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.

I waited until I returned to the office before I picked up my cell phone and called Nicholas. The call was quickly answered, but it wasn't Nicholas. It was Madeleine. 

Madeleine was very proud and said, “Why? Now you know to call to apologize?”

“I tell you, it's too late. You can just pack up and leave. Don't blame me as a sister-in-law for being too cunning. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for controlling the family business but not giving it to your brother!”

“Otherwise why do you think I came to your company to join? What I want is to drive you out of the Mazzarello Family. All of the Mazzarello Family's property will be my son's in the future. Don't call here again. Wait for us to come to your door to drive you out!”

Madeleine finished like a machine gun. Then hung up the phone. I couldn't get through if I called again.

After hanging up, I immediately asked my assistant to investigate Madeleine. I didn't know until I checked. 

I was shocked. It turned out that Madeleine Lidoine was a college student sponsored by Nicholas. The two became a romantic relationship over and over.

Not long after Madeleine became pregnant. I think it was because Madeleine couldn't stand to see me in control of the family business. So, she was deliberately inducted into the company, just for today's scene.

But it was a pity for me. In front of absolute strength, all conspiracies were futile.

I didn't call Nicholas again, but instead called my bank account manager, “I want you to stop all the sub-cards I gave to Nicholas now.”

Then contacted the housekeeper at home and ordered, “The houses and villas where Nicholas often goes, change the password if you have a password and change the door locks if you don't have a password. Don't let him in.”

***

I dealt with everything in a thunderous manner. As expected, Nicholas called me soon. I was too lazy to pick up and directly blocked his number.

Three days later I was ready to go out to the company. Nicholas and Madeleine came to my house with a group of relatives and the interns I fired last time.

Nicholas pointed at my nose and said with a straight face, “Theresa, we are your family. But you can't tolerate your sister-in-law and our baby. So today I'm going to replace Mom and Dad in disciplining you.”

“A bitch with no respect for your elders and I'm ordering you to hand over the company and also the family's money. I am now giving you two choices in front of our relatives and friends.”

“First, get out of the Mazzarello Family penniless and never have any contact with each other again. Second, apologize to your sister-in-law on your knees. I can give you another job for the sake of Mom and Dad, or at least not let you starve to death.”

Seeing that I had no reaction and even looked like I wanted to laugh a little, Madeleine broke her defence a little.

“What are you laughing at? Nicholas didn't say anything wrong. He's the son of the Mazzarello family. All this should have been Nicholas.”

“A woman is the head of the family? You are not afraid of making others laugh when you tell others about it! Everyone, is that right?”

The interns soldiered on and agreed that it was right. But the faces of the relatives and friends didn't look very good. 

One of them just said awkwardly, “Nicholas, didn't you say that you came here for a big event? Is this the big event you were talking about?”

Nicholas seemed to have not expected everyone to not help him. He became even more angry.

“How is this not called a big event? The crowing of a hen will cause unrest in the house! I just take back the family property that should belong to the eldest son. Is there anything wrong with that?”

Hearing this, I could no longer hold back and directly slapped Nicholas. “An adopted child, what's the point of talking about the eldest son, what's the point of talking about the property, don't you think it's ridiculous?”