Scammed in Love, Crowned at Home: The Heiress Returns

In the blink of an eye, it was time for my dinner with Nathan. Thanks to Mom's persistent urging, I left the house hours before I actually had to.

As soon as the car came to a stop at the hotel entrance, a massive wedding poster slammed into my line of sight. It was a photo of Marvin in a suit with a blissful smile on his face, with Camellia beside him.

Only then did I remember that they were having their wedding today.

What a coincidence that was.

I walked into the hotel lobby and was about to head up to the rooftop when a voice called out, "Evelyn, what are you doing here?"

Camellia had spotted me. She immediately furrowed her brows and hurried over.

Marvin's face grew unpleasant the instant he saw me. "Evelyn, I told you not to bother me anymore! How can you be so shameless?"

"You don't own this hotel," I said coolly. "Do I need to report to you whenever I come here?"

Camellia snorted. "I see what's going on. You just can't let it go, so you showed up here to ruin our wedding, didn't you? Do you even know how much it costs to hold a wedding here? Your monthly salary isn't even enough to rent the most basic ballroom, you broke bitch!"

Marvin, with his arm around Camellia, looked at me in utter disdain. "There's no way in hell I'd ever marry you, Evelyn, so just give it up already! Look at Cammy, and then look at yourself. Do you really think you're worthy of me?"

The guests around them started whispering among themselves, curious about the situation.

"Is she the groom's ex? She's all dressed up, too. Is she here to steal the groom?"

"They've already broken up, yet she refuses to move on. How embarrassing for her!"

"She's just a deluded woman who wants someone way out of her league. She deserved to get dumped."

The comments stoked Marvin's ego, much to his satisfaction. "Heard that, Evelyn? This is the life I deserve. Take my advice and get lost now. Stop humiliating yourself here. You and I have long since become two people from entirely different worlds."

After taking in their show of smugness, I was just about to retort when a middle-aged man dressed in a suit dashed into the hotel lobby.

"Ms. Hough, our newly appointed CEO has just called off the redevelopment project at the south side of the city, the one where your family home is located."

The smile on Camellia's face froze at once.

"What did you just say?"

The man, who was drenched in sweat, confirmed the news once more. "It's true. We just received an official memo from the headquarters, stating that the plan for that district needs to be re-evaluated…"

He trailed off when, out of the corner of my eye, he spotted me. Immediately, he straightened up and turned to me with a respectful expression. "W-What are you doing here, Ms. Gray?"