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Chapter 3
One time, they were doing homework at home. Mara was stuck on a math problem, but Mira was busy researching something and asked her to wait a moment.
Unexpectedly, Mara went to Ethan, who was working from home, with tears in her eyes and her workbook in hand p>
She made it look as if Mira had bullied her.
It earned Mira a lecture from Ethan.
She also noticed her sister occasionally giving her strange looks.
Later, Mira finally understood what that look was: jealousy.
Mara couldn’t keep up in school, but Mira was a straight-A student.
Although they were twins, their different upbringings made them seem worlds apart in their classmates’ eyes.
No matter how expensive Mara’s clothes were or how exquisite her jewelry, if she stood next to Mira in her casual clothes, Mira would always be the one who shone
brightest.
The confidence and grace she had cultivated over the years were simply incomparable.
What followed was an escalating series of manipulative games and self-pitying ploys.
In front of everyone, Mara always acted obedient, sweet, and pitifully fragile. The result was that her four brothers and parents couldn’t stop talking about Mara. In just two short months, Mira’s reputation in Melvion City had been tarnished. She was now known as spoiled, willful, and even malicious.
Having been treated like a princess her whole life, always the apple of her family’s eye, Mira was naturally upset to see her brothers’ attention diverted.
She did many things to try and win back their focus.
But she could swear on her life that she had never, ever done anything to harm Mara.
The so-called ‘pushing her down the stairs’ was nothing more than a carefully orchestrated self-harm ploy Mara cooked up right before the welcome party. Scene after scene from the past flashed through Mira’s mind like a movie. Returning to the present, Mira made an instant decision.
“I know what I did wrong,” Mira said, her eyes slightly lowered, enunciating each word.
In her past life, because she refused to admit fault, she was locked in here for three whole days and nights without a single drop of water.
In the end, a maid on watch reported that she was unconscious, and only then was she sent to the hospital.
It left her with a permanent, gnawing weakness in her gut-a reminder of her family’s cruelty that no medicine could soothe.
What was even more unbearable was that by the time she got out of the hospital, her reputation was already in tatters.
In her previous life, during Mara’s speech at the welcome party, she had paid tip service to forgiveness but had intentionally let it slip that the injury to her arm was caused by her own sister pushing her down the stairs.
What should have been a private family matter became a public scandal. The Mercers were a prominent family, and too many people were paying attention.
Fueled by certain individuals, the story hit the Melvion City forums and the Melvion Central High School campus forum, quickly becoming an trending topic. Before the party was even over, the news had spread like wildfire.
And Mira, at the time, was completely oblivious. She had been locked up for three
days and then spent a week recovering in the hospital.
By the time she was discharged, almost everyone believed she was a malicious girl who couldn’t stand her newly returned sister.
None of Mira’s high-profile brothers or her parents stepped up to clear her name.
Especially Damon Mercer, the A-list actor and singer. When a reporter asked him about it, he even said, “Since my little sister did something
wrongTahers fould face the
consequences. She really needs to change her spoiled and willful ways p>
He didn’t just admit it; he threw her under the bus.
“So you really did it?” Ethan’s voice was filled with undisguised disappointment.
“Alright. Since you’re sincerely admitting your mistake, I’ll call Father p>
“Thank you, Ethan p>
The girl’s voice remained cool and detached.
Ethan’s hand, holding the phone, paused. He belatedly realized that Mira’s behavior was a bit strange.
Ethan had only found out about the incident when he got home last night.
He had gone to the basement to talk to Mira once, but she refused to admit she was wrong and had tearfully begged him to help find evidence.