The Traps of the Black Swan

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As though it wasn't enough to make her life difficult, Jennie was dropped at school every day in the car with her little brother being treated like a prince but she always ran behind the car to go home.

She didn't know why the driver and her mother always forgot that she was also in the same school but she never complained and ran behind the car. Sometimes screaming to stop the car, sometimes embarrassed running behind it like a stray dog.

She was mistreated by her parents to the extent that even the maids started to disregard her. Some doubted her as adopted, some doubted her as a mistress's child or illegitimate child...

Even Jennie doubted and asked her grandfather to confirm if she was really their child and his granddaughter. "Grandfather, please tell me the truth, am I really your granddaughter? A biological daughter of Mom and Dad?"

Her grandfather had stopped his work and called her next to him, "You are my granddaughter. Why are you doubting? Shane and Maisie are your parents."

Jennie shook her head without believing him, "Nope, you are lying to me so that I don't feel bad, aren't you? It's alright if I was found on the road or somebody left me in front of the house, please tell me the truth."

Hayden was shocked to see she was calm even uttering those words. But before he could respond, Jennie continued, "Or am I the daughter of Dad's but not Mom's?"

She meant to ask if she was a child of the first wife or an illegitimate child which Hayden clearly understood. His heart ached to see her still cool and ready to accept it if it's a fact.

Seeing her reluctant to believe, he had proved her with DNA parental test reports.

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However, who was going to confirm the maids in the villa. She was once hit by the maid when she had asked her why she was laughing at her. Many times, maids purposefully used to eat off breakfast or dinner leaving her with nothing.

Hence she learned to cook for herself by the age of fifteen. She wouldn't have minded cooking for maids if they were ill, yet they never really saw her in a new light but Jennie never demanded it.

Between all these, her life of struggling to live never stopped. She would burn with fever without anybody caring to check on her and cough her lungs out due to cold. Even on her first menstruation, she had fainted on the bed with lots of bleeding and the pain of heavy cramps.

Whatsoever, she earned only disgust and loathing from her parents whether she lived or at the stage of death.

When her parents got to know she was learning business, they forced her, used every ridiculous reason to bring her away from Hayden.

The ones who never identified Jennie openly as their daughter had reached school to write in college entrance form as she will join home science and learn cookery. They didn't let her choose any other profession.

The teachers who knew Jennie well, also knew she wanted to be a businesswoman and she was studying Finance and business management. The home teacher saw her meekly nod to the order of her parents before submitting the form to them.

Jennie spoke to her grandfather having no heart to join cooking college, she didn't want to be a chef, it was never her dream. Her home teacher didn't want to waste such talent so he spoke to Jennie and her grandfather.

While her parents thought everything was as they planned, little did her parents know, the teachers and Hayden put on the act of sending her abroad for learning international cooking whereas Jennie passed the scholarship and entrance exam of University S.