Chapter 1662

After a long silence, a strange laugh escaped Lydell’s lips. It started soft, but gradually twisted into something wild and unstable. Her eyes burned with the look of someone trapped in a cage, teetering on the edge of breaking.
She had devoted so many years of her life to the He family sacrificed so much only to be pushed aside when it mattered most. No matter how hard she tried, she was never enough. She could never compete with Jerry. That soft-hearted fool who had never lifted a finger for the family, yet their parents still chose him as the heir. Why? Just because he was a man?
Her thoughts turned bitter. She remembered how her father had started with nothing a penniless young man who had only risen to power by marrying into the wealthy Fang family. If not for his wife’s background and support, he would never have built the empire he had today. But what did he do after gaining success? He turned on the very people who helped him his wife’s family. He repaid kindness with bloodshed, destroying them all. If he was capable of killing even an infant, then what did a daughter like her mean to him?