Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 494

Chapter 494: This... is me?

"Then tell me who the troublemaker is."

Even now, Penny didn’t fully understand Hugo. To stop herself from overthinking, she unlocked the phone, revealing a CCTV video from the hallway outside her hospital room. She had been expecting to see a suspicious person approaching her ward to harm her, but what she saw next made her freeze.

Instead of an intruder, Hugo was shown exiting her room, followed by her. They wrestled briefly, slamming each other into the wall, before falling to the floor. Penny was overpowering him, choking him with her arm as she pinned him from behind. Suddenly, Hugo pulled something out.

Without hesitation, he stabbed her leg with it — the same leg that now had a lesion and a faint bruise.

At that point, Penny paused the video, glancing down at her leg. Although the camera angle didn’t capture her face, she was certain she must have been shocked. Even so, she made a final attempt to put Hugo in a headlock.

Luckily for Hugo, whatever he had injected worked quickly, and she eventually collapsed to the side.

In the video, Hugo sat up, rubbing his neck, and gazed at her for a moment before shaking his head. Penny’s face twitched when she saw her second brother stand up and — rather than carry her — grab both of her ankles to drag her back into the ward.

"Ah, sorry about that last part," Hugo said, noticing her look of disbelief. "I was frustrated and tired. I couldn’t carry you."

"..." Penny was momentarily speechless. "This is... this is real?"

He nodded. "Yes."

"This happened last night?"

"There’s a date stamp and time in the corner. You can check," he replied nonchalantly. "I got the footage from the hospital records."

"..." Once again, Penny was rendered speechless. She couldn’t believe what she had just seen; it was far from what she expected. To be sure, she reviewed the footage again, confirming that the woman wrestling with Hugo was indeed her.

It was her.

"!!!" Her eyes widened, and she held her breath. Her face turned pale as she looked at Hugo in horror. "This is real?"

For the second time, she asked the same question. She couldn’t help it—it all seemed unreal.

"Yes," Hugo repeated patiently. He found it just as ridiculous. "That’s you... after having a drink. So, in conclusion, First Brother isn’t paranoid. He has every reason to ban you from drinking."

Penny continued staring at the footage, her face twisting in disbelief. She rewatched it once more, her expression growing uglier by the second.

"That’s really me?" she gasped in horror, looking back at Hugo, who nodded in response. She glanced down again. "How?!"

"How would I know?"

"Are you sure... I did that?"

"I wish I wasn’t."

"So, this bruise..." She pointed shakily at the marks on Hugo’s face, scanning the bruises and scratches in sight. Then, slowly, she pointed at herself. "... I caused these?"

"Unless a ghost attacked me last night, then yes," Hugo said, a hint of sarcasm in his voice.