I just told the new intern not to eat instant noodles, as they would cause a strong smell in the office. Instead, the intern suddenly got arrogant and wanted me to apologize.

“It's not me who wants to eat these fried instant noodles, but the future president of the company in my belly who wants to eat it.”

“Just based on your attitude towards me, it's enough to make you die a hundred times. I'm carrying your brother's first son in my belly!”

I was so dumbfounded by the intern that I thought she was a “pregnant lady” who had a psychotic break, so I called Human Resources and had her fired on the spot. She was so furious that she brought my brother over as her backup.

I didn't have time to be shocked by the intern and my brother. My brother, however, started yelling and pointed at me without hearing any explanation.

“The eldest brother is like a father and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Do you want to live if you disobey us like this?”

“If you still want to stay in the family, immediately kneel down and kowtow to your sister-in-law and apologize!”

Looking at the crazy husband and wife in front of me, I couldn't hold back my laughter.

“A foster son without a household registration is just a foster son. You dare to say that the elder brother is like a father?”

——

When I passed by the sales department office, I suddenly smelled a pungent aroma. I thought of all those online stories about employees losing it. And I was a little unsure whether my company's employees were also crazy.

I walked in.  Luckily, no one was losing their mind. The source of the aroma was the new intern, Madeleine Lidoine, who was eating fried curry instant noodles without paying attention to anyone else.

The people around me didn't look like they had very good faces either. They looked angry but not dared to speak out.

I frowned, thinking that interns nowadays were more sensitive and disobedient, so I tried my best to use a gentle tone of voice to hint.

“Are you so busy today? So late for lunch?”

Madeleine raised her head to look up and hummed in an unkind tone, “What’s there for an intern to be busy with? I'm just waiting to get off work. I don't like the cafeteria's food, so I ordered takeout myself.”

“If you're really kind and have good intentions for your employees, to improve the cafeteria's food. Don't act like a know-it-all leader here.”

I was momentarily angry. I had heard that the interns nowadays talk back to everyone. But how could I have never thought that she would be so easy to stress? So I was also a little angry.

“Interns also have things that interns should do! What do you mean by waiting until the end of work?”

“Cooking is hard to satisfy everyone. If you think it's not good and you want to eat takeout, I don't have a problem with it. But this is an office, not a place to eat such as a dining hall.”

“What's more, it's okay for you to eat a sandwich, but you do not have to eat fried curry instant noodles. That smell…”

Before the words were finished, Madeleine suddenly stood up and knocked the bowl full of fried curry instant noodles directly to the ground. The whole space smelled even heavier.

“I'm a pregnant woman. Haven't you heard that a woman is a princess on the day she gets married? And after she gets pregnant she can be a queen for ten months! I'm the queen now. I can eat whatever I want and do whatever I want!”

“You, a spinster who can’t get married, just can’t stand to see me happy, huh? Are you going to force me to die, one body and two lives?”

***

Looking at Madeleine's broken-down appearance. I only felt speechless. If it wasn't for the fact that I was a party to the case. I really would have thought that she was suffering from a great deal of wrongdoing.

Madeleine Lidoine was a new intern in this batch. She has been in a bad working state. But since her probation wasn’t over, I wanted to give her a chance. But I did not expect that she would come here to take care of her pregnancy.

I was a little angry and immediately wanted her to leave. But I also remembered that Madeleine was pregnant at the moment. A pregnant woman was easily agitated, plus she hadn’t eaten. In case she really met something, I couldn't save myself even if I jumped off a tall building.

So I tried hard to restrain my anger. “Since you are a pregnant woman, don't eat this junk food. Let's do it this way, you go to the cafeteria and wait, I'll ask my assistant to prepare a nutritious meal for you.”

I thought I handled it without any problems, but Madeleine got even angrier. She pointed at my nose and cursed, “You think I need your good intentions? If you hadn’t barged in and made a scene, I’d have finished eating by now.”

“Who knows if you gave me abortion pills to make me miscarry? An unwanted old aunt like you can't stand the sight of a little pregnant woman like me. How could you possibly take the initiative to order food for me?”

Madeleine chattered on and on. Her mouth opened and closed to say all the words that poked at her heart.

I was directly enraged. “Stop! It’s enough!”

“I was thinking of giving you a chance because you're pregnant, but since you don't want it, forget it. Your work attitude during your internship is terrible. Your business skills were not good. And you violated the company's rules many times. I'm going to fire you now according to the law!”

Madeleine suddenly laughed after hearing this. “You are really ignorant of the law. First of all, the company cannot fire pregnant women. Second, you as my sister-in-law can't fire your own sister-in-law either!”

***

I was stunned for a moment and mumbled, “Sister-in-law?”

Madeleine responded proudly, “You know to call your sister-in-law now? It's too late. Just because you just made a scene, my son is missing a meal.”

“This is a huge matter. Don't think that you can solve it by casually giving in and calling out sister-in-law.”

I really didn't know what to say. After all, my brother had never come to the company. How could he have a child with Madeleine? If I believed in such nonsense, then I wouldn't be able to master such a large company all by myself.

