The night of the charity auction at KS World Hotel did not disappoint.


    Neither KS Group nor MINT had put much effort into promoting the event. But the local news media


    andizens were still all over it like bees to honey, given it was in the name of charity.


    MINT was an Internationally renowned magazine, after all. Anyone would kill to be featured, even an


    international celebrity.


    The event was filled with famous superstars that evening, from actors to singers to models. The hotel


    security was in full action, keeping the peace in and outside the venue.


    N?vel(D)rama.Org''s content.


    The guests cooperated as well, making sure to quickly make their way inside the hotel once they’d


    greeted their fans.


    When a limousine drove up to the hotel entrance, themotion increased.


    Out came Sophia and Betty, dressed like sequined peacocks in elegant gowns.


    Unlike the other wealthy heiresses who arrived via the back entrance or the VIPne, they chose to


    face


    the hundreds of shing camera lights centered on the red carpet.


    They behaved as though they were vampires, vanishing from existence the moment someone ceased


    taking photographs of them.


    “Look, isn’t that Liana Gardner’s aunt?” someone yelled over themotion.


    Sophia’s face contorted. She had spent decades shrugging off titles like “outdated actress” and “gold-


    digging mistress” to establish herself as the revered Madam Sophia Kirkman, wife of Javier Beckett,


    CEO


    of Beckett Group.


    But all that effort had gone to waste because of her good-for-nothing niece, Liana!


    “It really is her!”


    “Wasn’t she the one who got taken in for moneyundering?”


    “Yeah! She was releasedter, though. Tsk. Who knew Sna City would have such a devious


    character.”


    “Does she think we’ve lost our memory? She has some balls to still show her face in person here.


    Javier


    Beckett should really keep a tight leash on her.”


    “Every time I look at her, I’m reminded of how she reprimanded Liana Gardner on her birthday


    celebration.


    followed by Liana’s outburst.”


    “Hahahah! She looked so dumbfounded then!”


    Sophia’s face was red now. If it weren’t for Betty’s help, she might never have been able to walk into


    the


    hotel.


    She thought the public would have forgotten about that by now.


    Regrettably, certain humiliations cut so deep that they appeared etched onto one’s countenance,


    instantly reminding anyone of the incidents.


    Her meticulously guarded self-esteem had been shattered, all thanks to that troublesome Liana.


    The two women quickly walked into the hotel, faces ashen.


    “Maybe you should keep a low profile from now on, Mom,” Betty murmured, “Look. People are all


    making fun of you. And you’re dragging me into it too. It’s really embarra-”


    “Are you using me of embarrassing you, Betty Beckett?” Sophia cried, pinching her daughter’s arm.


    Sophia continued, “I didn’t bat a single eysh when I married your father, not even when everyone


    called me names and insulted me endlessly.


    “Yet now you find me embarrassing? If I didn’t cling onto Javier all the years ago, you wouldn’t have


    enjoyed such a wonderful life!”