Chapter 319 – Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family

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Soon, the relevant chat records and chat times appeared.

“See that?” Delia held her phone up for everyone to see: “How are you going to explain this now?”

“Oh.” Mirabella glanced at the day Serena said she splashed water and said, “I happened to be in Switzerland that day.”

At that time, Grandpa Alberto wanted to choose euthanasia. Romeo arranged a private jet for her, and she flew to Switzerland that day and didn’t come back that night.

“As for the swimming pool, if I remember correctly, the Collins family’s servants clean the pool every Monday so the pool is empty the whole day. If I pushed her in, wouldn’t she die from the fall?”

Serena thought she had the upper hand, but her face turned pale when Mirabella said this.

At that time, she just wanted to badmouth Mirabella with Delia, and she randomly accused Mirabella of some crimes without much thought. Seeing Serena’s reaction, Delia was also somewhat skeptical, but to protect her friend, she still said, “Who knows whether what you said is true or false?” “She’s not lying.” Chasel suddenly spoke: “Cleaning the pool every Monday is a long–standing habit of the Collins family. The day she went to Switzerland, my family also told me that it was because an old man Bella knew had health problems, Bella went to see him and didn’t return that day. As for the damaged clothes, I’ll call my family and ask.”

“Chasel.” Serena started, but saw the deep disappointment in Chasel’s eyes.

She called out Chasel’s name too urgently, too panicked!

She was indeed lying!

“Is this how you slander your own sister in front of your friends?” Chasel’s tone was full of disappointment.

Since when did his always simple and kind sister change?

“Chasel, listen to me. The situation was.” Serena was about to explain, but she remembered that besides Delia, there were three other friends she knew present, so she whispered, “Can we talk somewhere else? After all, this is a family matter.”

“Let’s talk here.” Chasel was firm, which relieved Kelly and others. Luckily, Chasel was reasonable. Now let’s see what Serena did.

“Chasel.” How could Serena admit to slandering Mirabella in front of so many people? Wouldn’t that ruin her image?

Seeing that she kept silent, Delia couldn’t help but ask, “Serena, what’s going on? You wouldn’t lie to me, would you? Why would you slander Mirabella for no reason? Also, you said she stole your fiancé.”

“That’s not her fiancé! It’s Mirabella’s!”

Kelly, Joyce, and Mya all suddenly said this sentence at the same time, startling Delia. What’s going on?

“Serena is the adopted one!”

The three of them once again said this sentence in unison, leaving Delia and her other three friends speechless.

Serena was the adopted one?

Romeo was Mirabella’s fiancé?

How on earth?

Everything’s topsy–turvy?

Serena couldn’t believe that the image she had worked so hard to build had collapsed so easily. She closed her eyes tightly, took a moment to laugh, then slowly rose to her feet.

Since the cat was out of the bag, there was no need for her to keep up the pretense.

“Yes, I am indeed the adopted child.” Serena lowered her head and took a while before lifting it to look at Mirabella. There was self–mockery, heartache, and jealousy in her eyes. “She’s the real Collins family daughter.”

“What on earth is going on?” Délia and her three friends were totally bamboozled.

However, Serena was not in the mood to answer her question. She looked at Chasel, tears streaming down her face.

“You all said that after Mirabella came back, you would still treat me like family. But every single thing you do, every word you say, you’re all siding with her!”

Serena’s tears fell pitifully.

“Chasel, we’ve lived together for eighteen years. Are our feelings less important than those of a sister who just came back?”

Chasel’s eyes were complicated, but it wasn’t true.

“And you, from the day you set foot in the Collins family’s home, have you ever been friendly to me?” Serena loudly questioned Mirabella.

Kelly, who was standing to the side, couldn’t stand it anymore and stepped in to defend: “Bella’s always been sort of aloof, but she has a heart of gold.”

“And you!” Serena glared at Kelly and said, “What’s it to you? You’re an outsider so why are you sticking your nose in other people’s business?”

