The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 2074

"Do you know what | found on her clothes? In her dying moments, when she feared you'd take the blame, she scrawled ‘suicide’

with her own blood. She didn't finish the last stroke of 'suicide' before she passed."

Yolanda's eyes snapped open in disbelief, unable to fathom that her adoptive mother, Yvonne, had left behind such a message.

"No, you're lying, you're making this up!" Yolanda's emotions surged.

Arabella pulled out her phone and showed Yolanda the message written on Yvonne's clothes, saying indifferently, "You recognize

her handwriting, don't you?"

That hit Yolanda like a ton of bricks, sending her collapsing to the floor.

"You stabbed her with a knife, and the murder weapon was found near the river by your house, matching the wound on her body. It

was your family's kitchen knife."

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Yolanda looked at Arabella, stunned that she could find and infer all this.

"When you stabbed her, it wasn't fatal. She died from suffocation. I'm guessing when you saw her bleeding, you didn't dare take

her to the hospital, afraid they'd ask too many questions. And maybe you were scared she'd wake up, stop your revenge, or even

call the cops. So, you dug a hole in your backyard and buried her."

Yolanda couldn't believe Arabella had figured it out, shaking her head frantically, "No, it wasn't like that."

Arabella already knew from her expression that she was right, "Before you buried her alive, she must have begged you not to do

something stupid, but rage and fear blinded you. In the end, when she knew there was no escape, she wrote 'suicide' on her

clothes, trying to protect you with her last breath."

Even facing death, Yvonne didn't spend her precious moments calling for help, possibly because she was in too much pain, without

her phone, or maybe because she wanted to protect Yolanda, to awaken the last bit of conscience in her.

Whatever her reason, she still had her daughter in her heart.

"No, no." Yolanda began to cry, and after a while, she collapsed, sobbing, "She overheardtalking about revenge, always telling

Tears streamed down Yolanda's face as she spoke of her grief, "My real parents died, and | went from heiress of Tranquil City to

nothing, my life plummeting from heaven to hell. But she never really understood! Instead, she wantedto forget my past as if

it never happened!"

Yolanda felt a mix of hatred, anger, and injustice, "Her false compassion killed her! She was timid and afraid - why did she expect

Arabella watched her tear herself apart with grief, and asked calmly, "So you killed her?"

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"If she hadn't wanted to call the cops, to get them to talkout of it, | never would have picked up that knife! | just wanted to

scare her. But then she said if | was set on revenge, | might as well kill her first. She thought | wouldn't do it." Yolanda’s voice broke

into sobs.

"So you buried her?" Arabella maintained her composure, piecing together the story, "When you did, she was still alive."

Yolanda cried for a long tbefore finally saying, "I didn't want to bury her, but she was already half dead, still advising me

against stupidity, insisting as long as she breathed, she wouldn't watchmake a mistake."

"So you hardened your heart?" Arabella felt she understood what happened.

Seeing Yolanda's emotional collapse, Arabella didn't press further, knowing she wouldn't get more answers now.

She pushed open the interrogation room door and walked away, leaving the crying woman alone.

The officers were somewhat surprised. Yolanda had previously forced Arabella to take poison, nearly killing her, yet Arabella hadn't

even slapped Yolanda in return.