The Beauty and the Brain

Chapter 183

Gavin was stunned and said, “Shirley? Heh, so the eldest lady from the Tuttle family is Shirley?”

Marie frowned and didn’t understand what Gavin said. Gavin poured her a glass of water and

explained, “The

Tuttle family had another daughter before, but her identity was quite mysterious. This woman had

never

appeared in public in the upper class. Illana is the illegitimate daughter of the Tuttle family, and was

brought

back to the Tuttle family when she was almost five or six years old. I don’t know the details, but I’m

surprised

that Shirley is from the Tuttle family.”

“There have been rumors in the industry that Shirley was riding on the coattails, but I haven’t seen

Shirley

show off based on that for so long. So I thought it was a rumor. If she had the Tuttle family backing her

up, she should have been doing well in the entertainment industry, right?” Marie was very puzzled.

Gavin took a sip of water and said, “The Tuttle family is complicated. You’d better ask Iliana about

these

things directly. Besides, she was drugged in her own house, and you should ask that as well. If this

happens

again, you can’t rush into the Tuttle family every time.”

Marie nodded, chatted with Gavin for a while, and then went to Iliana’s ward. The thing that happened

today

must have caught Iliana off guard, so she didn’t wear makeup. She usually wore heavy makeup, and

even

Marie hadn’t seen her without makeup.

Iliana’s face was so pale when she did not wear makeup, looking thinner.

Marie stayed with Iliana for the whole day. Iliana woke up in the afternoon. She heaved a sigh of relief

when

she saw Marie. Then she asked, “Marie, did you save me?”

Marie nodded and asked, “Are you still feeling unwell?”

“No, thank you,” Iliana said.

“Let’s stop talking about this. I’ll take you back to the apartment. If the netizens know that you are in NôvelDrama.Org (C) content.

the

hospital, they will rush to the hospital.” Marie asked Luca to go through the discharge procedures.

Iliana nodded and got in the

happened.

dr with Marie, Luca sent them all the way to the apartment in case anything

After helping Iliana lie down on the bed, Marie poured her a glass of water and said, “Shouldn’t you tell

me

something?”

Iliana held the cup and was silent for a long time. Then she pressed her lips and said, “We are good

friends.

Actually, I should have told you long ago, but I don’t know where to start.”

“From the beginning…” Marie looked at Iliana and said, “Tell me, and only then will I know how to

protect you.”

Iliana smiled and nodded. Then she said, “Do you know the Tuttle family of New York? The Tuttle

family focused on doing political business. Shirley was my half-sister. She was the only daughter of the

Tuttle family, and my father, who was in politics, never wanted to take me home. How could he tolerate

the stain of having an illegitimate daughter?

Shirley was injured once and lost too much blood. She had Rh-negative blood, which was rare. I

happened to

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my mother

have the same blood type as her. I thought I would be fine if I donated blood to save her once. But

died, and then I was brought back to the Tuttle family. From then on, I became Shirley’s human blood

bank. I had to help her no matter when she was injured, sick or needed a blood transfusion. Or I even

needed to store

useful blood for her.”

Marie was shocked after hearing this. She thought that Mia treated her viciously enough by giving her

medicine and making her a fool. She didn’t expect that Iliana’s life would be so miserable. She was a

moving

blood bank, and she was always Shirley’s savior. How could her father do that?

Iliana smiled sarcastically and said, “He has never regarded me as his daughter. In his heart, I am an

illegitimate child. Shirley is the daughter of the Tuttle family. If I had not been of the same blood as

Shirley,

he would never have taken me back to the Tuttles. You can also imagine what happened later. Mrs.

Tuttle

couldn’t accept me, and Shirley couldn’t stand that I became the second daughter of the Tuttle family,

so they bullied me secretly.”

“How’s your health? Can you stand being bullied by them?”

Marie asked. She knew how it felt to be bullied by her relatives. Wasn’t she just a fool for more than

ten

years?

Iliana shook her head and said, “I am fine. When my mother gave birth to me, I was premature. I was

already

weak. In those years, I needed to donate my blood, so it was understandable that I was in bad health. I

didn’t want to let others know this, so I always wore heavy makeup. Today, you saw my normal

appearance. It was pale and scary.”

Marie held Iliana’s skinny hands and said, “Iliana, you should have told me earlier. How could you let

Shirley bully you without telling anyone?”

Iliana pressed her lips and smiled, but tears fell from her eyes. She said, “Probably I can’t cut off my

relationship as decisively as you. I always hold a glimmer of hope. My father is my only family. I always

think that if I follow his instructions to save Shirley and go to Yale University to study business, he will

care about me. In fact, I am not so bad…