In her past life, her cousin became a tenured
professor at a top university because of that
achievement.
In this life, Sarah, the true genius, would only achieve greater heights.
I wondered if the Carters would regret
missing such a daughter?
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The first to regret it wasn’t the Carters, but
the Millers.
When John came to the military camp again
with big bags and small bags, bringing my
mother, brother, and sister, I immediately
understood their intentions.
The competition probably made them realize
that their beloved Lily couldn’t even compare
to me.
I never thought their preference for Lily was
completely unreasonable.
John admired strength, and his wife, son, and
other daughter were more or less influenced
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by him.
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In their minds, Lily, raised and trained by
John, must have been superior to me, a child
raised in an orphanage.
Now, their perception was overturned, and
the Millers‘ expressions were awkward.
“I underestimated you, Ashley. I’m sorry.”
John was the first to speak, seemingly able to
swallow his pride.
My brother, sister, and mother looked at him
in surprise, obviously not expecting him to go
this far.
I frowned at his words.
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In my past life, I never heard him say such
words until I died.
This time, I finally heard it.
But I didn’t need it.
I stepped back, distancing myself from them.
“Excuse me, we’re not that close. You can
call me by my full name, Ashley Grace.”
Grace was Mom’s last name.
My meaning was clear.
I didn’t want anything to do with the Millers.
John’s expression changed slightly, as if he
was struggling for a bit before speaking
was struggling for a bit before speaking
again.
“If you mind, I can send Lily away.”
“Dad!”
My brother and sister looked at John in
shock.
They clearly still had feelings for Lily.
“Lily didn’t do anything wrong. Why send her
away?”
“Yeah, and besides, it’s just winning a
competition. Ashley doesn’t want to come
back. Why are we forcing her?”
John didn’t expect his children to hold him
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“Shut up!”
“Lily isn’t even part of our Miller family! Her
training all these years has been a sham.
Don’t you know that?”
“She even tried to frame someone to avoid
the competition! Shameful, shameful!”
There were other things he didn’t say.
The Miller family wasn’t some deeply rooted
family.
Except for himself, his other children weren’t
in the military.
Lily, who had been their hope for a successor,
turned out to be a fraud.
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John could only pin his hopes on me.
But… but I wouldn’t do what he wanted.
I looked at them as if they were a bunch of
clowns.
Later, I don’t know what John said, but my
brother, sister, and mother temporarily put
aside Lily and joined him in persuading me to
go home.
They still refused to give up after repeated
rejections.
It wasn’t until I beat up my brother and
complained to the commissar, asking him to
transfer me, that they finally gave up.
Sarah had a similar problem.
Although Sarah didn’t have my fighting skills,
she was smart.
In front of everyone, she recounted David’s
disdain and mockery when they first met.
The Carters were ridiculed and left in
disgrace.
If things had stayed peaceful like this, it
would have been fine.
But Sarah’s cousin wasn’t one to be trifled
with.
Not content with the family’s attention
shifting to Sarah, she was determined to
surpass her.
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Although Sarah didn’t have my fighting skills,
she was smart.
In front of everyone, she recounted David’s
disdain and mockery when they first met.
The Carters were ridiculed and left in
disgrace.
If things had stayed peaceful like this, it
would have been fine.
But Sarah’s cousin wasn’t one to be trifled
with.
Not content with the family’s attention shifting to Sarah, she was determined to
surpass her.
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In the end, she came up with a terrible idea
and consulted foreign experts about an
ongoing research project.
This directly led to a leak of the entire
project.
If it weren’t for Sarah turning the tide and helping to modify the reagents used in the experiment, everyone’s hard work would have
been in vain.
Because of this incident, Sarah’s cousin was charged with espionage, the same crime she had falsely accused Sarah of in my past life, and was arrested by the National Security
Bureau for interrogation.
David and his wife were also implicated
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because they lived with her.
Even though they tried to clear their names,
they were still expelled from the lab and could no longer access the same level of research.
They could only sit in front of the TV, watching their biological daughter, whom they had despised and looked down upon, achieve results again and again, and be interviewed by the news again and again.
In the end, their cousin, who had been
released from prison, held a grudge against
them.
She set a fire, killing one of them on the spot and leaving the other with severe burns.
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It was the commissar who told me their fate.
Lily overheard the Millers‘ conversation and,
unwilling to be abandoned by them, poisoned
their family’s meal with paraquat.
The Millers never suspected her and never
imagined that the daughter and sister they
had raised for so many years would be a
vicious viper.
After the meal, John, who had been injured in
battle and had a large appetite due to his
military service, died directly from the
poisoning.
My mother, brother, and sister survived, but
their respiratory and digestive systems were
permanently damaged, and they could only
rely on medication to survive for the rest of
But the three survivors lost John, their
protector, and no longer had the ability to live
as they did before.
They couldn’t even afford medicine and could
only return to their hometown in disgrace.
It was said that they could only take turns
sharing the medicine.
In the end, the pain was too much to bear,
and none of them could hold on any longer.
They died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Hearing this news, Sarah and I didn’t feel
much.
Their endings were no worse than ours in our
past lives
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Their endings were no worse than ours in our
past lives.
It was all their own fault.
Anyway, they weren’t our family.
Our family was still waiting for us to come
home from leave for dinner.
Even without blood ties.
She would always be our mom.
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