Chapter 1350
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The baby girl in the video looked less than a year old, her large, bright eyes round and innocent.
It wasn’t hard to see the striking resemblance to Juniper.
She lay quietly on a hospital bed, IV tubes pumping blood into her tiny arm.
Beside her, a scientist in a white coat and surgical mask was operating a computer.
From start to finish, the video documented the entire agonizing process.
The “girl’s” genetic makeup was shown undergoing a radical, earth-shattering transformation.
With this evidence out in the open, the possibility of Juniper being a mutant became undeniably credible.
But it didn’t stop there.
The “insider” ruthlessly dumped all of Theia and Silas’s personal data online.
The whistle-blower accused them of conducting this horrific, unethical “genetic modification” solely for profit.
In a flash, the entire Blackwood family was shoved into the eye of the storm.
Even the corporate rivals of the Schwartz Group seized the chance to muddy the waters.
The internet exploded:
[See? There’s no such thing as a natural genius! Perfect scores in everything and mastering multiple fields? Bullshit.]
[Genetic modification sounds insane. If it works, can someone modify me too? I wouldn’t mind being an almighty genius!]
[What kind of garbage is the person above me spouting? This research violates the laws of human evolution! If this becomes commercialized, all the rich people will just modify their kids! Us regular folks will be stuck working for them forever! Absolutely not!!!]
[It completely violates basic ethics! I can’t believe her parents did something so monstrous. No wonder they kept her a secret even after finding her!]
[You guys think Jimmie is so amazing… what if he’s a lab rat too?]
[And what about his doctor brother, or the one who races bikes…]
[According to the news, all six of e2 those siblings were cultivated in a lab through genetic extraction. Ugh my skin is crawling. Not a single normal person in that family.]
As the discussion spiraled, Juniper’s siblings were all labeled as monsters.
Some bold commenters even dragged Shanley into the mess.
[Does Shanley know his fiancée is a mutant? Will he still marry her? (I’m too scared
to use his full name, don’t want to get sued!)]
[A prestigious family like the
Schwartz family would never accept
a genetically defective.
daughter-in-law. Just wait, the
engagement will be broken off
soon!]
FindNovel.net
[Genius teen or genetic monster? Which one is the real Juniper Payne?]
[…..]
Juniper scrolled through the comments, losing interest. She tossed her phone onto the sofa.
Looking at her parents’ pale faces, she asked calmly, “Were my genes modified?”
“Of course not Theia rushed
forward, answering frantically. “When Corvus Thorne kidnapped
you, he fully intended to operate. But
someone changed their mind.
halfway through. They pulled a bait-and-switch and swapped you out.”
The video made it look exactly like Juniper was being experimented on.
But in reality, the subject on the operating table wasn’t her. It was another girl of the same age.
“The only person who knows the truth is that female researcher. She might have the unedited footage of the procedure.”
“But…..” Theia’s face drained of color, her expression pained. “After the experiment, she vanished. We don’t know if she escaped or was silenced.”
It had been nearly twenty years. Finding her now would be harder than reaching the stars.
And even if they did, there was no guarantee she’d step forward into this PR nightmare.
“Why did she swap me out?” Juniper frowned, her voice laced with confusion.
“Because I once saved her and her daughter’s lives,” Theia sighed. “At the end of the day, we were all victims of that laboratory.”
Later, when the lab was exposed, the scientists involved were either killed or severely injured.
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