Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 1352

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...]

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.