Chapter 1

Five years ago, my family suddenly went bankrupt. My sister got cancer, and the entire family relied on me to survive.

But when I returned to the villa we used to live in, I found the lights blazing inside. My parents and my sister, who was supposed to be gravely ill, were enjoying a lavish dinner in the living room, their mouths greasy with food.

They were watching a video of me working three jobs a day, pointing and commenting.

"No, she's still not ruthless enough. She can't even compare to us when we started from scratch." My mother, Eleanor, said, eating premium Kobe steak.

"She needs to suffer a bit more before she's worthy of being our heir." My sister, Chloe, casually tossed the birthday teddy bear I bought her into the trash.

"Olivia still isn't working hard enough."

I was utterly heartbroken. It turned out the bankruptcy was fake, the illness was fake, everything was a lie concocted by them to pressure and "educate" me.

So, I partnered with my arch-rival and had all of my family's assets seized.

You said I wasn't working hard enough, not ruthless enough? Well, now that I am ruthless, why are you crying and begging me?