Chapter 13
To clear her name, Cathy was the key witness Miranda needed.
Arabella had pushed Cathy down the stairs where there were no cameras. Panicking when Cathy got hurt, Arabella ran to her brothers for help.
Coincidentally, a surveillance camera captured Miranda passing by the scene. So, they conveniently pinned the whole incident on Miranda, making her the perfect scapegoat.
Miranda took out a silver needle and gently inserted it into the back of Cathy’s head.
A moment later, Miranda exited the hospital room.
“Miss,” William greeted her respectfully.
Miranda walked straight ahead. “Let’s go.”
“Yes,” William replied with deference. “President Lancaster mentioned that you don’t need to worry about Cathy’s medical expenses. The Lancaster family will cover everything.”
Miranda nodded. “Please thank Ms. Lancaster for me.”
After returning to the mansion, Miranda dedicated a room specifically for her pharmaceutical work.
The medicines here were scarce, and the herbs lacked the natural energy she was accustomed to, so she could only produce subpar products.
But even these subpar products could sell for hundreds of thousands in the black market back in her previous world.
Fortunately, she could cultivate them herself. As long as she had these basic herbs, she could regrow seedlings with more potency and energy.
Miranda used Lavinia’s connections to contact a black market dealer, found an online black market channel,, and registered an account to sell her creations.
To survive in this world, she needed money.
She could make money by treating people, but there weren’t that many patients with rare diseases seeking her out, and she couldn’t exactly make people sick just to cure them.
Plus, as a practitioner, she had her own standards and wouldn’t treat just any illness. So, she reached out to William for a quick–money job.
“This is quick money?” Miranda looked at the callsheet and script in her hand.
William nodded enthusiastically. “There’s nothing faster than acting!”
Especially since Ms. Hawk was stunningly beautiful, she could easily make a living with her looks alone.
Miranda tapped her fingers on the table, and contemplated the script, lost in thought.
“Even with a criminal record? Aren’t you all afraid of scandals here?” She recalled a few celebrities whose careers had been ruined by scandals.
William scratched his nose. “I don’t think anyone knows about this except President Lancaster and the Hawke family.”
Miranda considered this. The incident involved the Hawke family’s secrets, so they wouldn’t broadcast it.
To the pubs, they had claimed Miranda went abroad, so even her classmates didn’t know she had taken the fall for Arella.
“Then could you please arrange it for me, William?” Miranda smiled.
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William seemed particularly excited about this. “Of course, Miss!”
“Oh, and President Lancaster has also re–enrolled you in school. You can return to continue your studies whenever you wish,” William added.
Miranda had been forced to drop out by the Hawke family, leaving her education incomplete.
Back when she was with the Zade family, Miranda’s biggest dream was to attend college and escape the family’s favoritism toward men.
So, attending college was a dream for the old Miranda. But her two–year prison sentence had shattered that dream.
Miranda sighed softly. “I got it. Thank Ms. Lancaster for me, will you?”
The next day, on her way to the set, her phone rang with an unfamiliar number.
“Miranda, get back here!” Alden’s angry voice boomed over the phone. “You think you’re something now? Going off to be someone’s mistress? You’re so young and how could you be so disgraceful!”
Grace’s voice chimed in from the other side, “Do you have no shame? You’ve brought disgrace to the Hawke family! We wouldn’t even know if Bella hadn’t told us!”
“I’m warning you, this is your last chance to return to the Hawke family. Otherwise, we will disown you forever!”
Miranda frowned. “If you have any mental issues, I suggest seeing a doctor instead of bothering me. Or do you need reminding that under our country’s law, harboring a criminal and fabricating evidence is punishable by imprisonment?”
Miranda’s words immediately silenced the other end of the line.
It was like the world had gone quiet, as if Alden and Grace’s bluster had been cut off at the source.
