Serena clutched the gift box to her chest and glanced up, her eyes narrowing.
When she saw the gaudily dressed Wynn family, she frowned slightly.
Why was this scum everywhere?
This was Brianna's coming-of-age party.
How did a family like the Wynns, not even a third-rate one and on the brink of bankruptcy, get an invitation?
"What? Surprised to see us?" Marianne said, waving the invitation in her hand. "See this? Hailey earned this invitation with her own abilities! Our Hailey is the Wynn family's lucky charm, unlike you, our jinx, who only brings us disaster."
"Did you think the Wynn family would really go bankrupt without you? Ha! With a lucky charm like Hailey around, not only will we not go bankrupt, but we'll soar to new heights!"
Marianne held the invitation, her back straight, and scanned Serena from head to toe with a sharp, cruel gaze. "You've seduced so many rich boys, yet they won't even buy you a decent gown? Doesn't that just prove they were only ever just playing with you?"
"When it comes to an important event like this, not a single one of them was willing to invite you as their date."
Marianne couldn't help but laugh, her voice full of schadenfreude. "You don't even have an invitation, yet you show up here. Are you trying to crash the party? Thinking you can latch onto some rich guy to get you inside? Find a new target? Let me tell you, forget it! This is not a place you can enter just by batting your eyelashes and acting seductive!"
The incessant stream of insults grated on Serena's nerves.
Her patience was gone.
Her fingers twitched around the gift box, and her cold eyes grew even colder.
This was Brianna's coming-of-age party.
She didn't want to make a big scene and ruin Brianna's birthday.
"Serena, this is not the kind of place you should be! The Blackwoods' party is beyond your reach. Don't think that just because the Blackwood heir played around with you, you can climb the social ladder and become some kind of princess. And now you want to come here and harass Mr. Blackwood? What a delusional fantasy!"

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