All Chapters of Five Years as the Impostor's Lab Rat: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Eliza Parker brought her brother, Christopher Parker, along when she came to pick me up.The dim basement was brighter than it had ever been in five years.When she saw the tears glistening on my face in the sunlight, Eliza thought I was trying to win sympathy, and her expression immediately turned to disgust."Don't think putting on that look will make me feel sorry for you. You deserve all of this. If you hadn't hired someone to hit Christopher back then, he wouldn't be like this now."Whenever she recalled what had happened, Eliza still felt her blood boil. She slapped me hard across the face, and my already battered face gained yet another wound.Humiliated, I lowered my head and swallowed the bitter blood pooling in my throat.Seeing that I wasn't resisting, Eliza frowned and turned to the staff member nearby."Christopher has been in this demented, foolish state for five years. Isn't the medicine you promised me ready yet?"As she spoke, she tenderly stroked Christopher's

I looked up in horror and saw Christopher's vicious face. His eyes were perfectly clear, brimming with mockery as he looked at me."Painkillers?"Finding they were nothing more than painkillers, Christopher instantly lost interest."Give them back!" I roared hoarsely.Seeing the desperation written all over my face, Christopher smirked cruelly."Are you in pain? Well, that makes sense. I did instruct Dr. Harding to use triple the dosage of every drug on you. Looks like he followed through. But why are you so hard to kill? How is it you're still alive after all that? I really didn't expect you'd survive and make it back to this rat hole."With that, he threw the painkillers at his feet and gave a scornful sneer. Then, he crushed them one by one beneath his shoe."No!" I lunged at him desperately.But with just a light shove from Christopher, I went crashing heavily into the corner of the wall.With a sickening splat, I retched up a mouthful of blood.Still not satisfied, Chris

Eliza's expression froze instantly. She couldn't believe what she had just heard.No longer caring that Christopher had been startled in his room, Eliza stumbled down the stairs and seized Jeremy by the collar."What did you just say?" she asked, a frightening tangle of emotions written across her face. "Did Sutton put you up to this? He's been sickly ever since he came back, sure—but there's no way he would just die so suddenly. He must be faking it. You must've been mistaken. Go back down there right now and check on him again!"Before Jeremy could even answer, Eliza had already talked herself into believing her own words. By the end, she was practically shouting.Jeremy had never imagined that my death would make Eliza lose her composure like this, and for a moment, he stood frozen on the spot.Seeing that Jeremy wasn't replying and was just standing there in a daze only made Eliza angrier."What are you still standing there for? Get down there now!"Jeremy was so frightened

Floating in midair, I reflexively touched my chest at those words. But perhaps because I was already dead, the heart that used to ache dully every time no longer held any sensation of pain.I had to admit that Eliza's punishment for me this time was far lighter than any before. At least she didn't drag me out of the basement and flog me with 99 lashes again.Remembering the agony of those beatings, I smiled with a sense of release.Death was, in its own way, a relief for me.It was only a pity that, in the end, I still couldn't escape the Parker family, nor could I die outside.After Eliza finished speaking, Christopher tugged her away, and they left.Dragging Eliza with him, Christopher headed straight for the upscale shopping mall. He needed to find a way to divert her attention. Only then would he have the chance to dispose of my corpse in the basement.I, hovering in the air, could see through Christopher's thoughts with complete clarity. What surprised me, though, was that

Eliza's voice trembled as she looked at the corpse covered by the white cloth.Without waiting for Christopher's reply, she pulled the cloth away. The moment she saw my tightly shut eyes, she could no longer hold back her tears.How could she have done such cruel things to me, her own brother?When she had first found me and brought me back, her heart had ached for me, and all she wanted was to make it up to me.At that thought, Eliza—her eyes bloodshot—flipped open the documents her people had brought over. Each item listed was proof of Christopher's crimes.He had faked mental impairment for five years, all just to frame me. Even the car accident back then had been entirely his own doing.From the very moment I came back, he had used every means possible to frame me. And as though blind, Eliza had believed whatever he said.Perhaps she had her suspicions in the very beginning. But Christopher's relentless manipulations had kept her from ever looking into it, until all that rem