He was not a fool. Harry had no plan of getting remarried but did it later.
There should be a reason for it.
Given the subtle expression on her face, he could tell that it was not anything good.
As expected, Sydney nodded lightly and said, "Yeah, my dad was tricked. One year, when my dad went to meet a client, Kaylie, who was working as a waitress at the restaurant, took her chance and added something to my dad's wine. He fell for her trick, and Kaylie sneaked away before my dad woke up. She didn't show up again until she was pregnant with Madeline. A responsible man he was, my dad learned that Kaylie was pregnant with his child and decided to marry her."
"That's how it is!" Julien figured out the situation.
Sydney bit her lips and said, "As far as I remember, my dad drank a lot on the night he decided to marry Kaylie. He held me, cried for a long time, and kept saying that he was sorry for my mom. In fact, Madeline was correct about one thing. My dad indeed didn't care about her mother and her."
"There's no way he would forget and forgive her for tricking him like that," Julien said.
Sydney hummed, "Yeah, my dad hated Kaylie. Even so, he didn't retort to emotional abuse but just refused to get close to her. He never mistreated her. As for Madeline, he indeed didn't treat her as gently as he did to me. Nevertheless, Madeline was his child and had a position in his heart. That was why he felt disappointed in her. Ironically, Madeline took my dad's severity towards her as a sign of hostility and even..."
Sydney clenched her fists and trembled. Anger and resentment crept onto her face.
Julien gently squeezed her hand, signaled her to calm down, and asked, "Kaylie cheated on your dad because he kept giving her a cold shoulder, right?"
"Exactly, my dad never treated her as his wife but just saw her as a colleague. Unable to bear the loneliness, she cheated on him. Although my dad didn't love her, he couldn't accept betrayal. In a rage, he beat Kaylie up, and she never cheated on him again. However, her attitude toward my dad turned sarcastic. He didn't wrestle with that since he didn't love her. Before I learned that Kaylie was one of those who poisoned my dad, I hadn't thought much about it. Now I realize that she worked with Madeline to murder my dad, probably because she hated him for that."
At that point, resentment and pain were written in Sydney's eyes.
Julien gently took her into his arms. "It's okay. You will avenge your father."
"Yeah." Sydney nodded, leaning against his shoulder.
Julien stroked her soft hair. "This time, Madeline exposed your identity online and spread rumors about you with the sole aim of pressuring you to hand over your shares through public opinion. What are you gonna do about it?"
If she didn't have a plan, he would do it for her.
Deep down, he believed that she would choose to handle it herself.
Sure enough, Sydney narrowed her pretty eyes and replied, "Madeline thinks that by inciting netizens to call me an illegitimate daughter, I would yield. The truth is that I will not. She wants to leverage cyberbullying to work against me, but has she ever thought that once I clarify everything, the netizens will realize that they have been used? By then, her trick will backfire. She dares to expose these things simply because she thinks that I have no evidence to prove that I'm not a love child."
"So, can you produce proof?" Julien looked down at her.
Sydney nodded and replied, "Yeah, I was adopted by my parents, and there should be an adoption certificate. Once I produce it, people will know that my mom didn't cheat on my dad, and Madeline's first lie will collapse. Remember what I've told you before? My dad had a surveillance system installed in the house because Madeline and her mother often bullied me when I was a child."
"Yeah!" Julien curled his lips, "I will never forget anything about you."
Sydney rolled her eyes at him.
'Come on, is this a good time to say honeyed words?'
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