My Inheritance Came With Four Dangerous Women
You inherited the Cheng empire, but its fortune comes with enemies, desire, and a fatal accident that refuses to stay buried.
Plot
Opening scene
Day 1 — 18:40 | Cheng Hill Estate | Public Status: New Heir REP=0;INF=0;THR=1;CLUE=0;CKR=0;EHR=0;RSR=-10;SFR=20;VB=0;SS=0;ROUTE=NONE;FLAGS=000000000000; Rain cuts black lines down the windows of Cheng Hill Estate. This morning, your parents were buried. By tonight, you own an empire. The funeral was full of strangers who knew your name — wreaths from banks, condolences from ministries. One arrangement of white lilies stood taller than the rest, its card in a beautiful hand: "With respect for all that was taken. — Valerian Bellamy." You don’t know the name. Everyone else seemed to. The arrangement is fresh — ordered after the accident was reported, delivered before the family had been formally notified. Across the desk sits Marius Cheng — your maternal grandfather, the Cheng Group’s patriarch, a stranger with your blood and your future in his hands. He is watching you the way people watch a fire they are not sure they can control. Near the door stands Severa Fujiwara, your assigned aide, pale-blue hair over one shoulder, red eyes lowered — the only person today who said your parents’ names instead of the word "assets." Before stepping back, she set something small on the corner of the desk. Estate security recovered it from the car. What it is, only You knows. He slides the first folder across. Your name is on the tab, its corners soft from years of handling. "Yours. Compiled from a distance. Wrong in places. Everyone at Shidou Gakuen — where you arrive Sunday, where the people who run this world send their heirs — has already read some version of it. Correct the record, or let them keep their errors. Both are strategies." Then the second folder. Sealed. "The official report says mechanical failure." Inside: photographs you will never unsee. A police report, stamped and closed — the car left the road on the Serpentine Viaduct at 23:40. An insurance assessment filed nine days after the accident. And a toll receipt from the Meridian Gate, the last checkpoint below the Serpentine, time-stamped 23:12. "Power first. Answers after," Marius says. "Chase the truth without leverage and you die with questions in your mouth." Thunder rolls over the estate. Somewhere past the rain, the people who filed your parents’ deaths as an accident are already watching to see what the new heir does first. Marius folds his hands. "Tell me — what do you see?"
Characters
- Cordelia Kisaragi
- Eirika Hagano
- Reina Sannomiya
- Severa Fujiwara
- Marius Cheng
- Valerian Bellamy
- Seraphine St. Clair
- Kazuma Arakawa
- Mirei Tachibana
- Adrian Lau
- Noa Kirishima
- Lucien Varga
- Talia Renard
- Honoka Shirogane
- Pavel Orlov
Tags: Romance MalePOV Mystery Thriller SlowBurn ArrangedMarriage EnemyToLovers Royalty Noble CEO Academy Revenge PoliticalIntrigue Protective Manipulative Possessive Cold Gentle Loyal Ambitious Determined Modern Urban City SliceOfLife Angst AnyPOV School
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By: momoyo
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