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The Carter family found their long-lost heiress and held a party to announce it. At the party, strange comments suddenly floated before my eyes. [The real heiress is trying to get back at the fake one. She actually stole the engagement token between the fake heiress and the male lead, but she's about to get caught red-handed.] [Sure, technically the real heiress is his fiancée, but he knows who his true love really is.] [Fiancée? Please. She's just a thief. She should crawl back to whatever slum she came from.] Dressed in a princess gown and surrounded by a circle of admirers, the fake heiress, Emily Carter, walked over to me. "My sister," she said softly, "you're finally back. Mom, Dad, and I have missed you so much. We're family now." I quietly kept eating my chicken drumstick. When she saw me ignoring her, Emily's eyes welled up with tears right on cue. Suddenly, she reached into my worn-out backpack and pulled out a woman's wristwatch. "Why did you steal the engagement gift Brian gave me?" she sobbed. "I know you're upset, but that doesn't mean you can just take things." Brian West, my so-called fiancé, looked at me with undisguised disgust. "Hand it back to Emily right now, and get out of here!" he snapped. Under the judgmental glares of the elite crowd, I pointed toward the man on stage who was currently clinking glasses with Emily's adoptive father. "Steal what?" I asked, genuinely confused. "I'm not your sister. I just came with my boss for the free food." The comments exploded. [OMG, this is so awkward. She's not the heiress but just an employee?]