Chapter 309 Veronica’s Independent Stance
‘This is such a twist to the event.’
‘Oh my god. It’s a conspiracy! Someone must be jealous of Veronica.’
‘I reckon that the bombing during Mr. Leonard’s and Miss Finley’s wedding must have been done by Damien, who was in love with Emma. He must have done that because he couldn’t win Emma’s heart.’
‘Could this be fabricated?’
‘I trust the police!’
‘Randall is such a greedy man! He deserves this.’
‘Veronica’s such a poor thing. This has been horrible for her.’
…
Everything was revealed to the public. Now, the speculative crowd and the people with nasty remarks found themselves at a loss for words.
However, before Veronica managed to issue a statement, Tiffany had posted something on Twitter. ‘I said I would always trust Veronica! Justice will always prevail despite the time taken for it to occur.’
Once again, Tiffany was the trending topic after she posted that on Twitter.
‘Wow. She’s the best sister one could have.’
‘But then why are you at odds with Veronica?’
‘You’ll always trust Veronica, while I’ll always trust you.’
‘You’re awesome.’
‘You’re the only one who trusted Veronica all this while when everyone doubted her.’
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Once again, Tiffany made use of her ‘actions’ to win the favor of the crowd, and her popularity grew significantly.
As the main character of this incident, Veronica was the one who secretly orchestrated all this, but she was currently fast asleep in Yvonne’s bedroom.
She remained supposedly clueless about what was going on in the outside world until Yvonne, Xavier, and Conrad appeared in the bedroom.
“Roni? Wake up. Hurry up and wake up!”
Yvonne instantly came forward to pat Veronica as soon as she noticed the latter fast asleep. “There has been a major issue.”
“Huh?”
Veronica snuggled in her blanket and rubbed her eyes sleepily as she looked at the trio standing in front of her. She muttered, “What’s wrong?”
“Haven’t you gone on Twitter?” Xavier frowned and asked.
“Yeah, hurry up and go on Twitter. Come on,” Yvonne pestered her.
Veronica remained slumped in bed wearily, taking her time getting her phone and opening Twitter. As soon as she clicked on the trending topic, she couldn’t help frowning as she sat up straight in bed. “What’s this?”
Instinctively, she turned to look at the trio. “Xavier, Conrad, is this… your doing?”
She purposely put on an agitated front and played the part of a person extremely excited after finally getting her name cleared. Veronica suddenly felt that it was a shame that she wasn’t an actress.
Xavier tilted his head to glance at Conrad, and the two exchanged a look before turning to look at Veronica.
From her expression, they didn’t sense anything amiss at all. As such, they wondered, Could it be that this has nothing to do with Veronica?
“Gosh, of course it is! Other than Xavier and Conrad, no one else would lend a helping hand right now.” Yvonne was elated beyond words, and she hugged Veronica tightly. “Wow! Hahaha! Roni, your name’s finally clear. Congratulations! You must not be aware of this, but I have been so worried for the past few days!”
“Stop shaking me. Stop it. I’m feeling dizzy from all that.”
Veronica pushed Yvonne aside and lowered her head to look at the trending topic. Subsequently, she casually clicked on one of the videos with the evidence as she looked at the two men in front of her. “Where did you guys get the evidence?”
At that moment, Conrad and Xavier were of the same opinion. Since Veronica was clueless about all this, it must be Matthew who secretly helped her. As such, both of them came to a mutual understanding, and they gave the same explanation and worded their sentences similarly.
“Conrad and I put in a lot of effort to get this.” Xavier smiled. “He helped a lot.”
Conrad played along with Xavier. “Young Master Xavier spent a lot of time sorting out this matter too. He treats you very well.”
They continued to flatter each other without any sense of awkwardness at all.
“Thanks. Thank you so much, guys.”
Veronica held her cell phone and pouted. She was close to tears. “If you guys hadn’t provided so much help, I’m sure it would have taken ages to clear my name.”
She held her cell phone and played the footage of the evidence over and over again.
A portion of the evidence had been provided by Matthew. Furthermore, she had put in a huge effort to obtain part of it herself.
After organizing all of the evidence into a single file, she handed it over to a reliable verified account on Twitter. Then, she shared with Randall, as they met up the night before, about the incident of his house being set ablaze and the actions of the other party to get rid of him. Finally, she managed to convince him to surrender himself to the police and confess his crimes.
Everything had been completed by her and Matthew in collaboration. However, Xavier and Conrad actually had the cheek to claim that this was the outcome of their efforts.
At that point, Veronica looked at the two, and she suddenly felt that they were clowns making a fool of themselves in front of her as they pranced about.
“It’s alright. Don’t get upset. It’s great that everything’s fine now.” Yvonne hugged Veronica and comforted her.
“Yes. I can finally go home to my bed,” Veronica expressed this as she was torn between laughter and tears.
That night, the four of them sat down to have dinner together.
After dinner, Veronica planned to go back home.
However, Xavier mentioned, “There must be a lot of reporters in front of your house, so are you sure that you’ll be fine going back by yourself?”
“Yeah. Why don’t you get Young Master Xavier to go back with you? That could help with the situation,” Conrad suggested.
Surprisingly, Yvonne, the most clueless person on earth, agreed earnestly, “Yeah! I would not feel at ease if you went home by yourself. Just let Xavier send you home, alright?”
Veronica was tired of bantering back and forth between the two, so she replied, “No thanks. Ultimately, I do need to face all this by myself.”
After she had said that, she hailed a cab by the sidewalk and went back to her apartment.
After she left, Conrad turned to Yvonne and said, “Yvie dear, could you go and get me some cigarettes? I’ve run out of them.”
Yvonne was infatuated with love, so naturally, she was happy to scamper off and get Conrad some cigarettes.
As soon as Yvonne left the house, Xavier crossed his arms in front of him and spoke solemnly, “It looks like Matthew loves Veronica very much. Hah! He claims that this has nothing to do with him, but he has secretly settled everything for her regardless.”
“That’s why you should start to have a sense of danger. If Matthew realizes the truth, the two of us would basically be dead meat.” After Conrad and Xavier had plotted together against Veronica and Matthew, they were now considered to be on the same team.
Once Matthew found out that they were the masterminds behind all this, they would basically be courting trouble for themselves.
“Other than Randall, we’ve managed to remove all of the other evidence so he wouldn’t be able to pin this on us. He’s quite smart though, so it’s quite likely that he has figured this out.” Xavier heaved a sigh, and he felt slightly uneasy.
“It’s fortunate that Randall never saw your face, so stop making any unnecessary moves for now.”
Conrad lifted his hand and stroked his chin as he fingered his stubble. He considered the situation before saying, “Even if Matthew has his suspicions, he doesn’t have any proof. Why don’t we just push the blame onto Ruka? By then, even if Matthew suspects otherwise, at least that dumb woman Veronica wouldn’t suspect anything was amiss.”
Both of them thought that Veronica was quite simple-minded.
At that moment, the cab that Veronica was in finally arrived at the entrance to her apartment. There were plenty of reporters surrounding her apartment.
As soon as Veronica saw them, she remained silent in the car for several seconds before finally pushing open the door and getting out of the car. She chose to get out and face the reporters.
After all, she would not be able to resolve the issue by running away from it, so she had to learn to face things by herself.
“Isn’t that Miss Tiffany Larson?”
“It’s Veronica. Veronica’s back.”
“Hurry! Come on!”
“Let’s go over and interview her.”
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As soon as the reporters noticed Veronica’s presence, they clambered ahead and rushed to surround her.
