Chapter 409

As Sophia was speaking, the large screen behind her switched to a presentation slide interface.

However, what appeared on it was not what she had mentioned about the “Rising Star” project but a paternity test report. Scrolling down, it revealed Sophia’s birth certificate and her parents’ information.

The presentation slides detailed Sophia’s parents – Albert and Hylda – having an extramarital affair and giving birth to her, putting her in a welfare home, and then arranging for Albert’s wife – Rainee – to adopt her.

The sudden revelation left the audience bewildered, and the media quickly realized that something was amiss. They were frantically filming the scene.

“Holy shit. Sophia is Albert’s illegitimate daughter!”

“Who’s Albert?”

“He’s the husband of the couple who adopted Sophia. Isn’t he her adoptive father?

How could he be her biological father?”

“It’s written on the slide that Albert had an affair with his secretary, resulting in the birth of Sophia. To cover it up, they put her in a welfare home. Albert’s wife has been devoted to charity work, so he used the accident to arrange for his wife to adopt Sophia…”

“Putting his own illegitimate daughter under his wife’s nose and having her help raise her? This is crazy even for a drama series. What did his wife do to offend him? Did she desecrate the Jewell family’s ancestral grave or something?”

“Wow, this is disgusting. I’ve been following Sophia for years. She even said on Facebook that she was bullied by the daughter of her adoptive family, and many people spoke up for her online. After all the fuss she had made, she was actually the false accuser. She’s an illegitimate daughter trying to take someone else’s place, and she even wanted to publicly shame the real daughter of that family? She’s not human.”

“How dare she speak so boldly at the recruitment talk, claiming that she achieved everything through her own efforts? How dare she!”

“She must have also made up the story about her being bullied in the welfare home. Although her biological parents sent her to the welfare home, there was no way they would let her suffer. I don’t buy it.”

“How can this person be so full of lies? It’s really disgusting! Why did the Vinci Rivera Group hire such a bad person to be a speaker?”

“I instantly lost interest in this ‘Rising Star’ project. Don’t they run a background check on the speakers before hiring them? This makes me doubt the hiring standards of the Vinci Rivera Group.”

The audience below was discussing this in a flurry. Sophia thought that her speech was a great success, and she could not help but smile smugly as she turned to look at Stella. However, Stella looked at her expression with a smirk.

The staff distributing information forms finally noticed that something was wrong. One of them hurried to the multimedia control room, wanting to turn off the screen, while the other rushed to the stage.

Aldor immediately sensed that something was wrong and stood up to look behind him. With one look, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley.

“Mr. Kane, we have a problem!”

Keegan also saw it. He then ordered sternly, “Take control of the situation immediately!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a water bottle filled with water was thrown onto the stage, splashing water on Sophia’s face.

Then, someone from the audience shouted, “Get out of Trinity University!” The crowd’s reaction turned hostile in an instant with people throwing objects in Sophia’s direction and yelling, “Get out of Trinity University!”