Chapter 362
Before Celeste could even argue back, Thea cast a projection directly onto the screen.
The massive television in the hospital room, synchronized with the live stream, popped up with an exclusive explanation of Dr. Alistair Vance’s acupuncture technique.
Sienna looked straight into the camera and spoke with absolute composure.
“The technique I used that day was Dr. Vance’s only legacy restorative acupuncture, which you can all search up online right now if you don’t believe me.
The characteristics and taboos of this method are completely public and transparent. It only repairs chronic injuries and stubborn disabilities, and has zero effect on perfectly healthy muscle tissue.
In fact, if a healthy limb has its nerve acupoints stimulated by this technique, it will cause irreversible loss of function.
Meaning, a good leg will definitely be ruined, and a bad leg will definitely heal p>
She turned her eyes to look at Jarred, whose posture had completely tensed up.
“Jarred, you and your good buddies have all paid private visits to Dr. Vance. You all know in your hearts whether my words hold any weight or not, right p>
Jarred’s Adam’s apple bobbed slightly, a heavy shock striking his chest.
Gideon and Lucas also swallowed hard, remaining entirely silent.
This reaction was undoubtedly the best answer.
Sienna withdrew her gaze, looking at Celeste, her voice cold and razor-sharp.
“For these past few months, you’ve been acting like you were in agonizing pain, making your injuries look critically severe, deceiving the entire Sterling household and everyone else’s sympathy.
You acted for so long, and faked it so well, that everyone thought you had severe, untreatable injuries.
When I performed the acupuncture, I was trying to save you out of professional medical ethics.
I cured your fake limp, but your years of disguised acting personally destroyed your own perfectly healthy legs.
I didn’t hurt you; you reaped what you sowed p>
The moment her words dropped, Sienna suddenly whipped the blanket off Celeste’s legs.
Seizing the opportunity, Thea signaled the cameraman to step forward and focus the lens on Celeste’s legs.
“There are six pinpricks on your leg, arranged in a plum blossom pattern, which is the signature mark of Dr. Vance’s acupuncture technique p>
Sienna’s voice was freezing. “The forensic report states very clearly that these marks take at least a week to fade completely.
If your leg was truly injured and the acupuncture ruined it, then that would be my responsibility.
Even if your leg was slowly improving, you were sitting in a wheelchair the day I treated you, proving your leg wasn’t fully recovered.
As long as there was any damage, this acupuncture technique would have helped you recover to some extent.
The reality is that your legs were perfectly fine to begin with, which is exactly why you actually ended up crippled afterward p>
The comments on the live stream flipped drastically in a landslide reversal.
[Holy crap! I get it now! Good leg ruined = Sienna didn’t hurt anyone, Celeste was faking a limp and played herself p>
[Help! This whole thing was directed and acted out by Celeste herself, did I just sympathize with the wrong person p>
[Oh my god! What kind of god-tier plot twist is this p>
Inside the hospital room, Helena’s face instantly turned ghastly pale, her lips trembling as she couldn’t utter a single word.
The matriarch gripped her walking cane tightly, her face full of shock and sheer disbelief.
Gideon and Lucas’s expressions froze completely, their previous anger and questioning abruptly. stathing on their faces in awkward humiliation.
Jarred’s deep, profound eyes locked intensely onto Sienna as she stood before the camera.
There was no ripple of emotion on his cold, handsome face, but his fingertips subconsciously curled inward.
Suspicions were churning wildly in the depths of his eyes.
Only Celeste remained unfazed in the face of absolute ironclad evidence, refusing to let her act collapse.
Her eyes instantly reddened, tears. surging out as she cried until she was almost drained of strength, shaking her head frantically in a thoroughly shattered emotional state.
“No! It’s not like that! You’re twisting the truth! It’s sophistry!
My improvement was real! My pain was real! My disability is real too!
I don’t know any acupuncture rules! All I know is p>
I was about to walk normally again, but you took the initiative to come treat my legs!
You personally… completely destroyed my legs just as they were about to heal!