Chapter 2

The sound of the vase shattering and my furious roar echoed through the entire hall.

Hearing what I said, the crowd burst into mocking laughter.

"She must be really sick in the head. First she pretended to be the richest woman's granddaughter, and now she's claiming to be the heir of the company? That's beyond ridiculous."

"Exactly. Even if she was the richest woman's biological granddaughter, it's not like a woman would ever inherit the company. After all, the richest woman has two grandsons."

Looking at my two arrogant so-called brothers, I questioned them directly.

"David, are you sure you and Evan have inheritance rights?"

Evan's eyes flickered, but he quickly regained his composure and tugged on David's sleeve.

"David, today's a day of celebration. The family elders will be arriving soon. Maybe we should just drop this."

Seeing Evan back down like that, I knew he was starting to panic. He had remembered his background.

Nancy Muller only had one daughter, Mona Muller, who was also my mother. After Mona passed away, I became Nancy's only direct descendant.

My two so-called older brothers were merely my uncle's orphaned sons.

After their parents died, my father, Bobby Watson, had taken them in out of pity, not wanting to see his nephews suffer. That was how they ended up in the Muller family.

They had no blood ties to Mona or Nancy, and therefore absolutely no claim to Skyrise Group, the empire Nancy built from the ground up.

Yet David clearly didn't care about any of that. Instead, he furrowed his brows and glared at Evan.

"She just hit Tina. Are you seriously going to let her get away with that?

"Cindy, looks like your condition's gotten worse. Maybe we should have Zachary take you back to the psychiatric ward for treatment."

The words psychiatric ward made my blood boil.

I instantly recalled how I was locked in a psychiatric ward in my past life. Tina had my blood drawn and skinned me alive.

Yes, in my previous life, David and Evan both betrayed me for Tina.

They worked together to destroy me.

Tina was a medical student with a sick fascination.

She wanted to see firsthand the differences between the anatomy of the living and the dead.

My two so-called brothers helped her dissect me alive.

We had grown up together and lived under the same roof for eighteen years.

To make Tina happy, they let her steal my identity and helped her torture me every single day.

Now, I finally understood.

In their eyes, family meant nothing. Love was all that mattered.

But now I was curious. If love and power were placed on a scale, which would they choose?

I let out a cold chuckle.

"I'll ask one last time. Who is the true heiress of Skyrise Group?"

Before either of them could answer, a woman stormed forward and slapped me hard across the face.

It was Christina Sanders, daughter of one of Skyrise Group's partners.

"How dare you? A scholarship freeloader like you dared to stir up trouble at Skyrise Group's event? Do you even know your place?"

I knew exactly who Christina was. She'd been obsessed with David for years and had always fantasized about marrying him and becoming the future CEO's wife.

Ever since she heard Tina was supposedly the heiress of Skyrise Group, she'd been kissing up to Tina nonstop for the past two months. She constantly ran errands for Tina and tried to earn brownie points in front of David.

It was too bad that she backed the wrong horse.

Not only was Tina not the heiress, but she was also Christina's romantic rival. She was David's side chick, tucked away in the background like some dirty little secret.

There was no way I'd let Christina get away with that slap.

I lifted my leg and kicked her hard in the stomach.

"And who do you think you are? The daughter of some insignificant CEO? How dare you lay a hand on me? I can have your entire family bankrupt with a single instruction."

Christina clutched her stomach in pain and looked at me in utter disbelief.

"Cindy, how dare you actually kick me? My dad and mom have never even raised their voices at me!

"You'll regret this. I swear I'll make you pay."

Tina stepped forward and pulled Christina aside.

"Christina, don't stoop to her level. She's not right in the head. I'll apologize on her behalf," she said guiltily.

I sneered and shot Tina a cold look.

"No, I think it's you who's lost your mind. Why give up your position as a pampered sugar baby just to impersonate an heiress at an event like this?"

I turned to face my two brothers, raised my hand, and pointed at the door.

"Well, since you're so committed to playing this twisted role-playing game, why don't the both of you take your little sweetheart and get the hell out of my company?"