My father was the first to react. He rushed onto the stage, trying to snatch the microphone from my hand.
"You're talking nonsense! You've gone insane!"
I stepped aside to avoid him and threw the documents directly at his face.
"Dad, are you really going to keep pretending?"
My father staggered backward, his face drained of color, as though he had aged ten years in an instant.
My mother had already collapsed into her chair, pale as death, her lips trembling too violently to form a single word.
The entire room erupted into chaos. The whispers quickly turned into uncontrollable discussion.
"So Alice Lockwood isn't actually the Lockwood family's daughter?"
"Then what her sister said was true? She's an impostor?"
"Oh my God, this is the scandal of the year."
Alice let out a piercing
