Chapter 29 - Framing

While the engagement party had not yet started, Alice went to the bathroom.
Seeing this, Kathy immediately went before her. She deliberately took off her necklace and held it in her hand. When she saw her washing her hands, she tripped over her feet in an unintentional manner.
Alice held on to the sink and barely managed to stand still. Kathy, however, squatted straight down and screamed in an exaggerated manner, "Are you alright, did you bump yourself anywhere."
"Nothing." She frowned.
Looking down at her feet, there were just a few bruises. Alice didn't say much and wiped it with cool water, and Kathy threw in what she was holding while she wasn't looking.
Only when everything was done did she slowly leave from the area.
Next, it was time to watch the good show.
Alice was also unaware that another disaster was waiting for her, and when she came out, all eyes were on her.
She had no idea what was going on.
Kathy suddenly ran over and cried out, "Alice, have you seen my necklace? That's the necklace mum left me on purpose, have you seen it?"
"What is it?" She looked at her blankly, noticing the strange atmosphere in the room, and Kathy cried, "It's the necklace you asked your mother for last time, and it's gone."
"Oh, it's not there." Alice calmed down, reaching out to push her away, but not before she pulled her bag straight down to the floor.
The bag made a graceful arc in the air and then landed on the ground, its contents falling out.
Among them was the necklace, and Alice's whole body was instantly confused. Looking at the shiny necklace, Kathy immediately pounced over, crying with joy.
"The necklace, my necklace." She covered her heart, as if she was relieved inside.
When Alice looked at them again, they all coincidentally gave themselves a contemptuous look.
Kathy looked at her with teary eyes and said accusingly, "I know Alice likes this necklace, so I'm coming over. I'll give it to you when you find your destined one, but why, why are you so eager?"
She didn't respond for a moment, looking at Kathy blankly. On the contrary, from afar, Susan, kicked Richard who was next to her, teased, and said, "It's your turn, the time has come for the hero to save the beauty."
This barefaced set-up must have been something only Kathy, a brainless person, could have done.
Richard was helpless, and looking at Janet's angry face, she couldn't help but ask, "What do you think would happen to her if she knew that Alice was her real daughter?"
"I don't know." Susan gave him a push and urged, "Go quickly."
Richard had no choice but to walk over and place it in front of Alice, looking at this angry face of Janet, he asked in a deep voice, "Is this how Mrs. Smith treats your daughter on a regular basis? Although she is not your own, but at least call you a mother."
"I don't have this daughter with sticky fingers, and the Smith family doesn't have this girl who likes to be a thief." Janet said angrily, looking at Alice with a gaze full of disdain.
"I hope Mrs. Smith will be responsible for this statement in the future." He suddenly took Alice's hand and ran his eyes over the necklace, a sneer crossing the corners of his mouth, "How dare you take out such a cheap necklace and say she stole it."
Janet turned red with anger and was busy questioning, "What do you mean."
"Nothing, it's just a high imitation. I have plenty of real ones on hand." He turned around to leave with Alice directly in tow.
Tony walked over, his face sullen, "Wait."
"Is there anything else, Tony?" Richard turned back around and looked at him with a smile.
"What's your relationship with her, do you know her? Just stand up for her like that."
"What is my relationship with her, don't you understand it best, Tony?" Richard laughed and pulled her straight away.
Susan looked at them in this manner and also secretly left. This Kathy, she also admired. Using her own engagement party as a stage to design others, and now this engagement party was also ruined.
As Kathy watched their backs, she was really angry.
After it was over, she contacted a journalist she knew and added more fuel to the fire.
She wanted Alice to be disgraced and disliked by everyone, and she would never let Alice leave this place properly.
The news was published in the newspaper, and Alice sat on a hospital bench, accepting their fingers. She herself had not expected her to go this far.
The doctor who reviewed her did not look too good either. When she sat down, she deliberately moved the surrounding things away.
That look was as if she was afraid that she would smooth her things over.
Susan also saw the news and was so angry that she left on the spot. In the end, it was only when she was found in the hospital and saw that there was nothing unusual about her that she cautiously spoke up and asked her.
Alice did not feel anything and told the truth. But Susan looked at the not-so-friendly gazes of the people around her, and alarm bells went off in her heart.
She didn't expect things to be so big that she couldn't eat at the hospital and even going out on the street had become a problem.
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