"This..." John hesitated.
I explained, "Although my grades are very good, St. George doesn't only look at grades.
"In the past sixteen years, I haven't received any so-called noble elite education.
"The things that St. George students can do easily like horseback riding, flower arrangement, and art appreciation, I don't know any of them at all. This is already an obstacle for me to integrate into the St. George circle.
"If I enter St. George with an ambiguous identity again, I am very likely to become the object of exclusion or even bullying.
"I don't want to waste my time dealing with such things.
"So I need an identity that even if people look down on me in their hearts, they still have to be polite to me on the surface."
The more I talked, the more approval appeared on John's face.
So much so that as soon as I finished speaking, he directly agreed, "Okay, do as you ask."
"Dad..." When Anna heard John agree to me to disclose my identity, she couldn't sit still immediately. But she didn't dare to directly refute John, so she could only look at John pitifully.
Elizabeth also persuaded John, "Husband, if we directly disclose that Anna and Alice were mistakenly switched at birth, I'm worried that Anna will be wronged at school."
"This..." John looked at Anna and then at me. Obviously, he was a bit regretful that he had agreed to me so quickly.
Seeing John's wavering expression, Elizabeth hurriedly said, "Alice, do you think you can say that you and Anna are sisters?"
"Do you mean that I, Alex, and Anna are triplets?"
I gave Elizabeth an expression that said "Do you think it's believable?"
Elizabeth's expression froze.
"All right." At this time John said, "After school starts, I will donate a batch of teaching equipment to the school in Anna's name. In this way, the outside world will understand our attention to Anna, and no one will dare to mention Anna's identity again."
Seeing that the matter had been decided, Anna had to suppress her "grievance" and say to John, "Thank you, Dad."
By the way, she also gave me a resentful look.
But I didn't care much.
Because at this moment I just realized that it is so simple for rich people to solve a problem.
Obviously it is a dilemma, but as long as a batch of equipment worth tens of millions is donated, while disclosing the identity of the biological daughter, it can convey the message that the Ellie family will not give up the adopted daughter because of this.
Thinking of when grandma was sick back then, in order for me to continue studying at ease, she didn't get treatment and kept it from me until it became terminal illness.
There are also families who, because they can't afford the tuition fees for two children, have to sacrifice one of the children.
I am even more convinced that I want to succeed.
I want to lift myself to a higher position and let myself and the people I care about jump out of this situation of struggling between dilemmas due to material poverty.
So after dinner, I immediately went back to my room, took out the senior three textbooks that I had already finished learning through online courses, and reviewed the knowledge points again while flipping through the books.
In the following days, I either study in my room or go out to install computers.
I have almost no interaction with Anna.
Even if she wants to show off the new furniture customized by Elizabeth and the haute couture dresses she bought to me, she can hardly find me.
But as long as Alex sees me going out when he is at home, he will definitely follow me.
Even before the Spring Festival, when I went back to visit grandma's grave, he also followed me.
Under the pretext of wanting to see the place where I used to live.
"After all, we are twins."
I don't know since when Alex has liked to say this sentence.
He said that to some extent, I am another him after a gender transformation, and he is me who wasn't mistakenly switched at birth.
In response to this, I can only disdainfully take out his final exam results, and then take him to eat the ramen that I liked the most before.
A small bowl costs six yuan, and you can add two vegetarian dishes.
But the landlady always secretly adds more noodles for me, and sometimes hides a poached egg under the noodles.
Then, I took Alex to my former junior high school.
I found the teaching director and donated the 200,000 yuan that John gave me to the school.
After grandma died back then, it was her and my teachers who helped me take care of grandma's funeral.
It was also her who, after I was admitted to high school, contacted her old classmate and helped me apply for tuition reduction.
Finally, I took him and my childhood friends to Brother Shan's house for a meal.
After seeing the strange second-hand assembled computers in Brother Shan's store, he finally understood how the junk computer that I used for video editing and had a shoebox as the case came from.
Looking at the way I get along with these people, Alex is actually a little envious.
When we went back, Brother Shan drove his van and sent us to the high-speed rail station.
Until getting off the car, he was still listening enthusiastically to Sister Shan telling him how I outwitted the black-hearted boss before, and how I led the whole class and the police to the classmate's house whose parents withdrew her from school to exchange for betrothal gifts to rescue her.
On New Year's Eve, Anna and I were both wearing dresses designed by Elizabeth. But there was an extra sapphire necklace worth tens of millions specially made by Elizabeth for Anna around her neck.
Albert even directly gave her a sports car, even though she can't get a driver's license yet.
Because today John is going to officially announce my identity in front of all relatives and friends of the family.
They are showing off for Anna.
Regarding this, Anna is very proud and comes to show off in front of me from time to time.
She is sure that I won't embarrass the whole family on such an important occasion.
Looking at her finally being elated for once, I silently took out my phone recording and shook it in front of her, and then went to find John alone.
After coming out of John's study, John announced that he would give me a villa worth 50 million under his name as a gift for me coming home.
At this moment, Anna couldn't smile again.
And at this time, Alex also came over mysteriously and said that he had a New Year gift for me.
He pulled me to the underground garage.
Beside my original second-hand women's bicycle was a pink Luna electric scooter that had already been licensed.
A pink mobile phone holder and a windproof cover have been installed on it.
There is also a box next to it, which contains a notebook with a 4090 configuration.
"This is not as good as the sports car and gem given by brother and mom, but this is earned by me making videos. Don't be too touched." Alex raised his chin, looking very proud.
Since Alex found out that I was making money by making videos, he also opened a video account called "Going to work with my elder sister".
Because of his good looks and the identity of a rich young master, and his naive look towards poverty but never being stubborn and always being receptive to advice, his account soon had many fans.
"Why are you crying?"
Alex immediately became nervous.
"Nonsense." I sniffed, took out a helmet and put it on his head. "Let's go. Sister will take you for a ride."
After circling around the park, both of us were frozen numb.
"Forget it. In winter, it's better to let the driver take us."
Alex rubbed his ears with both hands. When he turned his head and saw me also rubbing my ears, he was stunned for a moment.
"I found out that we have some small actions that are really similar. No wonder we are twins."
I smiled and said, "Come on. Even if I take the exam with my toes, I can't get 56 points in math."
"That's because I didn't take it seriously." He was full of confidence. "Wait and see. Next semester I will show you my real strength."
"Then I'll be waiting."
The two of us went upstairs from the underground garage laughing and joking, but we met Anna at the stairway entrance.
She gave us a sullen look and then turned and left.
"I'll go and see." Alex said to me with some difficulty.
"Go ahead." I nodded. After all, we are siblings who have grown up together for so many years. I can understand.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Anna to be coaxed by him and was chatting and laughing with him again.