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.

at Philip and berated him, “What did I do in my past

nothing to say to

was extremely awkward

had always looked down on her family, all because she thought Philip was useless, especially when compared to

drop by every so often, saying she was here to visit her sister when she

was exasperated to have a

There was

you here, Aunt Paula?” Wynn interrupted

asking and said with a laugh, “I heard that you were hospitalized, so

Haha.

she was

cover. What she really wanted was

on her lap and kept playing with it. She wanted everyone to know that

Juan. She pointed

the arm and beaming. “Oh, this is Juan. His family is quite well to do, they’re in the gem business and they earn several tens of

to shine when she looked at Juan

proud Martha looked, though, her expression cooled

squabbling like this for

hoping that Juan could become

politeness. “Why, what a nice young man.” Inwardly, though, she had cursed Martha

and even had a kid. No one would

could not

in mind, she gave Philip a look

Clarke was seriously such a waste of space. Even his

hand over Martha, so she

hastily said with a smile, “Hi, Aunt

like a cat after someone stepped on its tail. She jumped to her feet and said, “Oh no no, you can’t call me that. That’s all wrong! You’re not my nephew-in-law, you can’t call