The day the expulsion notice was posted, her mother was lying in the ICU, reduced to a vegetative state.
Signing, photographing, filing the record: in front of the family notice board, Sheng Zhao declared war on the entire clan. Ninety days to fight her way back onto the heirs' roster.
The board's rules were impeccably proper: the person at the bottom of the roster would be eliminated. The fine print spelled out the price of elimination: medical decision-making rights for the eliminated person's immediate family would be transferred to the board.
In other words, if she lost, the board could "legally pull the plug" on her mother in her hospital bed.
No one knew she had nineteen game records left by her mother before she fell into a coma: bargaining chips to get back on the roster, a weapon for killing, and clues to a poisoning case.
And no one knew that the exiled illegitimate son of a rival conglomerate was negotiating a two-way deal with her: they would be each other's pieces, with every account clearly settled.
"Only the one who strikes first counts as an enemy." "What a coincidence," the man said, adjusting his glasses. "I'm the same."
[Villainess x Unhinged Man | 1v1, HE | No System, Pure Strategy]
