《When Their Lies Broke》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 8 章

Dad smoothed down his expensive designer suit and nodded along. "No pain, no gain. Your aunt and I are doing this for her own good."Hearing that, tears of blood streamed down my face. "But why does it always have to be me? Why not Lola?"No one heard my scream. My mom glanced at the clock on the wall."It's already ten o'clock. Samantha still isn't back. Give her a call and tell her to get home."I watched my mom lead Lola into the house, casually swapping her expensive clothes for the plain, worn-out workwear she usually wore. I watched my dad take off his luxury watch and dial my number.For the first time, I didn't pick up right away. His first reaction was anger."She's still mad we didn't answer her call during Lola's birthday party. So immature."My mom slammed down a bowl of bland cabbage soup, frowning. "I told you not to let her work at that construction site. It's a bad environment. She's going to go downhill. Look—she's already stopped coming home."Mom, so you do k

I remembered every one of those scars.The first was on my forearm.It happened when Lola came over to our house as a child. She dumped boiling water on my arm. I screamed and cried. The scar never faded.My mom blamed me for making a big deal out of it—said I got Lola in trouble with her mom.The second was on my wrist.The summer after high school, I worked multiple jobs, pushed through the pressure, and got into my dream college. I thought my parents would finally be proud of me. I thought maybe they'd finally look my way.Instead, my mom tore up my acceptance letter with her own hands."Samantha, you know we can only afford to send one kid to college. And that has to be Lola."Lola cried and told me she was sorry, but her eyes were full of gloating.I dropped to my knees and pounded on my parents' bedroom door. I begged my dad to let me keep going to school. I said I'd take out loans. I'd borrow money from anyone. I just wanted to learn.But my voice went hoarse, and the

Even the online viewers were thrown off by this sudden turn of events. The number of people watching shot up, and the comment section did a complete 180.[Holy crap, did I hear that right? Since when was the Wheeler family bankrupt? So the whole family is living comfortably with one daughter, while the other daughter is breaking her back outside, suffering, even forced to work construction—and she gets crushed in a collapse?][Wait, that's not even their biological daughter—that's just some relative's kid. No wonder the real daughter looked so haggard in her photos. They were funneling all their money to the niece. And these people call themselves human?!][This is making me sick. If they were broke, that would be one thing. But the Wheeler family is loaded—richer than most. They had all that money and still made their daughter suffer for no reason. 'It builds character,' they said. Now she's dead, and they cry a few crocodile tears. Do they really think that makes it okay?][Don't

A cold wind suddenly blew in through the window, making my soul tremble and shiver.I looked at my mom on the hospital bed—her hand pressed over her heart, tears streaming endlessly down her face. My own tears fell like rain.And then, everything clicked. Every piece of the puzzle finally fit."So I was the one who didn't belong. That's why you and Dad always favored Lola. That's why you always brought her over to our house. She was my twin sister."But what does your debt to her have to do with me? Why did you blame me for it?"My long-dead heart felt like it was tearing apart. My soul shuddered violently. An invisible force pulled at me from somewhere, and a blinding pain exploded in my head. I wrapped my arms around myself and screamed.Through the haze, I heard my parents' voices—desperate, but somehow joyful."Samantha! My baby girl!"When I opened my eyes again, I saw my mother—twenty years younger—sitting on a hospital bed. In her arms was a baby girl. Beside the bed, my