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The day I was born, my biological parents, Richard Mason and Linda May, sold me to death-row inmate John Thorn for half an acre of homestead land. They lied to the entire world about my death while showering every luxury and privilege on their younger daughter, Sophie Mason, who wanted for nothing amid a lifetime of wealth and ease. For eighteen long years, I endured untold hardships in Thornville, the village right next to the prison, weathered endless disdainful glares all on my own, fought tooth and nail to claim a national competition gold medal, and eventually earned early admission into one of the nation's most prestigious universities. Now, Sophie was struck down by kidney failure, and only then did Richard and Linda suddenly recall the flesh-and-blood daughter they had discarded long ago. A fleet of luxury cars lined up and blocked the school gates, and they put on an over-the-top weeping act before all the teachers and students. They spun a tale of searching desperately for their lost daughter for eighteen whole years and begged me to go back with them to live a life of extravagant comfort. Everyone around me pressed me to reconcile, parroting the old saying that blood ran thicker than water and urging me to accept them for an effortless leap into high society. I let out a cold laugh right there in front of the crowd and pulled out the official police record along with complete evidence that documented how they had abandoned me the moment I was born. Blood ran thicker than water? Where had that principle been when they so casually handed me over to a cold-blooded killer? They had set their sights on my kidney to save their precious Sophie. They deserved nothing less than to rot behind bars for the rest of their lives. The house they resided in and the land it sat on had all been purchased at the cost of my fate and my abandoned childhood. From now on, every single thing they had once possessed would belong to me.