The Rejected Daughter's Genius Comeback

Chapter 2

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he reached a public bus stop. She pulled out her phone. The screen lit up with a photo of her mother, Eleanor, smiling, her eyes full

from a public high school in a forgotten corner of the Rust Belt. His lip curled in a sneer. "

ot with a call, but with

hase one hibernation

econd. Her fingers moved with preternatural speed

e flashed on the screen. She answe

rked, his voice raw with fury. "That's your punishment for this l

ging. "I'll be applying to the V

eady been granted provisional acceptance. They wouldn't let someone with your record clean the floors."

uddle, trying to comprehend an ocean. She felt not

make one call. One call to the Sinclair family, and every decent university

idian. Their patriarch, Theodore Sinclair Sr., was a media magnate who could r

, a hint of academic dishonesty on her high school trans

ger was a confession of his own weakness, his own fear. It only strengt

litary," Andrew boasted, trying to overwh

didn't matter. Her dictionary didn't have the word 'retreat'. She kept her breathing even, a mask of calm she had perf

nciliatory. "Listen, if you just do as you're

could buy her soul for a ten-year-old sedan. Her values

, trying to weave a web of familial gu

, her voice as cold and sharp as a

ity! You'll be a social pariah!"

ian high society. Her battl

to hang up, she heard a woman's voice in the background of h

already knew. Helena w

ered his final ultimatum. "Report to the vocationa

pulled away from the curb, she watched the opulent mansions of the city's elit

IT. It held resources she needed, secrets she ha

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“Aria Campbell stood in the opulent office of her biological father, Andrew. He demanded she publicly accept the humiliating title of his illegitimate daughter to smooth the social path for his stepdaughter, Yvonne. To keep her out of their elite world, he threw a $50,000 check at her, ordering her to attend a blue-collar vocational school. "You will learn a trade, and you will stay out of our way." He wanted her to forget that his current wife, Helena, had murdered Aria's mother by pushing her down a flight of stairs. When Aria refused, Helena and Yvonne ambushed her in the rain, trying to ruin her with a bucket of filthy water. They used their family's massive influence to blacklist her from every top university in the city, intent on leaving her to rot in the Rust Belt like trash. They thought she was just a helpless, pathetic girl who would eventually bow to their wealth and power. They had no idea she was a commander from three thousand years in the future, reborn into this era to stop an impending AI apocalypse. How could a man staring at a puddle comprehend an ocean? Aria didn't take the money. Instead, she shattered Andrew's glasses with a flick of the check, vaulted their mansion's iron fence to smash every window on their ground floor, and hacked the global network to erase her digital footprint. She was heading to the Veridian Institute of Technology, and her war had just begun.”