Rich Radiant and Over Him (Alicia and Vincent) novel Chapter 565

She often went hungry, her meals wildly irregular.

Opening her banking app, Jade was stunned to discover that not a single card in her name had any cash left.

She was Brandon's daughter, so in the past, she simply swiped the family cards or used credit. The occasions she actually needed cash were rare. She had been so laser-focused on securing shares and succession rights for Brandon that she completely ignored the fact that every dime she personally earned had been siphoned off by that father and so-called mother of hers.

Rubbing her temples with a hollow laugh, she lay on the sofa, her fingers trembling from the low blood sugar.

She still remembered the prize money from her very first design competition. She thought she would finally earn a compliment from her grandfather, but he had simply remarked that if Nicole were there, receiving the same education, she would have achieved far more.

She remembered her mother scoffing at the fifteen thousand dollars, sneering that it wasn't even enough to buy a decent handbag.

She remembered Brandon impatiently telling her to stop participating in useless contests that had no bearing on corporate management, warning her that if the old man ever found Nicole, they would all be thrown out on the street.

She had stood there, not realizing that her parents simply didn't love her, and instead redirected all her resentment onto the absent Nicole.

She couldn't understand why, no matter how hard she tried, she could never surpass Nicole.

She had even spitefully and obsessively wished that Nicole would die out there and never return.

Later, her mother had taken that fifteen thousand dollars to the mahjong table and gambled it away in a single hand.

Jade had been furious, but eventually, she grew numb, convincing herself that fifteen thousand dollars was insignificant.

Now, reduced to this state, staring at a bank balance that couldn't even cover a ten-dollar takeout order, the reality hit her. That fifteen thousand dollars had been a fortune.

It was her first real pot of gold.

But she hadn't valued it, nor had she cherished her own talent.

She had let herself take one wrong step after another, plummeting into the abyss.

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