Chapter 8 Forced by Public Opinion

Evie stood in front of the media, crying her heart out. She claimed that she and Archie were deeply in love and that I was the wicked sister tearing them apart. According to her, I was so desperate to stop their marriage that I was even trying to drive Archie out of the Houghton family, all so I could keep the family fortune for myself. If it had just been Evie, a woman with no real ties to the Houghton family, people might not have believed her so easily. But then Grandma stepped in, adding fuel to the fire. The media storm immediately swallowed me whole. "I can't believe there's a sister like this in the world!" "A woman hoarding her family's fortune? Does she have no shame?" "Daughters shouldn't have the right to inherit family assets. She grew up eating her brother's food, living under his roof, and now she's trying to steal his money too? What kind of person does that?" I calmly scrolled through the comments, reading them from beginning to end. Grandma's usual smile had v