men, ordering them to investigate the matter thoroughly.

    “This has to be Elsa’s doing again!”

    Ivan leapt to his feet, furious. “You mustn’t let others twist this to turn you against Lily! She has dignity and self–respect. She would never do something like that!”