Joseph Thompson frowned slightly, not knowing how to answer, only to hear Jaylene Ziel say, "You'd better not say that it wasn't a staged act you arranged in advance when your adoptive father and your adoptive sister showed up at the Golf Club Restaurant today?"
"My adoptive father was already back in town, and Uncle Wilson chose Maxwell's birthday banquet at the Golf Club Restaurant so that after playing golf, they wouldn't have to drive anywhere else," Joseph explained with some difficulty.
"And then?" Jaylene asked expressionlessly.
Joseph looked at her, thought for a moment and said, "There's a saying that if you don't do something stupid, you won't die. If she hadn't deliberately pushed the dining chair to frame you, I wouldn't have let my adoptive father and aunt in."
"The golf club restaurant has surveillance video, I can clear my name, but by doing this, you are clearly blocking her way to marrying into the Campbell Family..."
