"That''s nothing. There''s a guy in myplex with five different women, and no one''s found out yet-except for me."


    "Are you kidding me?"


    "LOL, you just made my whole month."


    "This is so messed up. I can''t let my daughter see any of this."


    Reading the insults andments online, Sophia was so furious she smashed her phone.


    Joanna was just as enraged. "Ah!" she screamed, breaking down. "Why did it turn out like this? Why did things spin so far out of control? This isn''t what I wanted! I''m not the daughter of a mistress! I''m not!"


    She had grand ambitions. From the moment she learned she was an illegitimate child, she had been racing against time, fighting to stand in the light with her head held high. So why had she still lost?


    Joanna didn''t understand. She had still be the illegitimate daughter everyone scorned.


    She had worked so hard to grow, to be someone who stood above others, someone who could do as she pleased without a care in the world.


    But now, everything had soured.


    She stared at the live stream and roared in fury, "Natalie! It''s her again! Why does she ruin my ns every single time? Natalie, you deserve to die!"


    Once again, Joanna med everything on Natalie.


    Sophia''s eyes were also filled with hatred. When she saw Nathan walk in, she grabbed the remote from the coffee table and hurled it at him. "Nathan, you useless piece of trash! You should have strangled that little bitch back then! If she hadn''t saved Melissa Grant, we would have won today!"


    Sophia bent over, shouting, "Nathan, why weren''t you more ruthless back then? If you had been, our daughter wouldn''t have be an illegitimate child!"


    Nathan''s expression didn''t change in the slightest. He walked over and looked at the miserable mother and daughter, his voiceced with scorn. "What the point of crying? This is the path you chose. What good tears do? So what if she''s an illegitimate daughter? As long as you''re capable enough to climb to the top, who''s going to care about your status?"


    Joanna red at him angrily. "Cut the crap. If you had any real power, you could


    have protected Mom and me from being bullied by anyone."


    Nathan sat down gracefully on the sofa, looking at her contorted face.


    He smiled with a hidden meat


    "Joanna, you chose this path


    yourself, so how can you me me? You got Wendy''spany


    ording to your n, and


    honored our agreement b


    abandoned my five children and left


    thempletely helpless. What


    more do you want from me?"


    Joanna froze. It was true, the oue was what she had wanted most, but the


    result was not what she had envisioned.


    On the surface, she had won, but in reality, she had lost spectacrly.


    Nathan was very calm. "Joanna, life is like a game of chess. One wrong move, and


    you lose the entire game."


    Joanna had lost; she just wasn''t willing to admit it.


    "No, I haven''t lost," Joanna denied.


    She absolutely refused to admit she had lost.


    She shook her head, tears welling in her eyes as she argued loudly, "Dad, I won''t lose. I will never, ever lose! Do you know why I did all of this? wanted our family of four to be


    happy. As long as we''re happy, we''ve won. But what did you two do? You both went and found your own lovers. How is that supposed to make me feel?"