Sophia Shaw lowered her head and saw the divorce certificate.

’Having Vincent Grant handle it really is different,’ she thought. ’They even skipped the cooling-off period.’

She picked it up and flipped through it.

It bore her name and Vincent Grant’s.

Joanna Sherman scoffed and slapped a bank card down on the table. "And this. You were with Vincent for five years, after all. Consider this ten million a reward from him."

Vincent Grant was worth tens of billions. For Joanna Sherman to throw out ten million was a clear attempt to humiliate her!

Sophia slowly picked up the card.

The disdain in Joanna Sherman’s eyes deepened.

’What an unsophisticated rube. She can’t keep her hands off a mere ten million!’

The next moment, the card was thrown back in Joanna Sherman’s face.

The sharp corner scraped hard against the side of Joanna Sherman’s face, leaving a stinging pain.

A distinct, bloody scratch appeared on her perfectly maintained face.

Joanna Sherman cried out in pain and clutched her face. When she felt the mark, her eyes went wide.

She looked like she wanted to eat Sophia alive.

"How dare you hit me! You bitch!"

"Listen up!" Sophia’s cool, clear voice cut her off. "I’ve suddenly decided I don’t want to leave with nothing. Get two hundred million ready!"

Two hundred million!

It was sheer extortion.

"In your dreams!" Joanna Sherman clutched her cheek, looking at Sophia with contempt. "You worthless thing, what gives you the right to demand two hundred million from Vincent Grant!"

"The fact that Vincent would even give you ten million is already a sign of his high regard for you!"

Sophia corrected her. "I’m not asking Vincent. I’m asking you!"

Joanna Sherman was speechless.

Sophia knew in her heart that while Vincent Grant was cold to her, he would never intentionally humiliate her.

This was Joanna Sherman’s idea.

’If Joanna Sherman wants to bully me like she did when we were kids, she better be prepared to pay the price!’

"Stop dreaming!" Joanna Sherman retorted without a second thought.

She thought even the ten million from Vincent was too much; there was no way she’d give Sophia two hundred million!

"The divorce certificate is already finalized. It’s useless no matter how big of a scene you make!"

"Who says it’s useless?" Sophia waved the agreement next to the divorce certificate. "The court stipulates that if a divorce agreement is found to be patently unfair within one year, a lawsuit can be filed to request a redistribution of assets."

"I’m leaving with my child and nothing to my name. Do you think the court will side with me? Do you think they’ll redistribute the assets?"

Joanna Sherman was left speechless.

She’d never been divorced; she had no idea such a rule existed!

"So, either you come up with two hundred million, or I go to court."

"I might even be able to get the divorce revoked. Then all your efforts will have been for nothing."

’Sophia Shaw!’

’Sophia Shaw!’

’That damn Sophia Shaw deserved to be sliced into a thousand pieces!’

Trapped by Sophia’s scheme with no way to fight back, Joanna Sherman gritted her teeth and thrust her sharp fingernails toward Sophia’s face, intending to scratch it to shreds.

Sophia didn’t move a muscle, not even the corner of her brow twitched. Instead, a faint, mocking smile played on her lips.

’She’s betting... that I don’t dare scratch her!’ Joanna thought.

Joanna Sherman was so consumed by hatred that it felt like her lungs would burst, her rage threatening to rip her in two.

But she was forced to stop, her hand just a centimeter from Sophia’s face.

Gritting her teeth, she retracted her fingers.

The next moment, however, she let out a cold laugh. "Don’t you always say you look down on your father? Look at you now, begging for money. You’re even worse than he is!"

"At least he earned his money with his own skills. And you? All you can do is beg from me, extort me!"

Sophia didn’t acknowledge the insult. "You’re wrong. I’m better than him."

"He stole. He was a thief. I’m demanding it out in the open!"

"He was a Vampire who sucked my mother’s blood to support his other woman and her illegitimate child. I’m just taking back the money he stole, on my mother’s behalf!"

’She actually called my mother the "other woman" and me an "illegitimate child"!’

