Sandra quickly came up with another reason. “A woman’s job is to stay at home and take care of the kids—you have no right to meddle with a man’s business!” Sophia gave her the side-eye in response to her words. “Aren’t you a woman as well?” Sophia asked coldly.
To Sophia’s surprise, Sandra still had a comeback for that. “I’m the Young Lady of the Mitchell Family. Not only that, I’m also a world champion—of course I can’t be compared to you!”
Everyone burst into laughter upon hearing this. They clearly recalled how Sandra was last year’s ambassador for the Women and Children Association! She was also the ambassador of Cethos’ Women Empowerment Association, which claimed that ‘women held up half of the sky’. However, she drew a clear distinction between males and females in the Mitchell Family and their company! In other words, she was claiming that all women were useless and helpless apart from her!
Alex began to come up with more reasons. “Go away! What do you know about anything, you housewife? Even if you’re Cooper’s daughter, you’re no longer part of the Mitchell Family since you’ve gotten married. You can get a man from your household to speak up; your words have no power here!” he uttered.
Ever since Alex brought up a ‘useless brat’ like Natasha, his assumptions were further confirmed that all women were trash and only ruined things around them. In the past few years, Mitchell Group fired a great number of females, especially those who held higher positions in the company. They’re the joke of the century! Sophia threw Sandra—the woman who had brought up the topic and got the old man started on his lecture—another long glare. She simply felt sorry for Sandra. “That’s right. Women shouldn’t put themselves out there; they don’t deserve to be the heir of a family. Everyone should bring their daughters up the way you brought Sandra up; she gets fancy clothes, gourmet meals and lives a luxurious life, but she’ll never dream of getting any company shares or the chance to be an heir! A daughter should just work hard to suck up all your resources before she’s sent off to marry another man! How atrocious it is for my father to give me money, shares and the right to be the successor of his business!” Sophia’s words were filled with sarcasm—she sounded as though she was belittling herself, but Sandra could tell that Sophia was mocking her.
After all, Sandra was practically left with nothing. She didn’t have any shares, and Alex had already planned for her brother, Albert, to be his successor. Even though Alex had turned her from an illegitimate daughter into the Young Lady of the Mitchell Family, she stood no chance of getting any rights or shares to the company. Because of that, Sandra did everything in her power to get into others’ good books; it was the only way she could get married to a rich family and have the whole Mitchell Family kneeling by her feet.
When Sandra saw the complacent look on Sophia’s face and thought of how great Sophia’s life was, she felt her heart bursting with jealousy! Sophia’s brother, her father and her husband all gave her shares and inheritances—they even gave her the money to help her purchase companies and start the JNS Group! We’re both illegitimate daughters; I sacrificed so much just to get here today, but how did Sophia get so many things despite lazing around without putting in any effort? It’s all because she got married to a good husband. It’s all fate and luck!
Sandra sneaked behind a bunch of old men right then, watching as they lectured and criticized Sophia’s role as a woman. Sandra was pleased, but she was still jealous—after all, Sophia wasn’t about to lose all of her inheritance and shares just because Sandra got a few men to lecture her.
Meanwhile, Alex felt like he was at a dead end right then; the company was struggling, and his last bit of pride as the family head was being tested. Therefore, he found every single way to pick on Sophia—she was nothing more than a worthless, illegitimate daughter. How dare a mere illegitimate daughter like her challenge the authority of a family head like me! “I don’t speak to women. Get a man from your family to speak up instead! Get lost!” he shouted.
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