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Chapter 271 A Bigger Payout

"Grant and I wanted to sell you off as quickly as possible," Olivia admitted. "But that thing around your neck… it was too striking. No one dared to buy you. The pendant would shine, and there was even a word inscribed on it!"

A flicker of horror crossed Olivia's face as the memory resurfaced.

The word inscribed on the pendant wasn't about fortune or wealth. It was the word, "Soul".

With that pendant on her, nobody wanted Aria.

"I consulted an old fortune teller from the village," Olivia continued. "He claimed the pendant was from hell, pure evil. He advised me to get rid of it immediately. Apparently, keeping you could bring doom to the entire village. Thus, Grant and I didn't dare to raise you anymore. We also sold your pendant to Thomas Weller, a pendant collector in Southbury."

Aria perked up at the name. "What happened in the fire that year?" she asked.

"We fled after switching you with the Kents' daughter," Olivia confessed with a hint of fear in her eyes. "At that time
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