Chapter 916


    Josephine’s mother clutched her daughter’s hand tightly. She cried pitifully, “Ma’am, we’re from


    Westrise Vige. Josephine, my daughter here, and Corinne were in the same ss in high school.”


    Corinne, sitting beside Pam, was sipping her coffee. Hearing this, she looked at Josephine. ‘She


    does look like one of the girls in my ss, but I don’t think I was ever close to her.’


    “So?” prompted Pam.


    “Corinne wasn’t doing all that well in high school. She’d often skip ss to hang out with the young


    thugs outside of school,” Josephine’s mother continued.


    Pam frowned. She did not really believe the older woman’s words. She turned to look at her


    sensible granddaughter-inw and thought, ‘No


    matter how I see it, Corinne doesn’t look like someone who’d skip ss.’


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    Corinne simply smiled as if she was listening to the funniest joke on earth and calmly sipping her


    coffee.


    Josephine’s mother added, “On the day of their SAT exams, my daughter arrived in ss on time.


    She’s the top student in her year, and every teacher held her in high regard. But when it came to


    getting her results, there was no record of her name in the system.


    “We all thought it was weird, so we went to the school to ask for an exnation. But the school just


    gave US some vague excuse to get US off their case. We couldn’t do anything after that since we’re


    just ordinary folks with no power or connections. Thus, we resigned ourselves to fate, and my daughter


    didn’t pursue her education after that. She stayed back home to help us with the farm…”


    Both the older woman and Josephine started to sob pitifully at this point in the story.


    Pam felt a little sympathetic to Josephine’s misfortune, but the story did not seemplete. “But


    what does this have to do with Corinne? Why did youe here to look for her?”


    Josephine’s mother raised her head and looked angrily at Pam. “Of course it does. She’s the one


    who used my daughter’s result to get into the University of New Capital City!”


    Pam was shocked. “What?! That’s impossible!”


    Josephine’s mother wiped away her tears. “Ma’am, it was only recently that we found out Corinne didn’t


    take her SAT exams at all. She had a rich boyfriend then and, through her boyfriend’s father’s


    connection, managed to swap her results with my daughter’s so she could attend the best university in


    the country!


    “Because of her, my poor daughter had no choice but to stay back and help the family with the farm.


    How can I just sit by and do nothing when my poor daughter’s bright future has been ripped out from


    under her very feet?! This is her life we’re talking about…”


    Josephine’s mother became so emotional that she clutched her daughter, and the two of them started


    sobbing hysterically. It was a pitiful sight to see.


    Pam’s face remained impassive. She was about to say something when Corinne ced her hand


    on top of hers.


    Corinne smiled at her lightly before turning her attention back to the sobbing mother and daughter.


    “Excuse me, Ma’am. Before Iment on whether what you told US is true or not, might I ask you a


    few questions first?”