Chapter 1369

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“You were jealous of my father, which is why you refuse to acknowledge his brilliance.”

“You always assumed that because my father came from a remote village, he had to be worse off than you.”

“You thought Agassi should be crushed beneath your heel. How could he possibly outshine you and win the heart of Cabinda’s wealthiest heiress?”

“Frederick Vane, your mind is narrow and filthy. People like you are nothing but rats scurrying in the gutter.”

“As for my father… was he really that poor? Or did you just blindly assume that anyone from the country had to be more destitute than you?”

Claire’s rapid-fire mockery struck Vane like a physical blow.

That particular question was Agassi really that broke?-struck a nerve deep within Vane.

Wait, was Agassi actually poor?

He flashed back to his early teaching days. When he found out his top student was from a remote village, he immediately assumed Agassi’s family was as dirt-poor as his own!

Seeing Agassi wear shirts that had been washed until the colors faded only cemented his arrogant assumption.

But looking back carefully… while Agassi’s clothes weren’t trendy, they didn’t have a single patch on them. The style was old-fashioned, but the fabric was high quality.

In the winter, the heavy coats Agassi wore were thick and insulated.

And he had more than one!

Unlike him, who only had two thin coats to alternate between, one of which was so worn the stuffing had clumped together.

In the cafeteria, Agassi wasn’t so broke that he had to survive on a single roll washed down with plain water.

He brought homemade snacks to the dining hall, and plenty of students actually begged him for a bite.

Some even traded their meat dishes just to have some.

Back then, Vane just thought Agassi was a cheap opportunist, using cheap snacks

to hustle people out of their expensive meat.

He assumed Agassi was desperate for a taste of luxury.

But what if the reality was the exact opposite? What if people craved his food so much they were willing to trade their prime cuts for it?

Retracing those memories, he realized Agassi was never as destitute as he wanted to believe.

Whenever the university required tuition or fees, Agassi never once delayed his payments.

“See? My father never actually claimed to be struggling financially, did he?”

“It was all just your own projection.”

Claire’s words sliced through Vane’s ego.

But worse, they sent him spiraling into crushing self-doubt.

If Agassi’s poverty was nothing but a delusion, what was the actual truth?

The next second, Claire dealt the

final blow. “In reality, a single given to

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as a wedding gift was wortho hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“Impossible!” Vane refused to believe it.

“He came from the middle of nowhere!”

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Seeing him trapped in his own denial Claire scoffed. Then you clearly have no idea that remote. villages have their own wealthy elites.”

Vane froze, a horrifying realization dawning on him.

“Impossible… how could that be?”

If his family was old money, then keeping a low profile during those university years made perfect sense.

After all, they had just survived those turbulent times.

If political tides shifted again, flashy wealth would make them immediate targets.

“So that’s how it was… That’s how it was!” Vane completely broke down.

He had spent his whole life believing Agassi was a penniless peasant. Agassis utter indifference to wealth made Vane feel like the inferior half of a twisted rivalry Content belong’s

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The thought of a broke country boy landing a rich, beautiful heiress had poisoned Vane’s mind with envy.

It was the jealousy that drove him to betray everything to climb to the top.

But what if they had been perfectly matched in status all along?

Then what the hell was he jealous of?

Why had he let it destroy him?

“Save your mental breakdown. It’s not a crime that you weren’t as rich as my parents.”

“After all, the vast majority of the world didn’t have their kind of money.”

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