All Chapters of The Unloved Replacement: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

After my sisters left, my mom finally got up. "It just so happens that the kitchen ordered some foie gras, and it came in today. Since you grew up in the countryside, you must never have eaten anything this fancy, right? I'll prepare some for you to try."She smiled and stroked my face with her well-kept, smooth hand before turning toward the kitchen.As a wealthy wife who had lived in comfort for years, she looked barely over forty despite being in her fifties and still had a girlish charm. It was obvious that she had lived a very happy life.When I first saw her, I was genuinely happy. If not for the voice I had just heard, I never would have connected those vicious words to her.I looked at Caelum. "Did you hear that?"His face was pale, and he looked like he wanted to say something to me, but hesitated. He cast a fearful glance toward the kitchen before murmuring, "I... You should go take a look in the kitchen..."Before Caelum could finish his sentence, a sharp crashing soun

Chapter 2

Caelum nodded quietly.A memory suddenly surfaced from the day the Gomez family found me. Linda had held me tightly, tears streaming down her face as she cried herself hoarse. "If your father hadn't brought your brother back to keep me going, I don't think I would've lived long enough to see you again. You have to treat your brother well from now on. He'll never look down on you."At the time, I had thought Caelum could not have sincerely hoped for me to return. He was the youngest in the family and the only son at the time. Aside from my dad, George Gomez, no one knew he was not their biological child, so he must have grown up surrounded by love. But now that the family's biological son had been found, his status had become awkward.When I arrived home last night, I had not even seen him.Linda had brought me to look for him, but he hid and refused to meet me.Linda said, "It's not his fault. Your father and I suddenly brought you back, so he must be feeling rather upset right no

Chapter 3

I soon began looking for a chance to leave the Gomez family as quickly as possible.Caelum shook his head. "It's not possible."He had tried to escape several times before, but he had been caught and brought back every time. With just a few words from Linda, the others would even blame him for having too much of a temper. They scolded him for running away from home over a minor reprimand."If you cause trouble out there, we'll be the one who has to clean up your mess!" They had said.Caelum continued, "Without me, Mom would have no one to target. Every time something happened, Dad and our sisters became even more distressed for her than before. They would lock me up in a windowless room or punish me themselves afterward."It's not that I never explained myself, but none of them believed me. After a long time, I no longer had the energy to argue."I went to Hannah and told her everything, hoping she could help us in some way. But she denied ever hearing Linda's inner thoughts."C

Chapter 4

When Linda saw that George valued the vase so much, she became even more pleased.Her eyes reddened as she held her bloody arm out in front of him. "Honey, it was all my fault. Silas suddenly shouted at me from upstairs just now. I was startled, and I accidentally bumped into the vase... He's from the countryside, after all… He has no manners and is just too wild…"Caelum could not hold back anymore and argued, "You're lying! You pushed the vase down yourself!"The three daughters who would usually rush forward first to care about Linda did not move. Linda could only place all her hope on George.She leaned close to him. "Honey..."But what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations.George suddenly raised his hand and slapped her hard to the floor.Linda fell to the ground and covered her face, looking up in disbelief. "George?! You hit me?!"Her eyes moved from one person to the next. When she saw my sisters avoiding her eyes, she finally broke down. "He was the one who

Chapter 5

Linda hooked her arms around George's neck and fell into his embrace, sobbing."Honey, I treasure everything in this house even more than you do. Why would I smash a vase for no reason? Besides, this was a gift you and our son brought back. Silas is still so young, but he is already a liar. Did he learn these bad habits from his foster father?"I could feel my blood boil. It was one thing to talk about me, but she had even insulted my mentor."Mom..."I had just opened my mouth when George looked at me grimly. "Silas, your mother has no reason to frame you."I immediately understood that he had chosen to believe his wife.Unlike Hannah and Mia, he had not truly heard those vicious words from Linda.Compared to someone like me, whom he did not know, or Caelum, who had always been portrayed in a negative light, he naturally favored Linda. He gritted his teeth and asked me, "Now that the vase is broken, is there any way to repair it?"I shook my head.Before my mentor sent us awa

Chapter 6

"That's wonderful!" Linda beamed. "I knew it. With all of you being so capable, how could the company possibly go bankrupt because of some meaningless vase?"George was in an unprecedentedly good mood, and he held his wife close as they walked toward the dining room. Hannah looked around and asked, "Where are Silas and Caelum?"Linda's smile froze for a moment. "They were behaving badly, so I locked them in the windowless room to teach them a lesson."Hannah seemed to want to say something, but George interrupted her. He said, "Your mother always has her reasons for doing things. Let them stay in the windowless room for now."George's voice was indifferent. I guessed he still resented us for making him lose control in front of his daughters last time. Seeing that the company had not run into any trouble and seemed to be thriving, he also wanted to teach me a lesson.The atmosphere at home had never been better.Leaning calmly against the wall, Caelum seemed completely unfazed, as

Chapter 7

The Gomez Group's liquidation came quickly. Even the estate he had spent a fortune building for Linda was gone.On the day we had to leave the estate, Linda cried and refused to let go of everything.Ever since learning that the company had gone bankrupt, Linda had cried at home every day. George was already under immense pressure, yet she kept crying as if she still had not learned how to behave. George had long since become annoyed with her.He roared, "Stop crying!"He could no longer stop the resentment inside of him. "You're still crying? If you had not smashed the vase, would things have turned out like this? Linda, you're already in your fifties! You're not a young woman in her early twenties! Stop throwing tantrums already!"Linda froze, tears still welling in her eyes. Then, she snapped. "You're blaming me? What right do you have to blame me? If you had not insisted on recognizing Silas and bringing him back, would I have done that? I already abandoned him back then... I

Chapter 8

"Mom, Dad is never going to get any better. Even if we had some savings before, they are almost gone now!""That's right, Mom. I still want to use my own private savings to start over and build something again!""True… I can barely afford my tuition anymore. We really can't keep going like this!"They said George was no different from a living corpse now. He was only a burden whether he stayed in the hospital every day or came home to rest, so it would be better to let him leave in peace. They also said that in the future, the four of them would live together in harmony, and they would still love her the way they used to.With them there, she would still be the happiest woman in the world.Linda really believed what they said and went on to pull her husband's tube.She broke down crying as she watched George struggle in pain until he died with his eyes wide open.She regretted everything.She had been too greedy. She wanted all her husband and daughters' love for herself and co

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