Anna’s facade crumbled completely.
Her defamatory videos were taken down,her TikTok account banned.
Netizens dug up her old posts where she bragged about her life and her absurd statements.
[Men only show their true selves to their true love.Hitting and cursing are love.Bruises are his love marks.]
[So happy!Hubby upgraded my car.Telling me to‘get lost’ just meant he didn’t want me tired from walking!]
[Hubby chewed my sugarcane so I wouldn’t hurt my teeth.So sweet!]
Netizens:[I was eating!This is nauseating.]
[This is love-brain on a level I can’t fathom.]
[Flaunting wealth while leeching off her sister?She’s the unfilial one.]
[Her mom’s a mess,favoring a brain-dead daughter,screwing over her good one.]
Mom and Anna became the targets of intense online criticism.
Relatives and neighbors,now aware of their true colors,avoided them like the plague.
Scandals surrounding Julian's company came to light—he had been defaulting on workers' payments and cutting corners on projects.
With no new projects,it went bankrupt.
Julian blamed Anna,using her as a punching bag.
Mom approached me one last time.
“Sophia,you’re a big lawyer now,famous!Our scene at your firm put you on the map.Don’t forget who helped you get there.”
Her shamelessness was unmatched.
“My success is my skill,integrity,and principles—not shortcuts.”
“Mom,this is the last time I’ll call you that.I’m grateful for the years you raised me.I’ll keep continu to send you financial support, and when you're too old to take care of yourself, I'll arrange for you to live in a nursing home. As an adopted daughter,I’ve done more than enough.Take it and be content,or don’t blame me for cutting ties.”
“Anna’s nothing to me—no legal obligation.Come back,and I won’t be polite.”
I never saw them again.
Half a year later,police called,asking if I was Anna’s sister.
She was dying and wanted to see me.
They explained:After Julian’s bankruptcy,he turned to gambling in a desperate attempt to recover his loss,piling up huge debts.
To escape his creditors, he fled to Southeast Asia and got involved in scams.
He lured young women with fake high-paying jobs,trapping them in fraud,prostitution,and organ trafficking.
Anna was rescued from there.
I remembered one of her old posts, where she tagged everyone:[True love conquers all.Hubby got me a gold Buddha pendant.Taking me to the land of temples soon!Love you,babe!]
How ironic it seemed now.
At the hospital,I barely recognized Anna—yellowed hair,skeletal frame,sunken face,one eye blind,one kidney gone.
Seeing me,her eye twitched.
“Sis,why didn’t you stop me from dating that monster Julian?”
My heart skipped a beat.
“You remembered now?When did it hit you?”
“After being trafficked.I tried escaping,but they caught me,beat me,tortured me.If you’d stopped me that year…”
“You remember all this and still have the nerve to ask me that?”
She paused,struggling.“I’m sorry.Jealousy blinded me.II thought I was prettier, but you had a better life. You're ordinary - looking, yet you have a great husband and a successful career. I married a loser, and I couldn't stand it. I acted out of spite.”