Every ten years, the Rodriguez's main family would required each of their branch family to send their young family member to them.
This member had to be from the younger generation and would supposedly bring honor to the family.
However, it was also a method for the Rodriguez's main family to select promising members, and this selection process would often led to casualties.
Otherwise, Arthur Rodriguez wouldn't have had the original owner to become a stand in for Alex Rodriguez.
The Rodriguez's main family didn't require the representative to have the Rodriguez family surname; any relative from the branch was eligible.
In Alex Rodriguez generation, aside from him, only the original owner remained.
If Arthur didn't choose the original owner, who else could he choose?
He knew best about Alex Rodriguez capabilities as his father.
Sending Alex Rodriguez to the Rodriguez's main family was the same sending him to his death.
Arthur Rodriguez nurtured the original owner like a delicate flower, and causing her to have unwavering faith in him.
She never doubted the reasons the Rodriguez family had for bringing her there.
However, Grace Rodriguez and Alex Rodriguez didn't like her.
Although the original owner was sent to represent Alex Rodriguez at the Rodriguez's main family, it was also an opportunity to stand out.
In the minds of the siblings, the original owner seemed to have gained a significant advantage, and they often targeted her behind Arthur Rodriguez back.
Although their intentions only being to make things difficult for the original owner, they were oblivious to the fact that their jests, in her eyes, would ultimately cost her life.
The original owner only learned this truth before her death.
In the restroom of the club, she overheard a conversation between Grace Rodriguez and Alex Rodriguez.
she knew that the Rodriguez siblings disliked her and even looked down on her.
Their words weren't kind.
The one year familial warmth turned out to be just a deception.
The original owner treasured family bonds deeply, and upon hearing those hurtful words, her heart was struck with anguish.
Coupled with Grace Rodriguez's deception in tearing a page from her cultivation technique, the situation grew even graver.
That cultivation technique was a gift from Arthur Rodriguez to the original owner, and it was delivered through Grace Rodriguez.
However, as Grace Rodriguez disliked the original owner, she tore out a crucial page from the cultivation technique, unbeknownst to her.
With the original owner cultivated in the wrong order and her body harboring hidden dangers.
All it took was a trigger before catastrophic outbreak, and that trigger was the revelation of Arthur Rodriguez's true intentions.
Although the original owner soul had vanished, the pain of betrayal still lingered in her memories.
Amalia face twisted for a moment as she suppressed the lingering pain of the original owner.
The original owner's experience actually quiet similar to hers.
She also had once enjoyed a blissful family, but later her family was destroyed, and she become an orphan.
However, unlike the original owner, she was less fortunate, since she doesn't have the loving foster parents like she had.
She had to fend for herself from a young age, and not expecting anything from others or hoping for kindness, as those gestures might be a honeyed traps that was concealing a poison – similar to Arthur Rodroguez gestures towards the original owner.
Amalia wiped away the involuntary tears that had welled up on her face and left the neon-lit club, and come to the Rodriguez's residence, which was also brigthly lit.