When The Family Reads The Fake Heiress Mind

When the Family Ch 4

Chapter 4 If You Don’t Self-Destruct, You Have to Go Insane

“Then I’d rather drive Ms. Jean to school.” The driver’s mouth twitched as he spoke with righteous resolve.

The Jean in front of him was clearly different.

The old Jean was quiet, withdrawn, and refused to engage. The driver had no desire to test her temper either. For as long as he’d known her, the two of them existed in silent disregard of each other.

But now, he hadn’t expected Jean to be the one to break the silence.

Jean tugged at the corner of her mouth and suddenly beamed, radiant. “Mister, you know what? It’s not trendy to use names anymore…”

The driver frowned in confusion. “Then what do people use?”

Jean’s smile widened. “We go with ‘Princess’ now.”

“P-Princess?” The driver’s eyes went wide, but then he thought about it—Ms. Jean was, after all, still just a little girl. It made sense. Every little girl dreams of being a princess.

So that’s what she liked being called.

He caught on immediately. Getting out of the car, he opened the rear door for Jean with exaggerated respect. “Your Highness, your carriage awaits.”

Jean nodded approvingly.

Once she was seated, the driver didn’t forget to remind her, “Princess, please sit tight. We’re departing shortly.”

Jean snapped her fingers with flair. “Let’s go.”

…

The Rolls-Royce stopped in a quiet alley near the school.

Jean didn’t like flashy entrances, so the driver had never taken her to the main gate.

With her backpack on, Jean hopped out of the car.

The driver escorted her to the school entrance and gave her a parting nod. “Ms… uh… I mean, Your Highness, please proceed…”

Jean laughed at his effort. “Okay, the princess roleplay ends here.”

Waving her finger, she smiled. “The princess has to pretend to be a commoner for a while…”

The driver looked puzzled. So now he wasn’t supposed to call her that?

Jean really was unpredictable…

She glanced up at the school gate, where bold, majestic letters spelled:

Who would’ve thought—after everything—Jean would come back to school like this?

been a student felt like

she strolled into the campus

Children of the elite and young prodigies

for every stage of education—from kindergarten to university—all under

their schooling right here, from baby

the classroom by matching the name printed on her

She wasn’t early.

students were already seated

she walked

to look at

could tell

She wasn’t welcome here.

pulled into the novel, a flood

it wasn’t much—just a little more than

how the host had gotten that six-pointed star badge. Or what her school life had actually been

the

closed-off personality like the host’s, it was no surprise she’d been unpopular at home and at

wonder she got the

comes that

She’ll give you that bitter

whispers

wow, she’d guessed

really was

her

Crack!

She froze.

She’d just broken

whole classroom exploded in

it was

and mockery hit her all at once,

Damn it!

guard

she faced

Should she stand up?

she’d never know what

did… the red liquid from that broken whatever-it-was

whole class would tear

was their plan

she fell right into

Don’t get mad.

breath, trying to calm herself

stood up like nothing

her hit a new high, echoing through the

to look at

had cracked under her weight and spilled red

pants were now