All Chapters of I Slept When My Sister Was Lost At Sea: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

When the rescue team captain, Mara Hill, finally found me, I was fast asleep. I was jostled awake by her frantic hand on my shoulder.“Victoria, there’s been an incident! Your sister’s submersible, the Deep Dweller, has gone missing at 10,900 meters in the Marisiana Trench! They hit some kind of unidentified seismic event. All comms are down. Chances of survival are slim!”I groggily opened my eyes and looked at her.“So?” I asked flatly.Mara was stunned for a second, as if she had not expected that reaction. Then, she anxiously said, “We need you! You’re the only person in the world with successful deep-sea rescue experience at that depth. You are their only hope.”I calmly lay back down and turned over to go back to sleep. “Sorry. Can’t help.”“What?”“I said I can’t help you,” I repeated. My voice was calm and cold. It was as if those trapped on the ocean floor were my sworn enemies.“Victoria Archer, what’s wrong with you? Your sister, Cindy, is down there! Along with twen

Chapter 2

I smiled.Of course, I could live with it.An hour later, my father and stepmother found their way to my holding cell.From behind the cold iron bars, I watched the live news broadcast on the wall-mounted screen. It was all about the emergency rescue mission for the Deep Dweller.On the news, the news anchor recited the list of missing personnel with dramatic solemnity and presented each of them as heroes who had sacrificed themselves for the nation.The atmosphere was crafted perfectly.I raised my cuffed hands toward them on the other side of the bars and gave a resigned shrug.“As you can see, I’m in no position to help anyone. I’m being held on suspicion of leaking the Deep Dweller’s core technical schematics.”Linda’s expression cycled through a spectrum of emotions in mere seconds. There was shock, disbelief, and finally, malice. Her carefully maintained face twisted with rage as she shrieked, “It was you! Victoria, you did this on purpose! You’ve always been jealous of

Chapter 3

With the call on speaker, every word came through loud and clear.When my father hung up, his eyes were bloodshot as he stared at me. His voice was hoarse. “Victoria, you heard that, didn’t you? This isn’t just about saving your sister anymore. It’s also about executing Noah’s rescue plan. This is an order!”I responded with a deliberate yawn and ignored him.Just then, a commotion rose from outside the holding area.Somehow, several parents of the missing students had gotten word of where I was being held and found their way here. The moment they saw me, they all dropped to their knees with heavy thuds.“Ms. Victoria, please! Please save our kids!”“Please, Ms. Victoria, she’s our only daughter. She can’t die down there!”Their sobbing and pleading blended into one overwhelming chorus.I looked down at them from behind the bars. My expression was detached and unmoved.“Whether they live or die, what does that have to do with me?”As soon as I said that, the crying stopped

Chapter 4

Cindy’s final, sisterly plea, which was broadcast live, shattered the hearts of the nation.The livestream’s chat erupted in a collective wave of heartbreak and fury.[What nonsense! This is brutal! The little sister is begging for her life, and the big sister is sitting in a cell doing absolutely nothing!][Victoria is a monster. An absolute monster! That’s your sister!][I’m disgusted. How did someone like her ever become Chief Engineer? Investigate her immediately!][Go save them! Don’t wait till it’s too late!]Insults and accusations surged over me like a tidal wave.Linda seized the moment perfectly.With a dramatic thud, she fell to her knees once more. Though this time, her performance was not for me. It was for the media cameras that had swarmed the detention center’s perimeter.She wept as if her heart were being torn apart. Her sobs were loud enough to echo through the space.“Please, Victoria. If you go and save Cindy, I-I’ll have her sign over all of the Locke fa

Chapter 5

A stunned silence fell over the detention center.Linda was the first to move. She lunged like a feral animal and snatched the contract from my hands. Then she tore it to shreds.She jabbed a finger at my face. Her expression was twisted with unconcealed hatred.“Victoria, don’t even think about it! My daughter is safe now! You won’t get a single cent! Rot in prison for all I care! You monster!”As I watched the scraps of paper flutter to the floor, my smile only widened.No one knew that I had come back through time.In my first life, I piloted the rescue pod into the frigid, lightless abyss. It was there that Cindy and Noah, who had been working together, breached the hull and sealed me inside the cockpit. I watched the oxygen gauge fall to zero.After I died, they pinned everything on me. They claimed I had sabotaged the mission just to set up my sister because I wanted to seize the chief designer position, only to perish in the accident I created.More than twenty of my stu

