Filed to story: A Little Princess's Journey from Darkness to Light Novel
Pablo was speechless.
She forgot who she really was after having the luxury of clothing right at her door.
“What happened next?” Lilly propped up her chin as she listened to Roxanne retell her story.
“I wanted to rent a home. The housing agent noticed how I was dressed in luxury items and introduced me to high-end apartments…”
The agent’s fawning and envious glances, as well as compliments on her pale skin and beauty, gave her a ruthless satisfaction of vanity.
Of course, she was pale. She was in the printing factory day in and day out, leaving at 7 in the morning and returning at 11.
How could she not be pale?
She truly believed herself to be a wealthy woman amidst the barrage of compliments.
“So, I rented an apartment for five thousand a month…”
She regretted it after signing the contract, but there was nothing she could do when the agent was watching her with such eagerness.
Despite having wasted a decade at the factory, all her overtime only amounted to three thousand a month…
Lilly began calculating. “Your salary is three thousand, and the rent is five thousand. That implies you still require…”
Josh interjected, “Two thousand.”
Lilly was taken aback. “That’s a substantial amount! How did you manage to bridge the gap?”
Roxanne forced a bitter smile. “Indeed. How did I manage to bridge the gap…”
She had to provide a three-month deposit, which meant she had to immediately come up with twenty thousand.
All she had was a mere thousand…
“I remember my palms sweating as the agent went through the contract with me,” Roxanne recalled.
Once the agent finished explaining the contract, Roxanne no longer had any reason to delay the inevitable.
She made up an excuse about needing to make a call and borrowed twenty thousand from loan sharks.
“It was an easy transaction, but they didn’t hold back if you couldn’t pay up…”
“But I couldn’t care less. I managed to get the money transferred.”
The agent smiled at her, just like the GUOLHJ store manager smiled at her friend!
The uneasiness and fear of borrowing from a loan shark were instantly replaced by a sense of dignity.
“It was a time when you were admired if you could afford to live in a $5000 apartment…”
That night, she secretly ate instant noodles inside her upscale apartment.
Lilly asked curiously, “If your bestie is so rich, why didn’t you ask her to lend you money?”
Roxanne immediately dismissed the idea. “No! The reason she was friends with me was because she believed me to be pure and simple…”
She lied to her friend and claimed that her parents were seriously ill, which was why she worked overtime. She would say things like “It doesn’t matter how hard I work as long as my parents are well”.
She couldn’t possibly ask her friend for money.
Her friend would definitely be disappointed in her once she learned that she wanted to live in a luxury apartment. Their friendship would be over.
How else was she going to afford designer clothing and bags?
Pablo thought about what Cheryl was like and finally understood why the vanity spirit insisted on clinging to the girl.
“So you’re vain and hypocritical.”
Roxanne continued, “I can’t go back to working at the printing factory after getting that apartment. It doesn’t match my status.”
She needed a high-collar, decent job to be worthy of her, but she had no education, skills, or experience. She couldn’t even apply for a decent white-collar job.
“There was a public institution recruiting temporary workers… They noticed how kind, pitiful, and sincere I was, so they recruited me.”
Pablo held back a laugh.
Kind, pitiful, and sincere? That’s all an act!
“It was a great position. Everyone would envy me for what I had.”
What wasn’t so great was that her pay was only a thousand a month.
Roxanne was hired solely because the wages for temporary workers were low.
She had a decent job, a decent home, and carried designer clothing and bags every day.
However, the pressure of paying back the loan sharks grew heavier. A packet of instant noodles now had to be split between two meals, but she still lived a life that everyone envied!
It didn’t take long for all of it to no longer be enough to satisfy her vanity. She inadvertently claimed to be the daughter of a president of a big corporation and pretended to work low-wage jobs to experience what working life was like.
That’s when people found a photo of her and her best friend’s father.
That’s right. She pretended to be her friend…
“It was good to be rich. My identity was forged, but no one ever bothered to investigate my claims.”
She realized how good it felt to take her best friend’s place!
Everyone flattered her!
She generously invited others to dinner.
She gave away the clothing she no longer wanted and went shopping with others…
She was living life as a rich woman.
Lilly interrupted. “So, you’re saying you bragged so much, got too full of yourself, and died?”
“…” What?
How does that even work?
“I always thought my friend gave me those things because she was kind to me…”
“But when I followed her example of giving away those things, I realized how superior I felt!”
Roxanne smiled coldly. “She must’ve had an ulterior motive for being so nice to me. Was she using me to feed her ego?”
That made Lilly frown. “And how do you know that?”
There was a contemptuous look in Roxanne’s eyes. “When I give away unwanted branded clothes, all I feel is contempt when I see how thankful and surprised they are. Hah, those hicks only deserve to have the leftovers.”
“She must’ve thought the same thing when she gifted me all her old clothes. She’s so rich. If she really cared, she should’ve just gotten me new ones.”
Both master and disciple were speechless.
Lilly was young, but even she knew that sort of thinking was wrong.
Pablo asked, “So, you killed her?”
There were bones belonging to eighteen people buried under the playground, but one was clearly older than the rest.
Roxanne’s eyes were tinged with madness. “I can become her if I kill her. I can replace her if she were dead…”
