Chapter 1

7:30pm, august 22nd, in crystal city

" Lily, you know you're hosting the millionaires night party tonight." Susan Lily's housekeeper and best friend said.

" I don't know if I want to go, Susan." Lily said.

" your father won't take no for an answer, and by the way every rich and successful person in crystal city is going. Including Josh and Kira" Susan said.

"Wait what, they are going?" Lily said as she got up the couch. Susan nodded " yep."

" I won't let my lazy spoiled ex and his untalented sister go to that party, while I sit here like a couch potato, Susan, go get my hairstylist , my makeup artist And my fashion designer. I am going to that party."

Lily sat in front of her dressing table as her hairstylist straightened her black wavy hair and her makeup artist did her eyebrows.

" Lily, I picked up your dress from the fashion designer, she said she couldn't make it over here." Susan said, holding a box that contained Lily's red and white lace gown, a pink fur shawl, white elbow high silk gloves, silver high heels, diamond hoops and diamond necklace.

"Do you want your hair in a ponytail, a bun, or just down." The hairstylist said to lily.

" Leave it down." Lily said.

Susan opened the box the dress was in. " How can you walk in this, the gown is heavy? And these heels are higher than my paycheck."

Lily had finished with hair and make up, and started to wear her dress. Susan helped her to zip the back of the dress and helped her put on her shoes. Lily picked up the hoop earrings and hooked them in her ear. "Susan pass me my gloves please." Lily said. Susan picked up the necklace and put it around Lily's neck.

" Oh God, this dress is so damn heavy."Lily said as she tried to walk outside into her limousine. Her and her security guards entered the limousine, and then they drove off.

8:45pm at Crystal city's most large and expensive event hall.

lily 's limousine parked beside other rich and expensive cars. She walked out of her car as soon as she stepped out camera flashes were everywhere, she walked to the golden carpet. And stood there posing for pictures, a news reporter walked up to lily.

" hi, Lily, my name is ella, and I am a news reporter from talk,talk and talk news. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?"

" Sure, ask away. But you know, be quick."

" So our first question is, this is your fifth millionaires night party, and today is your first time hosting?" Ella asked

" Yeah, and I am so nervous, it's much scarier than running a million dollar company but yeah I mean I am excited though." lily said

" I noticed your dress, it is stunning, you're the only person that I have seen that is not wearing gold, silver, black or white." ella said, as her and lily giggled

" It was designed by my favourite designer and friend Brina, she is the best." lily said

" Which people do you think will win tonight?" ella asked

" Hopefully me, I am the best anyways,"Lily said smiling.

" Last question, what would you tell your admirers, who are fans of you? I mean I am a fan of you, you're the CEO of a company and a model for many beauty company's."

" I would tell them to be themselves, follow their dreams and do whatever makes you happy. Bye, I have to go now." Lily said.

She entered the backstage of the building. She saw her mother and father who were talking to one of the workers.

" Hey dad." Lily said as she shuffled over to him because her dress was too heavy.

" Hey lily, that's my girl, this is going to be a big night for you." Lily's father said.

Lily's mother brushes Lily's hair with her fingers. "Wow, you straightened your hair for the first time, I almost didn't recognise you."

"So, I can't believe I am doing this." Lily said as she squealed in excitement.

Her father hands her a stack of note cards." This is the list of winners. Your cousin Jane will be joining you on stage to be handing out the awards." Lily's father kissed on the cheek and left.

Lily's mother said " don't make any non funny jokes that would embarrass you and don't forget to stand straight and tall." she opened her purse and brought out a lipstick " your lipstick is drying out." Lily's mother said while applying it on her. " bye."

Lily was now alone backstage, all she had to do was wait for her father to introduce her to the stage.

" I am so happy today, we have done this every year for the past 48 years. People might be jealous of us because of our wealth but we worked hard for it. And today we celebrate the people that worked the hardest. Introducing our host Lily blues, my daughter." lily's father said

Lily appeared from behind the curtain and took the mic from her father.

" Hello, I have been to this award party for 5 years, and finally I am up here handing out awards. Like my father said 'we worked hard for these.'

Lily took out one card from the stack and said.

