Lucinda had accidentally discovered a terrible secret.
The reason the children kept disappearing was that their organs were being harvested to prolong the lives of certain powerful elites.
Realizing the danger she was in, Lucinda escaped while their captors' guards were down.
But of course, those monsters weren't about to let a survivor walk free. Soon, they launched a massive manhunt for her.
While she was on the run, Lucinda learned of K Net's existence. Desperate and with nowhere left to go, she sent out a plea for help.
K Net only provided assistance for a price, but Lucinda didn't have a single cent to her name.
When she sent King K a message, she sent only one line. "If you save me, my life will be yours from now on."
That one sentence caught Valerie's interest.
Not only did she save Lucinda from the brink of death, but she also exposed the illegal hospital and the orphanage to the local authorities.
From that moment on, Lucinda started following Valerie loyally.
Her tongue was sharp, but she had the utmost admiration and protectiveness toward Valerie. For a long time, Lucinda followed everything Valerie said.
While investigating Lucinda's background, Valerie accidentally discovered that Lucinda was actually the heiress of the Byron family of Windmere.
She had ended up in that northern orphanage because of a selfish caretaker who worked for the Byron family.
When Lucinda's mother gave birth, the caretaker had secretly swapped the newborn baby with her brother's daughter, who had just been born around the same time.
The caretaker's brother was a man obsessed with having a son. He was too poor and unwilling to raise a daughter, and he even thought of abandoning the baby or giving it away.
The caretaker both pitied her niece and was jealous of Lucinda, who would grow up in luxury. So, she secretly sold the real Byron family heiress to human traffickers, then had her niece take Lucinda's place.
With Valerie's help and planning, Lucinda eventually reclaimed her rightful identity and returned to the Byron family.



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