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The story
The short version. Revenge, 61 episodes on YourChannel. On what she believes is her last night, Chloe calls her father and tells him she is about to die; the Gu family only hears trouble. She was in an orphanage for fifteen years, then the family's scapegoat for three.
The phone call comes on Chloe's last night: 'Dad, this is the very last phone call I will ever make to you. I'm about to die right now.' On the other end, the Gu family only hears trouble — 'even if you made this phone call, nobody would ever care about it.' For fifteen years she was in an orphanage; for three years after they brought her home, she was the family's scapegoat. Mia got the ribbon, the praise, and the university acceptance; Chloe got expelled and told she was trash. She refuses to swallow it: 'Why should the family throw me away like trash after hurting me so much?'
The turning point is the fall. Mia collapses at the banquet and everyone assumes Chloe pushed her. Chloe uses the moment to expose the pattern in plain words: their gentle mother 'uses her weakness and tears to emotionally blackmail her biological daughter, making her take the blame for the adopted daughter.' Liam is the one who finally sees her wounds. The family threatens to send her away, but Chloe has already severed the ties on her own terms, and every act of retaliation from here only peels another layer off the fake heiress.
The college-acceptance banquet is the whole city's elite toasting Mia's future. Chloe walks in and the room goes quiet. When the family demands to know where her manners went, she fires back: 'Manners back then when Chloe was being hurt, where were mom and dad?' She is told to go change and that they will settle scores after the banquet — but by then she has already said the quiet part out loud: Mia's bright future is 'just the beginning of your descent into hell.' The butler is brought in to prove the family was sending Chloe money, and she calls the whole room a liar to their faces.
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