They Thought I Was Duped, Unaware I Had Truly Been Reborn Chapter 06

They Thought I Was Duped, Unaware I Had Truly Been Reborn Chapter 06

“Ah!”

With her dirty secrets exposed in front of everyone, Brynn let out a shriek.

She tried to block the screen right away.

It was useless. The display was too large.

Even though I cut the playback after just one round—no matter how intimate the images—the damage was done.

Every guest had seen enough.

The flimsy shield of “just friends” that she’d hidden behind—I tore it off right there in front of everyone.

Brynn’s face turned bright red.

She yanked at the wedding dress and exploded.

“Fine! Take your stupid dress back! Happy now?”

“I was trying to help you, and this is how you repay me?”

“You filed a fake police report, accused me of kidnapping you, and made all these fake photos to ruin my reputation!”

“You’re disgusting!”

She sounded so righteous that anyone walking in late might’ve believed she was the victim.

Wade’s expression darkened.

—

Trying to salvage what was left of their image, he turned on me.

“Simone, just because you’re jealous doesn’t mean you can fabricate all this evidence to frame Brynn. You’ve crossed the line.”

I immediately played another recording.

The ballroom fell silent.

It was Wade’s own voice—telling me Brynn should wear the wedding dress to live out her bride fantasy, while I’d be stuck in a bridesmaid dress.

Then I projected more evidence onto the giant screen.

Proof that he had sold my heirloom sapphire bracelet.

Proof that he had drained our joint account to buy Brynn a house.

The guests who had been attacking me moments earlier went pale.

No one had ever heard of a bride being forced to give up her wedding dress so her fiancé’s “best friend” could play bride for a day.

“So she’s a homewrecker, and she’s got the nerve to play the saint?”

“I actually felt sorry for her—and the whole time she was using us as her pawns!”

“And how did she even have the nerve to take their house money?”

“Wade gave away over a million dollars to another woman?”

“So those videos were real after all…”

The criticism came from every direction.

—

Wade immediately stepped in front of Brynn, shielding her once more.

His voice dropped into a warning.

“That’s enough, Simone.”

“If you had a problem, we could’ve handled it privately.”

“Did you really have to humiliate everyone like this?”

Brynn peeked out from behind him.

Instead of shame, there was smugness on her face.

“The house was a gift. My buddy wanted to help me out.”

She pointed at me.

“And now you’re just out for revenge, filing fake reports to frame me.”

“Like I said, you’re just a petty little woman.”

Then she actually turned to the officers.

“You need to leave now, before I file a complaint against you.”

I couldn’t tell whether she was genuinely stupid or simply believed everyone was as blindly devoted to her as Wade.

The police don’t just show up to arrest someone without evidence.

I let out a cold laugh and played the final recording.

Rudy’s voice filled the ballroom—sobbing, confessing, spilling everything after his arrest.

Brynn had ordered him to sneak into the hotel lounge, abduct me, and

—

film the assault to send to Wade.

In my previous life, I’d fought back—and he killed me.

This time, I used myself as bait.

And the police caught him with evidence proving he’d kidnapped me under Brynn’s instructions and intended to assault me.

The ballroom went dead silent.

Wade froze, then slowly turned to Brynn, disbelief written all over his face.

“Brynn… You told me you just wanted to teach Simone a lesson—to scare her into giving up the dress. How could you…”

The color drained from Brynn’s face. For the first time, panic appeared in her eyes.

“No—that’s not true! He’s lying! It’s all fake!”

She scrambled to explain, to deny, to scream her way out of it.

But it was no use. The officers closed in.

As they prepared to take her away, Brynn suddenly grabbed her stomach and screamed at Wade.

“Wade! I’m pregnant with your child! Save me!”