Revenge of the Abandoned Heir

Marriage

“Don’t be so dramatic, dad.” Alona Ty quickly came to the couple’s defense. 

Unlike her other relatives she could see how happy Vanessa was with Stephen. She also believed that Alona didn’t need a man to be successful.

“With all due respect Mr. Ty, I love your niece and I will do everything so that she lives a good life-” Stephen was interrupted midspeech as an old lady walked up and slapped him in the face.

He clenched his fists as he held back his temper. 

If only they knew who he truly was, then maybe they would be crawling at his feet.

“Don’t you dare to claim that you can give her a good life. You took the bus to get here! My granddaughter has always been chauffeured around, and here you come pushing her towards poverty!” The old lady was Margarita So, the matriarch of the Ty family, Vanessa’s paternal grandmother.

“Grandma, Stephen has a car, he wanted to take the car, but I insisted on taking the bus going here.” Vanessa said in a sweet voice as she tried to calm the old lady.

The old woman glared at Stephen, but took a step back and didn’t say another word. 

“Why are you all even here if you are just going to criticize our relationship?” Stephen hissed, catching everyone off guard. They had never expected him to speak up like this, the entire time he had been dating Vanessa he had been silent and simply accepted their insults.

“I guess you suddenly found your voice, Stephen Sy.” One of Vanessa’s cousins mocked as he glared at Stephen. 

“Stephen, let’s just go.” Vanessa said as she pulled on his arm. 

Stephen looked at his fiance and saw how worried she was. 

It made sense, this particular cousin of hers had just gotten a very prestigious position in Cho Industries, the very business empire that Stephen had been kicked out of. 

“You are nothing, Stephen Sy, what company do you even work for?” The cousin mocked.

“Let’s go.” Vanessa urged him as she glanced at her parents, seemingly pleading for help. 

But none would come, Vanessa’s parents didn’t like Stephen for her either. They too had tried everything to urge her to marry someone else. 

Stephen looked around the room as he committed their faces to memory. 

One day, when things were better, safer, he would return to his inheritance and they would all regret looking down at him.

“Let’s go.” Stephen declared as he marched out of the room, hand in hand with Vanessa.

As they walked out, Stephen couldn’t help but recall how his Uncle William had not contacted him in over a year. 

Back when he first left, Uncle William would send people to contact him every month, checking up on his condition and if he was laying low. 

Over time those monthly inquiries became less and less. It became every six months, then every year, and now it had been over a year since he last heard from his uncle.

“I wonder if he has forgotten about me or if something bad has happened?” Stephen mumbled, making Vanessa worry.

“Are you alright, Stephen?” Vanessa asked as she held his hand tightly and trailed behind him.

“I’m-” Just as he was answering her question a man ran into him, making Stephen fall to the ground. Luckily he managed to pull Vanessa and she landed on his lap rather than on the floor.

“Idiot! Why did you run into young master Cho!” A young man said as he ran up to Stephen and the person that had bumped him.

Stephen couldn’t help but go rigid at the mention of his old title, young master Cho, the heir of the Cho family.

Had he been discovered? Was someone stalking him?

“Young master Cho, how do you want us to deal with this imbecile and his woman?” Another man asked as they helped the person who had bumped into Stephen up. 

Stephen blinked as he realized that the person they were referring to as the young master Cho was the man that had rudely bumped into them.

His Uncle William did not have a child, the only person could think of as taking his title of young master Cho was his father’s illegitimate son, a person he had only seen through photos and at a distance. He never wanted to associate himself with that boy. 

“He bumped into me.” Stephen bravely said, not afraid to offend the Cho family. 

Vanessa gripped his arm, as if telling him to keep quiet and to simply accept the accusation.

“What?” He asked Vanessa. “Young rich men cannot go around harming whoever they want.” Stephen said in a cold tone as he emitted an aurora of a powerful man, making the young man’s companions look at him worriedly.

They couldn’t help but wonder if he was actually someone of importance, if they had actually offended someone more powerful.

The fact that they seemed worried made Stephen want to laugh, had he still been the young master Cho, his companions would not be worried. They would be confident that the Cho family would have their back no matter what.

“Tch, they have no confidence because he is a bastard.” Stephen did not realize that he had said his words out loud, angering the young man.

“What did you say?!” The young man shouted as he turned to face Stephen, he could see how the man’s eyes burned with anger, making Stephen smirk.