Narrates Diana.
As I attempted to walk in the way Emma does, I heard the door to my room being opened. Immediately, my mother entered, with a face that seemed like she hadn't gone to the bathroom in a long time.
I tried to ignore my mother, who just walked into my room with a blue dress in her hands and a pair of matching shoes.
"Di-Diana, I have brought the most beautiful dress and the shoes you'll wear tonight to greet Mr. Zhoa."
"Remember, you must look as beautiful as Emma..." I heard my mother's cold voice coming from the doorway of my room.
I turned to look at her, furious. I had the urge to scream and let out everything I had been holding inside. But unfortunately, I couldn't say anything. I had to swallow all the frustration that was consuming me and continue trying to be a person I was far from being.
"Leave it on the bed, and when I finish trying to be Emma, I'll take it to change," I said, attempting once again to take a step with these damn twenty-centimeter heels that Emma wears.
As I tried to take another step towards the bed, I felt a strong push that knocked me down to the floor. In just a second, my ankles twisted, causing me to cry out in pain.
"Ouch!"
Instead of apologizing for pushing me, my mother started shouting furiously, pointing her finger at me.
"You're a complete idiot, Diana! You can't even walk in beautiful 40-centimeter heels."
"What will happen when you have to wear Emma's dresses? You won't even be able to walk. All her dresses are tight-fitted."
"You're nothing but a stupid girl who can't be like Emma. I can't understand how I gave birth to such a foolish girl."
Each word that came out of Tania's lips felt like swords piercing deep into my heart.
I couldn't believe that a mother could say such cruel things to her own daughter. I reached a point where I grew tired of listening to each curse coming out of this wicked woman's mouth.
I made a great effort to get up from the floor and not shed a single tear in front of this woman.
"If you love Emma so much as your daughter, why don't you leave Sara and me alone and stop blackmailing me with her? Sara is not to blame for anything. She and I can go far away where no one can find us. Just allow me to be with Sara and disappear from your lives forever."
My mother's face changed upon hearing my words; at that moment, it was red with anger. Her gaze was like that of a demon about to devour my soul.
"Do you think things are that simple? No, Diana... Things are much more complicated than you can imagine."
"Neither your father nor I will allow Emma to become Edwin Zhoa's wife. So, if you don't do everything you're told and become Emma no later than tonight, Sara will be the one to pay for your rebellion."
After speaking, Tania Wlop turned around to leave my room. For a second, I had the impulse to put an end to all of this and throw myself out of the window. My death would be certain since there is a steel grille at the bottom that my parents had placed after the attempt to escape when I was pregnant with Sara.
When I was only a few months pregnant, my hell began. My parents locked me inside my room until the end of my pregnancy.
It was not convenient for anyone to know that one of Emiliano Wlop's daughters was pregnant with a bastard, as they so fondly call my beloved Sara.
When I was only four months along, I couldn't bear the damn confinement and the countless humiliations from my parents and Emma.
Every day, Emma would come to my room to humiliate and mock my son. One night, I managed to escape through the window and make it to the city. Unfortunately, at dawn, I was captured by my father's men and locked back in the basement of the Wlop mansion.
In that cursed basement, I was imprisoned for the last five months. Until the time came for me to give birth to Sara.
When Sara was born, my life changed completely. I naively believed that my parents would change upon seeing my child, but the moment I held her in my arms to breastfeed...
Emiliano Wlop approached us and snatched her away from me. I tried to defend Sara with the little strength I had left, but Emma intervened.
"Diana, don't even try to help the brat, because if you come near her... I promise she will die." In that moment, Emma pushed me backward and I lost my balance.
Emma chased after Emiliano to take Sara away. I got up from the ground and ran towards the window with the intention of doing the same thing I did when I was pregnant with Sara, but when I looked down, I saw the damn steel bars they had installed.
Since then, I can only catch glimpses of Sara from time to time. If I do anything my parents disapprove of, they blackmail me with her.
Now, if I want to reclaim Sara, I must become Emma and marry a man whom I've never seen in my entire life. And unfortunately, for tonight, I must manage to transform into my sister.
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