Gigi Vance strode into the garden of Hughes Manor with the confidence of a woman who owned the world.
She was the daughter of Mayor Vance, a PhD graduate from the prestigious Imperial Capital Medical University, and the leader of a Gold Medal research team. In the hierarchy of Northriver, she was royalty.
The guests parted like the Red Sea, their eyes filled with admiration and envy.
"Look at her," a businessman whispered. "With Gigi Vance joining, the Hughes Group will be unstoppable. Their stock is going to triple overnight."
"The alliance of Hughes, Lacy, and DragonGate was already a fortress. Now, with the best medical mind in the city, they have become a god-tier entity. Poor Claire Lynch. She never stood a chance."
"It's over. The pharmaceutical market in the province is locked
