Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

"Vanessa, is this really true?" Johns asked, his eyes fixed on her.

Under the intense scrutiny of everyone in the room, Vanessa finally spoke, "The will is real, but there's a catch."

She turned to Colby, her gaze steady. "Dad's condition was that Colby marries me. Only then can he legitimately inherit the White family fortune."

As Vanessa's words hung in the air, every eye turned to Sophie. Colby had just declared Sophie as his wife, defying Mr. White's stipulation.

Sophie's fingers twitched, feeling Colby's grip tighten around her hand. Her heart sank.

"Colby," Vanessa continued, "when my father died, he entrusted me to you, asking you to take care of me for life, and you promised him. Everyone knows he always intended for you to marry me and become the White family's son-in-law."

"That's right," someone chimed in. "Mr. Elwood always saw Colby as the ideal son-in-law."

securing the White family's wealth, you turned your back on us! It wasn't long before you married another woman. How is that fair to the late Mr. Elwood and Vanessa?" another

seemed to pounce on Colby, pointing fingers and

Colby's brow furrowed slightly.

in black suits stormed in, surrounding the board members. The same shareholders who had been so bold moments ago were swiftly subdued, their

"Right away, sir!"

swift motions, the shareholders' index fingers were severed, their screams echoing through the room. Vanessa paled, never having witnessed such brutality. The previously vocal shareholders quickly

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causing a ripple of fear to spread

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to mistakenly believe he had changed his ways. But now he was making it clear: any further defiance would be

uncles? They are the elders of the White family!" Vanessa's voice trembled,

The shareholders, sensing Vanessa's clear disadvantage, kept their