“Fifth, I didn’t wear a single piece of your jewelry. Feel free to check if you don’t believe me. Altogether, that’s no more than 10,000 if you are so desperate for money that you want to rob me, I don’t mind calling the police*
Maelis felt blood rush to her head, her face flushing crimson with rage.
“Account number,” Zinnia said, her expression completely unfazed.
Maelis rummaged through her purse, pulled out a card, and threw it at Zinnia. She snapped, “What about your school tuition? We paid 160 thousand per semester. We covered your entire senior year.”
Zinnia didn’t say a word. She glanced down at the bank card on the ground but didn’t pick it up. She pulled out her phone, scanned it from a distance and with a single tap, transferred 330 thousand.
Seeing that Zinnia had managed to get that much money, Maelis said, “If you have what it takes, then don’t take a cent from Sofia.”
Her eyes burned with jealousy as she noticed the place Zinnia was staying in, a place she had never had the privilege of living in. The thought that Zinnia was enjoying it filled her with rage.
She added, “The apartment you’re living in was arranged by Jackson. I dare you to sever all connections with the Lynn family!”
Zinnia replied, “The money is mine, nothing to do with the Lynn family. If you don’t believe me, feel free to check. As for the house, I’ll move out later. Just tell me the rent, and I’ll pay Jackson.”
“The rent here is at least 160 thousand a month,” Maelis spat. She glared at Zinnia’s serene mask, desperate to see a crack in her composure.
She thought, ‘Why am I the only one suffering? How could the real culprit stand there so unbothered, so unshaken?
She was born to be my curse. That ungrateful wretch has turned my whole life upside down. So why does she get to live in peace while I’m left to suffer?”
Seeing this, the three Shaw brothers closed their eyes in resignation. After Maelis’s outburst, they knew there was no longer any hope of reconciliation. Their family and Zinnia could never be on good terms again.
They were at a complete loss about what to do, torn between Maelis, the mother who raised them, and Zinnia, the sister who had long since grown
distant from them.
Zinnia nodded. She transferred 160 thousand to Jackson’s account and then held up her phone for Maelis to see. She asked, “Is it okay?”
Maelis was stunned into silence. Then a bitter realization struck her. She said, “You’re my daughter! I carried you for ten long months, ten months of agony. Do you think you can just walk away? You will never truly be free from this family.”
“Mom, how much further are you going to take this?” Yosef suddenly roared.
Zinnia just stayed calm and replied, “You carried me for ten months, but the child you gave birth to was strangled at birth. Technically speaking, Mrs. Shaw, your family killed me the moment I entered this world. I owe your family nothing.”
The Shaw family froze at her words.
Maelis’s pupils shrank sharply, a wave of unspeakable pain surging through her. She asked, “What do you mean, ‘strangled at birth‘?”
Zinnia said coldly, “I was switched with Betty at birth. The person who swapped me strangled me unconscious and dumped me in a dumpster. My Master brought me back to life. I don’t owe your Shaw family a single thing.”
Having already laid everything out, Zinnia didn’t mind spelling things out a bit more. She thought, ‘Just to make sure they don’t keep thinking I owe them and use it as an excuse to harass me repeatedly.‘
Zinnia continued, “Given your family’s resources, investigating the events from seventeen years ago shouldn’t be difficult. If you don’t believe me, go
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chead and investigate it.
“Now that we’ve settled my debts to the Shaw family, it’s time to settle the store between me and your family
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