Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

In the family waiting room of the hospital, a TV mounted on the wall suddenly began broadcasting Ensford news. Tina saw Amber’s pitiful face appear on the screen, surrounded by a swarm of reporters. Since defamation is a criminal complaint and the victim, Hugo, was undergoing surgery, he couldn’t file a lawsuit yet. Making a false police report could be a minor or serious offense; if it was a first offense, a fine could settle it.

So, in less than a day, Amber had paid her fine and was released.

Upon her release from the police station, reporters immediately besieged her at the doorstep.

In the news, facing the sharp questions of the reporters, Amber looked into the camera, tears streaming down her face, “I framed my foster father because he really molested me when I was little. I wanted revenge, that’s why I did it. I was so young and powerless, but I always remember the disgusting things he did to me, and I have nightmares every day. I can’t let him go unpunished!”

Jennie suddenly stood up furiously, shaking and said to Tina, “How dare she! After what she’s done to Hugo, how can she still have the audacity to slander him? Is she even human?”

Jennie was trembling with anger. During the days Hugo was detained, she and Zackary faced constant pointing and whispering, and were even nearly attacked with sulfuric acid.

Finally, when Hugo was released, he was rushed into surgery, and Amber still wouldn’t let him be.

Tina narrowed her eyes at Amber’s face on the screen, feeling she had been too lenient on the Reed family by not bankrupting them.

“Mrs. Reed, calm down,” Jared Farrell said as he helped Jennie sit back down. “Don’t worry, we won’t let Mr. Reed carry this stigma.”

As Jennie just sat down, a reporter in the news asked Amber, “Miss Amber, if it’s true as you say, why didn’t you call the police back then?”

“It’s all my fault!” Elizabeth’s face, wrinkled with age, appeared on the screen. Standing beside Amber, she addressed the reporters with sadness and shame, “I asked Amber not to call the police back then for the sake of my son’s future.”

“After that, I kept her close to protect her, thinking if I treated her well enough, she would forget what had happened. But I never imagined she would hold onto it and do something so absurd,” Elizabeth pleaded earnestly into the camera, “I hope everyone can forgive her previous actions, considering she’s a pitiful child.”

After speaking, Elizabeth and Amber hugged each other, their pain evident.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

The news segment left Jennie’s face twisted in anger, speechless at the betrayal by her own family.

Did Elizabeth not realize that her lies could destroy Hugo and even Zackary, wrecking their entire family?

The online sentiment began to shift again, with many suggesting that if Hugo really was a pedophile who had molested Amber as a child, then his current plight was deserved.

Jennie scrolled through the internet, reading critical comments about Hugo, tears streaming down her face.

Seeing her state, Tina was furious. Amber really loved to court death!

She emotionlessly sent out a video given to her earlier by Elena Heisler.

The video was shot in Elena Heisler’s study, originally installed to monitor her daughter’s study habits. Over the years, the stored videos were never deleted. After Hugo’s incident, Elena had uncovered them.

In the video, Amber was chatting in Elena Heisler’s study.

“Why don’t you live with your foster parents and instead stay with your grandma?” Elena asked.

Amber, who appeared to be about eleven or twelve and still naive about concealing her true feelings, showed a face full of disdain, “My dad and mom are so poor, even if they give me their best, it’s nothing compared to the little that leaks from my grandmother’s fingers. I wanted a better life, of course, I had to please my grandma.”

She sat on Elena Heisler’s recliner, legs shaking, confidently saying, “You see, my uncles’ kids wear clothes worth tens of thousands, but living with my parents, I can only wear clothes worth a few hundred dollars, which they struggle to afford.”

“You’d think they’d know better. Just by softening up to grandma, they could live a little better, but instead, they choose to be stubborn…”

The online community was stunned by the video. Amber’s twisted values were apparent from such a young age.

This video clearly showed that Amber living with Elizabeth was entirely because she despised poverty and sought wealth, not because of any molestation by Hugo or Elizabeth’s need to protect her.

Tina quickly sent another video, showing the day Hugo took her and Jennie to sever ties with Elizabeth at Moon Gate Estate.

The estate’s surveillance had never been removed, despite Elizabeth’s attempts to locate it, thinking it had been dismantled.

When the video ended with Hugo asking Amber, “Amber, think about it, during those two years at my house, didn’t your mom and I, despite our own lack, always ensure you were fed and clothed? Zackary is my biological son, and sometimes he went hungry, yet I never let you starve.”

The public was shocked. Hugo’s adoption seemed more like harboring an enemy than a daughter. The foster parents scrimped and saved to provide for her, even at the expense of their own son, only to be repaid with disdain for poverty, allegiance to Elizabeth, and neglect of her foster parents.

Eight years later, she repeatedly slandered her foster sister and father, even while Hugo was critically injured and still in surgery, she didn’t forget to try and cleanse her image by tarnishing his.

Such a daughter must be a demon!

And Elizabeth, what kind of grandmother was she? Amber might just be an adopted granddaughter, but Elizabeth was Hugo’s biological mother. How could she help destroy her own son?

Oh, because they had severed ties, unable to gain any benefits, she simply decided to ruin everything!

Such a mother was even more terrifying than Amber!

As Tina released these two videos one after another, the on-site reporters watching saw the content.

Those who had initially sympathized with Amber and Elizabeth suddenly changed their expressions, realizing that the pitiful girl and the old lady in front of them were merely devils in disguise.

Yet Amber, oblivious to the shifting perceptions, continued to speak to the reporters’ cameras, “I truly regret the waste of police resources. But I do not regret it, I will never forgive Hugo, this devil!”

She had barely uttered the word “devil” when a rotten egg smashed against her face. Startled, Amber froze, and before she could recover, another egg hit her, followed by shouts, “You talk of forgiveness? Ask if your foster father forgives you, you liar!”

Then, a barrage of rotten eggs and spoiled vegetables rained down on Amber and Elizabeth, and even stones were thrown.