All Chapters of The Fake Son's Victory: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Howard Moore moved fast.The very next day during recess, he called me out of the classroom right in front of everyone. “Your birth mom is here,” he announced, a mocking smirk plastered across his face.A woman huddled in the corner of the hallway. Her fingers twisted nervously around the stretched-out hem of her faded shirt as she stammered, “H-Hello, Mr. Caleb…”Howard laughed.“Why are you calling him Mr. Caleb? You should call him your precious son.”As he joked, he kept watching my face, waiting for my reaction.I didn’t say anything.But our classmates crowded around us, gasping and shouting. Phone cameras were already raised, their lenses flashing under the lights.“Oh my God, Caleb Moore, isn’t that your family’s housekeeper, Mrs. Zimmer?”“The real heir and the fake heir have been right next to us this whole time?”“Hurry, record this!”Countless looks of disgust landed on me.It was as if I really were the fake heir from some drama, the one who had stolen someone

Maybe because she knew the whole thing was an act, Mrs. Zimmer didn’t make things too hard for me.She cleaned out a small room and let me stay there.Without Howard around to torment me, I actually slept better at night. My grades improved too.One day, our teacher told us there would be a parent-teacher conference.My classmates looked at me and started teasing.“Oh, Caleb, is your housekeeper mom coming?”I didn’t say anything.I just lowered my head and kept working through one practice test after another.It didn’t matter anyway.Ever since I was little, there had never been a parent sitting in my seat at those conferences.Once, I got first place in my class and begged Mom and Dad to attend the parent-teacher meeting for me.But they only said, “Caleb, you’re so sensible. You don’t need us to worry about you, right?”Then they both rushed to attend Howard’s meeting, even though his grades were at the bottom of the class.I wanted Mom and Dad to worry about me too.S

By the time Mom and Dad realized what I was doing, the call had already gone through.Dad stormed over, slapped the phone out of my hand, and crushed it under his shoe.“Caleb, do you really have to make this such a big deal?”“What if I’d taken naked photos of Howard like that?”My tears still fell despite myself.I choked out the question again and again.“Answer me. If I’d done that to Howard, what would you do?”Guilt flickered in Dad’s eyes.But in the next second, that guilt turned into anger.“Caleb, I’m your father. How dare you raise your voice at me?”“Father?”I laughed.“Didn’t you say you picked me up from the street?”The next second, a brutal slap sent me crashing to the floor.Just then, the police arrived.The moment Dad saw the officers, he immediately put on a polite smile.“Officers, this is all a misunderstanding. My younger son made a mistake, and I was just disciplining him.”I said coldly, “A mistake? Howard told someone to take naked pictures o

Howard transferred into my class.Within a few days, he had turned himself into a poor little victim and gotten everyone to shut me out.My roommates looked at me sideways.“Howard, I feel so bad for you. How did you end up with such an ungrateful brat?”Before he could finish, my textbook flew at him.He jumped and dodged out of the way.The whole thing was reported to the teacher soon after.After watching the security footage, the teacher sighed and looked at Howard.“Howard, I don’t care what kind of issues you and Caleb have. Turning the whole class against him is wrong.”Howard had been grinning a second ago.But when the teacher told him to apologize to me, his face filled with disbelief.“Why, Ms. Carter?”In the past, whenever Howard and I had a conflict, everyone always sided with him.At home or outside, it didn’t matter.They always chose the handsome, charming Howard and forced me to apologize.“What do you think?” a boy beside him said with a sneer. “Becaus

Howard and I both started trending online.The difference was, he was getting torn apart, while people couldn’t stop talking about me in disbelief.The posts about me on the school gossip page were dug up too.Then internet users did what internet users did best. They found out that the person who had created that gossip page was Howard.“I heard the student who got accepted early isn’t their biological son. He’s adopted.”“Who believes that? That boy looks exactly like his mom did back in high school. I have a photo of her.”When I saw that comment, I froze for a second.I tapped on the photo and saw an ordinary-looking girl.Only then did I understand.So Mom had looked just like me once.Plain. Unremarkable.Later, she got cosmetic surgery behind her family’s back. After marrying Dad, she gave birth to Howard.Howard inherited all of Dad’s best features and avoided every part of her she hated.As for me, I wasn’t so lucky.I inherited the eyes and nose she had tried so