The Super Billionaire System

Chapter 9

The murmuring resumed amongst them.

“His kids are not his?”

“That means his wife had been cheating from the beginning."

“Is he impotent or what? How was his lawfully wedded wife having another man’s babies while they were still married.”

“Thank goodness he didn't associate those bastards with our family. We would have faced huge backlash over this. Imagine if the press caught wind of this, my fashion line launch would have failed.”

“Is it not dangerous to have him back in this manor? My company’s stock must not fall because of this.”

Lyon was the most surprised. How did his aunty have so much information on him, he looked at his mom and she looked like she was as shocked as he was.

Aunty May did not even inform her before she laid his business bare in front of the whole family.

“May, that is not true,” Linda confronted.

“That’s your son over there, ask him about the kids he had been raising for almost six years." May replied with a harsh tone. “If he didn’t take after his father strongly, he would not have fallen for that vixen!’

She didn’t see eye to eye with Linda, in fact she had strongly objected to her brother’s marriage with her.

He had recklessly abandoned his betrothed, who was also May’s best friend for Linda. This made her friend face disdain and mockery because her engagement was cancelled.

May resented Linda and always accused her of bewitching her brother..

Linda exchanged glances with Lyon who just nodded to confirm her fears. Her face fell immediately.

“We can’t blame Lyon’s ex-wife. He was working as a guard to sustain a woman, I am sure his salary could not buy my perfume. How could any woman possibly endure that level of poverty.” Jane said again.

“Hmm!” The Old Madam cleared her throat. “My bedtime is close, if you are going to keep catching up on a terrible event, I should be going to bed now.”

“Grandma!” Gina called out and held onto the Old Madam’s hand. “You can’t go to bed without getting your thanksgiving gifts from us.”

She snapped her finger and two servants brought a box to the table. She opened it up. “This is a one of a kind zither designed by the famous Lizzy Tang.”

“Whoa!” Everyone at the table chorused.

Old Madam smiled, “as expected of you, Gina.”

Kaden, the first son of the second branch, got up, “I even got you something that is even more special.” He brought out a bag and placed it on the table. “This is a rare, century old ginseng root. It is currently valued at a hundred thousand dollars.”

“Grandma, i got you the custom made praying bead from Italy, it has the name of everyone in the family written on it….”

Everyone from the first, second, fourth, and fifth branches, along with the concubines, presented their gifts while Lyon watched from where he sat. He was not used to this type of event anymore.

The member of the family had presented the Old madam with so many expensive gifts but he had not even used his money to purchase what he wanted to present to her.

Though he was not intimatedated by this, he wondered if the Old Madam’s taste had changed.

“Lyon!”

“Lyon Dwayne!” May called but he was lost in his thoughts.

It took a tap from his mother to bring him back to reality.

“Did you not come with a gift?” May asked with a stern voice. “I specifically asked you to come with something. Even if you resent the family so much, did you not think of saving your mother’s face?”

Lyon stood up, ignoring his aunty and walking to Ola Madam’s side with the small gift bag.

“What is in that little bag?”

"Did he buy some lipgloss for grandma?”

“Instead of showing off the money he got from his ex-wife’s man by buying some flashy suit, he could have bought a better gift.”

“He is so embarrassing, omg.”

The whispering started once again.

Lyon brought out the bracelet in the bag, “I remember back then, that the Old Madam loved to wear jade items and even decorate the manor with the rarest types of Jades.”

He hands the bracelet to her. 

“This is my gift for the Old Madam.

“Isn’t that some knockoff bracelet?” Jane commented. “You should have bought some original scarf or something else for grandma, why buy some fake ass shit for her?”

‘Everyone here carefully thought about the gift to give grandma and he comes here with some cheap stuff.”

“I understand that Lyon has been away from home for a long time, but Aunty Linda should have tried to inform him about grandma’s preferences. We all know that she doesn't like counterfeits. She says it’s embarrassing."

“He brought something, that is all that matters,” May said in his defence, Lyon could not tell if his aunty hated him because one minute, she was saving him from the claws of everyone, the next minute, she was sinking her fangs into him.

Everyone at the table laughed but the Old Madama’s eyes were fixed on the bracelet. “This is the last jade bracelet designed by my father-in-law, Lord Dwayne. As of ten years ago, it was auctioned for ten million dollars but it has returned home today.” she said as a tear dropped from her face.

“But grandma, how can we tell that it is the real deal? From what I know Great-grandpa’s work has so many copies out there.” Kaden argued.

“No one has been able to copy the stamp I specially created for the last batch of jade jewellery he created." The Old Madam confirmed, “This is the most precious gift I have received in years.”

 A smile formed on Lyon’s face

DING!

[Your gifting task has been completed. Your gift had moved the Old Madam to tears and had been declared the best. The System rewards you $100,000,000.00.]

[Pending task: Teach the employees from the restaurant a lesson to get revenge!]