My grandmother is the wealthiest person in Country A, and I’m her only granddaughter. Yet, my two brothers let their mistress take my place. Before the centennial celebration of SkyRise Corporation began, Lydia took the seat meant for the corporation’s daughter and feigned sincerity as she said to me, “If it weren’t for the brothers insisting I bring you out into the world, a poor student like you would never set foot in SkyRise Corporation.” “Make sure you behave later and don’t cause trouble for me, or the brothers will have no mercy on you.” In my previous life, my brothers’ threats made me timid and submissive to Lydia. But now, I’ve been reborn. As Lydia continued her nonsense, I kicked her a meter away. “Who do you think you are? Lecturing me like that!” My reckless action immediately drew everyone’s attention. Finn rushed over to comfort Lydia, while Jasper slapped me twice. Seeing their treasured friend kicked away, my brothers were heartbroken and angrily glared at me. “Adeline, have you lost your mind, daring to hit our sister!” Looking at my aggressive brothers, I realized how foolish I was to ever think they felt sibling affection for me. Pointing at Lydia, whom they were protecting, I loudly mocked, “She’s just a mistress. Am I, the rightful daughter of the corporation and granddaughter of the wealthiest, not qualified to hit her?” Hearing this, Finn was instantly enraged and pushed me to the ground. “Adeline, Lydia kindly funded your education, yet here you are, spouting nonsense.” “Everyone here, listen up. Lydia is my grandmother’s real granddaughter and the true heiress of SkyRise Corporation.” I looked at Finn in disbelief. “She’s my grandmother’s real granddaughter? The heiress of SkyRise Corporation? “Finn, how dare you say such things? You have some nerve!” Jasper rolled his eyes at me disdainfully. “Adeline, did you forget to take your meds today? You’re losing it again.” Lydia then started to cry hypocritically. “It’s all my fault. I knew Adeline had mental issues, yet I still brought her here.” Their twisted dialogue was heard loud and clear by everyone in the hall. Suddenly, those around me looked at me with disdain. “So Adeline is just a poor student funded by the heiress, no wonder she’s so shabbily dressed.” “The heiress is truly kind-hearted to support someone mentally unstable and morally questionable.” Finn then called for Assistant Zach from the corporation. “Take Adeline out of here. Without my permission, she’s not allowed to step foot in the corporation again.” I looked at the assistant approaching with security. “Mr. Zach, you’ve been with my father for years. How can you not recognize the true heiress of the corporation?” Mr. Zach stopped in his tracks, stunned. “I… I…” Jasper glared at him displeased. “Mr. Zach, my brother is the future heir of the corporation. If you disobey his orders, are you looking to get fired?” Mr. Zach turned pale with fright, looking at me uneasily. “Miss, I have a family to support. Please, don’t make this hard for me. Come with me.” He signaled the security to drag me away. Seeing them closing in, I grabbed a vase from the table and threw it forcefully. “Not only am I the heiress of SkyRise Corporation, but I’m also the sole heir. Touch me if you dare!” The sound of the vase shattering and my furious voice echoed throughout the banquet hall. Hearing my declaration, those around me began to sneer. “Looks like she’s really lost it, pretending to be the granddaughter of the wealthiest, and now claiming to be the heir. Ridiculous.” “Even if she were the granddaughter, a woman wouldn’t inherit the corporation, especially since there are two grandsons.” Facing my arrogant brothers, I directly questioned them. “Finn, are you sure you and Jasper have the right to inherit?” Jasper’s eyes flickered for a moment but quickly returned to normal. He tugged at Finn’s sleeve. “Finn, today’s a joyous day. The elders will be here soon. Let’s just drop it.” Seeing Jasper’s reaction, I knew he remembered his background and was getting scared. After all, my grandmother, the wealthiest woman in Country A, only had my mother as her daughter. After my mother passed, I became her only granddaughter. My two brothers were merely the orphaned children of my father’s brother. When their parents died, my father couldn’t bear to see his nephews suffer, so he brought them into the family. They have no blood relation to my mother or grandmother