On the day my sister, who had been missing for thirteen years, was finally found, my parents and brother, their faces beaming with joy, suddenly heard my inner thoughts. 【It's great that Mia is finally back. It's just a pity that Dad's project is about to be intercepted by someone else. Should I remind Dad now?】 Mom looked at Mia with tears in her eyes, preparing to give her the family heirloom jade bracelet worth millions from her wrist. 【Sigh, once this leaves Mom's hand, it's gone forever. In a moment, Mia will pretend to accidentally break the jade bracelet just to test her status in Mom's heart. What a pity for such high-quality jade.】 My brother excitedly moved to pick Mia up. I tilted my head and looked at him. 【Big brother is pitiful too. His girlfriend is currently sitting on his best friend's lap. Tonight, when big brother gets told by his girlfriend that she's pregnant and he's going to be a father, I wonder if he'll still be as happy as he is now!】 The next second, Dad's phone rang. 1 My gaze remained fixed on my sister, as if I hadn't noticed the stiff expressions on Dad, Mom, and my brother's faces. Dad hesitated for two seconds before answering the phone. A moment later, his expression changed drastically. "What? Okay, I understand." Putting down the phone, the joy on Dad's face from Mia's return instantly turned peculiar. Even Mom trembled as she spoke. "Honey, what's wrong?" Dad glanced at me again and said dryly, "I just got news that the company's key project for the first half of the year has been snatched by a rival company. It seems there's no room to maneuver." I shook my head, feeling a bit unbearable. 【Dad and big brother have been so busy with this project that they haven't come home much for half a year. Now it's all for nothing. Big brother was even mocked by the rival company's son for a long time because of losing this project. So humiliating!】 Instantly, two gazes bore into me. I watched Mom's hand resting on the bracelet she was about to take off, sitting casually to the side. Now, Mom was stuck, neither taking off the bracelet nor leaving it on. She just froze there. Instead, it was Mia who noticed Mom's movement. She actually stepped forward joyfully and forcefully pulled the jade bracelet off Mom's wrist, ignoring the flash of pain on Mom's face. "Mom, are you giving this bracelet to me?" Mia held the bracelet intimately with two fingers, hugging Mom and acting coquettish. "When I was little, you said you would leave all your good things for me. Mom, you're the best!" Mia didn't see the sudden tension in Mom's eyes and made a move to put it on. An accident happened. The jade bracelet that was just in Mia's hand instantly fell to the ground. The bracelet that Mom cherished so much shattered into several pieces. Now, even Mom's face couldn't help but twitch uncontrollably. "Oh my, Mom!" Mia pouted, feigning horror. "My hand slipped and I accidentally broke it. Mom, you won't blame me, right?" As Mia said this, a flash of smugness crossed her face, as if she was certain their love and longing for her could outweigh this jade bracelet. But when she looked up smugly, she realized the undisguised shock on Dad's and my brother, Liam's, faces. "Damn it!" Liam suddenly turned pale, grabbed his phone, and rushed out, seemingly making a hasty call to his girlfriend. "Mom, Dad, are you angry? Mia really didn't mean to." Seeing that Mom and Dad's expressions were a bit off, Mia's big eyes immediately misted over, and she began to apologize pitifully. 【Here we go again. I guess Mia is going to start playing the victim to Mom and Dad, saying how miserable her life was after being kidnapped... Poor Mom and Dad are so kind-hearted, giving her a huge sum of money as compensation, not knowing that Mia spent all that money on male models!】 Sure enough, the next moment, Mia's tears began to fall uncontrollably. She delicately spoke about how much she missed Mom and Dad after being kidnapped when she was little, how she was often beaten, with scars that would never heal, and how she even had to sleep in a dog cage and eat moldy food, almost being sent to a scam park. "Mom, Dad, seeing you again makes me feel so happy!" 2 I picked at my nails absentmindedly. 【Mia is about to show off her so-called "scars" now, but those scars were all inflicted by herself just to gain sympathy.】 Mom fell for it as expected. She grabbed Mia's wrist and carefully examined the scabbed scars, her voice trembling, "Mia, these injuries... did they do this?" Mia shrank back, her eyes flickering, but she nodded and choked out, "Yes... they beat me. They often beat me, saying I was a money-losing goods, hard to sell..." She hugged Mom tightly again. "It's good that I'm back. Mom, I missed you so much." I curled my lips. 【Her adoptive parents treated her better than their own. They gave her a large allowance every month, yet she bites the hand that feeds her. Disgusting. She spent all that money chasing stars.】 