Chapter 5 — The Mysterious Heir

"That's right, Ms. Am. If you had said earlier that you were going to Thanh Dieu to experience life, yesterday I would have sent someone to change all the carpet in this tattered school into the cashmere you like."
“Look how dusty this corner is, don't get your shoes dirty.”
These four people normally passed by in the noble circles of Kinh city, no one was willing to obey anyone else. But in front of me, their appearance of competing to please was exactly like four big dogs afraid of being abandoned by their owners.
"Enough."
I pushed the candy Hoac Tu brought aside.
“I don't eat this taste.”
“My fault, my fault!”
Without hesitation, Hoc Tu threw the custom-made candy into the trash, turned his head and glared fiercely at Luc Muc Da.
"Old Luc, didn't you bring Ms. Am's favorite brand of raspberry marshmallows? Quickly bring them out!"
Luc Muc Da frantically searched his pockets.
“Luc… Young Master Luc…”
Phuong Minh Trach finally found a bit of voice again after the extreme fear. His legs went limp, he stuttered and opened his mouth, trying to break the scene that made him feel so wild.
“You guys… did you get the wrong person?”
Phuong Minh Trach swallowed his saliva and pointed at me. There was a tremor in his voice that even he didn't recognize.
"Her name is Phuong Am, she is the younger sister of the Phuong family that I just picked up from a remote mountain area."
"She doesn't even know how to use a smartphone. How could she... how could she know the young masters?"
Phuong Minh Trach's words were like desperately trying to grasp the last straw. He didn't dare to believe it, nor did he want to believe it. The peasant was hated by him, looked down upon by the entire Phuong family, yet was respectfully called "Sister Am" by the four leading young masters. Bui Can Xuyen slowly turned his head. The gold-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose reflected the cold light.
“The Phuong family?”
Bui Can Xuyen laughed coldly, his voice revealing contempt as he looked down from above.
"Since when in Kinh City's upper class has it been the turn of a nouveau riche family like the Phuong family to speak up?"
He took a step forward, looking down at Phuong Minh Trach from above.
“Just now you said she was the sister you picked up from the remote mountains?”
"And you say she's not in a good state of mind, tell us not to accept her?"
Phuong Minh Trach's face immediately turned pale, large drops of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.
“Miss Bui… I… I didn't mean that…”
“Bang!”
Luc Muc Da directly kicked Phuong Minh Trach's shin bone. This kick shows no mercy. Phuong Minh Trach screamed in anger, knelt down on one knee and hugged his leg in pain.
“What are you that you dare stand here and call her name and judge her?”
Luc Muc Da's eyes were filled with ferocity, as if the person wagging his tail in the corner just now was not him at all.
“Don't say it was you.”
Luc Muc Da coldly looked at Phuong Minh Trach kneeling on the ground.
"Even if your father, Phuong Chinh Hoa, is standing here, he has no right to carry her shoes."
In the entire hall, there was a breath of cold air that was forced down. Phuong Minh Trach was in so much pain that his face twisted, but he didn't dare even breathe loudly. Phuong Nhu sat in the front row. Seeing this scene, she finally couldn't bear it anymore. She gritted her teeth, lifted her skirt, pretending to be weak and pitiful and ran over.
“Master Luc, Master Bui, please don't hit my eldest brother!”
Phuong Nhu's eyes were red, her voice was choked. She tried to use the weakness that she was normally best at to gain sympathy.
"My sister really grew up in the mountains. If she used some ungodly tricks to trick you guys before, then it was all because of the Phuong family's lack of strict discipline. I apologize on her behalf!"
These words at first glance seemed like a request, but in reality they were frantically implying that I was a fraud. Tuong Dien Chau looked at Phuong Nhu as if looking at a creature with low intelligence. He couldn't help but laugh.
“Miss Am.”
Tuong Dien Chau turned his head to look at me, his voice full of mockery.
“Is this genius that your family adopted have a brain full of glue?”
“She said you used ungodly tricks to trick us?”
Tuong Dien Chau squatted down and looked at Phuong Nhu's surprised and funny face.
“You know, she just needs to nod.”
"Even if the four of us turn the entire city of Kinh to make toys for her, are we still afraid that she won't think it's interesting enough?"
The blood on Phuong Nhu's face immediately drained away. She finally realized that everything that happened before her eyes was not an act at all. I'm too lazy to look at the ugly appearance of the two cousins anymore.
“Do you still listen to the speech?”
I pulled Bui Can Xuyen's vest a little closer and asked casually.
“What the hell do you hear!”
Luc Muc Da immediately changed his face to a smile.
"The nonsense that this trash school teaches is not as interesting as the financial model that Ms. Am casually pointed out to us that year."