Fake Heiress Reborn Drops Masks Finds Family (Noelle and Sebastian) novel Chapter 176

Chapter 176 The Calm Before the Storm

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Sebastian sat to the side, watching Noelle like this, a helpless smile flickering in his eyes. “Everyone outside is saying your hand’s crippled. They’re even saying you can’t hold utensils anymore. With rumors like that, Viola must be laughing herself awake at night.”

Noelle chewed on her apple and said around a mouthful of apple. “Let her laugh. The happier she laughs now, the harder she’ll cry later.”

She lifted her heavily bandaged arm, her eyes glinting with mischief. “It’s just a superficial injury. I just had the doctor wrap it up extra dramatically. Since she wants to see me looking ‘miserable, I’ll put on a show for her.”

She wanted to give Viola an illusion. An illusion that she was already defeated and posed no threat

anymore.

Let Viola lower her guard, frow smug and careless, and then strike her with the deadliest blow at the moment she felt most triumphant.

“The SAT exam hall…” Noelle narrowed her eyes, a cold curve at the corner of her lips. “I’ll be there on time. And I’ll use this hand she thinks is ‘crippled‘ to personally crush the thing she cares about most.”

She wasn’t just going to take the SAT. She was going to stomp Viola into the ground with an absolute advantage.

This show is only just beginning.

Finally, SAT day arrived.

That day, every SAT student who’d studied for over ten years marched onto the battlefield. Police escorts led the way, exam convoys rolled through the streets, and the entire city seemed to make room for this exam that would decide countless futures. The atmosphere was solemn and tense.

Jasper brought Viola to the test center, only to run into Noelle getting out of a car.

On Noelle’s side, Sebastian and Lucas had driven her over.

Viola spotted the thick bandages wrapped around Noelle’s arm and let out a sneer. “Your hand’s already crippled, and you still came to take the exam? Aren’t you afraid of becoming a joke?”

Jasper also looked toward Noelle. She seemed thinner, her wrist wrapped in heavy bandages. In the end, he couldn’t help himself. He stepped forward and stopped in front of her.

His gaze landed on her bandaged arm. His throat tightened. He had been wanting to ask her how her hand was doing, but the question rolled on his tongue several times before finally coming out as a dry, awkward

sentence.

“Are you okay?”

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The question sounded hollow even to his own cars.

How could she be okay?

Such a serious car accident. Such shocking bandages.

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Noelle lifted her eyes and glanced at him indifferently. Her gaze was calm and still, as if she were looking. at an irrelevant stranger.

“None of your concern.”

Four words, cold and distant. It was like an invisible wall, completely shutting Jasper out.

Jasper’s heart clenched painfully.

Her coldness stabbed at him. When did things get so bad between us? The Noelle who used to cling to me and call me sweetly is truly gone.

Viola watched from the side, delight flooding her chest. She stepped up and looped her arm through Jasper’s, her tone deliberately sweet and showy. “Jasper, why are you talking so much to a cripple? The exam’s about to start. Let’s go in. This time, I’ll definitely get great scores and bring honor to the Kains!”

She emphasized the word “cripple,” shooting a provocative look at Noelle.

“Even if I’m a cripple, I can still score higher than you. Do you believe that?”

“Hah, you? I bet you-”

“Enough!”

Jasper snapped at Viola in a low voice, then looked at Noelle. “After the SAT, wait for me here. I have something important to tell you.”

Maybe if Noelle finds out about her biological parents, she’ll be happier.

Panic flashed through Viola’s eyes. Afraid Jasper might reveal the truth about Noelle’s parents, she quickly dragged him farther away.

All the examinees entered their classrooms.

The exam halls were sealed.

The first subject was literature. Viola found it effortless. She finished quickly and walked out.

She was the first to leave the exam room. Reporters immediately swarmed her, asking how she thought she did.

Viola answered calmly and confidently, speaking fluently. The media posted the interview online.

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