’A few years apart, and Sophia’s tongue has become truly venomous.’

Joanna Sherman had wanted to score a point, but instead, she was humiliated even more thoroughly.

She was grinding her teeth to dust.

Sophia had no time to argue with her. She said, "I want the money in my account within three days. Not a second later!"

After speaking, she gave Joanna a deep, meaningful look.

She didn’t say another word, but Joanna Sherman understood the meaning in her eyes perfectly:

’Wouldn’t it have been better to just leave with nothing?’

’You just had to piss me off, so now I’m taking two hundred million from you!’

’Serves you right, you idiot!’

Joanna Sherman’s heart, already in turmoil, felt like it was exploding all over again.

After a long moment, she squeezed one word through her gritted teeth: "Deal!"

She couldn’t refuse.

’Sophia and Vincent Grant have finally come this far. I can’t let the divorce certificate become invalid!’

If she didn’t pay up and Sophia went to Vincent, all her previous efforts would be down the drain.

Forced to agree to pay, Joanna Sherman was seething inside.

As she was leaving, she said in a deliberately boastful tone, "Do you know why Old Master Sloan chose me?"

Sophia remained silent.

Only after Joanna Sherman had walked some distance away did Sophia gently press a hand to her chest.

A flicker of pain showed at the corners of her eyes.

「The Sherman Residence.」

Ever since Joanna Sherman returned, she had been holed up in her room with Yvonne Sherman.

"What is wrong with you? Couldn’t you have just endured it? Why did you have to provoke her at this critical moment, only to get extorted for two hundred million!"

At the thought of two hundred million, Yvonne Sherman’s heart felt like it was bleeding!

"The company has been losing money recently! Where are we going to get two hundred million!"

The livestreaming failed, and the jewelry store lost its customers after offending Mrs. Sawyer.

Yvonne Sherman had a massive headache.

Joanna Sherman twisted her fingers, viciously pinching a doll in front of her as if it were Sophia.

"That damn woman has always been so meek and mild! Who knew she would suddenly become so shameless!"

Every time she thought about what happened tonight, Joanna Sherman wanted to take a bite out of Sophia!

"Even ten million wasn’t enough to shut her up!"

Yvonne Sherman paced the room with her hands on her hips.

"Her mother was as stupid as a pig. How did she give birth to someone so shrewd?"

"She used to be a coward, too! I could walk all over her however I wanted. She only became like this after leaving the family! I said it back then, we shouldn’t have let her leave, but you all wouldn’t listen!"

Joanna Sherman still felt indignant whenever she brought this up.

Yvonne Sherman also regretted it.

Back then, the Jennings had all sided with her. With no threats left, the tension she’d been holding onto dissipated.

Sophia, on the other hand, had been bullied into a lifeless state, completely devoid of spirit. It looked as though she wouldn’t live for more than a few years.

Unwilling to let her die in the house and start rumors, Yvonne had Chad Jennings let her go when Yancy Shaw came to get her.

"If I had known she would turn into a wild beast and bite us back like this, I would have let her die in the house back then!" Joanna Sherman said in a vicious tone.

"It’s useless to talk about that now. We need to solve this two-hundred-million problem quickly." Sophia had only given them three days, and Yvonne Sherman was getting anxious.

"The Sherman Family absolutely cannot come up with two hundred million!"

"Joanna, dear, if this doesn’t work, maybe you should ask Vincent Grant to deal with her."

"Vincent Grant can’t get involved!" Joanna Sherman said with unusual firmness, throwing the divorce certificate on the table.

"Vincent doesn’t know anything about the divorce with Sophia. I used a few tricks to get him to sign the papers."

"If Vincent finds out, the fact that I deceived him alone would be enough to create a rift between us!"

"For at least a year, Vincent cannot find out about their divorce!"

"After a year has passed..."

’...the divorce between Vincent Grant and Sophia Shaw will be set in stone, and their agreement won’t be able to cause any more trouble. Then I can find a way to deal with Sophia and make her cough up the money!’