Chapter 179


    Charmine felt as if she had been cut loose, no longer deemed worthy of Joey’s love.


    “So vou’re not gonna give me a chance to exin as usual and just assume that I’m the one who


    pushed her? Again?” she whimpered helplessly, reminding Joey of the memory they had made


    yesterday where she had a good conversation with Charmine.


    “Enlighten me? C’mon, Charmine. I saw what happened with my own eyes. What else can you


    exin?” spluttered Joey.


    “What do you expect when you’ve already perceived that I’m the one at fault? Do you think that I’d just


    push her if I wanted payback? With the evidence I had yesterday, I can easily send her to jail. I pushed


    her out of revenge? Hah! What a joke!” huffed Charmine.


    She gazed coldly at Tiffany, somewhat furious. She then ripped her eyes away and walked back to the


    shade where she had been resting earlier. She was back to being left alone. 1


    “I don’t think Charmine would do this. There must be some misunderstanding going on.” The crew was


    chatting amongst themselves about it.


    “Shoving Tiffany into the pool would only make her choke a bit and Charmine herself would have to


    bear the consequences. It isn’t worth it.”


    “You know, we can’t just judge a book by its cover. Some people appear to be kind but who knows?


    They might be a cunning fox deep down.”


    “Looking at Tiffany right now makes me think of the time when she stood out for Charmine. Such a


    hypocrite!”


    People were now drawn into their own guessing game as they no longer believed that Tiffany was as


    pure as snow since the incident. They even felt disgusted with her fake kindness. 1


    If that conversation did not happen yesterday, Joey would have believed what Tiffany had said.


    Charmine’s decision to not hand over the evidence or snatch Julian away from Tiffany at such a difficult


    time had caught her off guard. It seemed that Charmine was not so bad after all. 1


    The me left Charmine to mourn her way through the park alone, and there was an ufortable


    feeling that gripped at Joey’s heart. She could have been able to swoop in and defend her, but she did


    not. She felt her gut clench a little when the situation sank in.


    She turned to Tiffany and said, “Let’s go home and get changed.”


    “Mommy, do you still think I was the one who set this up? You know I don’t know how to swim. I swear I


    didn’t do it on purpose…” Tiffany tried to implore Joey to change her mind. She sounded so pitiful that


    people would have felt sorry for her.


    “No, my dear Tiffy. You know that I love you. However, I believed that Charmine did not do it o n


    purpose. Look, if you were so unforgivable, she would have had you sacked from the industry much


    earlier.”


    “You saw it, didn’t you, mommy? I’d never set her up. Maybe she’s not in the good mood and that’s


    why…”


    “That’s enough, Tiffany. Anyhow, she didn’t mean to push you down. Let’s go home quickly. I f not, we’ll


    have a hard time fighting off the paparazzi again,” said Joey while grabbing Tiffany’s hand and darting


    away.


    Tiffany was aggrieved. She knew that Joey believed Charmine this time.


    With no effort at all, how could she win Joey’s trust so easily?


    ‘She doesn’t trust me like before anymore.’ She clenched her fist, trying hard to suppress her


    rage. 1


    Once they got home, Ronnie took her to get changed.


    “Where’s the video! Show me the video!” Tiffany rudely demanded toward Ronnie after Joey


    left the room.


    “Ms. Tiff… Tiffany.” Ronnie’s lips barely as she handed the cellphone over to Tiffany.


    In the video, it showed Charmine sweeping away the cake from Tiffany. The angle did not capture


    Tiffany being pushed by Charmine into the pond.


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    Her initial n was to upload the video of Charmine pushing her into the pond onto social media and


    with that, she could also show it to Joey. However, she had not managed to capture the particr


    moment. She was jinxed. 1


    “Are you dumb or something? Do think these f*cking photos and videos captured from such f* cking


    bad angles are going to be useful to me? Get out of here, you miserable wretch! Scram!” Burning rage


    flowed through her body like a deathly poison, screeching and demanding to be released from within


    her in the form of unwanted violence. She was like a volcano, erupted and exploding with anger.


    Without an ounce of control, she threw objects around the room, breaking them. 1 Ronnie crouched in


    her shadow as a primeval instinct took over.