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Escape from Heartless Parents
Chapter 1
I locked eyes with my best friend, Sarah.
We didn’t beg our biological parents to take
us home like we did last time.
Instead, we clung to each other, refusing to
be separated.
Because last time I went back to the
General’s house, I discovered there was
already a foster daughter in my place.
She accused me of pushing her, causing her
to miss a military exercise.
My parents and siblings called me vicious and
My parents and siblings called me vicious and broke my leg, shattering my dreams of being
the top female soldier.
“Country bumpkins are so uncouth! Jealousy
made you bully Lily!”
“Don’t think you can do whatever you want
just because you’re the biological child. Lily is the one we truly love!”
They discharged me for “inappropriate conduct“, tossed me three dollars, and
married me off to an old widower with a twenty–year–old son with special needs.
I was tortured to death.
Sarah went home with her scientist parents.
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Her cousin, with a few well–placed words,
convinced everyone Sarah was trying to steal
state secrets.
“How could we have raised such a traitorous
child? From now on, Jenny will be our
daughter!”
Sarah, a chemistry prodigy, was injected with a paralytic drug and locked in a dark lab for the rest of her life.
Before starving to death, she watched her cousin steal her research, get a full ride to an Ivy League school, and win award after
award.
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“Don’t be ridiculous. You’re not real sisters.
Where else would you go besides home?”
My biological father, John Miller, frowned as
he saw Sarah and I clinging to each other.
He was a strict man, treating his children like
soldiers under his command.
From my past life, I could read the annoyance
in his eyes.
I stayed silent, but Sarah stepped forward and
pointed at Lily Miller, the girl standing behind
John, dressed in the latest fashion.
“General Miller, Ashley told me you only had
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two daughters and a son. Who is this young
lady?”
John showed a bit of patience towards Sarah,
an outsider.
“After Ashley went missing, her mother
couldn’t sleep at night. We brought Lily in to
comfort her.”
Sarah scoffed, her eyes full of sarcasm.
“To comfort her? Shouldn’t you have been
trying to find Ashley?”
“Whose bright idea was it to find a
replacement for her?”
Used to being in a position of authority, John
was immediately irritated
mind your own business!”
Lily, with tears in her eyes, tugged at his arm,
acting as if she had been greatly wronged.
“Dad, this girl is right. I did take Ashley’s
place.”
“I can leave the Miller family. I just want to
visit you guys during holidays…”
John’s heart softened, and he looked at Sarah
and me with even more displeasure.
“Who said you took your sister’s place? Don’t
be silly. You’ll always be our daughter.”
A flicker of triumph flashed in Lily’s eyes.
I wasn’t surprised at all. just relieved.
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I wasn’t surprised at all, just relieved.
It happened the same way in my past life. I
was so eager for family love that I failed to
see that the Millers would never give up Lily,
whom they had cherished for so many years.
In their eyes, I, their daughter who had been
missing for over a decade, wasn’t even worth
as much as Lily’s little toe.
No matter how hard I tried to please them, it
was all in vain.
Lily only needed to act cute to easily get
everything I wanted.
“Are you mute? You’re just going to let an
outsider bully your sister?”
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John suddenly turned his attention to me.
He frowned as if I had committed some
unforgivable crime.
But… an outsider?
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“General Miller, have you misunderstood something?”
“In my heart, Sarah is my true family, my
sister.
“Who is Lily to me?”
