I was born with a natural milky scent. Any baby who came near me would stop crying. The owner of the maternity care center was amazed by my talent and offered me a $50,000 salary on the spot to work there. But I refused immediately and went to Europe to study the most difficult finance program. Because in my past life, I worked as a top-tier maternity nurse for the wealthiest family in the country, taking care of their newborn daughter and granddaughter. At the baby's full moon celebration, a woman's underwear stained with a fragrant scent suddenly fell from the wealthy heiress's husband's jacket. When confronted, that damned son-in-law insisted I had tried to seduce him and failed, then planted my own underwear to frame him. I desperately tried to explain, but because the underwear carried the exact same scent as mine, the wealthy heiress had me dragged out and mauled to death by dogs. My parents came to seek justice for me, but they were chopped into pieces and fed to fish. When I opened my eyes again, I painfully rejected the $50,000 salary and went overseas, working myself to the bone to become a Chief Securities Analyst. With a million-dollar annual salary, I successfully joined an international company and was invited to attend the full moon celebration of a business partner's great-grandson, while also evaluating their company. At the celebration, the wealthy heiress's husband's jacket once again dropped that same piece of underwear. Facing the wealthy patriarch's interrogation, he calmly looked past the crowd and pointed directly at me. "She tried to seduce me and failed, so she deliberately planted her intimate clothing to frame me!" "I can swear to God that I've never done anything to betray Scarlett!" ---
The lace underwear was stained with bodily fluids. The full cup size definitely didn't belong to the flat-chested heiress Scarlett Harper. Meeting Scarlett's gaze that wanted to cut me into a thousand pieces, I calmly set down my wine glass. My eyes showed none of the panic from my past life. Instead, I looked directly at the Harper family's son-in-law, Marcus Kane, and spoke. "Mr. Kane, I went abroad to study at eighteen and only returned today after completing my studies." "Today is the first time we've ever met. How could I possibly plant underwear in your jacket?" "I'm afraid you had an affair and still weren't satisfied, so you kept your lover's underwear in your jacket to reminisce over it from time to time!" My words were too blunt and explicit. All the guests stared at him in shock. Marcus's face turned red as his thoughts were exposed, but he still defended himself. "Nonsense! You're clearly one of the maternity nurses working at my house!" "From your first day on the job, you kept making eyes at me. When I ignored you, you kept trying to seduce me!" "Last night I was caught off guard when you pushed open my door and crawled into my bed, offering yourself to me." "If I hadn't threatened you that my wife was right outside the door and I'd call her in to fire you if you didn't leave, you wouldn't have given up!" Marcus's words made Scarlett frown slightly. Ever since giving birth to the baby, she had been sleeping in a separate room from Marcus on the professional maternity team's recommendation. Last night when she got up thirsty for water, she did hear noises when passing by Marcus's room. Her sharp gaze immediately fell on me. Seeing that Scarlett believed his words, Marcus continued to slander me with a pretentious air. "I saw you were a woman trying to make a living as a maternity nurse, so I didn't want to expose you." "I never expected you to be so vicious—failing to seduce me, you went straight to framing me! What a wicked heart!" "My daughter absolutely cannot be left in the care of such a maternity nurse. She should be fired immediately!" Marcus's words hit Scarlett's sore spot. Scarlett immediately demanded of Nathaniel Harper, the patriarch. "Nathaniel, this maternity nurse is too sinister. I'm afraid she's already done something harmful to the baby." "We should bring out Shadow and interrogate her thoroughly until she confesses on her own!" Nathaniel nodded. The next second, a huge iron cage was wheeled to the center of the banquet hall. When the black cloth was removed, a hunting dog as tall as a person stared at me fixedly, letting out excited low growls. The bodyguards opened the cage, preparing to stuff me inside. The image of being torn to shreds by the vicious dog in my past life seemed to play before my eyes. I immediately spoke up. "This underwear has the smell of breast milk on it. I'm not in my lactation period, so the clothing definitely isn't mine!"
