The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 1997

Throughout the entire incident, Serena didn't fight back at all. Instead, it was Alma and her clique who were bullying her.

All the onlookers who saw Alma's actions couldn't help but lash out in condemnation.

[I can't believe how nasty Alma could be. | thought she was just a spoilt rich girl, but her behavior is shockingly crass.]

[Everyone was bashing Serena before, but now I'm thinking, did we get it all wrong? Maybe Arabella and Alma are the real culprits,

and they've just used their wealth and power to twist public opinion.]

[It's entirely possible. How else could a freshman have such impressive identities?]

[I'm also starting to believe that Serena might have been falsely accused.]

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[And watching Arabella fight with those hooligans in the video, she was pretty fierce. I'm sure she didn’t learn those skills at home

- she must have had a rough past. | mean, you don't get moves like that from nowhere!]

[Arabella loves to fight, AIma loves to fight, maybe that's the true colors of the Collins family? All the praises online are probably

just bought with their fortune.]

In the surveillance footage, the online crowd watched as Alma's friends held Serena's arms, one opening the fire escape, while

another pushed Serena's wheelchair, rolling her into the stairwell.

What happened inside wasn't caught on tape, but the timestamp showed that twenty minutes later, an ambulance took Serena out

of the stairwell, covered in blood and barely hanging on.

[Have we been misled by the Collins family all along? Maybe Serena is the one who was really suffering.]

[Could it be that the Collins family found their biological daughter and now they want to ditch the adopted one? But to protect their

reputation, they smear Serena's name.]

[Serena has been thrown out and hasn't spoken out publicly since. Could there be more to this story?]

At Reflections Villa.

Louisa was fuming upon seeing these comments.

"It's certain someone has paid for a smear campaign; these comments are all fabricated."

Kenneth, after watching the trending surveillance video, murmured, "It does look like Alma was in the wrong, she attacked first."

"We didn't want to reveal Bella's identity at first because we were worried it would be too much for the grandparents, we wanted to

spend more twith Bella, and we didn't want these rumors disturbing her life." Louisa was irate.

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Initially, when Arabella returned home, there wasn’t this wave of malicious doubt; she could go where she wanted and handle her

affairs with ease.

But now she was on the trending search again.

The #ArabellaSpotted# was all over the trending search.

The moment her car appeared outside the hospital, the media swarmed her.

Voices arose online questioning why she needed to show up in a luxury car to visit someone in the hospital. Louisa was livid, "Bella

specifically chose the least conspicuous car, and yet these people still accuse her of flaunting her wealth! What do they expect? Is

she supposed to buy a cheap car just to visit the hospital? What are they thinking?"

She was fuming; that car was the cheapest one in their garage!

Bella had been considerate, yet she still got criticized.