
CHAPTER 1
"Hurry back, son, your father is dead, and now all of your father's wealth that you should have inherited is now controlled by your father's newly married young wife a few days before he dies. I'm sure it was your father's young wife who killed your father because she wanted to control all of your father's wealth. That woman is really cunning, Gio, this cannot be allowed. You should go back right now, son. Take away everything that should be your right."
Giovanno, aka Gio, who had just received sad news from his mother by phone about his biological father, hurriedly packed up to return to Indonesia. For 15 years Gio never met the father due to the divorce of his mother and father certainly makes him feel very sad and hurt to hear the news that can cut his heart.
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A beautiful 28-year-old woman was crying for her husband's departure. Now he can only stare at the picture frame belonging to the middle-aged man who was adrift of 35 years with him. More precisely his boss who a week ago married him.
The Flashback
"Sir, even though I don't love you as my husband, I do respect and respect you as my boss. You are very good person. For all my years as your secretary, you have really treated me so well as your own daughter."
The woman's memory was immediately twisted on the incident 1 week ago, when the middle-aged man in the photo was lying weakly on a hospital bed.
"Lisa, I'm sorry. I can't fight any longer" said Mr. Ghani, Gio's biological father.
"Sir, please don't say that. You need to heal and get back to health as you are. If treatment in Singapore does not have much positive impact on your health, then now I will try to bring you to America."
"No, Lisa, no need." The middle-aged man refused with a deep and powerless weak voice. His gaze was now staring straight at the ceiling of the treatment room. After exhaling slowly he again said, "It has been almost 3 years that I have struggled with this deadly disease, Lisa, and now I really can't stand it anymore, I can no longer bear the pain. Maybe it's time for me to go."
"Sir, you must endure. Wasn't your dream all along to meet your only child? Can you go without saying goodbye to him first? Are you willing to go without seeing her one last time?" Lisa said as she began to cry.
A faint smile was engraved on Mr. Ghani's pale face. "Lisa, one day if you meet her, give her my apology. Tell him that ... His father loved him very much. He's the only son I have in this world."
Chequek.
A man in a neat suit suddenly entered Mr. Ghani's treatment room.
"Lawyer Mark, have you come?" said Mr. Ghani.
"Already, Sir. I've come" replied attorney Mark.
"Lisa, listen to me carefully" Ghani said later.
"Yes, Sir. What do you want to say?"
"I want you to be the heir to all the wealth and assets of the company I own."
Deg. Lisa's heart was beating fast. Surprised, of course. What dreams did he have last night, until today he heard Mr. Ghani say that to him.
"Because that's Lisa, I want you to fulfill one of my requests before I'm gone."
Lisa was silent to Mr. Ghani's words. If you look around, it seems like the life expectancy of the middle-aged man is indeed not long. "Mostly ... What request do you have for me, sir?"
"Be my wife, Lisa. That way you can have the right to inherit everything."
Off Flashback.
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Tok tok!
"Mrs! Miss Lisa!" The screams of the housekeeper instantly disperse Lisa's daydream. The woman quickly wiped her tears and placed Mr. Ghani's picture frame back on the bedside table.
"What's up, Bi?" ask Lisa as soon as the door opens.
"Outside there's someone looking for you, Madam."
"Who, Bi?" ask Lisa curious.
"If I don't get her name wrong, Madam."
Deg.
"Gio, Bi?" lisa asked to make sure she didn't hear wrong.
"Yes, Madam. If it's not wrong ...." The Aunt purposely hung up her words because it felt bad to continue.
"If it's not wrong what, Bi? Just tell me, don't talk half-and-half."
"If I had not misheard, Mr. Gio had introduced himself as his son the great master, Madam," the Household Assistant replied.
Because her guess turned out to be true, Lisa rushed down to meet her husband's son, which means now Gio is her stepson.
"You've come from earlier?" Lisa walked up to Gio with a friendly smile, then reached out to shake hands with the man.
While Gio, the 4-year-old man from Lisa was staring at the appearance of his stepmother from top to bottom, apparently after meeting with Lisa, he did not expect that it turned out that the woman even looked much younger than he had imagined before.
'Cih, the materialistic woman base. Want to get rich quick so get an old man to marry.' Gio thoughtfully stared at Lisa with a look of disdain accompanied by a trivial smile.
"So it turns out you're the wicked stepmother" Gio said without returning Lisa's hand.
B e r s a m b u n g ...