The Fake Heiress Said I Was Faking Being Mute, Until the Sign Language Teacher Understood My Cry for Help

"I have mutism.

When I was five, I said I was hungry. My adoptive mother locked me in an abandoned wine cellar on the family estate.

She said I could come out when I learned to shut up.

After that, I never spoke again.

When I was eighteen, the Moretti family found me. They said I was their long-lost real daughter.

The night I came home, the fake heiress Isabella packed her bags with red eyes:

“You won't call me sister. That means you don't want me in this house.”

“Don't make this hard. I'll leave on my own!”

I froze. I raised my hands and signed:

[No. I just can't speak.]