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Chapter 3

Author: Bebe
I casually picked up a princess dress and met Vanessa's eager gaze.

"You want this?"

A triumphant look flashed across her face, and she nodded hard.

"Can I have it?"

She reached out as if it were already hers.

The next second, I slapped her hand away so hard that the back of it turned bright red.

"Who said you were good enough to touch my things with those filthy hands?"

"Get back to the staff cottage. From now on, you're not allowed in the main house without my permission!"

My voice dripped with contempt, my eyes full of open disdain.

Vanessa stared at me in disbelief.

"You! You're not afraid Mom and Dad will find out?"

I scoffed.

If foolish kindness had only gotten me killed, I might as well be the villain.

"So what if they find out? You think they'd believe some small-town nobody over me?"

"Wake up. Mom and Dad only care about me. I'm their only daughter."

Stung by my words, Vanessa opened her mouth to argue.

But her gaze dropped to my chest, lingered there for a long moment, and then she slowly calmed down.

"Fine. I was wrong."

"I won't come in without your permission again."

She spat the words through gritted teeth, then turned and left.

She knew that if she wanted what she was after, she had to learn to endure.

After that day, Vanessa mostly kept away from me.

She stayed in the staff cottage, sometimes even volunteering to do chores.

Over time, everyone began to think the fake heiress was the cruel one.

Not only had I taken her identity, but I was also bullying the poor real heiress.

I didn't care. I wasn't planning to stay in this house forever anyway.

The day my birth parents, Laura and Michael Bennett, came looking for me, Vanessa was pretending to sweep the floor.

Laura and Michael were heartbroken when they saw her. They wanted to take her back.

Vanessa, of course, refused.

She had finally escaped poverty and was about to live the good life.

She wanted nothing to do with her old home.

She pointed right in their faces and spat, "You pathetic losers! You actually think I'm your daughter?"

"Living in your dump for a few years was doing you a favor!"

"Go look in a mirror. You think you deserve me?"

Laura and Michael had no idea about the switch. They had always raised Vanessa as their own daughter.

Her words broke their hearts.

That was when Elaine and Richard came home.

They threw Laura and Michael off the property and warned them never to come back.

Laura and Michael stubbornly refused to leave. They insisted on taking me with them because I was their biological daughter.

In my last life, Elaine and Richard had poisoned me against them.

They made me believe my birth parents were bad people.

I thought they only wanted me back so they could use and mistreat me.

Only as I lay dying did I learn the truth: Laura and Michael had genuinely loved me.

They had only wanted to bring me home so our family could be whole again.

This time, when Elaine and Richard tried to turn me against them, I refused to give in.
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    Vanessa took the revelation hardest of all.Learning that Elaine was a match but refused to donate devastated her.I heard she screamed and raged at home every day, demanding her mother save her life.People are selfish. Even parents will not necessarily trade one life for another.Their family's drama kept making the news. I couldn't be bothered to watch anymore.Eventually, I moved Laura and Michael into the mansion under my name.At first, they felt uneasy.But I told them the house was part of what the Harrisons owed us.The Harrisons owed me a life. They could never repay that debt, not in this lifetime.After taking care of the paperwork, I left the United States to study overseas.As for Elaine and Richard, with no one willing to donate a heart for Vanessa, she didn't make it past her eighteenth birthday.But once the world saw their family for what they really were, no one felt sorry for her anymore.Even the media barely gave her death a few lines before moving on.I imagined

  • Whole Family’s Regret After Fake Heiress Was Reborn   Chapter 13

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    After the birthday party incident, life settled back into a routine.As my eighteenth birthday drew closer, Elaine and Richard became increasingly transparent about why they treated me so well.They kept hinting, sometimes subtly, sometimes not, that I should remember to "pay them back."I agreed to everything, naturally.By the time they expected me to keep those promises, I would be long gone.In the meantime, I took every advantage they offered.I saved all my allowance on a bank card that my birth parents kept safe for me.As for the expensive gifts, I found ways to sell them off.Every last dollar was what the Harrisons owed my family.After eighteen years apart, this barely counted as compensation.Vanessa held herself together by reminding herself that I would soon disappear.She stopped caring about being bullied at school.If anything, she became even more accommodating, playing the meek, helpless victim.But I knew she was keeping a list of everyone who had ever wronged her,

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