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.

“What did I do in my past life to deserve

to

atmosphere was extremely awkward

down on her family, all because she thought

was here to visit her

exasperated to have a

elder. There

are you here, Aunt Paula?” Wynn interrupted Paula with

seemed to fill the place as she took a seat without asking and said with a laugh,

Haha.

why she

cover. What she really

on her lap and kept playing with

Paula noticed Juan. She pointed at him and asked Martha,

Philip aside and even glared at him before yanking Juan by 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 millions every year too. He’s

shine when she looked at

she saw how proud Martha looked,

like this for years. Of

Juan could become

gave them a smile of faux politeness. “Why, what a nice young man.” Inwardly, though, she had cursed Martha to hell and back. Martha wanted a

daughter Wynn was already married and even had a kid. No one would want a woman like

not say

in mind, she gave Philip a look

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

saw that her sister looked displeased. It was rare for her to get an upper hand over Martha, so she immediately pulled Juan over and

hastily said with a smile, “Hi,

after someone stepped on its tail. She jumped to her feet and said, “Oh no no, you can’t call me that. That’s