Since we were kids, I knew my sister was destined to be the tragic heroine of a melodrama. To protect her, I switched our fates. She went to the top public magnet school, while I entered the prestigious private academy as a scholarship student. She grew up to be a brilliant biopharmaceutical scientist. I, on the other hand, endured years of humiliation, suffered through seven abortions, and held the empty title of a billionaire heir’s wife. When my sister found out, instead of being grateful, she returned to the male lead's side as his "white moonlight"—his first love. She manipulated him into drowning me in the lake. Reborn into a new life, I somehow became the male lead's "white moonlight" this time around. Just as I thought I had mistakenly picked up the heroine’s script, I realized something terrifying. My sister was reborn too. So, how did she, the original "white moonlight" heroine of the last life, actually die? Chapter 1 Reborn back to when we were twelve, Mom and Dad looked at me with troubled faces. "Luna, you're the older sister. Why don't you give the scholarship spot at Elite Academy to Lily?" In my past life, I had cried and screamed, demanding to go to the private school. Helpless, my parents sent my sister, Lily, to the public magnet school. This time, I nodded without hesitation, my heart full of joy. "Okay! Let her go! I want to go to the public magnet school!" Actually, it wasn't just this once. At every juncture where my sister was supposed to meet the male lead, I had intervened. Without meeting him, my sister's academic and professional career soared. But no one understood my intentions. Everyone said I was jealous of my sister, that her success was purely due to her own efforts. My parents sighed in relief. After I left the room, I heard them whispering. "We really need to invest heavily in Lily this time. She's the real heroine! We can't make the same mistake as last time, thinking Luna was the main character. We got nothing out of it, just trouble!" Invest heavily? Where would a working-class family get that kind of money? That reminded me. In my last life, shortly after I entered the private academy, my parents won fifty thousand dollars in the lottery. It was through insider info from the male lead, Archer Vance, that I told them to invest in real estate instead of spending it. That was how our family climbed out of poverty and into the middle class. Just then, my sister looked at me with crossed arms and a mocking smirk. "Go ahead to public school then. Go compete with those nerds until you drop. Enjoy the cold showers in the dorms during winter!" "What's mine will eventually be mine. No one can take it away!" Suddenly, I understood. It wasn't just me. My whole family had been reborn. Interesting. Then keep dreaming your billionaire dreams. Go enjoy the backstabbing, the physical and mental torment of high society life. I’ll gladly bear the "hardship" of studying in peace. Our house was far from the schools. I wanted to spend more time studying. Knowing my parents had already won the lottery, I asked to live on campus. But they roared in anger. "Dorm fees are five hundred a semester! That's expensive! You have no idea how hard your father and I work for money!" Just then, my sister came home from Elite Academy, carrying several large bags of snacks and toys. My parents beamed, patting her head and praising her potential, while simultaneously scolding me. "Look at Lily, so capable! Not only does her scholarship cover everything, but she's already bringing things home to help the family at such a young age. You, going to that public school, we have to pay for books and now you want dorm money? Useless spendthrift!" Sure enough, even in a new life, my parents' bias hadn't changed a bit. Before, when my sister ranked tenth in the school, they bragged to everyone that their daughter was a genius. They never cared that I was now second in the entire school, only five points away from first place. My sister bragged to me about her experiences at Elite Academy and how well Archer treated her. "Even though I'm a scholarship student, he never looks down on me. He always gives me gifts and says I'm the most special girl he's ever met." "He said he's interested in how normal people live and wants to come to our house for dinner tomorrow. Mom, Dad, you need to prepare well!" My parents praised her, promising to cook their best dishes for him. In my last life, this was the turning point. I had sent my sister away so they wouldn't meet. He secretly took photos of my cramped, cluttered home, which led to me being mocked and bullied at school for three whole years. When I was at my most helpless, he stepped in like a hero. He trapped me in a whirlpool of tenderness that hid a sharp knife. It was