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To prove loyalty, they’d viciously target the family’s unwanted foster daughter–mocking, ndering, tormenting.

rieka had endured it all for years.

Now, those words stirred no rage or unease, only detached amusement.

She nearlyughed aloud.

After all this time, these people still recycled the same tired insults.

What rewards had the Argents given them for such unwavering devotion?

Approaching the group, rieka lifted her chin with a lightugh. “Everyone, it’s been a while.”

Men and women exchanged nces, mutual disdain shing in their

eyes.

Silence hung heavy, leaving her greeting unanswered.

Unfazed, rieka savored their excrement–swallowing expressions.

Seeing those disdainful looks before would have upset her, but now watching these people grimace because of her, she felt great.

So she actually had this much influence over them.

Though rieka didn’t mind, protective Shi Yao couldn’t stand it

anymore.

“rieka, why didn’t you tell me everyone here was deaf and dumb

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before we came?

You didn’t warn me, so I couldn’t learn signnguage in advance. Guess I’ll have to neglect everyone.”

ricka?

Again with “ricka“?

rieka paused speechlessly, but instantly grasped Shi Yao’s meaning.

Shi Yao’s sharp tongue hadn’t changed.

She smiled faintly. “My bad, I forgot to remind you.”

As she spoke, she nced up at Shi Yao.

That casual look startled her.

Shi Yao’s expression wasn’t just sour–it was downright thunderous, eyes zing like he’d charge at those people any second.

rieka tugged his arm, whispering. “Don’t be angry. They’re not worth it.”

Shi Yao frowned. “I know. I just hate seeing them bully you.”

rieka pressed her lips together.

Suddenly the group across from snapped, “rieka, what’s your problem?”

rieka widened her eyes slightly. “Oh, so you can speak? I thought something awful happened these years and you’d lost your voice.”

The man sneered. “Smooth talker. I’m calling security to kick you out right now. Let’s see how smug you act then.”

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ricka smiledzily. “Go ahead.”

She spoke calmly because she’d been invited by the host.

If she got “kicked out,” the ones panicking would be these shouters demanding her removal.

The man pulled out his phone with a coldugh. As his screen lit up, a woman’s gasp cut through the crowd.

“Chen Zhen, don’t!”

Chen Zhen tutted at his phone. “What’s wrong with you?”

rieka followed the voice to a young woman staring at her phone, face pale as she looked up. Shock,plexity, worry, and jealousy warred in her eyes.

rieka guessed the reason but kept smiling faintly.

The woman bit her lip. “Don’t call. This is rieka.”

Chen Zhen frowned impatiently. “I know that.”

“I mean she’s rieka.”

Chen Zhen was already annoyed, about to snap “I know” when-

The woman’s tone suddenly sharpened, voice tense: “She’s ricka from Heyu!”

That ByteDance in the capital?

Those words plunged the courtyard into dead silence.

The mocking smirk on Jason’s lips froze, his eyes widening slightly as his neck creaked like rusted machinery turning: “… What did you say?”

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The stiff silence shattered with other voices.

“ByteDance?

That ByteDance in the capital?

That’s ByteDance–don’t be crazy and misread it.”

“Must be a namesake. You’re mistaken–this rieka Huston isn’t that rieka Huston.”

For five years, ByteDance’s reputation had boomed. The viral short- video app from the past two years was theirs, raking in cash since its explosion and skyrocketing ByteDance and its founder’s worth.

In the inte world, ByteDance was a household name.

But clearly, this courtyard crowd knew little about it.

Everyone here was born wealthy, raised spoiled and arrogant, especially looking down on rieka Huston–a driver’s daughter.

They genuinely believed she’d never amount to anything, doomed to serve rich kids like them forever, never crossing ss lines to sit as equals. Their gazes always towered over her.

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