Chapter 4

In just half a day, the story spread across the whole school.

It shot straight to number one on the list of the most disgusting campus news.

Everywhere she walked, people pointed and whispered.

But Bianca felt no shame at all.

If anything, she acted like she was in the right.

"So what if I smelled my own waste? It's not against the law!"

"I was just checking whether I had indigestion!"

"It's my personal habit. None of you have any right to judge me!"

She argued with everyone she ran into.

The more she argued, the more everyone was convinced something was wrong with her head.

She didn't care.

Because her real target was me.

"Vinnie, you saw it, didn't you?"

"I really do have this habit!"

"I have to be your sister! Take me home with you!"

"Let me do a paternity test with your parents. Just one strand of hair is enough!"

She was practically vibrating, gripping my arm and refusing to let go.

I shook her hand off.

"You smelled it, sure, but that doesn't prove it's your nature."

"You just heard what I said and copied it on purpose."

"Besides, my parents are abroad. They're not even in the country."

Bianca panicked.

"Lavinia! You really don't want to claim me, do you?"

"You're so selfish. You just want the whole family fortune to yourself!"

Her voice was very loud.

We were in the library, studying.

It had been quiet.

The moment she shouted like that, everyone turned to look.

I frowned.

"Stop making a scene."

"I'm not making a scene!"

"I'm your sister! Why won't you claim me?"

Bianca's voice climbed higher and higher.

The tears came too.

And right then.

A middle-aged couple came rushing in.

They were Bianca's biological parents.

Yet they were posing as her adoptive parents.

The two of them played off each other, backing up every word.

Everything they said matched the fake information about Bill's disappearance that I'd written in my diary.

The place she went missing, the clothes she'd been wearing, all identical.

They insisted, flat out, that Bianca was the Swanson family's daughter.

And then they went for the throat, demanding my family pay them for raising her.

"We've raised her all these years, and it wasn't easy!"

"Five million at the very least! Otherwise this isn't over!"

Of course I refused.

"No proof, no claim."

"Forget five million. You're not getting fifty cents!"

When Bianca saw I wouldn't claim her, she blew up on the spot.

She pulled out her phone and started a livestream.

"Everyone, come judge for yourselves!"

"I'm the Swanson family's long-lost second daughter!"

"My own sister won't claim me. She wants the family fortune all to herself!"

"I was raised by adoptive parents from a young age. Do you know how much I suffered?"

"Now that I've found my real family, she's shutting the door in my face!"

"Is there any fairness left in this world?"

"Can family really mean nothing the moment money's involved?"

She sobbed into the camera, tears streaming down her face.

The viewer count climbed and climbed.

【So pitiful, how can the sister be this cold-blooded?】

【Rich girls are just selfish, scared someone will split the fortune!】

【Just do the DNA already, if she's your sister then claim her!】

Public opinion exploded all at once.

The whole school, the whole internet, everyone was talking about it.

My advisor called me in for a talk.

Told me not to create bad publicity for the school.

My classmates pressed me too.

"Lavinia, why don't you just do the test with her."

"Those weird habits of hers, maybe they came from some trauma when she was little."

"She's so pitiful. Just think of it as doing a good deed."

Everyone was pushing me.

Pushing me to claim her, to take responsibility, to do the DNA test.

I pretended to give in with the greatest reluctance.

"Fine. Let's do it."

Bianca was thrilled.

To lock the result in as fact, she livestreamed the entire DNA sampling.

She even picked one of the big paternity-testing labs in Columbus on purpose.

Results in one hour.

We went to Columbus together.

During the sampling, Bianca deliberately pulled from the spot where her extensions were.

Every strand she pulled out was my hair.

I pulled one of my own too.

The samples were sent into the testing room.

Hundreds of thousands of people were watching the livestream.

【So nerve-wracking, are they real sisters or not?】

【If it's true, the sister's gone way too far.】

【Can't wait for the result!】

One hour later.

The report was ready.

A staff member came out holding it.

"The results show the two are full biological sisters, same father and same mother."

Bianca burst into tears right there.

"I knew it! I'm a Swanson!"

The livestream went wild.

【Amazing, all that suffering finally paid off!】

【Guess the sister's got nothing to say now?】

【Hurry up and claim your sister, what are you waiting for!】

Everyone was congratulating her.

Everyone was condemning me for being cold and heartless.

Bianca lifted her head and looked at me, smug.

That look, like it was saying.

See? I won.

She thought she was one step away from having it all.

I looked at her and slowly raised my phone.

On the screen was a photo.

A black-and-white Border Collie, a frisbee in its mouth, grinning from ear to ear.

I spoke calmly.

My voice wasn't loud, yet it carried clearly across the entire hall.

And across the livestream too.

"You're really my sister?"

"That's impossible."

"Because my sister is a Border Collie."