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I was the long-lost heiress who just got home, and now the system wanted me to start some serious drama. My birth mom clung to Leila Shaw, the girl who'd grown up in my place. "You're our blood, but Leila has been our daughter for eighteen years. We can't just let her go." The system yelled, "Now! Flip the table. Scream about favoritism." I just nodded. "Makes sense to me. If it were me, I'd pick 18 years of feelings over blood ties too. Blood's just biology, but feelings? That's real sunk cost." Mom was stunned. My fiance, Nathan Cooper, slapped a check in my face. "Take it and get lost. I don't do charity cases from the countryside." The system screamed, "Rip up the check! Shout 'don't underestimate the poor'." I just pocketed the check. "Honestly, this is fair. Forcing a relationship never works, and he even gave me a breakup fee. That's pretty generous." Nathan was totally dumbfounded. The system was freaking out. "Host, come on, just go a little crazy. The story can't move forward like this!" I said, "I'm the normal one here. You guys are the real drama queens."