All Chapters of The Fake Heir Always Falls Flat: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

The room fell silent. Lilian froze in place, the foot she'd used to kick the door still raised.Ezra stood there for several seconds before clenching his jaw, his eyes reddening."Maybe I remembered it wrong... I was so worried Wallace wouldn't acknowledge me that I got confused." He lowered his voice, then added, "I just didn't expect Wallace to hate Grandpa's old watch that much..."My mother immediately pulled him to her side and shielded him.Lilian's expression darkened. "Even if he didn't steal the watch, what kind of attitude was that toward Ezra? He went out of his way to give you something, and you just tossed it aside without a second thought?"I looked up in confusion. "Did I throw it away?"My mother sighed. She patted Ezra on the back and gave me a weary look. "You just got back, and you've already scared Ezra half to death. He's lived with our family for 18 years, and overnight, you're taking away the identity he's had all this time. Of course he's scared. Can't you

Chapter 2

I was sleeping soundly in the guest room when Ezra knocked on my door again."Wallace, the master bedroom on the second floor was yours to begin with. I've occupied it for 18 years, and now it's time to give it back to you." He lowered his head with a guilty expression. "You should move back in. I'll sleep in the storage room."I glanced down the hallway behind him.The master bedroom door stood half open. The room had floor-to-ceiling windows and a walk-in closet. Even the gaming desk alone was bigger than the bed I'd had before."Sure. Thanks!"The corner of Ezra's mouth lifted almost imperceptibly before he quickly walked away.I went back to my room and continued sleeping.…The next morning, an argument downstairs woke me.When I went down, I saw more than a dozen suitcases piled by the front door.Ezra crouched by the entrance, his eyes red and his hands trembling as he gripped the handle of a duffel bag. "I'm fine... Wallace is your biological son. If he wants the room

Chapter 3

The Bowies held a grand welcome banquet to celebrate my return.Crystal chandeliers glittered overhead, an entire wall was covered in flowers, and a display board at the entrance read: [Homecoming Charity Gala]At the center of the display was a photo of Ezra with his perfect smile. Beneath it were the words "Bowie Heir, Philanthropy Ambassador."Half an hour before the event began, Ezra came to find me."Wallace, the schedule changed at the last minute. The reunion ceremony has been pushed back, so wait in the side hall for now."I gave him an okay sign. "Okay!"This time, he didn't turn around and leave like he had before. He personally led me to the side hall and pushed me down onto the couch,"Make sure my brother stays safe. Don't let him go anywhere," he instructed the two bodyguards stationed at the door.Before leaving, he asked one more question. "Wallace, the foundation wants to use the story of how you were found for publicity. Is that okay?""Sure."He smiled and

Chapter 4

At the breakfast table, Ezra set down his cutlery. "Wallace, I can teach you everything I know about running the foundation. The accounts, the procedures, everything. I'll walk you through it step by step."My mother put some food on my plate, then turned and gave Ezra three times as much. "Ezra really is such a big-hearted boy."Lilian glanced at me. "When someone gives you everything they've got, you should think carefully about how you're going to treat them."But she had actually replaced my cheap office chair with a padded leather one.When my father got up, he patted me on the shoulder. "Work hard."I nodded as I chewed my toast. "Okay, okay."…When I arrived at the foundation, the finance department pushed the payment security key and account documents toward me. "Mr. Wallace, please check these and sign the handover form."I immediately replied, "Okay, right away!"Then I turned around and locked the security key and documents in the safe.…That evening, Ezra sent

Chapter 5

The screen lit up, and everyone in the living room held their breath.The surveillance footage from the construction site wasn't particularly clear, but what it showed was unmistakable.Ezra walked alone into another room in the commercial building.No one followed him. No one shoved him. No one grabbed him by the neck.He pulled a thick rope from his bag, wrapped it around his wrist again and again, then tightened it until it left bruises.Next, he turned his phone's front-facing camera on himself and repeatedly checked the marks on his neck to see if they looked deep enough.When they didn't look convincing, he added another mark.Throughout the entire ordeal, Wallace wasn't even in the building.Another camera had captured him climbing down from an unfinished balcony ten minutes earlier. He stumbled when he landed, but once he regained his balance, he looked up and waved at the camera. He even looked pretty happy.The color slowly drained from Lilian's face. She lowered her

Chapter 6

Once Ezra's phone was legally seized, the technical team spent two days extracting all its data.When the results came back, the chief of the financial crimes unit stared at them for a long time before finally closing the report."This kid is only 18?"There were six burner accounts on the phone. Each had accounts registered across multiple platforms.During the first week after Wallace returned to the Bowie family, those accounts had begun posting relentlessly.[I heard the biological son the Bowies found was raised by an adoptive father who stole electric scooters.][What kind of manners could someone from a family like that possibly have?][Ezra is the real Bowie heir. It's a shame good people never get what they deserve.]There were dozens of posts, hundreds of comments, and tens of thousands of shares.Ezra had orchestrated all of it himself.The voice recordings were even more damning. He had apparently forgotten to delete a call with the foundation's finance department

Chapter 7

The verdict came down soon after, while Wallace was in the guest room having dinner. He'd ordered a steak sampler for one, with three different cuts of beef.His phone kept buzzing with notifications.[Ezra Bowie Sentenced in Fraud Case: Fifteen Years in Prison After Multiple Charges][Wealthy Family's Adopted Son Embezzles Millions in Charity Funds, Biological Son Brutally Beaten by Entire Family][#BowiesFavorsAdoptedSonAndAbusesBiologicalSon# Surpasses 3 Million Views]He glanced at them, picked up a slice of tripe, coated it generously in BBQ sauce, and popped it into his mouth.It was delicious.Things downstairs weren't going quite as well.Victor's phone hadn't stopped ringing since morning, with calls coming in from business partners, banks, and board members.Every call carried the same message. "Mr. Bowie, we need to reevaluate our business relationship."Put simply, it meant one thing: they were running.The Bowies' corporate market value plunged by nearly 30% in

Chapter 8

"Are you still willing to call me 'Dad' from now on?" Victor asked.Wallace looked at him for a long time."I heard you," he said, exactly as he had last time.He didn't say "Okay," or "No."...Two years later, Wallace opened his own company, a nonprofit auditing firm with 12 employees and a modest office. They specialized in financial health checks for small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations.Whenever people asked why he'd chosen this line of work, he gave them the same answer. "I have a habit of documenting everything. Figured I should put it to good use somewhere."A note was stuck to his desk: [Document everything.]At first, his coworkers thought he was strange.He photographed every document, recorded every handover, and kept two backups of every financial record.The first time he helped a client uncover a discrepancy in their books, they asked how he'd found it.Wallace pointed to the thousands of screenshots on his computer, all meticulously arranged by date.

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