Chapter 260: Exposing Noelle Lockwood and Rose Lowell

Chapter 260: Chapter 260: Exposing Noelle Lockwood and Rose Lowell

The viewers in the live chat were left breathless.

[Who is the biological daughter, and who is the adopted daughter?!]

[Making your own flesh and blood work as a maid for the adopted daughter? Ignoring the biological daughter’s injuries and instead interrogating her on why she didn’t serve the adopted daughter properly?!]

[Noelle Lockwood is such a manipulative two-faced bitch! She knew her "maid" was the real heiress, yet she still had the nerve to let her serve her. Honestly, you can’t blame this all on Rose Lowell. If it weren’t for Austin Lockwood’s enabling and Noelle reveling in it, Estelle wouldn’t have ended up so miserable!]

[A whole family of toxic scum! Disgusting!]

Rose Lowell screamed and charged forward. "Shut up! Shut up! You’re not allowed to say another word!"

Nathaniel Sloan clamped down hard on Rose’s wrist.

Estelle Lockwood continued, "Later, at Old Mr. Sloan’s birthday banquet, Noelle faked a fall down the stairs and framed me as the culprit. Ms. Lowell didn’t even ask a single question before immediately slapping me twice. She dragged me upstairs and pushed me down, threatening that I needed to taste the same suffering her daughter had endured.

"But that entire act was a setup orchestrated by Noelle," Estelle said with a sneer. "My reputation was ruined, and I suffered an unwarranted disaster. I was even pinned down by Ms. Lowell and forced to kneel before Noelle to apologize. Tell me, how does this count as a ’debt of gratitude’?"

Estelle spoke calmly, but Nathaniel’s emotions were surging violently.

"After that, Ms. Lowell claimed Noelle had leukemia and needed my bone marrow," Estelle went on. "So, she colluded with a doctor to strap me onto an operating table. Ms. Lowell should know just how much that hurt.

"Then, using the excuse that ’Noelle is sick and needs a blood transfusion,’ Ms. Lowell forcibly extracted my blood, causing me to go into hemorrhagic shock and faint. I nearly lost my life."

Estelle looked at Noelle, a mocking half-smile on her lips. "Noelle, what happened to your ’leukemia’? Or should we ask the others if you were ever sick? Alternatively, you could ask your fans whether a leukemia patient could handle the high-intensity grind of the entertainment industry?"

Noelle’s hands trembled, her mind going blank. She never expected Estelle would actually dare to speak about this. How did she have the audacity?!

Estelle, of course, dared to. "Later, when I discovered Noelle’s medical examination report showed she was perfectly healthy, I confronted Ms. Lowell.

"Ms. Lowell matter-of-factly told me that my appearance had made Noelle unhappy, so she had to torture me to cheer Noelle up.

"Furthermore, Ms. Lowell said this was my fate. Forget drawing blood—even if Noelle wanted me to die, I had to accept it gladly. When I refused to forgive Noelle, Ms. Lowell slapped me, starved me for three days, and haughtily demanded to know why I couldn’t be a little more magnanimous."

Estelle tilted her head. "I don’t understand. How am I supposed to repay this kind of gratitude?"

Rose’s face was deathly pale, her breathing shaky. "D-Don’t say it..."

[I can’t take this anymore! Is Noelle even human?!]

[An adopted daughter being this vicious? She has to be the most evil in history!]

[And Rose! To actually take pleasure in torturing her own biological daughter for the sake of an adopted one!]

"Don’t say it?" Estelle shrugged. "How can I do that? I promised to repay Ms. Lowell, so naturally, we need to calculate the debts clearly.

"In my third month after returning to the Lockwood family, Noelle accused me of stealing her necklace. Without a second thought, Ms. Lowell gave me a severe beating and sent me to the police station, threatening to have me thrown in jail.

"Later, when it came to light that Noelle had intentionally framed me and the police were about to detain her, Ms. Lowell intervened. She claimed that Noelle was inherently kind and pure, and that it was all my fault for inciting Noelle’s jealousy. She said even if Noelle framed me, I deserved to die anyway. She told the police to keep me locked up and demanded I take the fall for Noelle."

