Chapter 350 Her Bottom Line
Clarissa once saw a "e on a book.
"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Therefore, the real culprit would be Lara!
Although Clarissa didn't understand why Lara would do something to a child on such an occasion.
However, she understood that other than Lara, there was no one else who bore any ill will against her and Anne.
What's more, if she remembered correctly, Anne suddenly became nervous as soon as she saw Lara. She then told Clarissa that she needed to go to the bathroom.
All these led to the conclusion that it was Lara's doing.
Clarissa would not be bothered if Lara was coming after her.
After all, it was all between them adults. There was nothing to do with right or wrong, but taking sides.
But Anne was different.
She was just a child. How could Lara be so sick as to lay a finger on a child? This was totally unacceptable to Clarissa!
Gabriela looked at her, with a bit of hesitation in her eyes.
"What do you want then? If this is really done by Lara, grandpa will definitely cover it up for her. The only purpose grandpa held for his birthday banquet is to announce Lara's identity and the relationship between she and Jaden to the public. Grandfather can't allow anyone to destroy their arranged marriage."
Clarissa smiled.
"Is that so? If that's really the case...then we'll have to tear into each other, making things difficult for everyone."
Gabriela shuddered in shock.
"Are you going to tell the truth?"
Clarissa said nonchalantly, "I could let anything else slide but no one can hurt the people around me. This is my bottom line. However, Lara has set foot on it. So today, I don't care if she is having an arranged marriage with Jaden or there is something else on, I won't let her off so easily."
"But... didn't you say that grandpa wouldn't believe you?"
"It doesn't matter if he believes it or not. I just need to do what I want to do."
Gabriela frowned. Seeing her confused look, Clarissa smiled and said, "Don't think too much. If I were to reveal the truth, it won't have the same effect as you reveal it. Besides, I won't do it if it's not necessary. After all, I don't wish for Old Master Levine to suffer such a big blow in his remaining days."
After she said that, Gabriela stared at her with a surprised look on her face. Clarissa then turned around and went out without hesitating.
At this moment, in the hall downstairs.
After being treated by the doctor, Anne's condition had been much better.
At this point in time, the rest of the guests had also heard about what had happened tonight. They were all gathered here out of curiosity.
They were supposed to be celebrating Old Master Levine's birthday tonight, but no one had expected such a thing to happen.
They all wanted to know who the real culprit was.
Apart from the Jordan family, in fact, everyone in the Levine family had a solemn expression on them.
The butler quickly got the surveillance footage as soon as Old Master Levine had told him to do so.
At the same time, Clarissa and Gabriela also went downstairs and returned to the hall.
Old Master Levine asked the butler to hand over the footage to his secretary next to him. The secretary then went to the study to get the laptop. Soon, they would find out who the culprit was.
There was a dead silence in the hall.
Everyone was watching as the secretary inserted the USB flash disk containing surveillance footage into the laptop.
Because they procured the relevant part, they soon saw what they wanted to see.
The monitor was taken from a high angle. On the screen, a fluttering butterfly was flying around under the dim light.
Anne soon appeared in the footage. She was chasing after the butterfly happily.
However, the butterfly disappeared after a short while.
Anne stood where she was and scratched her head in bewilderment. After a few seconds, she was about to turn around when there was no sight of the butterfly.
However, at this moment, it was unclear if she slipped or something else had happened. Suddenly, she staggered and a shadow was stretching out to her in the dark at the same time. It looked like a human hand. With a "blop" sound, it pushed Anne down into the pool.
Then, Anne screamed for help in the water. Everyone then began to gather around her. At last, it could be seen that Clarissa rushed over and jumped into the water to save Anne.
After the video was finished playing, everyone fell into silence.
Anderson's expression was sombre, so did Old Master Jordan's and Old Madam Jordan's/
Someone whispered, "The surveillance camera didn't capture anything. It's just a dark shadow. Who can recognize who it is?"
"However, we did find out that someone had indeed pushed Miss Anne down, it was not just an accident."
"Who can be so cruel to do this to a child?"
"Who knows? Probably it is revenge!"
Everyone was whispering in a low voice. Old Master Levine
It was a disgrace to Old Master Levine to have such an incident to occur on his birthday banquet. Besides, the Levine family might end up getting on the bad side of the Jordan family.
If he didn't get to the bottom of it, the relationship between the Levine family and the Jordan family might be greatly affected in the future.
Who on earth could be so abominable?
Old Master Levine's face turned cold, and he said in a low voice, "Where were you all when Anne fell into the water tonight?"
A female guest whispered, "Is Old Master Levine Levine going to investigate each of us?"
"We hold no grudge against Miss Anne. Why would we do that to a child?"
"Yes, everyone is aware that Miss Anne is the apple of the eye of the Jordan Family and she deserves to be pampered by everyone. Why would anyone hurt her?"
Gimmy frowned slightly and said to Old Master Levine Guan in a low voice, "Dad, at that time, everyone was either hanging out in the garden or the front hall. Even if someone is near the swimming pool, he or she will not walk to the back door of the bathroom. It should not be a guest who has done it."
Old Master Levine knew very well that all his guests today were either the rich or the noble. They had no motive to kill a child at all.
At this moment, Clarissa suddenly sneered and said, "It doesn't matter if footage can't find out who the culprit is. Let's just focus on the butterfly. I don't think the butterfly is real. We just need to check who has butterflies in their room, then we would know who the culprit is."
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Old Master Levine frowned and ordered his secretary, "Play the video again."
The secretary quickly said yes. After the video was done playing, one thing that they could be sure of was that although the butterfly looked very real, judging from the way it was flying and how it had disappeared in the end, it was most probably a remote-controlled toy.
Why would anyone bring something like this to the banquet?
Old Master Levine said sternly, "I'm sorry, everyone. Although I know that you don't have the motive to hurt Anne, in order to find out who the culprit is, we have to check all of your belongings. I apologize for any inconvenience caused."
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