Chapter 1290: Chapter 1293: Telling Too Many Lies Invites Retribution Chapter 1290: Chapter 1293: Telling Too Many Lies Invites Retribution “That’s all I have to say.”

Having said that, Lily turned slightly and looked behind her at Jacob, “Mr. Richardson, do you have anything to add?”

Facing away from the media, at an angle the camera could not capture, Lily winked at Jacob.

Her beautiful peach-blossom eyes twinkled, instantly giving Jacob a headache.

Great, it was his turn to clean up the mess again.

Jacob cleared his throat twice and said with a serious tone, “Yes, I just wanted to clarify some things on behalf of the hospital authority.”

Jacob calmly revealed the truth of Mason Scott faking his illness and pointed out that Wendy Jenkins had been exploiting the sympathy of viewers with all sorts of fabricated illnesses, which were utterly baseless.

“All things considered, the patient Mason Scott is in good health, showing only minor delusional disorder otherwise. After my examination just now, I didn’t find any other problems with him. Regarding Lady Wendy Jenkins bribing our hospital’s doctor to give false testimony, we will collect evidence and submit it to the judicial authorities.”

Jacob’s statement was undoubtedly the most useful piece of evidence.

He was a figurehead of First City Hospital and an authority in the medical field, plus just now, so many people had witnessed and filmed Mason Scott up and about, able to run and jump.

Now, even a blind man could see the truth.

All those cries and complaints made by Wendy Jenkins before, saying that Mason Scott was on his last legs or close to death, were nothing but her shamelessly framing and fabricating lies.

In order to make Aidan Lucas the scapegoat, she did not hesitate to curse her own husband, nearing his demise. Mrs. Scott, who seemed so fragile, was indeed despicable.

Jacob’s explanation, along with the footage captured by numerous reporters at the scene, all helped to alleviate a minor crisis for Lily and Aidan Lucas.

On Theodore Lucas’s side, however, the damage was substantial.

He had originally hoped to ride the wave of Mason Scott’s faked illness and Wendy Jenkins’s tearful complaints to worsen the public’s perception of Aidan Lucas and Lily Redington.

Then, whether it was fighting a divorce lawsuit or resisting yielding to Duke Redington with Wendy Jenkins playing the victim, they could have garnered public support.

But now, with this uproar, their cunning plan had completely fallen through.

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After the reporters had left, Lily went to Jacob’s office.

“Doctor Richardson, how are my grandfather and Wendy Jenkins doing now?”

In front of the media just before, all she had said were formalities. Now that they were alone, Lily could finally ask what was really on her mind.

“Your grandfather is doing okay, he’s just a bit overly stressed. When I said he has a minor delusional disorder, I wasn’t just making it up. In fact, his delusional disorder might even be more severe than I anticipated.”

Doctor Richardson was holding a copy of the medical records, sent over from the Psychiatry Department.

“And what about Wendy Jenkins?”

“She…” Jacob hesitated slightly, looked over a set of medical records for half a minute, and then began, “The situation is not good.”

“She has suffered a massive intracranial hemorrhage, and we performed an emergency cranial decompression surgery right away. The surgery is still in progress. If the results show damage to the brainstem, then her chances of brain death will greatly increase. Even if we save her, if the brainstem is damaged, there’s almost a 100% possibility that she will spend the rest of her life as a Vegetative State in bed.”

“Vegetative State…” Even Lily had not expected such an outcome for Wendy Jenkins.

Who would have thought that the very next moment, Wendy Jenkins, who had just been so insistently saying that Mason Scott had almost lost consciousness and was akin to a Vegetative State, would become one herself?

Indeed, one should not tell too many lies.

Say them too much, and they might just backfire on oneself.

Lily was about to ask Jacob a few more questions when she suddenly felt an indescribable wave of nausea.

She tried to suppress it but couldn’t, and ended up retching in front of Jacob.