Marcus's face darkened immediately, and he looked panicked as he tried to throw the underwear into the nearby swimming pool to destroy it. Unfortunately, Scarlett beat him to it, taking the underwear and having it examined. After seeing the obvious stains on it, her face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. Her gaze swept over my unremarkable chest, then she backhanded a slap directly across Marcus's face. "I remember everyone who's been breastfeeding my daughter. It's definitely not her!" "Who is that bitch?" Marcus's face was scratched bloody by the ring on Scarlett's hand, but he didn't dare show even a hint of anger. He could only lock his venomous gaze on me and continue throwing dirt on me. "Who says people not in their lactation period can't have this scent?" "I've heard of people with special gifts who secrete milk even when not lactating, and they carry a unique fragrance on their bodies." "No matter how fussy a child is, they'll stop crying when near such a person and can't help but feel close to them." "She's so young yet earning a $50,000 salary as a maternity nurse at the Harper house. Maybe it's precisely because she has this exceptional quality." "The owner of that underwear is her!" Marcus spoke with such conviction that Scarlett demanded I undress on the spot to prove my innocence. Naturally I refused, taking out my phone to call the police. But Marcus snatched my phone and smashed it on the ground. "If you say it's not you, just have someone verify it! Why keep avoiding it? I think you're guilty!" I wasn't backing down either. "I didn't do it, so I didn't do it! Just because of baseless slander, I have to use this humiliating method to prove myself? Well then, I say you're impotent!" "Why don't you take off your pants and prove it to everyone?" Marcus was left speechless, but Scarlett's brow furrowed tightly. She told me, "Marcus would never slander someone randomly. Since you say this underwear isn't yours, then find a way to prove it." "Or else, go in and have a chat with Shadow." "I believe facing Shadow's fangs, any liar will become honest." Scarlett was forcing me. Either strip to prove my innocence, or enter the cage to be fed to the dog. The Harper family's bodyguards had already surrounded me. If I showed any sign of trying to escape, they would immediately swarm forward, capture me and stuff me into the dog cage, making me a wronged soul under that hunting dog's claws. Taking a deep breath, I made my choice on the spot. I pulled out my credentials from my carry-on bag. A graduation certificate from a top German university, a doctorate degree in economics. And an employment certificate as Chief Securities Analyst for Oceanic International Corporation. But I didn't take that one out. I didn't want to mix business with personal matters. Showing the two certificates, I told Scarlett. "Miss Harper, I studied at university in Germany. Anyone knows how difficult it is to study there." "I spent six years working myself to the bone to become a finance doctorate from a world-class institution, with a million-dollar annual salary." "Do you think I would work day and night for a measly $50,000 monthly salary taking care of a crying child and constantly watching out for ill-intentioned men in my employer's household?" That last sentence was deliberate. I wanted to tell Scarlett that I looked down on her $50,000 maternity nurse position. Only a wealthy heiress like her—born into privilege but with an underdeveloped brain—would believe the lies of a man like Marcus who constantly ran his mouth. Sure enough, Scarlett's gaze at me softened after seeing those two certificates. No matter how stupid she was, she should understand the value of a German doctorate. Her sharp gaze fell back on Marcus, but then a woman rushed forward and slapped me three times, screaming. "Sophia Clark, have you lost your mind! Forging credentials to deceive the wealthy heiress." "Aren't you afraid of being exposed and dragging our whole family to hell with you!"
My cheeks swelled up from the beating. Five clear finger marks appeared on my face. Looking closely at the woman before me, I realized I didn't recognize her at all. With a cold expression, I covered my injured cheek and warned her. "I don't know you at all! If you don't apologize and compensate me immediately, I'll have my legal team sue you!" But the woman wailed dramatically. "God help me! How did I give birth to such a troublemaker!" "To deceive people, she won't even acknowledge her own mother!" "Miss Harper, Mr. Kane, I apologize to you. I failed to raise my daughter properly." "However you want to punish her this time, go ahead. I won't stop you anymore, to prevent her from continuing to swindle people everywhere!" The woman's words caused an uproar. Many people gasped. "This girl is actually a professional con artist?" "Even her own mother is saying this, it must be true!" "Thank goodness she showed up in time, or we'd all have been fooled!" Scarlett gritted her back teeth and asked me. "Is it fun to play me for a fool?" "Someone, lock her up with Shadow. I want her to have a really good time!" Seeing the triumphant expressions flash in both the woman's and Marcus's eyes, I immediately called out loudly. "I'm not lying! This woman isn't my mother! I'm not called Sophia Clark either." "My name is Madison Smith. She doesn't even know my name, so how could she be my mom?" Only then did Scarlett notice that the graduation certificate and degree in my hands indeed had the name Madison Smith written on them. Seeing the wavering in her eyes, Marcus quickly stepped forward to cover. "How could a mother possibly mistake her own daughter?" "She is Sophia Clark!" "To deceive you, she could even forge credentials." "It's just a name. Who knows if she made it up randomly because she's swindled so many people and is afraid of being held