Outcast Queen: Her Return from Hell novel Chapter 498

Caleb offered a bitter smile, looking deeply through the glass at Zoe, who was still sitting frozen in her seat. His tone was calm, yet laced with sorrow. "Zoe has loved Julian unconditionally for so many years because she always believed he was the one who saved her life.

The ridiculous truth is, the person who actually pulled her out of the water back then was me. Julian... simply took the credit for it."

"Whoa, is this some kind of cheap soap opera?!" Meredith gasped, unable to hold back her cursing. "Julian is such a scumbag! Since he didn't even like her, would it have killed him to tell the truth?"

"Heh, that jerk probably just enjoyed the feeling of being worshiped and treated like a god," Macy scoffed in disgust, then looked at Caleb with concern. "So, Caleb, what are you going to do now?"

"Wait." Caleb's voice wasn't loud, but it carried a steady resolve. "I've already told her the truth. The rest is up to her to judge. If she still chooses Julian in the end, then... I have nothing more to say.

As for the Prescott Group's crisis, I'll just have to fight with everything I've got and leave the rest to fate."

Macy and Meredith both turned their eyes toward Phoenix.

Right now, the Prescott Group was like meat on a chopping block; its survival rested entirely on her whim.

However, Phoenix merely smirked casually, shifting her gaze back to Caleb. "Caleb, I believe you'll win her heart. After all, Zoe is innocent, not stupid."

Caleb nodded slightly, a gentle smile reaching his eyes. "I think so too."

Meanwhile, after sitting in stunned silence for a long time, Zoe finally got up and left.

She didn't return to the Vaughan estate. Instead, she headed straight for a heavily fortified prison.

In the visitation room, Julian's eyes flickered with surprise when he heard the guard summon him.

The Prescott family had already crumbled to pieces, and everyone had scattered. Who would still come to see him at a time like this?

Not long ago, he heard that Phoebe had died in another brutal prison, yet he felt absolutely nothing.

Perhaps from the moment he had his brutal awakening, Phoebe had simply become the 'culprit who destroyed his family' in his eyes.

Julian took a deep breath, dragging his heavy footsteps to the visitation window.

Through the cold glass, when he recognized the familiar face on the other side, he froze. "Zoe... what are you doing here?"

Zoe picked up the receiver expressionlessly. Her voice, filtering through the static, was colder and calmer than ever before. "Julian, I only came here today to ask you one question."

Before she could even ask, Julian eagerly grabbed his receiver, rushing to confess. "Zoe, I was a total bastard before. I said so many horrible things to you.

It wasn't until I was locked up in here that I realized the only person in this world who genuinely cared about me was you."

"Zoe, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?!" Julian completely panicked. He could faintly sense that his very last lifeline was slipping away.

He slammed his hands against the glass in a frenzy. "I was the one who saved you! When you woke up, wasn't I the first person you saw?! How could that be fake?!"

The sneer on Zoe's lips grew more pronounced. "The person who risked his life to save me back then was Caleb."

Julian's pupils shrank to pinpricks. It was as if his darkest secret had just been exposed, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably. "How... how did you find out?! No, it wasn't him, it was me! I saved you!"

"Caleb saved me, and you... you just happened to walk by and shamelessly stole his credit!"

Zoe took a deep breath, and when she looked back at Julian, her eyes were filled only with deep disgust and hatred.

"All this time, I treated you as my savior, eagerly hoping to marry you.

And what did you do? You exploited my feelings for you, ruthlessly trampling on my dignity, insulting me, and mocking me!

I swallowed all that humiliation because I thought I owed you my life.

It's only now I finally realize that all these years, I've been played like a fool by a hypocritical scumbag like you!"