“I said—dad’s not home!” Yelena smirked victoriously.

“Dad forgot all about your visit today! I mean, given the kind of man you got married to, is it really necessary for dad to welcome you back? Please, it’s embarrassing enough as it is!”

“I don’t need any welcoming!”

Cordelia sprang up to stop Yelena. “I want my wedding gift!”

“Wedding gift?”

Yelena arched a brow and smirked vilely at her. “What wedding gift? Never heard of it!”

Cordelia was stunned, but her heart beat fast. At that moment, all the reluctance, indignation, and resentment she felt rushed through her. She knew that she did not have a high starting point. The second she had come to this world, she had been stamped with the label of an illegitimate daughter.

That was not what she would choose, however. Despite the darkness she had experienced all these years, she had worked hard to chase after the light.

No ordinary girl would agree to the absurd request to marry a man in place of someone else! She had just wanted to save her mother. Why were they ripping this sliver of hope away from her too?!

Yelena scoffed and turned around to go upstairs, but Cordelia pulled her back.

“Don’t leave yet. Explain this!”

Yelena

knock the back of her head against the wall, causing her to

some deserted part of the countryside. Don’t even think about associating yourself with

I got married in your place, he said he’d

silly sister, do you remember why dad kicked you and your mother out of

quiet as

pregnant with

Pft, dad wants nothing more than to see her die

she tried her best to rein her emotions in, but

mom isn’t like

mom framed her?!” Yelena raised her voice

her mother telling her that the guiltier someone’s conscience

say that,” she said, wiping her tears. “You and I have no idea what happened among them, so watch your words. I won’t let you go if

of it!” Yelena snorted and flicked her hair back to flash the diamond necklace she had just

Pretty?” She looked at Cordelia provocatively. “I

Cordelia froze.

bought using the money for

“You—”

you a gift. It

and shook from rage, but there was nothing she could do. She kept her eyes on Yelena’s triumphant face as the servant politely “asked” her

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