At that moment, the Crestfall police released the official statement of what had happened that day.

The police had already proven Estelle’s innocence, so they naturally hadn’t detained her. However, Rose’s morally bankrupt statements and Noelle’s false accusations playing the victim had all been recorded.

Estelle spoke at a leisurely pace. "Actually, those incidents were relatively mild. What I’m going to talk about next happened after my marriage to Nathaniel... Ms. Lowell, shall we continue tallying up this debt?

"Noelle seducing her brother-in-law, moving into my marital home with Rose’s help, and intentionally creating false scenarios to drive a wedge between my husband and me—I won’t list all of those out one by one. There are simply too many. Miss Noelle was either acting as the mistress or on her way to becoming the mistress.

"If I were to recount everything, a whole day and night probably wouldn’t be enough."

Estelle tilted her head slightly. "I’ll just mention one thing... the biggest incident.

"Noelle deliberately faked a pregnancy, deceiving me into thinking it was my husband’s child. She then staged a series of fake falls and other stunts to lure Nathaniel away, and then—"

Estelle’s eyes darkened. "And then, Noelle teamed up with Austin Lockwood, Rose Lowell, and Laura Jennings."

"Ahhh, don’t say it!! Don’t say it!" Rose was going mad. Hadn’t this matter been buried long ago?! Why? Why was she bringing it up now?!

Under the protection of her two "bodyguards," Estelle enunciated every single word: "They set a fire in my delivery room!"

"No!!"

Estelle had found the evidence a long time ago. She was determined to expose it all today!

A recording began to play.

"Noelle, don’t worry," Rose’s voice rang out. "After today, no one will be able to shake your status! She never should have come back. Let’s send her on her way!"

"Mom, but what if outsiders suspect me..." Noelle’s voice followed.

"They won’t," Rose replied. "The suicide note is already forged. When the time comes, we’ll just say Estelle committed suicide. People might even blame her for causing the fire and bringing losses to the hospital!"

"But Estelle still has the children..." Noelle hesitated.

"Just kill them all together," Rose said impatiently. "When the time comes, throw them straight into the fire."

Then came a burst of noisy commotion from the recording, followed by the sound of Noelle crying to Nathaniel.

"Nathaniel, Estelle couldn’t think straight and set herself on fire..." Noelle sobbed on the tape. "I risked my life to bring out one child, but the other two... they were both killed by Estelle... My child is gone too..."

Back then, because of Noelle’s weeping, how many people had sympathized with her? Everyone said Estelle was incredibly selfish, while Noelle, in order to save Christian Sloan, not only got injured but also lost her own child.

Consequently, she became an honored guest of the Sloan Family, the "future Mrs. Sloan" on everyone’s lips.

But now, it turned out the pregnancy was fake, saving the child was fake, and committing arson and murder was real.

Last time, Laura Jennings had taken the fall for her. What about this time? The recording was crystal clear. Estelle must have found other evidence as well. What would Noelle do now? No, it wasn’t just a problem for Noelle. The entire Lockwood Family was doomed!

Online, netizens pleaded with the police to hurry up and arrest them. But the police didn’t make a move, knowing this was only the beginning.

Estelle asked with a sweet smile, "Committing arson and murder, maliciously plotting to kill me and my children... Ms. Lowell, how should I repay this debt of gratitude?"

Rose and Noelle huddled together, trembling violently and shaking their heads desperately. "Estelle, you’re talking nonsense... You’re talking nonsense... Ahhh, you’re not allowed to say another word!"

Every single heinous act they had committed had been completely exposed by Estelle! Rose didn’t feel she had done anything wrong, but she knew others would definitely look down on Noelle now.

A dead silence fell over the entire manor.

"That’s enough."

Princess Avery finally spoke up. Unaware that this scandal had already topped the trending charts online, she still believed she ruled this domain.

She cast a look of disgust at Rose. "What are you panicking for? What’s done is done, and it’s not like any outsiders know about it. Marry Estelle to my son, and I guarantee she’ll never be able to utter another word."