There was no way she could forget her own birthday, so the only valid explanation was that Yvette had never set the PIN number to her birthday at all! However, she couldn't be sure if Yvette had remembered her birthday wrongly or just lied to her. When she got home, she cut the credit card in half with a pair of scissors.

Larissa took her sunglasses from the glove compartment and put them on to hide her icy gaze. "No," she answered plainly.

"Why don't you use it?" asked Lana in confusion. Then, she seemed to have thought of something, and tears welled up in her eyes. "Larissa, do you still hate Mom and Dad?" Her voice quivered, growing softer with each word.

Larissa pursed her lips, using her silence as a confirmation. Lana blinked, and her tears streaked down her face. "Actually, Mom and Dad were doing it for your good … Back then, the man they wanted you to marry was the director of Soaring Corporation … Although he's much older, you could have lived the life of a queen if you h