accountable!" I immediately demanded that Scarlett send someone to the police department's identity records to verify. My name was Madison Smith, and the parents listed in my records were definitely not this woman in front of me! Scarlett called the records department skeptically and soon received confirmation. I was indeed called Madison Smith, and the woman before me was not my mother. But facing Scarlett's sharp gaze, the woman insisted she was my biological mother. "Sweetie, I divorced your abusive, cheating father when you were three years old, all for your sake, and raised you into adulthood by myself." "You can't just stop acknowledging your mother because that bastard said he'd buy you a car and house if you took his surname!" "He's lying to you! Only I truly love you!" The woman spoke with tears streaming down her face and even pulled out a paternity test proving she was indeed my biological mother. Only then did I remember that when I was young, my father did tell me that the woman living with us wasn't my biological mother. My birth mother was a gambling addict who tried to bet me at the card table when she got desperate. My father couldn't stand her being so despicable, so he divorced her immediately, moved overnight, and cut ties completely. Our family hadn't kept a single photo of her all these years, no wonder I didn't recognize her. But no one believed my explanation. Even Nathaniel, who had been silent all along, stood up and said. "Miss Smith, I want to believe you too." "But your mother has been working at the Harper house for twenty years. I trust her character." "I absolutely won't allow a woman who tries to destroy my daughter's marriage and lies constantly to continue living in this world." With a wave of his hand, Nathaniel signaled the bodyguards to stuff me into the dog cage. My gaze fell on Scarlett nearby, who had breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly thinking of something, I quickly grabbed Nathaniel's pant leg. "Mr. Harper, I know who the woman having an affair with your son-in-law is! It's her!"
Everyone looked in the direction I was pointing. Seeing that I was pointing at Scarlett herself, they all thought I'd lost my mind. Even Scarlett was amused by my accusation. "Madison, do you know what you're saying?" "I'm Marcus's wife! Me having an affair with him? Does that even make sense?" Nathaniel also looked at me with utter disgust. "If I'd known you were such a stupid con artist, I should have let Shadow tear you apart before you even spoke your first word!" "Take her to the beast arena. Notify the fireworks crew to postpone tonight's fireworks display. I, Mr. Harper, invite everyone to watch a show of human versus beast combat!" Nathaniel spoke cruelly, and I was dragged toward the beast arena by the bodyguards. I struggled desperately to explain, but they found me too noisy and gagged me. Just as I was about to be taken out of the banquet hall, a business card fell from my shirt pocket with a soft sound. The bodyguards looked closely, and the next second their faces went white with fear. Trembling, they handed the card to Nathaniel. I also straightened my clothing and told Nathaniel. "To be honest, my real identity is Chief Securities Analyst for Oceanic International Corporation." "I came to this family banquet today to evaluate whether the Harper family qualifies for Oceanic International's first investment opportunity domestically..." "Ha ha ha!" Before I could finish, Marcus was laughing so hard tears came out. He clutched his stomach, pointing at me. "Madison, though your con is clumsy, I really admire your imagination." "First a high-achieving overseas student, now Chief Securities Analyst for Oceanic International." "Oceanic International is the world's largest financial company. Even a janitor there makes more in a month than you do in a year!" "You're just a nanny who wipes shit and piss. Stop putting gold on your face! Just go perform in the beast show!" Scarlett's face also wore mockery as she casually tore up the business card and tossed it in the air. "I've seen this kind of trick plenty of times. You can't fool people just by randomly printing some business cards." "Your mouth is too stubborn. Shadow alone might not be enough to handle you." "Nathaniel, didn't you just buy me a few lions and tigers from Africa as gifts? Why not release them today and let everyone see?" Nathaniel's gaze fell on the gold-embossed business card on the ground. The special watermark shone in the Smithlight so brightly he could barely open his eyes. But he still nodded, signaling his subordinates to throw me into the beast arena with the predators. Lions and tigers that had been starved for days immediately stood up, roaring excitedly at me through the bars. Marcus grabbed my hair, forcing me to make eye contact with the beasts. He didn't forget to lower his voice by my ear, speaking in a volume only the two of us could hear. "Madison, you're very clever. You almost got close to the truth." "What a pity—you had bad luck. Just be good and let the beasts tear you apart, and no one will discover my secret." He laughed arrogantly, raising his hand to signal the bodyguards to lift the bars. I watched helplessly as the bars were slowly raised. Death was only one step away from me. Just as the entire barrier was about to be opened, a hearty laugh suddenly rang out from outside the door. "Mr. Harper, congratulations on your great-grandson!" Seeing that it was the U.S. representative from Germany's Oceanic Corporation, Nathaniel's eyes lit up, and he enthusiastically invited the man to sit and watch the beast show. But when the man's gaze fell on my disheveled appearance in the beast arena, his expression changed dramatically. He rushed into the arena regardless of everything, shielding me with his body.
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