a tiger you can’t tame

" I don't know what you are talking about," Lu Biya replied with a slight raise of her chin as she looked at her brother pretending not to understand what he was trying to say, in fact, she knew that he was making fun of her after all even though they were siblings, in the end, they were also competitors who were fighting for the shares of the company.

She looked at her brother keeping her ground and willing her heart such that it will not feel the slightest bit afraid, she was not in the wrong. There was no way she could be the one who will be in the wrong, only someone like Xua Ying Yue who had nothing without a backing will be in the wrong after all if the poor knew they were poor, there was no need for them to be alive, right? And if they were alive then they were supposed to serve as the backdrops of those who were rich.

The smile on Lu Cheng's face did not change instead he leaned forward and whispered, "Of course, you don't, dear sister but you do understand that what are you doing is riding a tiger—— a tiger you haven't tamed." He pulled back and winked at Lu Biya ignoring the angry flush of her cheeks. " You will surely fall on your bottom and get stampeded on if you continue like this, listen to me and stop when you are ahead, lest you break open that pretty head of yours."

" And let you take the majority of shares?" She sneered as she looked at Lu Cheng who was smirking like some arrogant jerk. " You speak as if the work you do solely belong to you, do you need me to remind you how you make those reports? I am sure you will be nothing if not for your assistants."

Lu Cheng scoffed, the smile on her face slipping off as he took a step forward, causing Lu Biya to lean back. " At least I am taking advantage of people who will not bite me on my back, what about you? Plagiarizing the work of someone who does not want to hand you, her work? You sure you will not ruin the Lu corporation?"

For two seconds neither of them spoke before Lu Biya burst out laughing, her eyes filled with mockery and disbelief. She scoffed as she turned her head and then took out the cigar from her back pocket, she lit it up with a lighter and she switched it on with a click.

Once the cigar was lit up with a golden glow, she straightened up and then pushed Lu Cheng by pushing the golden burning tip of her cigar as she hooked her lips mockingly and then said, " What did you say? Ruin? Who? That bitch who does not even have a single dime in her bank account? I am sorry?"

She pulled her hand back and placed the cigar in her mouth before taking a long drag of her cigar and blowing the smoke at the face of her brother. Lu Cheng turned his head to the side and waved the smoke out of his face coughing as he glared at Lu Biya who was looking at him haughtily. " People like her solely exist for people like us to take advantage of them."

With a roll of her eyes, she took another drag of her cigar and then snickered with a nasty sneer. " I am sure she will play to my tune as long as I throw some money at her, ruin me? Does she dare? I will ruin her before she can even think of ruining me."

"Good, if that's what you think," Lu Cheng looked down at his sister, his face similar to that of his father with the same phoenix eyes and sharp features. "It's good if you think that you can tame this tiger, but in case you can't? Just remember that you don't drag me down with you."

With that he brushed past her to enter the study of their father, his shoulders brushing against Lu Biya who was standing in the same spot. Lu Biya who was knocked against bit the edge of her cigar as she shook her head a little and let out an annoyed sigh, if not for the fact that she was standing in front of the study of her father, she would have cursed the hell out of her brother.

" Cannot tame this tiger? I will fcking tame it and show how well I can ride it!" Lu Biya threw the cigar on the carpet and then stomped on it to blow it out before walking away.

...…

Three weeks later.

Xua Ying Yue who was stopped by Tan Jing again sighed, she knew this was going to happen in fact these days it was happening so many times that she was used to it. She did not even say anything as Tan Jing dragged her with her, Xua Ying Yue looked at the girls and the boys of their school who turned their eyes as if they couldn't see her even though they could see her being dragged like she was some potato sack.

She had once tried to ask for help from these students but they turned a blind eye to everything which told Xua Ying Yue that there was no point in screaming. Even if she screamed and begged for them to help her, they will not help her because they did not care nor did they want to get involved with her problem since it did not matter to them.

So what if she was beaten black and blue? As long as they were fine, did it matter what happen to her? Of course not, they were the rich heirs who relied on corporations like Tan and Lu —— as for her, she was just a small girl who had no one to take care of her, what good will it be for them to save her?

Even though Xua Ying Yue was just seventeen and on the verge of turning eighteen soon in a few months, she understood the harshness of society a bit too early.