From Trash To Treasure: Masked Heiress

From Trash To Treasure: Masked Heiress

Yuan Xiluo

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I was the invisible failure of the Goff family, hiding my medical genius behind a report card full of Fs and a slumped posture. One rainy night, I found a man bleeding out in a dark alley behind the school gymnasium, a knife protruding from his gut. To keep the police from digging into my secrets, I dragged the dying stranger to my bedroom and stitched him up using a hidden surgical kit. I thought I was being careful, but my cousin Cleora caught a glimpse of the blood and immediately alerted my fiancé's wealthy family. By morning, my world collapsed as my future in-laws stormed the manor, throwing an annulment agreement at my feet. They called me a "loose woman" and "million-dollar trash," while my own housekeeper gleefully testified against me. At school, the word "SLUT" was spray-painted across my locker in jagged red letters, and the boy I was supposed to marry looked at me with nothing but cold revulsion. I didn't understand why they were so eager to destroy me before even asking for the truth. I was the one who had spent years protecting this family's reputation, yet they were throwing me to the wolves over a single misunderstanding. I felt a surge of cold fury as I realized my loyalty had been met with nothing but betrayal. Everything changed when the "dying" stranger finally walked down the stairs, shirtless and bandaged, revealing himself as Braylon Lancaster, the most powerful man in the city. He didn't just defend me; he froze my fiancé's entire family fortune with a single phone call. As my in-laws fled in terror, a courier arrived with a five-carat pink diamond from the head of the city's most dangerous crime syndicate. The note read: "The debt is acknowledged." Suddenly, I wasn't just a failure anymore-I was the most sought-after woman in the underworld.

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Three figures appeared at the end of the alley. Red laser sights cut through the darkness, scanning the ground where Braylon had just been lying.

Ivy Goff crumpled the paper into a tight ball. The red ink on the page was still vivid in her mind, a sea of Fs that she had carefully curated over the semester. She tossed the ball into the metal trash can near the school exit. It hit the rim with a hollow clang and fell in.

She pushed open the heavy double doors. The rain hit her instantly. It wasn't a drizzle. It was a deluge that soaked through her thin uniform shirt in seconds. She opened her black umbrella, but the wind threatened to turn it inside out.

Ivy walked toward the back of the gymnasium. It was a shortcut to the parking lot, a narrow alley lined with dumpsters and old equipment. The smell of wet asphalt usually dominated here, but tonight, something else cut through the petrichor.

Copper.

The metallic tang was thick in the humid air. Ivy stopped. She adjusted her thick-rimmed glasses, which were fogging up from the humidity. A flash of lightning illuminated the alley for a split second.

A man lay in the mud near the dumpster.

He was face down. A dark pool expanded beneath him, mixing with the rainwater running toward the drain. Ivy stepped closer, her sneakers squelching in the mud. She saw the handle of a knife protruding from his lower abdomen.

Braylon Lancaster lay there, his breathing shallow and ragged. His expensive suit was ruined, the fabric torn and stained. His fingers clawed at the wet pavement, scraping until the nails broke.

Ivy looked down at him. Her face remained blank.

He was a variable she hadn't accounted for. If she called the police, they would ask questions. They would want statements. Her name would be in a report. Her carefully constructed invisibility would crack.

She turned her heel.

She took one step away. Then two.

A hand shot out and clamped around her ankle.

The grip was bruising. It wasn't a plea for help. It was a demand. Ivy looked down. The man's hand was covered in blood and mud, ruining her white sock.

She tried to shake him off. He held on tighter. His knuckles were white. Even half-dead, his survival instinct was terrifying.

Ivy sighed. The sound was lost in the roar of the rain. She crouched down. She pressed two fingers against the side of his neck.

His pulse was thready. Erratic. She did the math in her head. Thirty percent chance of survival if moved. Ninety percent chance of police involvement if left.

She stood up and pried his fingers off her ankle one by one.

"Bad investment," she thought. "Die quietly."

She walked away. The man let out a low, guttural growl of pain behind her. It was the sound of an animal refusing to accept its fate.

Ivy stopped ten meters away.

She thought of her father. She thought of the silence in the house before he disappeared.

If she left him, the janitor would find the body in the morning. The school would be swarming with cops. They would check cameras. They would see her entering the alley.

Ivy clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth. She turned around.

She dropped the umbrella. It tumbled away in the wind. She swung her backpack around and unzipped a hidden compartment at the bottom. She pulled out a small, nondescript metal tin.

She knelt beside him again. She grabbed the collar of his shirt and ripped it open. Buttons popped off and pinged against the dumpster.

Braylon opened his eyes. His vision was swimming, but he saw a girl. She looked like a ghost in the rain.

Ivy pulled out a silver needle. She didn't hesitate. She pressed it into the pressure point near his sternum. Then another near his shoulder.

Braylon tried to speak. Ivy clamped her hand over his mouth.

"Shut up or I finish the job."

Her voice was flat. Cold.

She pulled a tube of clear gel from her pocket. It was a compound not sold in pharmacies. She squeezed it directly onto the wound around the knife.

Braylon flinched. The gel felt like liquid nitrogen. But the burning heat in his gut began to subside. His eyes focused on her face. He tried to memorize her features, but the rain blurred everything.

Ivy worked fast. She applied a pressure pad from her kit and wrapped it tight. She pulled his arm over her shoulder.

Footsteps echoed from the mouth of the alley. They were heavy. Purposeful. Then came the soft thwip of a silencer.

Ivy stiffened. She hauled Braylon up. He was heavy, dead weight against her side.

She dragged him into the shadows of the equipment shed. The door was broken, hanging off one hinge. She pushed him inside and pressed him against the cold concrete wall.

She covered his mouth with her hand again. Her skin smelled like rain and antiseptic.

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“I was the invisible failure of the Goff family, hiding my medical genius behind a report card full of Fs and a slumped posture. One rainy night, I found a man bleeding out in a dark alley behind the school gymnasium, a knife protruding from his gut. To keep the police from digging into my secrets, I dragged the dying stranger to my bedroom and stitched him up using a hidden surgical kit. I thought I was being careful, but my cousin Cleora caught a glimpse of the blood and immediately alerted my fiancé's wealthy family. By morning, my world collapsed as my future in-laws stormed the manor, throwing an annulment agreement at my feet. They called me a "loose woman" and "million-dollar trash," while my own housekeeper gleefully testified against me. At school, the word "SLUT" was spray-painted across my locker in jagged red letters, and the boy I was supposed to marry looked at me with nothing but cold revulsion. I didn't understand why they were so eager to destroy me before even asking for the truth. I was the one who had spent years protecting this family's reputation, yet they were throwing me to the wolves over a single misunderstanding. I felt a surge of cold fury as I realized my loyalty had been met with nothing but betrayal. Everything changed when the "dying" stranger finally walked down the stairs, shirtless and bandaged, revealing himself as Braylon Lancaster, the most powerful man in the city. He didn't just defend me; he froze my fiancé's entire family fortune with a single phone call. As my in-laws fled in terror, a courier arrived with a five-carat pink diamond from the head of the city's most dangerous crime syndicate. The note read: "The debt is acknowledged." Suddenly, I wasn't just a failure anymore-I was the most sought-after woman in the underworld.”
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