Chapter 164

Yes, it wasn’t Natasha but Noel.

“Why?” Noel asked back in disbelief, as if he was struck.

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“Because you’re stupid.” Olivia maliciously poured out her hidden thoughts.

In this family, Andrew, Madeline, and even Thomas showed favoritism toward her, each for their own reasons.

Only Noel, genuinely and foolishly, allowed himself to be led by the nose.

Stupidity was evil, and ignorance was evil.

Among the three children, Noel was unlike Thomas, who bore the family’s responsibilities and, despite his power, was held to strict expectations. He was also unlike Olivia, who humbled herself and schemes relentlessly to secure her position. Moreover, he was not as smart and resilient as Natasha, who unluckily bore the burden of her parents‘ transgressions since childhood.

His innocence and recklessness were enviable.

Olivia longed to attach herself to Thomas. She knew that no matter how hard she tried, she could not undermine his position as an heir.

Her feelings toward Natasha were more complex.

Natasha was once the one to actively embrace her and offer her candy. But Natasha’s goodness only highlighted Olivia’s inadequacy. Moreover, with her mother having sacrificed her life to pave the way for her, she twistedly believed that only by making Natasha endure Olivia’s original painful fate could her happiness be preserved.

She disliked Natasha’s resilience, yet secretly envied her vibrant vitality and ever- passionate emotions.

Only Noel, simply by being a boy, effortlessly possessed everything she and Natasha could not attain.

Noel was willful, childish, impulsive, and irresponsible, yet his parents loved him

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without reservation.

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She sometimes wondered if Natasha didn’t exist in the world, and her mother had chosen Noel back then, would she have obtained all this so easily?

The answer was no.

loving a cat or

necessary.

for their son, they wholeheartedly

recognized Noel’s

soft words and a little comfort would instantly inflate his hollow heart, and his feelings for his sister would shift day by

though he seemed innocent on the

brother treated his new sister

wouldn’t discipline him or correct his bad habits, so

better.

his busy and indifferent Thomas, Natasha, who was pampered by everyone before she

Noel possessed childlike cruelty.

to hurt

a better life than any

was not her biological younger brother. Otherwise, if he were to harm a family member for an

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bewildered by

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and kind sister, harbored so much

but

his mind,

after he fell, but he threw a toy at her, and he self–righteously defended his cousin who cried at night because of his aunt, calling Natasha a ‘jinx‘; there were times during Natasha’s teenage years when she was keeping vigil for their grandmother, but he, because she had hit Olivia, caught a snake that night to scare her; and there was

head, tears and

out, such a

Natasha’s biological younger brother, yet also one of the

place. Even if

he so naturally take her enemy’s

illusion maintained. for over a decade, making Noel feel as if her

felt no satisfaction. “What? Do you want to claim I deceived. and misled you? I didn’t hold a knife to your throat and make you say those

mind, and she suddenly smiled. “Do you know who saved you from the sea when you were

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constricted sharply, and his fists clenched. “You didn’t save

summer, his family of six went on a trip to the beach

leave for a while. On the shore, only he, Olivia, and Natasha remained, spread

to swim, but

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