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Chapter 1

The director had barely finished introducing the two households when Vera threw herself into Mrs. Miller’s arms.“Mom, take me home. I want to be your daughter.”Mrs. Miller froze for a few seconds, then hugged her, visibly touched. Beside her, Mr. Miller began to smile.They were both human. He worked in maintenance at the academy, and she was a cleaner. They had dressed for the occasion, but their worn cuffs and work-roughened hands still showed years of hard labor.Across from them, Count Ashford wore a perfectly tailored suit. His wife was immaculate from head to toe.They were pureblood vampires. Their family owned the city’s largest business group and was the academy’s biggest donor.Their only son, Sebastian, stood by the window, looking utterly uninterested in the meeting.In our first life, Vera had taken one look at the Ashfords and chosen them.Now she clung to Mrs. Miller as though this were the life she had always dreamed of.The director looked surprised.“Vera, are you s

Chapter 2

Vera had been right. Sebastian’s cruelty toward me began even sooner than it had in our first life.On my third day at the academy, several vampire boys cornered me in a restroom. Someone grabbed my hair and shoved my face into a sink full of ice-cold water. I could hear laughter and jeering all around me. They didn’t yank me up until my chest hurt.I braced myself against the sink, coughing as water dripped from my hair.Sebastian stood in front of me, looking down at me.“You wanted to live with the Ashfords, didn’t you? You got your wish. Happy now?”In our first life, he had told me he hated people who used their family’s status to bully others. Now he was the one who had brought these boys to corner me.Back then, he had thought I deserved protection. This time, he had decided I was a girl who had moved into his house for money. What I had actually done didn’t matter to him.Then his gaze shifted past me, toward the other end of the hallway.Vera was on her knees, scrubbing the fl

Chapter 3

Over the next two months, Sebastian kept targeting me.My lunch was thrown in the trash. Dead spiders appeared in my locker. Someone burned holes in my new dress with a cigarette.He was probably waiting for me to cry or complain to his parents.I just threw out what was ruined and went back to class.The most valuable thing the Ashfords could give me wasn’t clothes, jewelry, or luxury cars. It was time.In my first life, I had spent my afternoons helping my adoptive mother work, then gone home to keep my adoptive father from searching my schoolbag for money. This time, I didn’t have to work or worry about my next meal. I could spend that time studying.Vera still wore old clothes to help Mrs. Miller clean the academy. She told Sebastian she would keep at it, no matter how tired she was.But she kept skipping tutoring sessions. As her grades slipped, the competition spots her teachers had recommended her for went to other students.She thought she could make up for all of it later. As

Chapter 4

The reporter looked through the documents I had placed on the table.“These are the dance group’s rehearsal records?”“Attendance for the past two months,” I said. “Out of more than thirty rehearsals, Vera attended two.”Vera spoke up immediately.“Sometimes I forgot to sign in.”The dance teacher produced another attendance sheet.“She didn’t forget. My records show the same thing. Vera missed rehearsals regularly, and at the final rehearsal she still didn’t know where she was supposed to stand. I had already warned her that she would be removed if she couldn’t meet the requirements.”The reporter compared the two sheets.“So replacing her had nothing to do with her family’s finances?”“Of course not. She hadn’t even learned the full routine. She wasn’t ready to perform.”Vera bit her lip.“But Evelyn did say those things.”Sebastian finally turned to her.“You’re sure she said them herself?”“Of course. She said my parents were just ordinary workers and someone like me didn’t deserve

Chapter 5

I had paid for every costume in the dance group.Including Vera’s.The reporter was checking the payment details on the order when someone knocked on the conference room door.Leah stood outside.The dance teacher let her in and explained, “She’s also in the dance group. I asked her to come confirm what happened with the costume fees.”Leah walked to the table and glanced at the order.“I couldn’t afford a costume, either. I was going to drop out. When Evelyn found out, she paid for the whole group. She never asked which of us had money and which of us didn’t.”The reporter turned back to Vera.“So Evelyn didn’t remove you because you couldn’t afford a costume. She had actually paid for yours?”“Of course she wouldn’t bully someone in front of everyone,” Vera said quickly. “She’s targeting me because we used to live in the same orphanage.”“But you were removed because you kept missing rehearsals,” Leah said. “I was there. I know how often you showed up.”Vera fell silent.Sebastian fi

Chapter 6

The day I returned to the academy to collect my graduation paperwork, I ran into Vera in the hallway.She stood beside the lockers, watching the Ashfords’ interview on her phone.In the video, the countess had her arm linked through mine while the count sat beside us, answering questions. The interviewer asked how they had raised a human girl who ranked first in her class and had been accepted to Wharton.The count spent ten minutes discussing his approach to education.The countess even smiled and said, “We’ve always wanted her to have the freedom to pursue what she truly wants.”If I hadn’t known they rarely bothered to ask about my grades, I might have believed them.After the interview, the three of us had posed for a photograph outside the academy. We certainly looked like a happy family.Vera stared at me for a long time.“What did you do?”“What?”“Why are they suddenly treating you so well?”She kept her voice low, but couldn’t hide her anger.In our first life, she had spent y

Chapter 7

Sebastian became much more careful after that.Not because he had suddenly become a better person, but because the academy’s bullying investigation was still ongoing.His old friends began keeping their distance. The count warned him that if he caused another scandal that damaged the family’s reputation, his accounts would be frozen and his plans to study abroad canceled.Meanwhile, Vera’s act was beginning to fall apart.When the graduation results came out, she had no scholarship and hadn’t gotten into the university she wanted. The tutoring sessions, competitions, and recommendations she had passed up were no longer available.Sebastian was preparing to attend college abroad. She kept begging him to take her along.“I can work. I won’t cost you much. I just need you to help with my first year’s tuition.”He paid it in the end.But he no longer seemed to enjoy saving her the way he once had.The girl he had first liked was the one who kept saying, “I don’t want it.” Now Vera had to k

Chapter 8

After I left the hospital, I didn’t ask about Vera or Sebastian again.Leah came to pick me up. She put my bag in the car before asking, “Can you still make next week’s investor meeting?”“Couldn’t you ask about my leg first?”“The doctor said nothing’s broken. Two weeks to recover. I’ve already moved the meeting online.”“Then why ask?”“Because you might insist on going.”I smiled and got into the car.She knew what I wanted to do. She also remembered that I needed rest.Our company became profitable in its third year. By the fifth, we were preparing to go public. The original software had grown into a management platform used by human hospitals and vampire blood suppliers.Over those years, I ended my financial ties with the Ashfords.Under the guardianship program, my education had been their responsibility. The business loans had been repaid with interest, and the jewelry had long since been returned.I didn’t deny that they had given me opportunities. But I no longer needed their

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