Deeply Doted By My Cold-Stepbrother

When she turned eighteen, the Sterling family，who had amassed their fortune in Texas through heavy agricultural machinery and livestock rearing，confirmed via private hospital records that Chloe, brought up in a public shelter, was their biological daughter.But shortly after Chloe came back to the family manor, adopted daughter Emily staged an accidental discharge of a hunting rifle and framed Chloe for murder. Prioritising the family’s reputation and swayed by Emily’s long-present frail demeanour, father Thomas and mother Sierra signed a guardianship committal order without investigation. They had Chloe transported to a fully enclosed military-style “troubled adolescent disciplinary camp” deep within the frozen wastelands of Wyoming.Within this oppressive, human-rights-denying penal facility, Chloe endured five years of gruelling forced labour, solitary confinement desensitisation and psychological destruction. She survived by virtue of a brass seal bequeathed to her on her grandmother’s deathbed, the token embodying the manor’s century-old rights of land adjudication. During her internment, she secretly met Noah, a retired officer and ranch heir, who had also been betrayed by his kin and abandoned at the camp, lying in wait for his chance to retaliate.Five years on, Sterling Manor held a lavish inheritance ceremony for Emily, witnessed by the Agricultural Union. The family intended to transfer full ownership of their twenty-thousand-acre ranch and its deep groundwater irrigation system to her.Carrying unhealed frost wounds and the brass seal capable of invalidating the land deeds, Chloe returned to the manor on a night of blizzards. No longer pleading for hollow recognition of blood ties, she swore before all armed land agents and conservative elders to settle accounts for the abuse inflicted by her hypocritical parents, and reclaim full sovereignty over the land that was hers by right.When she turned eighteen, the Sterling family，who had amassed their fortune in Texas through heavy agricultural machinery and livestock rearing，confirmed via private hospital records that Chloe, brought up in a public shelter, was their biological daughter.But shortly after Chloe came back to the family manor, adopted daughter Emily staged an accidental discharge of a hunting rifle and framed Chloe for murder. Prioritising the family’s reputation and swayed by Emily’s long-present frail demeanour, father Thomas and mother Sierra signed a guardianship committal order without investigation. They had Chloe transported to a fully enclosed military-style “troubled adolescent disciplinary camp” deep within the frozen wastelands of Wyoming.Within this oppressive, human-rights-denying penal facility, Chloe endured five years of gruelling forced labour, solitary confinement desensitisation and psychological destruction. She survived by virtue of a brass seal bequeathed to her on her grandmother’s deathbed, the token embodying the manor’s century-old rights of land adjudication. During her internment, she secretly met Noah, a retired officer and ranch heir, who had also been betrayed by his kin and abandoned at the camp, lying in wait for his chance to retaliate.Five years on, Sterling Manor held a lavish inheritance ceremony for Emily, witnessed by the Agricultural Union. The family intended to transfer full ownership of their twenty-thousand-acre ranch and its deep groundwater irrigation system to her.Carrying unhealed frost wounds and the brass seal capable of invalidating the land deeds, Chloe returned to the manor on a night of blizzards. No longer pleading for hollow recognition of blood ties, she swore before all armed land agents and conservative elders to settle accounts for the abuse inflicted by her hypocritical parents, and reclaim full sovereignty over the land that was hers by right.