How I Accidentally Married a Billionaire-Chapter 139 -

Chapter 139: Chapter 139 Chapter 139 -139 Even though Keira knew she wasn’t Taylor Olsen’s daughter, she indeed grew up as the Olsen Family’s illegitimate daughter.

She used to care about these things a lot, even feeling as if the blood coursing through her veins was tainted.

Under Poppy Hill’s relentless brainwashing, she felt she owed the Olsen Family, that she let down Isla Olsen.

She remembered the day when she had wanted to leave the Olsen house, Poppy Hill would not let her go, demanding that she toil like an ox or horse for the family, it was she who knelt for a bitter ten hours.

At thirteen, she knelt in her thin clothes amidst the cold winter.

After an entire ten hours, she stubbornly looked at Poppy Hill and asked, “Can I now leave the Olsen Family cleanly?”

After that, she never spoke of her identity.

Jake Horton said she lied to him, that she kept it from him, but she didn’t deliberately keep silent, she just didn’t know how to start that conversation, she had already made a decision—if Jake confessed to her at graduation, she would reveal her true identity.

Looking back now, she suddenly realized that her past twenty years or so had been trapped by Poppy Hill.

Poppy Hill had constructed a cage named “illegitimate daughter” for her, tightly binding her.

But is one’s origin really that important?

Keira had long understood this, only she hadn’t yet learned to face it openly.

Now, she finally could.

“…”

The entire private room was silent.

Everyone looked at Keira in disbelief, and then at Isla, subsequently murmuring amongst themselves:

“My God, they’re sisters?”

“What sisters? That’s an illegitimate daughter, which means Keira’s mother is a mistress! If I were Isla, I’d absolutely hate her.”

“But it doesn’t seem like it, Keira has always been working hard to pay her way through school, I heard she earned her own tuition through part-time jobs…”

While a few people were discussing in low voices, Erin Davis suddenly came to a realization and sharply exclaimed, “Keira, so you are such a person, why did you keep it from everyone?! Your background is utterly disgusting! Your mother was a mistress, wasn’t she? Ruining someone else’s family, and you yourself are a seductress, flirting around, how could I have someone like you as a classmate?!”

She looked towards Isla: “Isla, you are too kind-hearted, why didn’t you speak up about this earlier?”

Isla was known in elementary and middle school to make it known to the whole class—who at an age where they knew that stepmothers and mistresses were the worst would end up disliking Keira.

But this tactic became useless in high school.

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After all, there were few people like Erin Davis who had a personal bias against Keira, while many more were…

“This is the 21st century; surely no one judges others by their background anymore, right? What’s this? You’re so arrogant, is your family royalty?”

“What a laugh, my ancestors were the Aisin Gioro, am I proud of it? What’s with her background? Can a person choose their own parents?”

“Really? You’re a descendant of the Aisin Gioro?”

“Can’t you tell a joke when you hear one? Step aside…”

A few classmates couldn’t stand Erin Davis’s attack and directly retorted:

“Heroes aren’t judged by their origins, Keira Olsen’s background, however it may be, wasn’t her choice. As long as she herself is outstanding, who would bother asking about her origins?”

“Speaking of origins, go back three generations and who isn’t descended from peasants?!”

“Erin Davis, how great are your origins? What do your parents do? Does your family own mines?”

Choked by the interrogation, Erin Davis angrily retorted, “You’ve all been bewitched by that seductress, haven’t you? It’s only the boys defending her! Unbelievable!”

This remark infuriated the previously silent female students.

The girls spoke less, not because they were less direct than the boys, nor as loud and argumentative, but now that they were called out, they began to chatter:

“Erin Davis, you’ve gone too far! We are all classmates, and while Keira Olsen might have been a bit of a loner at school, she’s actually got a nice personality! Once, when I was on duty and couldn’t reach something high up, it was Keira who helped me!” said a petite girl.

Another person chimed in, “I think you’re just jealous because you like Charles Riley, but he’s always speaking up for Dr. South. Don’t make it about boys and girls, with the way you act, it’s not just the boys who can’t stand you!”

“Exactly, you may be proud of your origins, but can you surpass Dr. South in terms of scientific research achievements?”

“…”

Everyone was condemning Erin Davis.

Isla Olsen watched from the sidelines, lowered her eyes, and let out a cold chuckle.

See, if she told the truth, her fate would be just like Erin Davis’s…

Seeing Erin Davis about to be bombarded with criticism to the point of tears, Isla Olsen slowly said, “Everyone is right, so Keira, you really shouldn’t settle for someone in marriage just because of your background… You should ask your father’s opinion… Yesterday, when Dad saw your husband, he was very angry and felt very sorry for you…”

With those words, Erin Davis suddenly found a new angle to attack Keira Olsen, and she stood up violently, as if this could give her a dominance over everyone else.

After sneering, she looked directly at the boys who had spoken up earlier, “You say you don’t care about such a family background, but would you really be willing to marry her if it came down to it?”

The boys were momentarily taken aback.

Erin Davis mocked, “Her family includes a mother who’s a known adulteress. A daughter born to such a woman will be promiscuous to the core. Aren’t you afraid that one day she’ll cheat on you? And if relatives and friends ask about your wife’s maternal family, what would you say? Marriage isn’t just between two people; it involves two families. Can you confidently say that your parents, knowing her situation, would agree to you marrying her?”

Most of the boys present were dumbfounded.

They were all fresh graduates; who was thinking about marriage?

Erin Davis burst out laughing, “Haha, none of you dare to guarantee you’d marry her. With such a background, which decent family would accept her?”

“Whoever marries her, would be a laughingstock! Young Mr. Horton liked her so much he pursued her for a full four years, yet didn’t he reject her for this very reason? Even someone like young Mr. Horton couldn’t disregard it, so how could you?”

Erin Davis then turned to Scott Martin, “So she just settled for a construction worker, right? Only someone with that kind of background could be so indifferent to status! After all, an illegitimate daughter could only be matched with lowlifes!”

The room fell silent for a moment.

Watching this unfold, Isla Olsen’s lips curved into a smile.

This was exactly the effect she wanted!

How humiliating for Keira Olsen, right? No matter how impressive she might be, she could only end up with a construction worker!

Just as she thought this, Lewis Horton’s deep voice rang out, “Have you said enough?”

Everyone turned towards him, only to see the man’s gaze stern, his voice calm, “Who said her husband is a construction worker?!”