The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 2074

"Do you know what I 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."

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

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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 overheard me talking

about revenge, always telling me to stop being foolish. I didn’t listen, and then she threatened to call

the police. She never truly put herself in my shoes!"

Tears streamed down Yolanda's face as she spoke of her grief, "My real parents died, and I went from

heiress of Tranquil City to nothing, my life plummeting from heaven to hell. But she never really

understood! Instead, she wanted me to 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 me to be the same?"

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

"If she hadn't wanted to call the cops, to get them to talk me out of it, I never would have picked up that

knife! I just wanted to scare her. But then she said if I was set on revenge, I might as well kill her first.

She thought I wouldn't do it." Yolanda’s voice broke into sobs.

"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

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