All Chapters of Trapped in a Fake Period Drama Hell: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The whole set went dead silent. All the hundreds of extras in period costumes immediately lowered their heads.The smile on Ezra Locke's face froze.Beside him, Rhea Steele wore an elegant embroidered gown. It stood in sharp contrast to my rough linen clothes, stained with human waste.I looked at the absurd scene before me. I didn't know if I should feel relieved that I hadn't traveled back in time or heartbroken that my best friend and boyfriend had betrayed me."Piper, now that you know, it's time to put an end to this. After all, the SAT already ended this afternoon," Ezra said.He waved a hand. The maids and guards scattered, all looking relieved.I stood frozen on the spot, my right hand still throbbing with pain.To make it all look real, the head housekeeper actress hadn't held back when she crushed my hand in the torture clamp.Ezra walked down the steps and reached for me, but I stepped aside to avoid him.His hand hung in the air. A flash of annoyance crossed his

Ezra walked in holding a glass of warm water."Who's on the phone?" he asked, looking suspicious.Before I could answer, Rhea suddenly screamed from upstairs. "Ah! It hurts!"Ezra's expression changed instantly. The glass in his hand shattered on the floor, sending shards flying onto my foot.He didn't even spare me a glance when he turned around and rushed out."Rhea, what happened?" he shouted.Over the phone, Clara asked in confusion, "Piper, is everything okay?"I closed my eyes and said softly, "It's nothing, Ms. Smith. I'll send the admission confirmation form on time."Rhea had only nicked her finger while peeling an apple. It was barely even deep enough to draw blood.Yet Ezra was so worried that he called the family doctor, turning the whole villa upside down in the middle of the night.I looked at the cut on my foot from the broken glass and quietly wiped away the blood with a tissue.…The next day, it was my senior class graduation party.I didn't want to go, b

The plane landed in Jeston in the early hours of the morning, when the temperature was bitterly cold. I wheeled my suitcase with my left hand, while my right hand hung limply by my side. Intense pain radiated from my wrist to my shoulder.I immediately went to the emergency room.The doctor looked at the X-ray, his brows furrowing. "Your finger bones are shattered, and your wrist is dislocated. Too much time has passed, and the tissue has already begun to die. You won't be able to lift heavy objects with this hand anymore."I stared at my swollen, bruised right hand, asking calmly, "So, amputation it is?"The doctor paused before shaking his head. "It hasn't reached that stage yet. Surgery is required to set the bones, but it will never be the same again.""Okay. Do it."I didn't cry when they injected me with anesthesia. The pain was nothing compared to what I endured during those 100 days at the film studio, when the housekeeper shattered my finger bones with a solid wooden rod

Ezra waited for me at Jeston University's entrance for three days.On the fourth afternoon, I left the library holding a few books. I walked slowly, keeping my right hand in my pocket.Ezra immediately spotted me and rushed over. He had lost a significant amount of weight, and his eyes were bloodshot. Stubble had grown on his chin. His voice trembled when he spoke. "Piper…" I stopped in my tracks and looked at him. "I'm Piper Shaw."Ezra's gaze was fixed on my right hand. He reached out, trying to touch me.I immediately stepped backward.His hand froze mid-air as tears streamed down his face."Let me… take a look at your hand," Ezra begged."For what? Do you want to see how you dislocated it, or how you spent a fortune to have someone break it?"Ezra dropped to his knees abruptly. Even though there were many people around us, he paid them no heed. "I didn't know… Piper, I didn't know they'd actually harm you. I thought it was just an act," he said, grabbing the hem of my shi

A month later, a shocking piece of news shook the Locke family. Henry walked into Locke Corporation's shareholders' meeting with the DNA test report.The Locke couple were shocked when they saw the results. After verifying the authenticity of the report, they realized that Henry was indeed their long-lost biological son, while Ezra was merely the child who had been mistakenly switched with him at birth.The revelation instantly made the headlines.Ezra completely broke down. He couldn't accept that he had fallen from the position of the Locke family's heir to a fake with nothing left.The Locke couple had raised him for 20 years, sharing a deep bond with him. But Henry was ruthless. He laid out all the evidence of Ezra's embezzlement of company funds and the money he had secretly transferred to the Steele family over the years.Among them was the bill for the tens of millions he had spent to book the film studio.The Locke couple were devastated.Henry immediately canceled all o