" the best new successful millionaire award goes to." Lily paused for a moment. " Cynthia Brown . Come up here cynthia. "Cynthia climbed up the stage. She said her short speech took her award and left.

Lily continued. " Wow Cynthia, welcome to the millionaires party, hope you keep it up and never give up. The next award goes to the best donator to charities, schools, and hospitals." another short pause. " Daniel starring. You donated 700, million dollars in total to 50 schools, 95 hospitals, and 39 charities. Daniel, you have a very kind heart and we want more people like you in this world. Come up here and get your award."

"Before we continue our award there is a short performance, from my very good friend i met when taking pictures for the vogue magazine Lucy everybody." Lily said left the stage and went backstage.

" oh my god i have to sit down, these heels are killing me." Lily said, as Lucy and her backup dancers went on stage to perform. Lily saw Susan come in through the door " Susan, what are you doing here?" Lily asked.

" Your mother called me here to help you backstage, like can't a housekeeper, keep the house in peace." Susan said, handing Lily a water bottle.

Lucy's performance was over, and she came back stage. Her and Lily hugged for a while. Lucy said in a hurry. " I will call you, i have other things to do, bye i love you."

"I love you too." Lily replied.

Lily was back on stage, " we all enjoyed that little performance bye Lucy, so let us carry on. The next award goes to the most successful person of the year." Lily, wondering why this card was in an envelope, opened it and said. " Oh my God, it's me."

Lily's father came up on stage. And taking the mic from lily that was still in shock from excitement. " Lily as a father, I am proud of you, for what you are doing, keep it up and I know you love your job and you always keep impressing me."

Lily's smile then faded away as soon as Lily's father mentioned that she loved her job. Lily's father then hands her back the mic.

" Those were beautiful heartfelt words said by my father. I am proud to call him a father.

The next award is for the person that has stepped up their game earning 59 billion dollars this year, this person has won 8 different awards and it goes to." another short pause. " to no one other than josh hart." Josh came up on stage. " Thank you for these awards, it's kind of ironic how this is a millionaire award party, but I am winning an award for being a billionaire. And thank you to my ex lily for the support she had shown me." Lily rolled her eyes and collected the mic from josh.

After all the awards, the performance and so on. The party was over, everyone was back in their houses but Lily ended up going to her parents house for a small party her parents put together with their friends.

Lily's father had some friends over. He was talking to one of his friends as they were drinking. He said" did you know that lily always wanted to be a singer, i never let her and I didn't tell her no either, you see when she was very young, she was obsessed with being a singer so I needed someone to take over my company from me and singing was a not so okay job so what i did was, i pretended to be very sad, i even faked crying. She was like ' daddy don't cry i would do anything for you to stop crying.' i told her that i had no one to take over the company from me when i am very old or when i die, she felt really bad for me , and promised to take it over. Sometimes she forgot and I reminded her of her promise."

Lily standing behind her father said " so you tricked me." her father turned around and noticed her.

" Everyday I worked in that office, I always thought I was making you happy, when you never even cared about my own happiness . Being a CEO of a company makes you happy but it doesn't for me. You know what, I quit, tomorrow i will send my resignation letter to the board of directors. You can't control me anymore." Lily left the building her father followed behind her.

" don't you dare resign, I am your father and you listen to me no matter what." Lily's father said.

Lily ignored him and walked inside her car, and drove off.

Lily got home and as soon as she entered the house, Susan noticed the frown on her face and came to her and asked " what's wrong."

" I am resigning Susan, I am finally resigning. And I figured out my father was a deceiver." Lily said

" What happened, why? I knew you didn't like the job but why resign" Susan said.

" My father had been controlling me for a very long time. He deceived me, and now I am finally free to be who I want to be." Lily said

Susan hugged her and said " you made the right choice. But now you're going to be jobless, you better find a way to keep on paying me for my job."

The next day

Lily dressed up in a ponytail and in a suit dress, with black heels.

" So you are resigning today." Susan asked.

" yep, get this company business done with." Lily said as she grabbed her bag and headed for the front door.

8:00 am blues architect company in crystal city

" Lily, the board of directors are waiting for you in the meeting room. Is everything okay?" Lily's work assistant kira asked.

