Leaving Madness in My Absence

Mackenzie said through sobs, "Marcus, could it be that Bianca thinks… I'm trying to steal you away from her? I didn't mean to. I was… I was just too scared that I wouldn't graduate."Marcus' expression softened considerably as he gently patted Mackenzie's head. "Silly girl, how could we ever abandon you?""Even if we're not related by blood, you're still our sister," Jeremy chimed in."From now on, don't think about such things. As long as we're around, we'll never let anyone bully you," Andrew promised as well.I floated in the center of the living room, listening to their gentle and comforting words toward Mackenzie. They were such a sharp contrast to the cold words I heard before I died.It was utterly laughable. I murmured, "From now on, you have only one sister."They soon stopped talking about me. To them, I seemed to be nothing more than insignificant trash.With that, the atmosphere in the living room became cheerful and harmonious once more. Mackenzie nestled in Marcus'

Under the greenhouse's warm, gentle lights, my face, which was swollen from pesticide poisoning, had turned a grotesque shade of bluish purple. My eyes were shut tight, and my lips were black.That was how I had looked when I finally gave up struggling and closed my eyes to meet my end."What… What is going on here?" Jeremy asked in a shaky voice."How vile… Ugh… She placed a corpse here to trick us." Andrew's stomach churned violently.Marcus' expression grew frighteningly dark. Forcing down his shock and nausea, he barked coldly at the cleaning crew, "Drag it out and dispose of it immediately! Don't dirty my place!"Not one of them thought the corpse was me. They all assumed that I was throwing a tantrum and had run away from home. To them, this random corpse was just another nuisance I had planted to annoy them.I was absolutely disappointed in them. It seemed that I was even less than a corpse in their eyes. They didn't even care to look more closely and identify if it was

As Jeremy's call had been on speakerphone, Marcus and Andrew heard every word.The truth was made known to them abruptly and unexpectedly. It was like an ice-cold bucket of water had been poured over their heads, chilling them to their bones.Only now did they realize that I truly was a genius. The young woman they had locked inside the greenhouse, and the one they had condemned as being malicious, was in fact a true genius.The corpse they had ordered to be disposed of in disgust… The rotting, stinking body they could not even bring themselves to identify was their own sister's remains.Marcus let out a roar of anguish. He clutched his head and dropped to his knees in pain.He remembered the pleading, desperate look in my eyes as he dragged me into the greenhouse. He remembered my frantic pounding on the door as I begged them to let me out. Regret and despair coursed through him, drowning him.It was him… It was them… They had all ignored Sofia's worried pleas.He remembered co

Marcus, Jeremy, and Andrew placed my urn in my room.The room they had once despised for being so small now became their sacred ground. They carefully set the invitation from Seinland and all of my medical books beside the urn.Marcus locked himself in the study for three days and nights. With every connection and every resource he had, he exposed Mackenzie's stolen thesis and academic fraud to the public with ruthless speed.The college immediately revoked her graduation and permanently expelled her. All awards and honors connected to her were stripped away.He also uncovered the truth that Mackenzie's parents had deliberately swapped me with their own newborn daughter at birth. Mackenzie had long since reunited with her biological parents and joined forces with them to torment me.Their whole family were thieves who had stolen my life. Thus, Marcus sent them all to prison, condemning them to spend the rest of their days behind bars.Jeremy resigned from his position as a renown