Chapter 8
“Grace, have you had enough of your performance? Should I hand you a little Oscar for it?”
Grace instantly stopped sobbing and looked at me with a face full of false grievance. “Layla, what are you talking about? I don’t understand.“N
Samuel’s anger flared as he shouted toward the door, saying, “Security! Get this crazy woman out of here!“}]
“The Rodriguez Family has always been upright and honorable. We won’t allow someone who uses such disgusting tricks!“}
“If you still refuse to repent, then forget about school. Go teach in some remote mountain village and think about what you’ve done!”
After being reborn, the memory of my tragic death in the previous life still made my body tremble.
But this time, I didn’t feel a shred of fear.M
Instead, I calmly opened another folder on the USB drive.
Grace’s good days were truly over now.
Everyone stared at the screen, their faces filled with shock, like they were watching a Hollywood action blockbuster.
But what played on the big screen wasn’t a movie. It was surveillance footage.
It showed Grace sneaking into my room while I was out, quietly taking my USB and replacing the song I had prepared with an Al–generated audio file that slandered me.N
She even inserted fake, Al–generated private photos.
I knew she wouldn’t dare use her real photos. That way, if the truth came out, she could still pretend to be innocent, maybe even fight back and accuse me of defamation.N
At worst, I’d be the one facing jail.
As she worked, she muttered to herself, “The Rodriguez Family only has one daughter, me. You’re just a country bumpkin from who knows where and you dare compete with me? I’ll kill you if I have to!“W
Though the footage wasn’t crystal clear, everyone could see the twisted expression on Grace’s face as she said those words.
A face completely different from the sweet, innocent mask she always wore.
In an instant, everyone understood what had really happened and all the judgmental gazes turned toward Grace.
“This Grace is really vicious. She’s just an adopted daughter, yet she wants to take the real heiress’s place? What is she thinking?” “Exactly. If not for the baby mix–up back then, who knows what remote corner of the world she’d still be living in? And now she repays kindness with malice. So evil!”
“Can’t judge a book by its cover. Acts like she can’t open a bottle cap in public, but in private, she’d probably twist your skull off.“@
Grace’s face turned red, then pale, then dark from all the criticism. But with solid evidence right in front of her, she had no way to defend herself.N
So, she simply rolled her eyes back and pretended to faint, collapsing straight into Samuel’s arms.
I thought that now, after seeing the truth and witnessing Grace’s real face, Samuel would finally stand by my side as his biological sister.
But to my surprise, Samuel immediately called for emergency services in a panic and carried Grace into the ambulance.
Before leaving, he shot me a cold look and said, “No matter what Grace has done, she’s my sister. I won’t let anyone hurt her–not even my blood–related sister!”
“I’ll settle today’s score with you later! What you owe Grace, I’ll make you pay back tenfold!”
“You better pray she’s okay. If anything happens to her, I won’t spare you! Also, I ask everyone here to keep today’s events strictly confidential. If even one word gets out, it means going against the Rodriguez Family!“}
With that, he turned and left without a second glance, following the unconscious Grace into the ambulance.
Hearing those words, whatever hope I still had for the bond between siblings was completely extinguished.
