Chapter 4

We arrived at the banquet hall of Cloudgaze Hotel.

As soon as we walked in, a few well-dressed people surrounded Dominic, fawning over him.

Their flattering behavior made me sneer inwardly.

Someone noticed me and asked Dominic, "Who's this?"

Dominic glanced back at me. "This is Nicholas Owens, a super-rich kid!"

The way he said "super-rich kid" was laced with sarcasm.

The people surrounding Dominic picked up on the mockery and began eyeing me suspiciously.

One overweight middle-aged man with a slicked-back hairstyle said, "The boss of Polerian Group is surnamed Owens. You're also an Owens. So, are you Mr. Owens' son?"

I replied, "You guessed it right. I am Mr. Owens' son."

The fat man grinned, showing his yellow teeth. "They all say like father, like son. If Mr. Owens had a son like you, he'd probably die from anger."

He slapped my cheek, "You look like a sick hen, and you dare pretend to be Mr. Owens' son? How dare you!"

I snapped. "Take your filthy paw off me. If I'm not Mr. Owens' son, then are you? Even if you kneel in front of my father, he wouldn't recognize you."

The people around me laughed even louder.

"Mr. Owens does have a son, someone about your age. But he's supposed to be well-groomed and elegant. You, on the other hand, look like a street rat. Your whole family must have been garbage pickers."

"Oh, really?"

I pulled out my phone, ready to call my father.

Just then, Tina arrived late, rushing up to grab my phone. "Nicholas, are you done throwing a tantrum? You think this will make me notice you, maybe even reconsider and get back together?"

I snatched my phone back. "You have the nerve to talk? A woman like you is nothing but trash. You want me to beg you to get back together? Dream on."

I didn't even want to look at Tina anymore. The thought of her made me nauseous.

Tina, her chest heaving in anger, pointed at me. "I was with him for five years, and he's nothing but an orphan, a piece of trash from the lower class."

She thought she was revealing some deep secret, but what she didn't know was that I had deliberately hidden my true identity to be with her.

The crowd erupted in laughter.

Once again, the middle-aged man pulled out a wad of cash and tossed it on the ground.

He whistled at me. "Nicholas, right? If you kneel and pick up that money, it's all yours."

I gave him a blank stare. "What's wrong with you? You think that little money can make me kneel?"

There were about ten thousand bucks on the floor. For someone to test me with that amount was just ridiculous.

The middle-aged man's face turned livid at my words.

Tina was the first to react. "Nicholas, you can barely earn three grand a month. The money on the ground is worth three months of your salary. You'll be a real fool if you don't pick it up."

Dominic squeezed Tina's buttocks. "If he doesn't want it, you can have it."

Tina hesitated. "Darling, I'm your woman. You'll be humiliated if I kneel."

Dominic's expression turned cold. "You think you deserve to be my woman, you cheap whore? If you don't take that money, I'll have the cleaning lady pick it up."

Dominic wasn't just humiliating me; he was humiliating Tina, too. He saw us as the same kind of people.

Tina knelt on the floor, picking up the money one by one. She looked no different from a dog.

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