only a long, long time later that I learned the truth. Since my whole family was reborn, I wasn't sure if Archer was too. So I feigned illness, wearing a mask and glasses to prevent him from recognizing me. As soon as he arrived, he instinctively pinched his nose. "Is something rotting? It smells like mold." My parents' faces turned black instantly, but they still served the feast they had spent all day preparing. The braised pork meatballs, a dish we only ate during holidays, sat untouched. Archer didn't take a single bite, yet he offered fake praise. "Mr. and Mrs. Solis, your cooking is amazing. No wonder you raised such a beautiful and talented daughter like Lily!" My parents were ecstatic, bragging everywhere that the Solis family was about to produce a billionaire's wife, that their good days were coming. They became even more determined to invest in my sister. They actually used the fifty thousand dollars from the lottery to sign Lily up for etiquette classes that cost two thousand a session, five times a week. While my parents ignored me, I had already taken first place in the city-wide joint exams, becoming a priority student for the teachers. One day, a childhood friend who was also a scholarship student at Elite Academy texted me: [Did you know your sister is getting bullied badly by those rich kids? I don't dare help her. Archer Vance, that billionaire heir, said anyone who helps her is the next target. He told us to keep it quiet...] [Then don't help. Protect yourself.] My friend was confused: [Don't you protect your sister the most? Since we were kids, if anyone bullied her, you were always the first to fight back.] That was because my biased parents taught me from a young age that the older sister must protect the younger sister, must yield to her. But if I protect her, who protects me? We are fraternal twins, born only five minutes apart. A month later, my parents looked distressed and proposed selling the house. "Luna, the family is really struggling. We can live in the employee dorms anyway, and your sister lives at school. This house is useless. Plus, your sister's etiquette classes need money..." I couldn't believe they had burned through fifty thousand in a month and still wanted to continue. I laughed out of sheer anger. "Ha, what about me? If you sell the house, do I live on the street?" Just then, my sister came home, soaked and covered in bruises. Seeing our parents, she burst into tears and threw herself at them. "Why am I still bullied by rich classmates even when I try so hard? Is it because I'm not elegant enough, not beautiful enough, so Archer won't help me?" My parents hugged her, comforting her softly. "Lily, don't be scared. Mommy and Daddy will sell the house right now to sign you up for better classes." They immediately contacted an agency that trained "debutantes," boldly claiming they would add dance and vocal lessons costing five thousand a session. These three were insane beyond reason! I couldn't hold back and shouted, "Enough! Am I not your daughter?! I just want a place to live, is that so hard?!" Mom, seeing my sister weeping in her arms, was heartbroken. She rushed over and slapped me across the face. "Your sister has been bullied like this! And you're still making a scene!" Suddenly, text comments floated in the air: [Boohoo, poor little Lily, just endure a bit longer. When you're of age, CEO Archer will come to marry you!] [This older sister is so short-sighted. She doesn't know our Lily will be the most famous wife in the city's elite circle!] My sister stopped crying. The three of them stared wide-eyed at the floating text. I silently lowered my head, pretending I saw nothing. Dad waved his hand, making the final decision: "Luna, go live with your uncle! You're the older sister, stop being so selfish. We are selling this house!" I tried hard to think. To think about how Lily would suffer later, how my parents would be destitute after selling the house. Don't be angry. Don't be sad. Don't cry. But the grievances of being treated unfairly all these years turned into bitterness that filled my heart. I buried my face in my pillow and cried secretly all night before I could breathe again. I couldn't fight them. I was sent to live with my uncle. My parents stopped caring about me. To earn tuition, I signed up for the city's biology competition. First prize was five thousand dollars. I never expected to run into Archer at the finals. The moment he saw me, he froze. I knew that expression well. It was the same look he gave Lily the first time he saw her in my past life. Archer grabbed my arm, frowning. "I'll give you fifty thousand. Give up the first place to me." I shook him off and turned to run. He blocked my path. "I'll hire the best biology professors for you. It's