Serena, saying this, shed more tears of hurt and disappointment: “I just wanted things to stay the same, to continue having the love of my parents and brothers. What did I do wrong? Why did everything change when Mirabella came back?”

“This has always been her home so she should be here.” Chasel, as always, kept his cool, but his gaze became more complicated. “And you’ve enjoyed her life for eighteen years, but you smudged her reputation and spread rumors about her after she came back. Did you tell our classmates she was kept by an old man?”**

Kelly, Joyce, and Mya: What? Was there such a thing? If Serena really did say this, that’s way too much!

“No, I didn’t say that!” Serena shook her head, laughing in despair. “So now, whatever bad rumors there are about her, I’m the one who spread them? Let me make it clear again: I did not spread this rumor!”

“Then, did Myrna really push you?” Chasel looked into her eyes again, fluctuating between hope and disappointment.

“If I say yes, would you believe me?” Serena cried and then laughed, saying, “If I say no, would you be even more disappointed in me?”

“Enough with the dilly–dallying. I’ve already gotten the surveillance footage from just now.” Kelly, standing aside, directly interrupted her, playing the video clip from her phone for everyone to see.

To make sure everyone understood, she even set it to slow motion. In the video, Myrna clearly pulled back her hand, but Serena still deliberately fell onto the grass.

The truth was crystal clear!

Delia was also stunned when she saw this. How could this be? Did Serena really fall on her own?

She had just defended Serena without hesitation, trusting her friend and even claiming that she saw Myrna push someone.

She never thought the truth would be like this. Her disappointment in Serena was extreme.

“I considered you my best friend, but you deceived me time and time again! Your fainting spell just now was fake too, wasn’t it?” Delia gritted her teeth and said, “Serena, you’ve really let me down!”

She thought Serena got a raw deal from Mirabella and wanted to get back at her for Serena.

The three girls around Delia also threw disappointed and disdainful glances at Serena.

“Let’s bounce!”

As Delia and her squad exited, she brushed past Mirabella and even muttered an apology.

“Hey, this is like looking for trouble. Bella, we’re going to head back to the dorm. This is your family business so we shouldn’t butt in.” Kelly led Mya and Joyce away.

On the playground, only four people remained.

Myrna took Mirabella’s hand, giving Serena a frosty stare. If it weren’t for the surveillance footage that could prove it, Serena would’ve tried to frame her for pushing someone. That was really a low blow.

Serena spoke with despair in her voice: “Chasel, you guys always said that even if Mirabella came back to this family, you would still treat me the same. Do your words still count? I remember when we were kids, there was a huge pomegranate tree in our garden. The red fruits made my mouth water, but the servants didn’t dare let me eat such seedy fruits. It was you who climbed the tree to pick one for me and you even fell and ended up bedridden for three months.”

Serena’s lips curled into a rare, gentle smile as she spoke.

“You said back then that you’d be willing to lay in bed for 300 days just to make me happy. Another time, we flew to Russia. It was snowing, everything was white. You threw a snowball at me and spoiled my favorite skirt. I was a bit upset, so to make me happy, you made loads of snowballs for me to throw at you. I didn’t want to throw them, but seeing me upset, you ordered the servants to throw the snowballs at you until I was happy. One hit you right in the face 1 laughed, and you laughed with me. Oh, how beautiful those times were! There was also a time when we went to New Zealand. We took a family portrait in a beautiful forest. I saw two beautiful butterflies and dragged you to chase them. We both ended up lost. Surrounded by dense forest, you carried me on your back from afternoon till night, finding no way out. It was summer, you wore shorts, and your legs got scraped by branches and bled a lot. But you never complained about the pain. Instead, you comforted me, who was crying. I was hungry and you even tried to catch fish from the river for me, but how could you catch fish? In the end, you caught nothing, and I cried for a long time.”

The beautiful memories of the past were so vivid that Serena closed her eyes. These memories cut into her heart like knives.

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