Chapter 7
Before I could even open my mouth, David stepped forward to defend Bobby.
“Grandma, it’s all Mom’s fault. She spoiled Cindy too much when she was alive. That’s why Cindy turned out so arrogant and willful.
“If Cindy had fixed her attitude sooner and become more demure like Tina, we would have treated her better.”
As soon as David finished, Evan added, “Cindy, everything we did was to toughen you up and mold you into a worthy heiress to the company. You should really appreciate the tough love we gave you.”
Looking at my two shameless brothers, I laughed coldly.
“So, what you’re saying is that it’s all Mom’s fault? Are you blaming her for not raising me right?
“You two are truly shameless. Mom took you in, raised you, and gave you positions in the company. Now that she’s gone, you’re badmouthing her and bullying her only daughter.”
Seeing that Nancy ignored them and I was clearly immune to their gaslighting, the two finally dropped their act.
“Cindy, are you sure you want to make enemies of us?”
I looked at them with disdain.
“Don’t think that just because I used to treat you as brothers, I’m afraid of you. Even if you want to go against me, you wouldn’t
stand a chance.
“After all, Grandma is the wealthiest woman alive, and I’m now the head of Skyrise Group. You two are just orphaned freeloaders. What makes you think you can challenge me?”
Bobby looked at me with eyes full of disappointment.
“Cindy! How can you be so heartless to your own father and your brothers? Aren’t you afraid of being condemned by the world?”
I shrugged. “From the moment you publicly claimed Tina as your daughter, and from the moment you and my brothers joined hands to hurt me, we ceased to be family.”
Seeing there was no saving Bobby or my brothers, I couldn’t even be bothered to tell Bobby about the twisted plot between Luke
and Tina.
When the cleaning staff told me the room had been tidied, I gave the order to the bodyguards.
“Get these strangers out of my house. From now on, without my permission, they are not to come near this villa.”
Too much had happened that day. Nancy was too old for this. She went to rest.
I went to Mona’s grave and paid my respects.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was her spirit, watching from above, that had given me this second chance at life.
That night, I dreamed of her.
Just like before, she called my name softly, tucked me in bed, told me bedtime stories, and cooked delicious meals for me.
At the end of the dream, she kissed my forehead and said, “Cindy, you’re all grown up.”
When I woke up, my pillow was soaked with tears, and my eyes were swollen.
The next day, Nancy held a grand handover ceremony, and I officially became the head of Skyrise Group.
After Bobby and my brothers left the Muller family, no company dared to take them in. Even their old friends distanced
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themselves. No one wanted to go against Skyrise Group.
With no options left, my brothers ended up working as male escorts at nightclubs, while Tina started working there, too.
I was too busy managing the company to keep track of them.
A year later, I was suddenly targeted by haters online. Skyrise Group was boycotted, and our stock price began to plummet.
It turned out that my brothers and Tina had spent the past year becoming social influencers, amassing millions of followers.
With their rising popularity, they started slandering me during livestreams.
My brothers told sob stories about how they were adopted by the richest family in the country but suffered each day.
They claimed Nancy and Mona abused them every day, and that I, drunk on power as the heiress, would beat them for no reason.
To gain sympathy, they even showed scars on their bodies, falsely claiming they were from me.
Those scars were actually from years ago, when Bobby beat them with a cane after learning they were keeping Tina as their sugar baby.
Luke even came forward to testify as our former butler, claiming every word of their story was true.
To make things worse for me, Bobby joined their livestream and slandered me too.
He claimed I was an ungrateful daughter who threw her own father out on the street with nothing to his name.
Soon, I was completely cancelled online. I even received threats and hate messages every day.
I decided to respond with a countrywide livestream of my own.
With flawless makeup on, I looked straight into the camera and calmly said, “Yes, I’m Cindy, the so–called arrogant and domineering heiress who beat her two brothers and cut ties with her biological father.
“For those who want to criticize me, this livestream is open. Just for today, nobody will be banned for anything they say.”
