The Rejected Daughter's Genius Comeback

Chapter 6

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th lifted in that small, knowing smile. This wasn't over. This strange, beautiful man was an unexpected variable in her carefully calculated war, an interesting

lding a second umbrella. "Sir,

he blush still visible on his ears. "Did you see that, Leo?"

ught, but he wisely kept it to hims

ew and Helena burst out of the front door, their faces contorted with rage an

car pulled away, his voice low and

, we don't have a name. W

dian blog. The headline was sensational: "Trailer Girl" Becomes V

uction trailer, her face illuminated by the glow of a laptop, books piled high around her. The angle w

tlas said, his

tion Trailer" had exploded on social media. It was a perfect human-interes

orld was seeing her this way, as an object of pity. "She'

lling through comments. "A lot of pe

ache for her hardship, but also a surge of anger. The public's sympathy felt like a

threw the cinder block. He remembered her teasing smile. The girl in this photo was a story created by

em in a heap, and pulled on a dry t-shirt and shorts. Atlas's coat, a ludicrously expe

as VIT. She needed t

-grade encryption device, a relic from her other life. With it, she bypassed VIT's publi

a highly restricted program: The Prometheus Project. H

riend of her mother's, and was now, on paper, her legal guardian. He was her official

night sky. It was a beacon. Inside that place, the seeds of the Chimera project were sleeping. The AI th

lp her, to shower her with money and resources, but he knew instinctively that it would be an

s turmoil. "The article says she wants to

the charity case in the photo. He was looking fo

shed-clean blue. Aria set out for the VIT campus. Her personal war

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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.”