CHAPTER 216: CHAPTER 216: MURDERER

"Dad! Dad, are you okay?" She shook Evan Hughes hard, but he remained motionless, as if he were dead.

She took two steps backward in fright and, after a moment, trembled as she checked Evan Hughes’s breath.

Two seconds later, Coralie Hughes turned pale and said blankly, "Dad... is dead!"

"What?! Mr. Hughes is dead?"

"How could this happen?! Where is the ambulance? Has it been called?"

The scene became even more chaotic.

Clarissa Stanton was pinned to the ground.

"Murderer! You killed Mr. Hughes!"

"Tie her up! Send her to jail!"

At this moment, Coralie Hughes couldn’t care less about "Summer Monroe"; she was in complete shock.

She only wanted to prank Summer Monroe to give her a reputation of being "improper," but she never imagined it would result in her father dying?

This was not what she wanted!

She never intended for this!

The Hughes Family, although prominent, was not large in number. In her generation, she was the only daughter. Her mother had also died of illness the year before last. If her father died like this, there would be no backbone left in the Hughes Family.

Moreover, she had just had her engagement called off by the Quinn Family, leaving her with no retreat.

With the family’s support gone, inevitably others would take advantage of their downfall, and her good days would be over!

A despair never felt before welled up in her heart.

Overwhelmed by despair and anger, Coralie Hughes suddenly had the impulse to strangle Summer Monroe.

Yes! Kill her!

Summer Monroe caused her father’s death, and she wanted Summer Monroe to pay for it with her life!

Coralie Hughes was completely out of her mind at this point.

Legal repercussions, facing a murder charge, none of it mattered to her now; she only wanted to kill Summer Monroe.

Right now, immediately!

Just as Coralie Hughes stood up, intending to avenge her father’s death, a pleasant, clear voice pierced through the crowd to her ears—

"Everyone, please step aside. I know a bit about first aid. The ambulance will take some time to arrive, and time is of the essence, so let me try."

Hearing this voice, Coralie Hughes felt like she had been struck by lightning.

This voice...

Isn’t this Summer Monroe’s voice?

How dare she still claim she wants to save someone? Wasn’t it her who angered Dad to death!

Coralie Hughes turned her head, glaring in the direction of Summer Monroe.

But the next moment, when she saw Summer wearing a white gown instead of the black evening gown she had prepared, she was stupefied.

Summer Monroe was supposed to be wearing that black evening gown, so why was she in white?

Moreover, if Summer was dressed in white, then who was in black and caused her father’s death?

Coralie Hughes bewilderedly looked at the "black evening gown girl" surrounded by the crowd. That person was tied up, looking extremely disheveled, but her original appearance could still be faintly discerned.

That was... Clarissa Stanton?!

How could it be Clarissa Stanton?!

She had clearly sent the dress to Summer Monroe!

So the one who caused Dad’s death wasn’t Summer Monroe, but... her cousin Clarissa Stanton??!

How could this be possible? Why did it happen this way?

As Coralie Hughes doubted her own eyes, Summer Monroe had already approached her.

Summer Monroe arrived just when Clarissa Stanton entered the hall, so she had watched the entire scene unfold.

She wanted to laugh coldly but couldn’t help feeling a sense of fear for herself.

If it hadn’t been for her last-minute decision to look into Coralie Hughes’s family history, she would now be the one everyone was cursing as a "murderer."

The label of "murderer" isn’t one easily erased.