The First Heir

There was a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties behind Martha. She was very fashionably dressed, a little on the plump side. She had a red LV bag, a jade bangle, a gold chain, and even a stylish older-lady perm.

Everyone could feel her aura the moment she walked in. She oozed luxury!

That was Martha’s second older sister, Philip and Wynn’s second aunt.

Her name was Paula Yates, and she was the second eldest daughter in the family.

Martha had never liked her second older sister.

The two of them would get into catfights every time they met, over the same old things.

Paula had a daughter who married a rich husband. The man had his own company and good connections in society, so Paula’s social status rose accordingly. Life was pretty good for her now.

It was obvious in the way she dressed. She reeked of money.

It was as though she wanted to wear all of her fortunes wherever she went, so that everyone would envy her.

Case in point, Paula gave Philip the stink eye as soon as she walked into the room and saw Philip. “Oh my, isn’t that my dear nephew-in-law, Philip Clarke? How are things for you these days? I hear you’re doing food delivery now. How much do you earn every month? Are you still staying in that tiny 800-square feet house? When are you going to get a bigger place? If you’re out looking, you can ask our Richard. He’s in property, you know, and he can give you a discount.”

As she said that, she even touched her new perm to show off the jade bracelet on her wrist.

“Oh dear, Richard is such a pain sometimes. I told him not to buy this for me, but he insisted. This bracelet is worth eighty thousand, you know.”

Paula spoke to herself casually. When she saw her younger sister’s stormy expression, she covered her mouth with her hand and giggled. “Oh my my, remind me again, Martha. Has Philip ever bought you anything?”

She was arrogant, proud, and full of sarcastic barbs.

From the moment she walked through the door, Paula had kept her nose firmly in the air.

was so furious that her body trembled. She glared at Philip and berated him, “What did I do in my past life to deserve a son-in-law

to say to

was extremely

family, all because she thought Philip was useless, especially when compared

why her aunt would drop by every so often, saying she was here to visit her sister

exasperated to have a relative like that

elder. There

here, Aunt Paula?” Wynn interrupted Paula with

dominating the room. Her presence seemed to fill the place as she took a seat without asking and said with a laugh, “I heard that you

Haha.

knew why she was

was just a cover. What she really wanted was to show

playing with it. She wanted

noticed Juan. She pointed at him and asked Martha,

Juan by the arm and beaming. “Oh, this is Juan. His family

to shine when

she saw how proud Martha looked, though, her expression cooled down

had been squabbling like this

probably hoping that Juan could become her

smile of faux politeness. “Why, what a nice young man.” Inwardly, though, she had cursed Martha to hell and back. Martha wanted a rich son-in-law

daughter Wynn was already married and even had a kid. No one

Paila could not say that out

gave Philip

a waste of space. Even his mother-in-law wanted to get rid of

for her to get an upper hand

said with a

her feet and said, “Oh no no, you can’t call me that. That’s all wrong! You’re not