Mom and Dad exchanged a look, their faces grim. Dad patted Mom's hand and stood up. "I'm going to make a call to the company." I glanced at Dad's back, hiding the sneer at the corner of my mouth by raising my hand to fix my hair. Only I knew that Dad wasn't calling the company at all. He was just getting someone to investigate what had really happened to Mia all these years. Dad was such a suspicious person; how could he trust Mia without reservation like before after hearing so many inner thoughts? After Dad left, Mia performed even harder, crying about how she didn't have enough to eat or wear and had to do a lot of work after being sent to her new family. Mom, however, was clearly not as emotional as in my past life. she just gently patted Mia's back, comforting her somewhat perfunctorily. I watched this scene with no expression. 3 In my past life, Mia and I, both young, went out to play. I just went to buy ice cream, and my sister left with a trafficker who looked wealthy. At that time, I chased desperately but couldn't catch up. When Mom, Dad, and Liam found out, they blamed everything on me. Even I felt like a sinner. Because of this, I endured thirteen years of torture and verbal abuse from them, living a trembling life at home, worse than a pig or dog. Until the year I turned twenty, my sister was found. As soon as she returned, she easily gained the love of the whole family, and my guilt for not watching her properly and causing her abduction was alleviated. But my sister looked at me and pointed her finger. "The reason I got lost was that my sister sold me to traffickers, saying I was the extra child in the family. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been separated from Mom, Dad, and big brother for so long. I really missed you guys!" When these words came out, my family's faces changed instantly. They believed Mia, who had been pampered since childhood, without a doubt. They took turns slapping me and forcing me to kneel and kowtow to Mia to admit my mistake. My life afterward was even more miserable, without a single day of peace. It wasn't until I was tortured to death that Mia triumphantly told me the reason. "It's just my good fate! When I was little, the family was poor and I didn't want to live a hard life, so I went with the traffickers and got a bunch of rich parents." "It's just a pity that they went bankrupt as soon as I became an adult. Luckily, I saw the news in the newspaper that Mom and Dad had made a fortune, so I came back. Otherwise, you would have enjoyed all the good life alone!" I didn't expect Mia to be so scheming and vicious. I died with resentment, unexpectedly waking up reborn in the year Mia returned, and discovering that I could manipulate the content of my inner thoughts and designate who could hear them. I looked at Mia, snuggling in Mom's arms with an unconcealable smirk, and I wanted to laugh a little too. In this life, I also want to see how Mom, Dad, and Liam will maintain their doting on Mia after seeing through her true colors! 4 When Dad finished his call and pushed the door open with an ashen face, he saw Mia crying pitifully while Mom gently patted her back to comfort her. I lowered my eyes. Seeing him like this, I knew Dad had already found out what had happened to Mia after she got lost. 【Sigh, next, Mia is going to frame me for her abduction just to get the family's attention.】 Mia didn't disappoint me. After Dad came in, she sobbed and spoke, "Dad, actually, when we were little, it was my sister who pushed me to the bad guys when I wasn't looking! She said I was the extra child in the family, and you guys would be happy if I disappeared." Mia looked up at them, her eyes red, her voice timid. "Is that really true?" If she had been a bit more observant right now, she would have noticed that Mom clearly withdrew her hand patting her back, and even Dad frowned. I shrank back, my eyes instantly turning red. Dad's tone was heavy. "Mia, your sister couldn't possibly do such a thing." Mom echoed, "Yes, your sister Harper has always been a well-behaved and obedient child." Well-behaved and obedient? I thought they didn't know! Hearing this evaluation, I felt a wave of irony in my heart. Two lifetimes, and this was the first time I heard a compliment about me from their mouths. I thought they always called me a jinx, a scourge, a troublemaker, and really couldn't see what kind of person I was! I sniffled and said with obvious grievance, "Mia, how can you frame me like this? It was clearly you who disliked the family being poor when we were little and deliberately left with the traffickers... What does it have to do with me?" After saying this, I subconsciously covered my mouth, as if I had accidentally spilled a secret. Mia's face changed drastically, and she blurted out, "How did you know?!" The room instantly fell silent, and Mom and Dad's faces turned ugly. Mia also realized she had said the wrong thing and tried to explain in panic, but only made things worse. Seeing Mom and Dad's faces as dark as ink, Mia gritted her teeth, rolled her eyes back, and fainted directly.
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