just a title, it's not that important to you, right?" Seeing him made me sick. "I don't want your filthy money! If you want first place, beat me with your own skills!" Unsurprisingly, I took first place and the prize money. Thinking back, I actually regretted not taking his fifty thousand. I must have been crazy. But because of that first place, I received an offer from the Junior Class of the nation's top university. I just needed to finish the high school curriculum in one year and pass the exams to enter the best program. Not long after, Lily's situation changed drastically. Lily held her head high like an arrogant swan. "Did you know? Now no one in school dares to mess with me. Archer Vance announced to everyone that I am his future fiancée." My parents couldn't hide the pride in their eyes, speaking to me as if granting charity. "When your sister marries into a wealthy family, our good days will come. We'll buy several big houses then, maybe even give you one." Good days? Days of hell were coming. Five years later, I had completed my undergraduate degree in biology at the top university and was fast-tracked to a Ph.D. program. I was only twenty years old. Five or six years ahead of where Lily was in my past life. I hadn't contacted my family in a long time. Chatting with my childhood friend, Chloe, I heard rumors about Lily. News that the heir Archer Vance insisted on getting engaged to Lily shocked the elite circle. And it was all because Lily looked seventy percent like Archer's "white moonlight"—his lost love. "I heard Archer's white moonlight was a brilliant beauty, totally different from an idiot like Lily who dropped out of high school." The more I listened, the stranger it sounded. I pressed on: "How did Archer meet this white moonlight?" "Uh, I heard it was at a biology competition..." My heart skipped a beat. In my past life, wasn't Lily able to return to him because she was the white moonlight? Could it be... in this life, I accidentally took the heroine's script? No, that's not right! I suddenly realized. Logically, after I died in the past life, Lily's "heroine luck" should have returned to her. But she and my parents were reborn around the same time as me. That means, after I died, they died too! If she was the true heroine, how could Archer let her die?! Unless, in this script, both my sister and I must die. I had read a type of tragic novel. The male lead only regrets after the heroine dies. In his remorse over losing his beloved wife, he grows to hate the "white moonlight," eventually killing her to avenge his wife. If that's the case, I wasn't sure if I could fight fate, if I could escape Archer. Or what methods he might use to bind me back to them. How on earth could I escape this destined death... My phone pinged. Lily sent an invitation to her engagement party: [Sister, I genuinely hope you can come.] At the engagement party. My parents, in cheap, wrinkled suits, were stopped by security, looking anxious. "Is there a misunderstanding? We are the in-laws of the Vance family! Why can't we go in?!" The guard sneered. "Hmph, if I say you can't enter, you can't. Those are the master's specific orders." Seeing this, I figured they wouldn't let me in either if I said I was the bride's family. So I sneaked into the backstage dressing room and found Lily. She was exquisite as a porcelain doll, but the high spirits of the past were gone. Her eyes were empty and lifeless. Lily clutched her stomach, cold sweat pouring down her face. The makeup artist complained while applying powder: "Oh my god, Miss Solis, can't you sit still? If the powder looks cakey and ugly, and Mr. Vance gets angry, you're just making trouble for me!" She meekly apologized and swallowed a handful of painkillers. In my past life, at this time, she should have just aborted her third child for Archer. He had needs every night but disliked using protection, yet he refused to let me carry his child. He said a replacement from the slums like me didn't deserve to bear the Vance heir. Suddenly, I felt a strange sympathy for Lily. I grabbed the makeup artist's hand, snatching the powder puff. "She's clearly in pain and you have this attitude? If you're this unprofessional, get out. I'll do it!" Lily looked at me like I was a savior, her eyes instantly red. "Sister, thank you for being so good to me..." She told me about her suffering by that dog's side these past few years. Archer monopolized her, forbidding her from socializing or contacting the outside world, forcing her to be a compliant doll. She couldn't save herself because she couldn't study like I did to build a future. She was bound, tied down. A canary with broken wings, kept only for amusement. Exactly like the old me.
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