Scarlett's POV:
"Scarlett, you're... you're back?" Raina stammered in disbelief. When she saw me, her face went white as a sheet. She looked as though she had just seen a ghost.
At this moment, Elena stepped forward and introduced me to Raina. "This is Miss Wilson."
With her eyes wide in shock, Raina pointed at me and asked incredulously, "What? Miss Wilson? She can't be Miss Wilson!"
"It's true. She's Caroline Wilson, the only child of Mr. Edward Wilson," Elena proudly announced my identity to everyone.
As soon as she finished speaking, the crowd burst into an uproar.
"Oh my God! I can't believe that she's the child of the legendary president of the Wilson Group. This is the first time she has shown up in public!" "I never expected Miss Wilson to be this beautiful."
"Are you all blind? She's obviously Scarlett Riley. How could she be the daughter of the president of the Wilson Group?"
"What?! She's Scarlett? Then that would mean she's Mr. Moore's ex-wife."
I said nothing. I just stood there calmly and let the crowd scrutinize me.
"Don't be fooled by her. She's not Mr. Wilson's only child. She's Scarlett Riley, a vicious woman who abandoned her husband and children," Raina loudly said for everyone to hear.
In an instant, the entire hall fell into dead silence.
"Yes! She's a liar. She's not a member of the Wilson family at all," Chloe echoed. She then pointed at me and cussed me out. "You bitch, you should get the hell out of here. How dare you steal a rich lady's identity to attend Raina's party? Have you no shame?"
"Don't worry. I'm not as shameless as you are," I retorted with a sneer at the corners of my mouth.
"You!" Chloe uttered, dismayed that I had the nerve to talk back to her.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Did I offend you in any way? How could you say that I'm a 'vicious woman' when you don't even know me?" I asked with feigned confusion and innocence.
Raina took two steps forward and stood side by side with Chloe. "Stop being pretentious. You're the reason why Charles lost his memory last year. As if that wasn't enough, you even abandoned your three children. Only a heartless and vicious woman could do that."
I must say, Raina's speculation was convincing. With just a few sentences, she managed to make the crowd burst into an uproar for the second time.
"What? Isn't it true? If it's not, why aren't you defending yourself?" Raina added.
"I hate to break it to you, but the woman you're talking about probably just looks like me. Surely, there are many people in the world who look alike. How could you be so sure that that woman is me?" I bantered.
"Is that the best explanation you've got? You look exactly like her."
"Raina, why are you so obsessed with the way I look?" I took a closer look at her face and sighed. "If that woman looks like me, she must be prettier than you. Don't tell me you're slandering me because you're jealous that you're not as beautiful as me?"
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Raina bellowed. Bingo. It seemed that my words had gotten into her.
"I'm telling the truth! Why are you stopping me from telling the whole world how heartless you really are?"
I smiled at her sarcastically. Suddenly, I gasped and acted as if I had realized something. "I see. You want to make it seem that you've mistaken me for someone when, in reality, you just want to give your ego a boost. And you can only do that by belittling me. What's the matter with you? How could you humiliate yourself on purpose?" "You..." Raina gasped. If it were not for the fact that everyone was watching her, she would have rushed forward and fought with me like a shrew.
I, however, remained calm and composed. Like a noble swan, I raised my neck and passed by Raina without a word. I did not have to say a word to make her look pathetic.
"Raina, what's going on?"
All of a sudden, a deep voice of a man came from my behind. I looked back and saw a dignified man walking toward us.
"Dad!" Raina exclaimed. Her face lit up when she thought that she had found someone to back her up. With an aggrieved look on her face, she bit her lips and ran toward the man, presumably her father.
To her surprise, he ignored her and instead went straight to me.
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