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Two days later, since I hadn’t gone to the hospital, Thomas had been discharged. He said he
was going home to wait for death, hoping to see his daughter one last time.
It seemed he had hired quite a few people to attack me online. Over the past few days,
the insults had been increasing, severely affecting the work of several streamers under my
management.
“Forget it. I’ll go back and deal with this,” I said to Dominic on the phone.
Dominic was overseas at the time. Due to an international economic dispute, he had to stay
and assist with the investigation, so he wouldn’t be able to return home anytime soon.
He told me to take the two female bodyguards with me.
And I did.
But as soon as I entered the Clark Villa, we were immediately surrounded.
It turned out that Thomas‘ so–called illness was just an excuse to keep me trapped. To make
sure it worked, he had spent a fortune hiring a dozen private bodyguards to surround us.
We were outnumbered, only three of us, and I didn’t know how to fight.
It didn’t take long for the two bodyguards to be captured.
Finally, Thomas stepped out.
“Charlotte, I gave you a chance, but you chose to ignore it.”
He waved his hand, and people rushed to restrain me, forcing me to sign a letter of
forgiveness.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
I had prepared for Madison’s tricks, but I never expected my own parents to be the ones
turning on me.
“Thomas, do you really think a letter of forgiveness can save Madison? Do you think the law is
a joke?” I refused to sign.
Thomas raised his hand and slapped me hard.
His slap was brutal, buzzing in my ears.
“You ungrateful thing. Dominic is abroad, and these two bodyguards are captured. You still
dare to resist?”
He gave a snort. “Take her away! She won’t get food until she agrees to save Madison! As
long as Madison stays in the hospital, she can starve her for as long as she wants!”
Parents like them weren’t just biased against me for their stepdaughter. They didn’t even
consider me a human being.
Even though Madison wasn’t blood–related to them, even though she had wrecked the Clark Group and broken the law, in their eyes, she was more important than me, their real daughte
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I closed my eyes, resigned. “Go ahead. Let me starve to death if you want.”
“Still talking back? By this time tomorrow, you won’t be so stubborn,” Thomas said as he personally locked the door.
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Locked up in the Clark Villa’s small, dark room, I shivered from the cold. They didn’t even gives
me a blanket. It was late autumn, and the chill was unbearabla
I had no idea what was going on outside, but there was a lot of noise.
I thought, “It probably wasn’t Dominic. He was still abroad. Could it be my four brothers who
came to rescue me?*
Soon, the small room was unlocked.
“Baby, I’m sorry I’m late.. Dominic ran over to me, and when he saw me cuded up in the
corner, his heart broke.
He hugged me and immediately noticed I had a fever,
“Tomorrow morning, the Clark Group will be destroyed, I keep my word? Dominic was furious
Thomas looked like he’d seen a ghost.
He couldn’t believe that Dominic, who was supposed to be abroad, had managed to come
back to the capital overnight and found the Clark Villa,
Along with Dominic were my four brothers.
“Charlotte, how are you?”
“They dared to lock up Charlotte? Well!”
“My baby, how are you? I’m here.” Grace had even come.
She glanced at me, then walked straight to Thomas.
She slapped him, then kicked Sarah in the stomach.
“You scum, animals! You’re not worthy of being parents! Dare to hurt Charlotte? Destroy the
Clark Villa now!”
At Grace’s command, the Marshall family’s security team went to work.
In less than half an hour, the once–glorious Clark Villa was in ruins.
Thinking it was over, Grace personally set the place on fire.
Thomas wanted to call the police.
But this was self–defense. They had unlawfully imprisoned me first.
My brothers then arranged for a bit of marketing.
Soon, the true faces of Thomas and Sarah were exposed online.
The netizens who had been misled now realized that Thomas and Sarah had completely
disregarded their biological daughter’s life just to favor the adopted one.
Before, I had been the target of insults. Now, the insults were all directed at Thomas and
Sarah.
A lot of people even went to the live streams of my broadcasters, buying goods as a wa make up for the wrongs they had done me.
I issued a statement advising them to stay rational and avoid impulsive spending, but instead of serving as a reminder, it only moved them to continue spending.
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instead of serving as a reminder, it only moved them to continue spending
Dominic’s attack on the Clark Group was complete.
Before dawn, the Clark Group had gone bankrupt.
Thomas and Sarah, burdened with massive debt, were being surrounded by their creditors
It seemed they knew there was no hope of getting the money, so they started angrily blaming Thomas and Sarah for raising Madison at the expense of their own daughter
“Isn’t Madison the most filial? Why isn’t she here helping pay off the debr
“Madison was so outstanding. How did she end up in a psychiatric hospital?”
“At least you cut ties with Charlotte early, or she’d be in even worse shape now. You’d still have to clean up her mess.”
We won’t ask Charlotte to repay the debt, not a single cent. We’ll make the spoiled Madison pay!”
You ignored your own daughter and chose Madison. Now look at the result
“You regret it now, don’t you? I didn’t expect Charlotte to end up being adopted by Mark Marshall. The Marshall family is the most powerful family in Lyrinia.”
“Exactly! Charlotte, the daughter you didn’t care about, now has Grace and four older
brothers to pamper her.”
Each word cut deeper, leaving Thomas and Sarah flushed with embarrassment.
The Marshall family was the most mysterious entity in Lyrinia.
Everyone wanted to befriend them, but no one could ever get close. It wasn’t that the Marshall family was snobbish or looked down on others, but because they were upright.
They helped the weak but never allowed anyone to use connections.
Thomas regretted missing out on the Marshall family.
“It’s all your fault. If you hadn’t said Madison was so accomplished, would we have ended up
like this? You’re just as unlucky as her!”
Thomas blamed Sarah.
It was said that the two of them had a huge argument at the mess of the Clark Villa,
disturbing the neighbors, who eventually called the police.
When filling out the contact forms, they surprisingly put my name down.
I scoffed, “Help me release a statement from today onward. I officially changed my surname
to Marshall, and my name is Charlotte Marshall.”
Once the statement was released, Dominic quickly took care of everything.
I had completely severed ties with them.
Even when they begged repeatedly, posted online apologies, or had officers come to plead
on their behalf, I remained unmoved.
Three months after Madison was locked up in the psychiatric hospital, Jaxon formally fil
for divorce.
She cried, caused scenes, and even threatened to kill herself if he ever mentioned divorce
again.
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Jaxon didn’t care. “Madison, Ms. Clark was right. You’re a useless person. You’re just wasting
air by being alive. Maybe it’d be better if you were dead.”
After that, Jaxon became more open about his affair.
He didn’t try to keep it a secret at all.
He flaunted it in public, openly enjoying the attention.
Soon, his lover was pregnant.
Jaxon even took his pregnant girlfriend to visit Madison in the psychiatric hospital.
The cold, dismissive look he gave her was just like Dominic’s from the previous life.
Madison couldn’t accept this outcome.
“Charlotte, you b*tch, just wait. In this life, I can’t change the outcome, and neither will end up with anything good!!”
Jaxon recorded these words and sent them to me.
I stared at Madison in the video.
She was truly pitiful.
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At only 27 years old, she looked like she was in her 40s. I almost wanted to ask her, “How could she compare to me now?”