and can’t possibly inherit the SkyRise Corporation founded by my grandmother. But Finn didn’t care about what I said. Instead, he frowned and glared at Jasper. “She just hit Lydia. Can you really let Lydia suffer?” “Adeline, it seems your condition has worsened. How about having the assistant send you to a mental institution?” Hearing those words, my chest filled with hatred. I remembered the pain of being in a mental institution in my past life, where Lydia extracted my blood and skin. Yes, in my previous life, Finn and Jasper conspired against me to win Lydia’s favor. They plotted and harmed me. Lydia, being a medical student, always had a desire. She wanted to see the differences between a living and a dead body. When my brothers found out, they assisted Lydia in dissecting me alive. Even though I grew up with them, living together for 18 years, they let Lydia impersonate me and helped her torture me. Now, I understand. In my brothers’ eyes, family means nothing. Only love matters to them. But now I’m curious. When love and power are at stake, how will my brothers choose? With this thought, I chuckled coldly. “I’m asking you for the last time, who is the true heiress and heir of SkyRise Corporation?” Before my brothers could answer, Celeste, the daughter of a business partner under the corporation, rushed out and slapped me. “Outrageous! A funded poor student dares to act out in SkyRise Corporation? Know your place.” I know Celeste because she’s not only been secretly in love with Finn but also dreams of marrying him to become the future chairman’s wife. Since she heard Lydia is the granddaughter of the wealthiest, the heiress of SkyRise Corporation, she’s been flattering Lydia for two months, trying to build a good sister-in-law relationship and appear as a good wife to Finn. But she’s flattering the wrong person. Lydia isn’t the heiress of SkyRise Corporation; she’s Celeste’s rival, and the mistress Finn has secretly supported for years. I wasn’t about to take Celeste’s slap for nothing, so I kicked her hard in the stomach. “Who do you think you are? A daughter of a third-rate company’s CEO dares to hit me! With one word from me, your family goes bankrupt.” Celeste clutched her stomach in pain, looking at me in disbelief. “Adeline, you dare kick me? My parents never even scolded me!” “Wait and see, I won’t let you off!” Lydia, feeling guilty, grabbed Celeste’s hand. “Celeste, don’t mind her. She’s not right in the head. I’ll apologize on her behalf.” I looked at Lydia disdainfully and sneered. “I think you’re the one who’s crazy. Giving up being a mistress to impersonate the heiress at such an important event.” I turned to my brothers, pointing at the door, and coldly said, “If you want to play role-playing games with your lover, then take your mistress and get out of my corporation!” My brothers glared at me, their faces dark. “Lydia, I’m telling you, we have real power in the corporation, while you’re still in school. If anyone leaves, it’s you!” “What’s going on here? Why are you all standing? Go take your seats.” A dignified, extraordinary middle-aged man squeezed in. He is Declan, the CEO of SkyRise Corporation, and my biological father. Yet, he hurried over to Lydia, raising his hand to wipe her tears. “Lydia, don’t cry. Who bullied you?” “Tell me, and I’ll stand up for you!” Finn angrily pointed at me. “Who else but Adeline, this impudent girl, would dare bully Lydia under my nose?” Hearing this, my father displeased, slapped me. “Adeline, you really have some nerve, taking advantage of others’ power to bully Lydia.” “Kneel and apologize to Lydia immediately, or you won’t get any living expenses for the next year.” Looking at my father, who blamed me without understanding the situation, I felt utterly disappointed. As expected, my father is just like in my past life, blindly favoring Lydia along with my brothers. Though I anticipated this, my heart still ached. I never understood why I, his daughter, was treated this way, while Lydia, just the brothers’ plaything, received his favor. “Adeline, you really have some nerve, daring to push Lydia around using someone else’s influence.” “Kneel and apologize to Lydia right now, or you can forget about receiving any living expenses for the next year.” Seeing my father blame me without knowing the full story filled me with disappointment. As expected, my father remained the same as in my past life, blindly favoring