Chapter 6

Three days later, the National Oceanic Center held a grand commendation ceremony to celebrate the success of the rescue.The venue was our institute’s main hall.Noah, Cindy, my father, and Linda sat on the brightly lit stage as the guests of honor. They were the perfect family unit, basking in a torrent of congratulations and praise.When I appeared at the entrance in an old work uniform so washed-out it had turned pale, the entire hall fell silent.Countless piercing eyes turned to me.They were filled with contempt, disgust, scorn, and gloating satisfaction.I ignored it all. Step by step, I walked toward the stage. “How does she even have the nerve to show up?”“Exactly. Trash like her should’ve been fired long ago.”“Look at those ragged clothes. Serves her right.”The remarks reached my ears loud and clear. Cindy spotted me.She was wearing a brand-new white gown that made her look every bit the poised, triumphant queen. She came down from the stage. Then, in fro

Chapter 7

Every live camera in the room, like sharks scenting blood, swiveled to focus on Noah. His face had gone white as a sheet.Beside him, the smug and triumphant expressions on Cindy’s and my father’s faces froze. Clearly, none of them had expected me to strike at the very height of their glory.After a brief flicker of panic, Noah, who was a seasoned, media-trained scientist, regained his composure.He smoothed out his expression, forced a calm smile, and addressed the cameras in a confident, professional tone.“Victoria, I know you’re mad about what happened before, but you shouldn’t just deny everyone’s hard work and the scientific miracle we achieved just because you’re bitter. I’ll admit this: the standard remote-control interface you designed was indeed locked.”“But…” he said, pivoting smoothly with a glint of intellectual triumph in his eyes, “I utilized the sub’s auxiliary quantum-entanglement communication module, bypassed your physical lockout, and wrote an emergency cont

Chapter 8

Noah’s face was completely drained of color.His lips moved soundlessly, though only a choked rasp escaped his throat. He could not utter a word.My second question had sliced through his polished lie like a scalpel and exposed the rot beneath.Seeing the situation, my father’s expression darkened. He knew that if I kept talking, things would get out of control.He roared at the security team, “What are you waiting for? Get her out of here now!”Several tall guards moved in on me at once. Their gazes were hostile.I did not resist or even move.I just stared calmly at my father, the man I had once held in such high regard.“You’re in quite a hurry to throw me out, Dad. Are you afraid I’ll expose something?”My voice was not loud, but it hit him like a hammer straight to the chest.Just as the guards were about to seize my arms, I raised my phone and pressed “play.”A video appeared on every screen in the auditorium, cast wirelessly from my device.The background was my pr

Chapter 9

Cindy suddenly started screeching at me like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.“Vic, how could you fabricate a video like that to slander Noah? He saved all of us! How can you do this to him?”Her voice was trembling with grief. Her eyes were brimming with the agony of being betrayed by her sister. That was her final attempt to salvage the situation.As I watched her terrible acting, I could not even be bothered to respond.I pulled a USB drive from my pocket and tossed it onto the stage.“Slander him? Inside that drive is the result of a three-month investigation I commissioned from a private detective. Noah, Cindy, you two have been secretly transferring the ownership of 17 deep-sea technology patents from under my name for over a year, using a shell corporation registered in the Kayman Islands. “You planned the whole thing. If I died in this ‘rescue mission,’ you would inherit all my intellectual property without a hitch. My life’s work would become your greatest triumph.

Chapter 10

My father’s legs gave out. He crumpled into his chair and breathed in harsh, labored gulps of air.Linda and Cindy crumpled on the floor like spent rags. Their eyes were vacant as if all the life had been drained out of them.I walked toward my father.As I looked at the man I had called “Dad” for over twenty years, my gaze held no warmth.“You think your sins are just adultery, raising your secret daughter, stealing my inheritance, and trying to have me killed?”My voice was low, but the microphone carried it with crystalline clarity through the hall and across the livestreams.“Twenty years ago, did my mother, Charmaine Locke, the founder of Locke Corp., really jump to her death because she was depressed?”I produced my final piece of evidence.It was my mother’s old diary, along with a new witness statement from a former neighbor, secured by my lawyers when we petitioned to reopen the case.The diary was projected onto the main screen.Page after page was turned.In it, m

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