Five Years Wasted Now They Beg Her Back novel Chapter 105

Lilian hatched a wild plan: she would use public opinion to drag Grace down from her pedestal.

She dried her tears and found the number of a tabloid reporter she knew.

“Hello, is this Mr. Parker? I have a big scoop for you. Interested?”

“It’s about… that brilliant scientist who’s all over the news, Grace Hart.”

“Yes, I’m her sister.”

“Oh, she’s not as pure and innocent as you all think. She’s ungrateful, and she’s left her own family to die…”

On the other end of the line, Lilian embellished the story, twisting the truth and painting herself as a poor, pitiful victim being oppressed by her wicked sister.

She tearfully claimed that Grace’s current achievements were all thanks to the Hart family’s early, no-expense-spared cultivation.

But now that the Hart family had fallen on hard times, Grace, their own daughter, wouldn’t even come back to see them and was even kicking them while they were down.

The story was fabricated with such heart-wrenching emotion it would make anyone weep.

The tabloid reporter, sensing a story that would generate massive traffic, beat his chest and promised to write her a “scathing exposé” that would shake the heavens.

The next day, an article titled “Behind the Genius: A Scientist’s Abandoned Family and the Cold-Blooded Truth” quickly went viral online.

In the piece, Lilian, using the pseudonym “Lina,” recounted her sister’s “wicked deeds” in a tone dripping with sorrow.

[My sister was gifted from a young age. To nurture her talent, my parents gave her everything. The best schools, the most expensive lab equipment—if she asked for it, our family would have sold the shirts off our backs to give it to her.]

[But what about her? After achieving fame and success, she became ashamed of our family’s decline and cut off all contact.]

[My father is gravely ill, the company is bankrupt, and we have nowhere to turn, but she won’t even answer a single phone call.]

[She said we are a burden to her and would tarnish her brilliant image.]

The article was highly inflammatory. Paired with a few photos of the Hart family’s now desolate mansion and a picture of Mr. Hart’s haggard “sickly” face, it worked like a charm.

First, Felix, Damien’s special assistant, posted on his personal Instagram account.

The content was simple and brutal.

Just a series of photos.

The first was a collection of certificates showing Grace had received a full scholarship for all four years of college.

The second was a set of pay stubs from the three different labs she worked at part-time during college.

The third was a screenshot of an old email. The sender was Grace, the recipient, Mr. Hart. In it, she timidly asked if the family could lend her 50,000 dollars for a study abroad security deposit, promising she would pay it back.

Mr. Hart’s reply consisted of four ice-cold words: [The family has no money.]

Felix’s caption was the killing blow.

[Heard someone talking about how the “Hart family gave everything to cultivate her”? Do you mean cultivating her ability to earn her own scholarships and work three jobs to support herself? Or do you mean cultivating her by letting her sister steal her credit, steal her husband, and then having her own family push her down a flight of stairs and ruin her reputation? @theHartGroup, care to comment?]