Lydia along with my two brothers. Although I had anticipated this, it still pained me. I never understood it before. I am my father’s daughter, yet Lydia was just a toy for my brothers. But once my father met Lydia, it was like he was bewitched by her. Especially after learning that both my brothers had been supporting Lydia, he was furious and punished them severely for an entire day and night. At that time, I even tried to intervene and defend them, but my father accidentally struck me twice. The marks from those strikes are still on my arm to this day. Afterward, my father not only forbade my brothers from supporting Lydia but even used his connections to get her into the best university in Country A. He also told my brothers that if they truly liked Lydia, they should compete fairly to win her hand in marriage. And whoever succeeded in marrying Lydia would inherit his fortune. In my past life, my father’s strange behavior piqued my curiosity, so I secretly investigated Lydia’s background. I later discovered that Lydia was the daughter of my father’s first love. Lydia resembled her mother, and my father recognized her immediately. The pull of a lost love is indeed powerful; just one familiar face was enough to capture my father’s heart. It’s sad for my late mother, who never knew that my father harbored feelings for another woman. Thinking of this, I looked at my father with a mocking smile. “I won’t apologize!” “But my brothers claimed Lydia is their sister, the heiress of SkyRise Corporation. Don’t you have anything to explain to everyone?” Upon hearing this, Lydia immediately looked at my father with teary eyes because she knew he couldn’t stand seeing her cry. As expected, seeing Lydia break down, my father slapped me twice more. “Explain what? They’re right; Lydia is my beloved daughter, the heiress of SkyRise Corporation.” Seeing my father lie so blatantly, I shouted at him in anger. “Declan, do you think you’re being fair to my deceased mother? Can you repeat what you just said with a clear conscience?” My father ignored me and looked at my brothers. “Throw this trash, who bullied your sister, out.” Looking at my cold and unfeeling father, my heart was filled with mixed emotions. Ha, is this the man my mother loved all her life? Is this the biological father I admired for 18 years? I think my mother never expected, while she was alive, that the two sons she kindly adopted would harm her beloved daughter for a mistress. And that her husband would not protect his own daughter but would instead throw her out for the child of his first love. At this moment, I truly felt sad for myself and my deceased mother. I lifted my head and met my father’s eyes directly, speaking coldly. “This is my family’s SkyRise Corporation; you outsiders have no right to flaunt here!” I deliberately emphasized “my family’s.” As soon as I finished speaking, my father was completely enraged. He ordered my brothers to come forward and hold me down tightly so I couldn’t move. “Yours? How laughable!” Then my father walked behind me, grabbed my hair, and smashed my forehead against the glass wall of the hall. “For years, I’ve been managing SkyRise Corporation. Why can’t it be mine, Declan’s? Why can’t I decide the heir?” I held back my tears and shouted firmly, “SkyRise Corporation belongs to my grandmother. I am the sole heir of the corporation!” “Bang, bang, bang,” my forehead was pushed against the glass wall again as soon as I finished speaking. My father continued to roar, “Adeline, stop dreaming. I gave SkyRise Corporation to Lydia as a dowry last year. Whoever marries Lydia will inherit SkyRise Corporation!” My father’s words shocked everyone present, and the way they looked at Lydia became even more intense. At this moment, an old and sharp female voice came from behind me. “Declan, dare to say that again! Who is the heir of SkyRise Corporation?” I’m sorry, but it seems that the text for translation is missing. Could you please provide the Chinese text that you would like to have translated? Chapter Four Upon hearing that familiar voice, Father and my two brothers immediately released me. As I looked at the elegant woman before me, the tears that had been welling up in my eyes finally spilled over. Ignoring the pain coursing through my body, I rushed into her embrace and clung tightly to her waist. “Grandma, I’ve missed you so much.”
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