However, Madeleine felt that I was speechless and scared. So, she was even more pleased with herself and sat directly on the chair. She raised her head to look at me.

“But I'm not that kind of evil sister-in-law, so I can forgive you. But you have to do a few things.”

“The first is you have to kneel down and kowtow to me and apologize. After all, I'm your sister-in-law. I'm still pregnant with your nephew, I have continued the bloodline of your Mazzarello Family. I'm a great meritorious person, so it's only right that I should be subjected to your kneeling.”

“The second is to kneel down and clean up the mess on the floor. I just thought it was delicious before, but now it smells disgusting!”

“Thirdly, the rule that you can't eat in the office in the future has to be changed. I'm sure I'll be hungry often in the future. And I'm too lazy to go to the cafeteria so far. So I'll just have to eat in the office.”

“Fourth...”

Seeing that Madeleine was going to be endless, I really couldn't hold back my laughter. “Don't go crazy here. Go to the hospital if you're sick. Don't make a scene here. I see that you're in a pretty good state of mind right now. Pack up your own stuff and get out of here quickly.”

Madeleine was stunned. But the other interns couldn't look away. One seemed to have endured for a long time and finally spoke up.

“It is said that you can't marry someone who has a sister. A sister-in-law is the most despicable creature.”

“Your sister-in-law gave you the opportunity to make up for your mistakes and you don't even want it, do you not want to live?”

“That's right, get out of here. Madeleine will be upset if she sees you.”

I was wondering why these interns didn't say anything when Madeleine was eating fried curry instant noodles here just now. It turned out that they were brainwashed by Madeleine and really regarded Madeleine as my “sister-in-law”.

However, I was too lazy to explain and directly called Mr. Leopold Mandic from the Human Resources Department. I pointed at this group of strange people and said, “Here all the people, all to me dismissed, immediately do it!

When this was said, a group of interns were afraid. One by one they didn't scold me, but pulled Madeleine's sleeve and chirped.

“Madeleine, we're all doing this for you. You can't just ignore us.”

“This company's internship is something I've been working on for a long time and I can't be fired.”

“Say something quickly, Madeleine.”

Madeleine nodded. “Don't worry. This company is not in the hands of Theresa Mazzarello. Mr. Leopold, none of these people are allowed to be fired. I’m carrying the Mazzarello Family's child, so I have the final say in this company.”

“Mr. Leopold, I order you to kick Theresa out. As long as you do it, I'll double your salary!”

Mr. Leopold awkwardly glanced at me and hurriedly agreed to expel this crowd of interns. He also repeatedly guaranteed that he would absolutely control the recruitment properly in the future and definitely not let this kind of thing happen again.

Only then did the interns realize that they were really going to be fired. They all complained and cried.

Madeleine, on the other hand, was almost pissed off. “I was going to give you a chance to stay in the company and give you a bite to eat, but now you're the one who gave your face away. I'll call your brother to come and teach you a lesson!”

I was too lazy to bother with Madeleine and turned around to leave this smelly office. But just as I walked out not too far, I heard Madeleine's miserable scream.

“Ah, my belly. My hubby, please save me and the baby!”

I didn't stop myself from turning around to see who this person posing as my brother was. But I was stunned when I saw it. Because the person who came was none other than my brother, Nicholas Mazzarello.

***

Nicholas was currently hugging Madeleine at this moment. He shouted as if Madeleine was already dying, “Madeleine, don't scare me. What's wrong with you? Please, say something to me!”

I only felt speechless. I didn't realize that what Madeleine said was true, that she was really my “sister-in-law”. The thought of being a family member with such a person in the future was worse than eating a fly.

Despite this thought, I still walked over to her. “Nicholas, who is she?”

Nicholas didn't speak at all. Madeleine changed her angry appearance just now and looked at me with tears in the corners of her gentle weaker eyes and said, “Ms. Theresa, what do you mean by this?”

“I told you a long time ago that I'm Nicholas's girlfriend and pregnant with his child. But you said that you don't need a sister-in-law like me. Not only did you want to fire me, but you also knocked over my lunch!”

“And I've already promised you that even if the baby is born, it won't affect your status nor share your property. I'll work hard to raise the child myself.”

“Are you so intolerant of me and my child? After all, isn't my child also your nephew? Originally born from the same root, why are they so anxious to be with each other?”

The interns around me who were packing up to leave thought they had hope that they wouldn't be fired. And one by one, they all spoke up in favour of Madeleine, turning black and white upside down.

I took several deep breaths before I opened my mouth. “Nicholas, I don't even know about you and Madeleine. I thought it was her talking nonsense. And I didn't do anything to her just now. If you don't believe me, you can...”

Before I could say “Check the surveillance,” Nicholas shouted, “Shut up! I don't want to listen to your explanation. I'm too disappointed in you. My family is right that you are really vicious. I'm going to take Madeleine to the hospital now. You'd better pray that she's okay.”

“By the time I get back, I want you to have packed your things and left.”

Looking at Nicholas and Madeleine's back as they left, I was almost pissed off. I wanted to immediately call him out and talk to him. But looking at the surrounding employees who were watching the scene, I held back from getting angry and just told Mr. Leopold to fire these interns.