"I told you to watch her, to look after her," a voice accused.
"And the doctor said she was okay, yet she's been unconscious for the past four hours, and you're all telling me to calm down."
There was a pause, then the voice continued yelling.
"You're telling me she fainted because of stress?"
"We are sorry, ma'am," another voice said. "Sometimes patients get triggered by certain things. I'm sure she will wake up anytime soon. She's probably exhausted."
Tina took that voice to be the doctor's.
Slowly, she opened her eyes.
She remembered fainting in the arms of that idiot.
"Julia!" Megan cried as she held her daughter tightly. "Please don't scare Mom like that ever again."
"I'm sorry," she apologized, not knowing what else to say, enduring her mother's crushing hug.
"It's good to see you back to life," the doctor joked.
Julia glanced at the doctor. He was handsome, the kind of handsome that could be a model. A pity he chose to be a doctor instead. When she noticed she had been staring for too long, she blushed, embarrassed.
"Emm… am I okay?" she asked, trying to clear the weird air between them.
"Miss Robert, we examined you and you are fine. You fainted due to shock or perhaps intense emotions. I advise you remain for further check-up."
"No, no, I want to get discharged," Tina said.
When she fainted, she suddenly gained Julia's memories. She needed time to go through them. If her memory served her right, it seemed like Julia's accident was planned.
She felt close to the former owner of this body.
They shared the same fate.
She was killed by her boyfriend.
Julia was killed by someone who wanted her father's company.
Julia had lost her father to a heart attack. Her father, owning one of the largest tech companies in the country, had transferred all his shares to her before he died.
But the problem was—
Julia was dumb.
She only knew how to spend money, not make it.
Being the only child, her father pampered her a lot. He sent her to an Ivy League university, paid someone to write her exams while she vacationed on a private yacht.
When the company was passed to her, she was completely lost.
Her mother was just the same.
The shareholders pressured her. Her cousin tried to make her give the company to them. Desperate, she hired a CEO, only for him to betray her, make bad decisions, and push the blame onto her.
Now the shareholders hated her, calling her incompetent.
They even tried to make her cousin the chairwoman.
Megan turned to look at her daughter, worry written all over her face.
"No, sweetie, I think you should stay."
"No, Mom. I have matters at the company. It's best if I go," Julia said.
"Don't worry, your cousin is taking good care of the company."
Her mother didn't know her cousin's true intentions, and Julia thought it was best to keep it that way for now.
"Mom, it's shameless of me to dump all the work on Lily without caring," Julia said as she stood up and removed the IV drip.
Megan helped her daughter carry her purse, knowing she couldn't change her mind.
"Fine. Mom will listen."
While in the car, Julia continued going through the original owner's memories, amazed at how naturally they came.
Does this mean I am her now?
The car entered a massive modern building. Her eyes widened slightly at the exterior. She had seen beautiful architecture before, but this was on a different level.
"I know you prefer living in your own villa, but I think it's best you stay here until you recover," Megan said, mistaking the look on her face for shock.
"Oh, it's not a problem, Mom. I think it's best I stay here."
Megan smiled. "Right, I almost forgot. Leo called while you were at the hospital. He tried calling you but your phone was switched off."
A frown appeared on Julia's face at the mention of her fiancé.
The former owner had been so in love with him that she ignored all the red flags.
Leo was the son of a multimillionaire. His family didn't deal in tech, but they owned large factories. He wanted to enter the tech business, and Julia—the dumb daughter of a tech tycoon—was his best chance.
"What did he want?" Julia asked.
"Don't tell me you had a fight?" Megan asked, noticing her daughter's dark mood.
"No. It's just… if he really cared, why didn't he visit me at the hospital?"
"Because he was busy taking care of the company with Lily."
"What?" Julia screamed, disbelief all over her face. She couldn't remember asking him to do that.
"That's what he called to tell you. You lost your dad, the company is under pressure, everyone is questioning your competence, so he's trying to help. I still wonder why your father never liked him."
"Mom, I think I need to go to the company right now," Julia said, turning to go upstairs.
God surely brought her here for a reason.
How naïve the original owner and her mother were, missing all the red flags.
But then again, she had also been fooled by human nature.
Not this time.
After taking a shower, she changed into a simple white shirt and black pants, tying her hair into a ponytail. She looked like a college student even though she was twenty-three.
The original Julia was a vanity queen. Her wardrobe was as big as Tina's old apartment. She would never dress this simply.
But Tina was too lazy to copy her.
After one last look in the mirror, she selected a car key from the case, sighing at how pampered Julia had been.
Julia drove straight to the company.
Ready to unleash hell on those two.