The Scholarship Scammer's Downfall

The Scholarship Scammer's Downfall

Xie Huan

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I had worked my entire life for this. The Starlight Innovators Scholarship-a full ride to MIT-was finally mine, and the principal had just called my name. But as I stood to accept, a shrill voice cut through the applause. My father's mistress, Brenda Sullivan, publicly railed that her son deserved it, claiming my "generous" father had funded the school. My father, Richard, who just lived off my mom's untold fortune, beamed beside her as they tried to snatch my future, painting me as ordinary. I exposed their first lie: my reclusive genius mom, Eleanor Vance, was NovaCore's actual founder and the *real* donor. Yet they didn't stop; they launched a vicious online smear campaign and my father even physically attacked my professor at MIT. How could my own father, this charlatan, repeatedly try to sabotage my life with such brazen lies? Why did they relentlessly pursue me, twisting truths and resorting to violence, just to protect their crumbling fabricated world? But they underestimated me. I was done being their victim. When Kevin, in a desperate rage, broke into my dorm with a knife, I knew it was time to ensure their web of deceit collapsed-not just online, but for good.

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I had worked my entire life for this.

The Starlight Innovators Scholarship-a full ride to MIT-was finally mine, and the principal had just called my name.

But as I stood to accept, a shrill voice cut through the applause.

My father's mistress, Brenda Sullivan, publicly railed that her son deserved it, claiming my "generous" father had funded the school.

My father, Richard, who just lived off my mom's untold fortune, beamed beside her as they tried to snatch my future, painting me as ordinary.

I exposed their first lie: my reclusive genius mom, Eleanor Vance, was NovaCore's actual founder and the *real* donor.

Yet they didn't stop; they launched a vicious online smear campaign and my father even physically attacked my professor at MIT.

How could my own father, this charlatan, repeatedly try to sabotage my life with such brazen lies?

Why did they relentlessly pursue me, twisting truths and resorting to violence, just to protect their crumbling fabricated world?

But they underestimated me.

I was done being their victim.

When Kevin, in a desperate rage, broke into my dorm with a knife, I knew it was time to ensure their web of deceit collapsed-not just online, but for good.

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