Battered Young Miss

"Young Miss Liu, please calm yourself, after her burial the talk about her will naturally die down. Just give it like a week or two, that"s how all this TV stations are, you don"t need to bother with them."

The Fourth daughter to the oil giant, Liu Energy, sat in her lavish penthouse away from the Liu family mansion, where the whole Liu clan shared a common roof. She wore a peach colored pant suit which ended mid thigh, both ears had a gold ringlets with tail end of triangular shape, a soft drop of pink intertwined. Her fair luminous skin had a touch of gold layering as makeup with pink highlights skillfully applied around her dark eyes. Glossy wavy dark hair of high maintenance reached to her back.

Liu Huiyuan was not considered beautiful but with the money to back it and a recent nose job to enhance her looks, coupled with skillfully applied makeup. She could pa.s.s for a looker at anytime, but once the mask was taken off, instead a plain faced youthful woman will appear almost like looking at two completely different people.

The sofa were she sat was a soft feathery pink one, daintily balancing on both fingers a delicate pink tea cup of freshly brewed coffee, which came out of a set that had to be privately flown all the way from France. The decor"s main theme was pink, it was like walking into a real life doll house, the outrageous amount of portraits depicting her on the walls was of unbelievable value and crazily expensive. The fingers holding the tea cup had soft pink nail polish of fine diamond artistry. Gold fas.h.i.+on rings lined the back of her fingers on both hand. The face was as cool as ice, with no trace of smile on the bright pink lips.

"Zhang family this, Zhang family that! It makes me want to pull out my hair from hearing their name so much. My family doesn"t fall short when compared to hers, why does she trend on the news and I don"t? What"s her deal?! She"s dead for crying out loud! This is so crazy! What is father doing this?!"

The nineteen year old Huiyuan asked the long time maid of the Liu family what measures the Chairman of Liu Energy was doing to help the daughter from the union of his first marriage to the the daughter of YeJian Group, that owned a long line of luxurious hotels across the world.

"Chairman Liu is working on controlling the press, but the influence of the Zhang family is making it almost difficult to bring media attention to the Liu business as much as he would have wanted. Young Miss Liu, be rest a.s.sured the PR department is doing everything possible to introduce you more to the public, is just that they also need to focus on the company first."

"How soon? Don"t tell me that Shuang gets more preference than me? I am the child of the legal wife! No one should ever forget that! Not when father is alive and breathing!"

The heiress was so vexed that the cup she held in her hand, spilled some of the coffee on her expensively cut pant suit.

"Ouch!"

"Young Miss Liu, let me wipe that for you, are you okay? Did it burn your skin? Let me check."

The maid a woman in early forties dressed in the trade mark black gown and white ap.r.o.n which ended at her knees, hair in a bun, of pet.i.te statue with a pleasant smile on a likable and easy to warm up to type face. The only form of jewelry she had was the wedding band from her marriage and a small studded earring of faded gold.

"Young Miss Liu, no one said that you are not a member of the Liu family, Chairman Liu speaks about you all the time with his circle of friends and business partners. Eldest Miss Liu is only trying to help the family business grow and become more prosperous...."

The next thing that came was a resounding slap, cutting short the maid"s words.

"Whose side are you on?!"

"Is it Shuang now paying your salary?! See this fool!"

Nothing made the fourth heiress of Liu Energy lose her cool faster than knowing that her sister from the second madam was getting all the attention, while she was fighting to get noticed in her home and the public.

Liu Huiyuan the fourth in line to succeed as the Liu energy magnate, the other three siblings born from different mothers made the fight tougher than ever, her mother gave birth to her very late in the marriage, making the heiress almost like an afterthought.

Terrible sibling rivalry made the young heiress hastily leave the Liu mansion and take up residence outside the family home. The one she had with her was a maid she brought along with her, the only condition that her father gave before permitting her to leave the Liu family mansion. The maid dropped down to her feet to kneel in front of the over indulged young heiress.

"Know your place! Clean up the mess and get me a fresh change of clothes! Father must be getting senile to send such a dimwit like you to me!"

"Please forgive me for speaking out of turn, it will never repeat itself again."

The older woman knelt down by the heiress feet, who looked very much dissatisfied by the apology. Raising a foot covered by indoor slip on of pink with coffee stain, to deliver a kick to the head of a woman old enough to give birth to her.

"Get out of my sight! Stupid thing!"

This was followed by a long hissing sound marked by utter disgust, that a maid sent by her father could speak to her with so much confidence, as though they were equal, as if!