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The Diary of Lies Chapter 10
My mother had indeed married my father for love, and the two of them had enjoyed a loving relationship.But shortly before her death, she had suddenly begun to consider the practical realities of her situation. She drew up a will, leaving most of her fortune to me and only a small portion to my father.However, she also recognized that I was still very young. If my father ever developed malicious intentions, I might not survive long enough to reach adulthood.After much hesitation, my mother decided to leave the will in her diary and reiterated that I must never read it myself.Her plan was to leave my father some room to act, provided I remained unaware of the will.If he was an honorable man, he would give me the inheritance that rightfully belonged to me.If he wanted to misappropriate his wife's bridal price, then, since I hadn't seen the will, he could simply disregard its provisions without having to resort to harming me.But my father wanted both to seize my mother's brid
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Even after my suspicions were confirmed, I found no sense of relief.All the suffering I'd endured for half my life, along with the guilt and self-reproach I'd carried for the past six months, had been nothing more than an elaborate scheme my father had devised to seize my mother's inheritance.When I left Coraline, I'd overheard Jaylah telling the princess about something happening in her own family.Jaylah explained that her aunt had died young, leaving a will that bequeathed half her property to her daughter and the other half to her husband.At the time, the girl had been too young to inherit anything.Under the laws of our country, boys couldn't inherit their property until they reached adulthood, while girls had to wait until they married. Until then, their inheritance was held in trust by their legal guardian.So although the girl had reached an age when she could pursue a romantic relationship, her father had repeatedly obstructed her marriage plans.Now, just when she h
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That was precisely why my crouching beneath Coraline's skirts didn't look suspicious. No pursuing guard would dare search a princess's carriage, let alone look beneath her skirts.Coraline dismissed the guards with a few brief words. Only after they had left did she call to me."All right. You can come out now."I struggled to extricate myself from the layers of fabric and thanked Coraline.Her expression remained cold and detached. Clearly, she still didn't entirely believe my explanation."Go. Let's pretend I never saw you today."I nodded. "I understand. You never saw me today."Although Coraline didn't believe me, I was still grateful that she'd helped me.I turned to leave, but she suddenly called after me. "Wait!"I looked back. Coraline pressed her lips together, hesitated briefly, and then handed me two envelopes."The first is something I originally intended to give you, but you have no use for it now. The second should be useful to you. Take it."I accepted both en
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Could... could my father have been trying to kill me?But why would he want me dead?He had encouraged me to stay alive and atone for my sins. Why, then, would he poison me just when I was trying to atone for them?Or had I done something that suddenly made him change his mind?But the only thing I'd done differently lately was ask him to let me go to war. What harm could it possibly do him if I went to the battlefield?My heart grew heavy.Perhaps my father was still hiding something from me. There had to be things I didn't know—things that could influence his decisions.And if that was the case, could the diary my father had shown me really be telling the truth?For the first time, I began to doubt it.The diary was written in my mother's voice, chronicling the final days of her life. It also claimed that she might not have died so soon if not for me.It suggested that she might not have died so soon—had it not been for my own childish carelessness in fetching the wrong med
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This time, no matter what kind of abuse I suffered, I accepted it willingly.After returning to prison, my relationship with my father improved considerably. He began sending me letters and occasionally brought me necessities and food.Although life was harsh and the guards sometimes beat me, I felt more at peace than I ever had before.I now knew that everything stemmed from the sins I'd committed. The suffering I endured was Heaven's way of helping me atone.For a rare stretch of time, I enjoyed a measure of inner peace in prison. Then news reached us. Our empire had become embroiled in a territorial dispute with a neighboring country.If I could serve my country on the battlefield, even if I died there, at least my death would have some meaning. If my demise could benefit others, perhaps that would count as atonement, too.With that thought in mind, I wrote to my father, asking him to help secure my release so I could join the war as an ordinary soldier.He replied quickly,
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My father opened his eyes and started in surprise. "Chase? What are you doing here?"I pressed the knife even closer to his neck. "I'm here because I want the truth! I have to know what's written in that diary! Why does everyone who reads it hate me so much that they want to kill me on the spot?"My father remained silent for a long moment. When he finally looked at me, there was an unexpected trace of pity in his eyes. "My child, are you sure you really want to know the truth? Even if knowing it makes you suffer even more than you already do?"Suffer?I almost laughed at the absurdity of the question.My life was already unbearable. What could possibly make it any more painful?"Do you think I've spent the past decade and more living a life of luxury and comfort?"Ever since my mother died, he'd beaten me. My maternal relatives had disowned me, and I'd been sent away to a boarding school where I was abused.Now I was an adult, yet I'd received none of the education or privileg
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