Maeve didn't bother responding to the debate about her face.
She adjusted the camera angle, then greeted the audience calmly.
"Welcome to everyone who showed up on time. I'm sure you're all here for the same reason—to demand an explanation from me in the name of ‘justice.'"
"I don't like wasting time on pointless topics."
"The purpose of tonight's livestream is simple: I'm going to address the rumors and scandals being spread about me and give you the truth."
The comments flew by in a frenzy.
Maeve didn't ramble. She went straight for the throat.
"First, let's talk about my history with the Morales family. In this world, having more fans doesn't automatically make you right."
"What Isla has said publicly is deeply misleading."
"It's made a lot of people assume I'm the Morales family's illegitimate daughter."
"The truth is: when Luka married my mother, he didn't even know Isla."
To make it easy for viewers, Maeve opened a picture-in-picture window in the lower-right corner of the livestream.
"Receipts are up. If you're interested, go look."
The split-screen feature felt novel to a lot of viewers, and plenty clicked over immediately.
Two marriage certificates appeared.
One was Luka's marriage to Maeve's mother, Serenity Vance. The photo area was censored, but the marriage date was circled.
The other was Luka's marriage to Isla, with its date circled as well.
Anyone with functioning eyes could see it: Luka married Serenity three and a half years before he married Isla.
To strengthen credibility, Maeve also displayed several old entertainment clippings.
Luka, obsessed with having a son, was disappointed by Maeve's arrival.
So he stopped coming home at night and spent his time in the townhouse he kept for Isla.
Isla, meanwhile, "delivered." Only a few months after Maeve was born, she gave Luka twins—a boy and a girl.
Luka was ecstatic. He wanted nothing more than to parade those children back into the family as heirs.
When Serenity learned her husband had betrayed their marriage, she asked for a divorce with chilling calm. She didn't take a cent. She simply took her daughter and left Aethelburg.
For nearly twenty years, the Morales family ignored Maeve—the daughter living somewhere out in the world—as if she didn't exist. They never checked if she was alive, never cared if she was dead.
Not until Ansel was diagnosed with kidney failure and needed a transplant.
When no one else matched…
That was when the Morales family finally decided Maeve was useful.

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