Claimed by Eight Overprotective Brothers

SkyStory 1 Chapters English

I was supposed to be the undisputed heroine of this high-society romance. By the rules of the genre, my existence at St. Jude’s Preparatory Academy should have revolved around an agonizing, star-crossed tango with the four heirs of the city’s ruling dynasties. But they didn’t want me. Instead, they lost their collective minds over a doe-eyed scholarship transfer named Pearl, whose fragile innocence was apparently catnip to their pampered egos. To clear a path for their grand romance, they armed her with a literal Copycat System designed to erase me, mimic my every trait, and usurp my role as the story’s leading lady. When I studied until dawn to secure the top rank in our class, they bribed the proctors so Pearl could share my GPA. When I coded an algorithmic framework that swept the national cybersecurity qualifiers, they poured venture capital into the foundation to secure her an automatic bypass straight to the finals. Even my natural hallmarks—the spunky, iridescent pastel sheen of my hair and my striking, inherited heterochromia—were systematically manufactured for her. They paid for bespoke follicle implants, couture dye jobs, and custom hand-painted colored lenses. By the night of the annual winter pageant, she stepped onto the stage looking like an uncanny mirror image of me, tying for first place. When the disembodied chimes of her interface calculated her mimicry rate at ninety-nine percent, she cornered me, flanked by her four devoted princes. Tilting her head with that practiced, butter-wouldn’t-melt sweetness, she offered a smug little smirk. "I’m so sorry, Lyra," she purred. "I guess it turns out that if you dream hard enough, anyone can be the star of the show." I had to suppress a laugh. Did these idiots genuinely have no clue what kind of story this was? This wasn’t an innocent boarding-school melodrama. It was a secret-identity thriller, and I was the apex predator playing in the kiddie pool. She wanted to mirror me down to the last percentile?

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