Chapter 1

Back in 2016

" Stella Wong! Sit down! this instant! I will not have you disrespect me and my company! " Father shouted as he stood up from the chair looking at me all trembling away. I looked at him and tears started to form at the lower lids of my eyes, holding on to dear life .

" Father, I do not want to get involved in whatever arranged marriage you plan! If this is about business I can lend you a sum of money to settle whatever you need to . Dad, I am a successful Young woman ! isn't that what you want me to be ?! follow into your footsteps! Now I have and you refuse to not touch my life ! " I yelled back with tears flowing down my cheeks and down to my chin.

I looked at my father with pure anger in my eyes and have nothing more to say but to storm out of his office and head back to my own company to cool down , i drove back there and everyone in the office saw how badly i looked they dare not question my situation which was fine since the hiercery in the whole entire office only respects me as their boss i am perfectly fine with it .

Hi I'm Stella Wong owner of SC Private limited where i technically am richer and has more things owned than my father. Mr Wong my father isn't the best at being a father i would say ever since i could remember since young he has not been around my life a lot and when my mother gave birth to me he was not happy that i turned out to be a girl than a boy that he hoped for , well my mother died of cancer when i was 5 ever since then the house keepers have been looking after me till i decided to move out on my own and started my own empire of companies which now in the whole entire country i am the number 1 owner and CEO in the Business world .

This isn't the first time me and my own father fought rather he refuse to still accept the fact that i am the better business women i am thanks to him , well he didn't exactly teach me anything but i learnt it through self study and school i have a diploma in business studies and a degree in Business and Business Law so yes i am technically Part CEO Part Business Lawyer as well. Likewise it wasn't the easiest route because my dad refused to fund my education so I had to work hard for it and got scholarships here and there in order for me to be here today . There's no surprise to how my life is and how tough it must be to live like that when my only father is my opponent in the entire country .

This is just one of thoses days I wish it didn't happen. I really am trying to amend things with my father but as the years go by my heart grows colder every year to the point I am brutally blunt with it .

Fast forward to 2018

Till this day I am currently 26 years old and still the number 1 CEO , business Women in the country and top 3 in the globe. As for my father, he is a politician now, not surprised there since it was his decision to be a politician then so be it i couldn't be bothered by it anymore . in the past 2 years i have been working my hardest to provide everything to people i care most i usually visit my grandparents during the weekends and help them out with whatever they need , i also visit my father's house keepers since they took care of my since young and i owe them a lot for being a stubborn child that is the best i could do for them to bring them gives and red packets once in a while or when i finally close a big deal i will celebrate with them of course.

I have been handling my own appointments and scheduling meetings myself and despite all that contract work i do i fly solo on business trips i don't bring anyone but myself it gets pretty lonely and my HR had reminded me over and over again to get a personal assistant to help at least to minimise my stress levels. Well, I didn't listen till the day I collapsed in my own office .

I woke up at the hospital not knowing what happened to myself. The nurse was there and she quickly went to get the doctors to come and check on me which then happened to be a fainting spell due to overwhelming stress and anxiety issues . " Ms Wong, I advise you to take a break every once in a while and focus on yourself instead of throwing yourself into your work . This is bad for you. It could get worse if this keeps happening to you. " I looked at the doctor with my eyebrows raised and sighed out before nodding my head agreeing to what he said .

Yes this isn't the first time this has happened to me and it's no surprise at all … must be due to all the stress i have been putting on myself for the talk that i am about to give in Taiwan well that is another situation i have to handle another day but for sure i am not going to enjoy this stay in the hospital so far only the HR and Marketing head knows about what happened in my office for the rest i hope they will never find out.

Well this is my life after all , I've dealt with worst case scenarios here and there but nothing keeps me going but a cup of coffee well actually more than just a cup but you know what it helps! And it doesn't matter ! so that 3 days in the hospital was a piece of cake until my father turned up in my room all of a sudden.

"Stella" father looked at me as I raised my head from reading my book and looked at him closed. The book got up from the bed and to the sofa where he sat in front of me with his displeasing face.

"What is it that you want father?" I spat it right out making him lose his train of thought, "Stella , step down from CEO and hand it over to me so you would not be in this situation every single time." his worrying voice came out without a split second which yes i have seen this before but not a lot to prove to me that he really cares.

"Why should i? Because I am prone to fainting spells therefore it is dangerous to work in an office environment? " i said as i crossed my arms "Stella this is for your own good and your mental physical health not because i don't want you to succeed i just want you to lead a happy life have a family settle down you know like your mom and i"

I didn't say a word whenever he brought up mom. I will always remember what happened to her , not just because she died of Cancer but My dad cheated on her and this is one of the reasons why I could never forgive him .

"You and mom were on the verge of divorcing because of what you did behind our backs , but you found out she was diagnosed with Cancer you "changed" for her benefit but that didn't change my mind about you so don't come and tell me what do with my life cause i am perfectly fine with whatever i have now. If there is nothing else please leave i'm sure as a Mayor now you are fairly busy as well . see yourself out" i walked back to the bed and tucked myself in

Father walked towards the edge of my bed and sighed " Stella , you are not getting any younger i just want you to have the family you always wanted , i know i am not a good father but i am trying to amend things now i just hope you will throw away the past and look forward into the future , Get well soon Stella … Get well soon " from there he walked out of the room and never to be seen ever again ….

I understood what he meant but sadly I don't want to have kids or start a family to begin with. The amount of trauma he has put me through made me who I am today , and I am not going to sacrifice all my hard work to just raise and start a family. I can never do that .