" I actually called them for the meeting because I am resigning." lily said i a cheerful way

Inside the meeting room, the board of directors sat down waiting for lily. When she finally got in.

" Sorry I am late, there was a little traffic." lily said

One of the board directors named Jin said " you called us here, what is the situation? It sounded like it was urgent."

" it is." Lily opened her bag and brought out her resignation letter and placed it on the table " I am resigning."

Jin picked up the letter, tore it , crumpled the piece of paper and tossed it in the trash can. " Sorry, Lily, you can't resign."

" What, what do you mean I can't resign? I am quitting, I am done."

" Lily you can't, because your father signed a contract making you and the company under our control, so if you try anything like not showing up to work again or fleeing , we will evict you from your home, and block your bank account." a board of directors named Frank said.

" Are you threatening me? And my father signed all my rights to you, You know what I am suing you all and my father. " Lily said as she walked out of the meeting room.

She stormed through the office halls angry, she entered her car and took a deep breath. Lily is the type of person that suffers from IED anger ( Intermittent explosive disorder) . It is a disorder when people randomly get angry and things like this could trigger the demon in her making her do things a monster would.

She got home, wanting to relieve herself of the anger so she was smashing something in the backyard with a metal bat. Susan leaned on the wall, " you smash that girl, take out all your anger on that." Susan said. The other workers in the house came out to the backyard to see what was going on.

The chef said " oh my, what is she smashing like that."

Susan replied " trust me you don't want to know"

All the workers watched as lily smashed as hard as she could

The security guard who heard the smashing noise from the other side of the building, came to the backyard. " Whoa what is going on, it is interrupting my nap." He said as he tried going close to lily. Susan pulled him back.

" You should stay 8 feet's back, if you don't want to end up like what she is smashing. I can remember when we were kids and she was angry she had just learnt how to cook, she was angry that her mother didn't get her what she wanted.

She was very angry that she almost destroyed the entire house, but a poor raccoon, not knowing, took her food and tried running off. She grabbed it by the tail, and let me tell you that we had a very delicious meal with the best meat ever." After the security guard heard this he stepped back in fright and said "I will just wait here, until she is done."

A few hours later.

" I'm done, I got all that anger out, now if you will excuse me I have a case to file in court." Lily said as she walked back into the house. She contacted her lawyer to file the case to the court. Later that day she received a call back from her lawyer who said that the case had been filed and would be ready for hearings in a few days

" Welcome to talktalk and talk news(TTTN), where we will break down the latest news from Crystal city. And today we have the latest and the hottest news. The icon and millionaire lily blues is suing her father and her company for, Ownership of her and her rights as a citizen and a person, and also for signature forgery. She figured this out as she went to resign, and found out that she couldn't because she is owned by the company and her decision doesn't matter."

Speaking of resigning, fans of Lily,on social media, suspected her leave and resigning during the millionaires award party. One fan tweeted.

" Why is Lily the only one wearing a dress that is not black, white, gold or silver ? It's like she is trying to escape from the millionaires' society."

And on tiktok a video, saying ' conspiracy theory, is lily really tired of being a CEO of a multimillionaire company and is she being controlled. here are the sign, last year she was asked a question on an interview how she felt being a CEO starting at a very young age she joke and said like more like hell and laughed it of, and on the millionaires award party, she was the only one wearing a different color dress red and white and if you search up colors that red signifies, it shows you that control was one of them. And white means innocence, so control over an innocent person, and her shawl was pink which signifies calm, which means she is trying to remain calm over the situation." These fans described the signs of lily being controlled and now their theory was right, lily would be going to court in a few days to free herself from this mess."

A few days later (12:00pm Monday, state court.)

Lily came out of court with her lawyer wearing a white suit. She was excited and a crowd of the press were outside taking pictures of her camera flashes were everywhere

" Lily, how did the case go in court?"

Lily didn't say anything but just gave a thumbs up, her security guard opened the car door for her and she entered.

She brought her phone. And tweeted.

"Guess who got out of court as a free person?"

She reached home and Susan asked " tell me how it went."

" Well the company had to pay a hundred thousand dollar fine, my dad would be in jail for two years, the contract my father made was canceled, and I finally resigned."