My Good-for-Nothing Brother

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Julian Sterling and I have been competing with each other since we were kids.

There's no real family affection in a wealthy household, a fact that was especially obvious between Julian and me.

Growing up, I was better than Julian in every single way.

Whether it was academics or social skills, I was leagues ahead of him.

If he made it into the top three of his class, I was guaranteed to be first in the entire grade. The year of the High School Placement Exams, he was one point short of getting into the Provincial Magnet High School, and our family had to pull strings to get him in.

But it was different for me. Teachers were calling, begging me to attend. As the top student, not only was my tuition completely waived, but I was also placed in the Honors Program.

Even our relatives and friends would sing my praises whenever they mentioned me, yet never once brought up the fact that I had an older brother.

Julian resented me deeply for this.

He once declared with absolute certainty, "So what if you're more outstanding? You're still just a girl. Do you really think our Parents will let a girl inherit the family fortune?"

Seeing that smug look on his face, I just wanted to laugh.

He was trying to use this to break my spirit, but unfortunately for him, he was just too naive.

I shot back directly, "Are you still living in the last century? What era is this, that you're still peddling that 'men are superior to women' garbage? You think having a few extra ounces of flesh between your legs makes you nobler than me?"

Watching Julian's face turn ashen, I covered my mouth and laughed. "Forget it. Trying to reason with an empty-headed person like you is pointless; you probably wouldn't get it anyway. You just need to know one thing: I will always be stronger than you."

Julian wanted to argue back, but he couldn't squeeze a single decent sentence out of his brain. All he could do was snarl viciously at me, "All you can do is run your mouth! Don't you even think about getting the better of me, you bitch."

The breaking point came the day we came of age. Our Parents gave us each Twenty Million Dollars in seed money to start earning our own fortunes, with one condition: we couldn't use any family connections and had to live and work under new identities.

After five years, whoever had earned more money would win the inheritance rights to the family's entire fortune.

From that day on, Julian, who already couldn't stand me, officially declared war.

"Seraphina Sterling, your good days are over. Once you're out in the real world, we'll see how hard it is for a woman like you to get anywhere."

I couldn't be bothered to respond to him.

"Julian, why don't you try saying that again after you've actually managed to surpass me."