My Birthday, My Downfall novel Chapter 26

“Don’t you know that audio can be verified? You can’t just say it’s synthetic!”

“And those chat records, I’m already being condemned for those. People are even accusing me of bigamy and asking for my arrest!”

James stopped her from leaving. “Five years ago, we helped you cover up your mess. This time, we must face it together!”

“You’re the one who was showing off, sending those messages and photos to provoke her. I think you’re just too comfortable!”

Gina turned to my parents, seeking their favor, but unexpectedly, my mom, holding her chest, spoke softly.

“Gina, have we been too indulgent with you these years? You knew we wanted you to keep a low profile when you returned, but you still left all these things in Gloria’s hands and provoked her. If it weren’t for your provocation, she would never have put us in this position.”

“You’ve been too reckless.”

Gina was about to refute when her phone rang.

She picked it up and glanced at it, her face turning pale.

“Gloria has sent me a lawyer’s letter! She knows the evidence is insufficient, yet she still wants to bother me?”

“Who told her my real name?!”

She stared at the three people present, her eyes cold.

But what she didn’t know was that her name was easy to find.

My parents had registered her new real estate company, and the legal representative was Green.

She had changed her surname to Green for my mom’s sake, so I easily guessed her new name.

My parents and James were stunned by the sinister look on her face.

This was the first time in over twenty years she had shown them such an expression.

“You suspect us?” My dad pointed at her in disbelief and scolded.

“If we were going to betray you, we would’ve handed you over after the car accident five years ago! Why would we bother covering up your fake death and sending you abroad to live comfortably?”

“Now you’re saying these nonsense words? You’re nothing but an ingrate!”

Gina gritted her teeth and tried to suppress her anger, but her voice became eerily calm.

Even though having an affair and a love child isn’t illegal, James was still severely criticized.

Even my mother was scolded by netizens, who said she couldn’t tell right from wrong, indulging the adopted daughter and lying to her biological daughter.

Someone uploaded a video from my birthday party.

【At the time, I thought it was strange. Why was the waiter cutting Gloria’s birthday cake while wearing a mask? Turns out, that person was Gina!】

【They share the same birthday, and back then they were swapped at the hospital. The real daughter became an orphan at five, living in an orphanage for ten years before being found. But every year since, on her birthday, she would hide in the corner while that fake daughter took all the attention!】

【Right! At the birthday party, this fake daughter even fell into the pool with her, in her own house. Now I have reason to suspect the fake daughter pushed her!】

【They say the real daughter was depressed and wanted to end it, but if she had wanted to end it, she would have done it years ago. Why choose her birthday? And she's just a wheelchair-bound disabled person. How could she harm a healthy adult? Clearly, the fake daughter is lying!】

……

Gina’s scheme of pushing me into the pool was exposed, and with some people who knew her revealing the truth, it became clear that her personality was exactly the type to do something like that.

Some particularly emotional netizens even found our villa, camped outside our front gate, throwing trash, holding banners, and shouting for the Hardin family to hand over the fake daughter and make her face legal judgment.