Chapter 2

I stood outside the chaos, watching everything unfold with cold eyes.

I pulled out the unfinished bag of chips from my pocket and emotionlessly ate another one.

As if the woman suffering wasn't my best friend.

Paramedics loaded Claire onto a stretcher and into the ambulance. Samuel immediately started a livestream.

The camera focused relentlessly on Claire's pale face and the blood on her dress.

"Everyone, do you see this? Claire might be having a miscarriage!"

"It's all because of that beast Rachel! She deliberately refused to save her own fiancé, forcing Claire to step in. She scared Claire and her baby!"

"She's trying to kill her fiancé and her best friend's child!"

Samuel followed all the way to the hospital, raising his phone in the ward with bloodshot eyes, shoving a miscarriage report in front of the camera.

"It's gone, the baby's gone..."

"The doctor said it was a miscarriage caused by extreme shock to the mother. We got here too late, couldn't save it..."

"Rachel! You don't deserve to be human!"

In an instant, the hashtag #SnakeParkHeiressHeartlesslyCausesFriend'sMiscarriage rocketed to the top trending topic.

The entire internet was condemning me.

[Scum! Trash! She should be put down!]

[Even tigers don't eat their cubs! This woman is worse than an animal!]

[Boycott the Zhou family animal sanctuary! The animals raised by someone like her must be evil too!]

[Poor Ms. Claire, poor baby. May there be no pain in heaven, and no such inhuman women either!]

[I'm reporting her by name. Relevant authorities must thoroughly investigate! We can't let such a dangerous person remain in society!]

Faced with the torrent of abuse on the screen, I just brushed some chip crumbs off my hands.

Then I looked at the camera with a cold smile.

"Miscarriage? That's getting off lightly."

4

[What the fuck! Did I hear that right? Did she just say she should have killed her best friend and the baby? Is this something a human being can say?]

[Viper's heart! I can't find words to describe this demon anymore!]

[Why doesn't she just die? This scum living in the world is an insult to all normal people!]

[Ban her! Don't let her appear in public ever again!]

Samuel was clearly both shocked and delighted by my self-destructive response.

He immediately seized the opportunity, pounding his chest and stomping his feet at the camera:

"Everyone, did you hear that? This is her true feelings!"

"She doesn't care at all about Claire and Lucas's lives! She just wants them dead!"

He started frantically tagging various internet celebrities and influencers online, calling for them to come to the hospital.

"I call on all righteous friends to come! Use your influence to speak up for poor Claire and the innocent Mr. Lucas!"

"We must unite and absolutely cannot let this vicious woman go unpunished!"

"What happened to her best friend today could happen to any of us tomorrow!"

Soon, a group of influencers wielding selfie sticks rushed to the hospital.

They surrounded Claire lying in the hospital bed, with Samuel and Lucas on either side, crying to the camera about my crimes.

Lucas held Claire's hand with a grief-stricken face:

"Claire is too kind-hearted. When she rushed in, she was only thinking about saving me, not considering herself or the baby at all..."

Samuel had a look of grief and indignation, his fists clenched tight:

"My poor sister! She gave her whole heart, but was used by that vicious Rachel, losing her child. I, Samuel, have failed her!"

"I truly regret it! I never should have helped Rachel set her up with Lucas!"

"If it weren't for me, Lucas wouldn't have met a snake-hearted woman like Rachel! Now poor innocent Claire has been dragged into it too!"

He finished speaking with tears in his eyes, garnering a wave of sympathy:

[Samuel, this isn't your fault! You've been speaking up the whole time! It was that vicious Rachel who stood by and watched!]

[That's right, you just misjudged her character! That witch Rachel was too good at disguising herself. You're all victims!]

"No, it's all my fault. I failed to protect them. When Lucas was surrounded by snakes and Claire, a frail woman, rushed in, how scared must she have been?"

This true brother squeezed out a tear in anguish, while I pushed open the door and walked in.

Whoosh—!

All the influencers immediately turned their cameras, shoving lenses and microphones in my face.

[Rachel! How dare you show your face!]

[You murderer! Why did you refuse to save your fiancé?]

[Did you plan to kill them all along? Did you want Claire to miscarry?]

[Give us an explanation! You owe the whole internet an answer!]

Sharp questions flew at me from all sides, but I just smirked:

"That's right, I did hope she'd miscarry."

"Oh my God! Did you all see that? This is her true face. She really did want to kill her own best friend!"

Samuel immediately pounced on me like a dog that had caught the scent of blood, while I just picked up the miscarriage report.

I smiled, my gaze pointedly sweeping towards Lucas beside her.

"I'm very curious."

"Claire, my best friend for ten years, when did you get a boyfriend without me knowing?"

"You're with me every day, not even going on dates. How did you suddenly get two months pregnant?"

"This lost child, whose was it really?"