Chapter 2

I folded my arms and rolled my eyes. “Is this supposed to be a bedroom? Did you build me a coffin? I’m not sleeping here. Redecorate it. I like pink.”

Charlotte hadn’t expected me to start giving orders the moment I came home. Her eyes reddened, and she turned to my mother with a wounded expression.

“Mom, I didn’t realize my sister hated me so much. She doesn’t even want the room I decorated for her. If she didn’t like it, she could have just said so. Why did she have to insult my kindness?”

My mother immediately stepped in front of her protectively.

“Fiona, don’t be so ungrateful! Charlotte decorated this room for you herself. If you don’t want to live here, then get out!”

Charlotte wiped away her tears and gave me a brave smile.

“It’s okay. My sister is probably just having trouble adjusting to her new surroundings. How about I get you a puppy to keep you company?”

My expression grew colder.

“Take your dog and get lost. I’m allergic to pet dander.”

Charlotte started to whimper again, but I couldn’t be bothered to argue with them. I simply shut the door, cutting myself off from their voices.

The audience was furious.

“Fiona didn’t have to be so cruel. She's so poorly educated.”

“Charlotte is so sweet and pitiful. She tried so hard to be kind to Fiona, but Fiona has all the entitlement of a princess without any of the grace. No wonder Charlotte kept getting rejected. I feel so sorry for her.”

My mother seized the opportunity and hurriedly added, “Fiona has always been an ungrateful brat. If she wasn’t the killer, then who was?”

The audience was already worked up, but my mother still wasn’t satisfied. She raised her hand toward the prosecutor.

“Prosecutor! I request that you allow an additional testimony segment. We’re the victim’s family, so no one is better qualified to expose Fiona’s crimes!”

According to her, I was vicious, shameless, heartless, and ungrateful.

After coming to the Shaw family, I had never called the nanny to check on her and rarely stayed at home.

She took me to a high-society gathering, but my crude behavior embarrassed the entire Shaw family.

I wasn’t used to eating with a knife and fork and even asked the server to bring me a well-done steak.

When my mother returned after chatting with several wealthy socialites, she saw that I had knocked over the champagne tower and splashed a glass of champagne directly in Charlotte’s face.

Charlotte cried and claimed that she had only been trying to teach me how to use a knife and fork.

I repaid her kindness by humiliating her in front of everyone.

After that, Eleanor Lawson publicly cut the Shaw family from her social circle, turning us into the scandal of high society for a period of time.

When my mother returned home, she made me kneel.

“If you hadn’t made such a terrible impression on Mrs. Lawson, why would she have banished us from her circle?”

As my mother recounted this part of the story, she shot me a hostile glare.

“The difference between these two girls was obvious. And later, it was Char who pleaded with Mrs. Lawson on my behalf before she agreed to accept me again!”

She praised one daughter by tearing down the other.

“Fiona is completely impossible. All she knows is how to say cruel, arrogant things. She is nothing like our Char…”

A large number of people echoed her:

“No wonder Fiona’s biological parents never liked her. She really is arrogant and vicious!”

“Compared to her, Charlotte is practically an angel—kind, thoughtful, and well-mannered.”

“Fiona should pay for killing Charlotte with her own life!”

The verdict hadn’t even been announced, yet they had already decided I was guilty and were demanding that I pay with my life.

The next step was supposed to be using my memories to verify everything my mother said.

Everyone was ready with their insults and condemnation, but the screen showed Charlotte mocking me instead.