You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 446 Deny The Accusation

Brian checked on Vivian and said in surprise, "Miss Ye doesn't have a fever. Her temperature is normal."

Julie thought she and Vivian would be doomed. Howard suddenly said, "So how did she pass out from her headache? Is it some sort of mental problem?"

He was trying to make an excuse.

Julie didn't get his point and retorted, "How could Vivi have a mental problem? Don't..."

Vivian squeezed her mother's hand, warning her to watch her mouth. As expected, Julie shut up instantly.

"Doctor, I don't know what's wrong with me. I just felt dizzy and a surge of weakness spread through my body, so I fainted." Vivian squinted her eyes, pretending to be light-headed and ill.

She reached out and rubbed her temples. A couple tears fell from her eyes and slid across her cheeks.

"I saw John..." Thinking of watching the car run into the river, Vivian choked through her sobs. "He had an accident. I...I..."

She trailed off, but it was enough for Brian to understand.

Brian was shocked and asked, "What happened to Mr. Shi?"

"A car accident." Howard's voice was filled with sorrow. He glanced at his crying daughter and thought she was indeed smart.

Unlike Julie, Vivian immediately got his point.

"Could this be causing her this discomfort?" Howard asked the doctor.

"Maybe it's a stress response," Brian suggested.

The Ye family members sighed in relief. Chester wasn't as convinced though. He frowned and couldn't help wondering if Vivian was just pretending. Whether she was pretending didn't matter though. Now that she could speak, she had to clear it up.

"Aunt, Miss Ye is awake," Chester reminded Jessica.

"Vivi, how do you feel?" Jessica asked Vivian politely. But before Vivian could even answer, she continued, "Did you install the bug in the necklace?"

"What?" Vivian pretended to be astonished. She held the necklace in her hand and checked it again and again in disbelief with her hands trembling. "How could there be a bug? Where did it come from? I didn' put that in there.

Jessica, it's not me. I didn't install this bug. How could I do that?" She looked at Jessica with her innocent and watery eyes.

"Really?" Jessica looked down at her.

A person could lie, but their eyes almost always give them up. If she was lying, her eyes would show the truth.

Jessica stared at Vivian, waiting to see if she would crack and spill the beans. Vivian, however, didn't show any signs of guilt or nervousness, only getting more and more aggrieved instead. Vivian's eyes were like two pools full of water, almost overflowing with tears.

She looked so distressed that it was difficult not to feel sorry for her.

Indeed, eyes couldn't lie, but they could be taught to hide one's intentions. Since the moment Vivian was taken back to the Ye family, she had been sharpening her acting skills to perfection.

As long as she kept telling herself that she didn't know anything about it, her eyes wouldn't give her up. In a sense, it was like she was tricking herself to keep up this facade.

Jessica believed Vivian and asked, "If it's not you, then who is it?"

"I don't know." Vivian was still adamant that she was as shocked as them, but she couldn't hide the mischievous glint flashing through her eyes. Chester was too keen-eyed and he saw it instantly.

Nina taught him that a person would always reveal their true feelings, even if only for a quarter of a second. This was called a micro expression.

It was an incredibly difficult thing to see and only after a ton of training could one master the talent of spotting it.

When he was in North Yard, Nina always asked him to practice observing other people's micro expressions. As time went by, this split second was more than enough for Chester to spot what people were truly feeling.

Chester saw the smugness on Vivian's face.

It seemed that he was right all along. Vivian did put the bug in the necklace, but there wasn't any hard evidence.

But he had other proof though.

"You don't know who installed it, then why do you have this sound recording on your computer?" Chester asked, holding the USB flash drive in his hand, "This is the sound recording copied from your computer."

Vivian's face dropped. Her eyes fixated on the USB flash drive as they blackened like two endless pits. She wanted nothing more than to destroy it.

She was disgusted by the confident look on Chester's face. She shouldn't have trusted her mother. She should have killed Chester by herself.

Where on earth did he get so much evidence?

The immense hatred was like a fire, wanting to burst out of the act she was putting on.

Howard raised his hand and patted his daughter on the shoulder, instantly suppressing her anger. She needed to stay as calm as possible if she was going to make it out of this.

Vivian looked up at her father, feeling guilty that he had seen right through her. But at the same time, she felt grateful that he could be there.

Nobody else noticed anything wrong with Vivian. They all just stared at Chester's hand, holding the USB flash drive.

Jessica glared at Vivian and said, "You better not be lying to me."

Vivian said sadly, "Jessica, it's really not me. I don't know what's going on. How did the sound recording even get on my computer?"

Sam didn't want to listen to her anymore. He ordered through his scowl, "Jake, play the recording."

"Yes, sir." Jake took the USB flash driver and turned on the recording with the help of the equipment at the wedding venue.

They all initially heard a recording of Jessica talking and airing out her thoughts.

The one where she spoke to Yvonne about her divorce, played a few times on a loop.

Nobody else really knew why that was being repeated, but to Vivian and Jessica, it held paramount importance.

The mother and daughter used Jessica's divorce to upset Sam and made him injured.

The two women's faces were deathly pale. One was too nervous to say a word, and the other was too astonished to even try and turn this around. The fiery atmosphere soon dissipated and froze, leaving the room deathly cold.

"Anything else?" Chester calmly glanced at the two people who guiltily stood aside. They felt so terrible that they couldn't even look into his eyes.

Julie turned her head and looked away. Leaning weakly against her mother, Vivian denied with red eyes, "I really don't know what's going on."

"This is the copy from your computer. How dare you say that you don't know what happened?" Jessica flew into a rage and walked towards Vivian, her high heels stomping on the floor. She was so angry that she wanted to beat the lights out of Vivian.

Knowing that an angry Jessica was just as good as a barbarian, Vivian shuffled back in fear.

She didn't know what to do and instinctively tugged her father's clothes, trying to bring him in Jessica's way.

Howard stood in front of his daughter and said earnestly, "This is just a recording which doesn't prove that it's from my daughter's computer. You can't just accuse my daughter just because of this." "Dad," Vivian cried.

With her husband's support, Julie was no longer scared. "That's right. You can't blame us for anything. Don't think that our family can just be pushed around."

Jessica hesitated, but the anger in her eyes only built up.

Chester sighed and ordered, "Jake, show them the video please."

"Video?" Julie was stunned. "What video?"

Vivian was as surprised as her mother. How could there be a video?

Where did the video come from?

What kind of video was it?