Fake heiress? I earn enough to be rich on my own.

Albert Heinz had to literally walking through the mountains of bodies he had created before he could ascend as the head of the family. That cruel edge might have been hidden but it was still sharp. Why else would he prefer Tanya to all the grandkids he had? Tanya was from the same mould. Thus when Tanya's parents were thinking of parceling off her elsewhere, his wife and he had forcefully intervened and got her to stay with them in this city. The hope he had was fulfilled. Tanya had broken the hierarchy and become undisputed leader among all the kids.

This also meant they had less prey to torture. But , there was a new toy in front of them now. Would they give up just like that?

Imbeciles! What punishment would a family meat out for a youngster? House arrest? Starving? They were very petty and boring. These punishments lacked the flavour.

Thus when Old Mr Hart called and said he had punished his granddaughter, he didn't even accept that. The punishment from the lived ones hurt the most but they should be good punishments at least.

In the end, Heinz family agreed for a face to face confrontation. You tell me how to punished and I will punish Sophia likewise in front of you. Then, close the matter and never let anyone know. Tanya was happy. She could now dream of various ways to torture that darted girl. Heinz couple were happy. They had some delicious entertainment lined up for the next day. The Harts were happy, now they didn't have to worry about damocelus sword over their head. No one asked Sophia's opinion. You don't ask permission from the pig before slaughtering it, do you?

In the soncalled ancestral room, shivering due to cold, Sophia had not given up thinking of ways to escape the calamity. She had remembered some of the Tanya's deeds, her ways of fun. It would not be fun for her though. Banishment would be simplest method, so that was gone. Sexual torture....Tanya didn't prefer. In this way, she was better than ninety percent of all the tyrants in the high society. B*stards and b*tches always plotted tondrug and sexually abuse their victims. What happens later on, who cares. Thankfully, Tanya didn't like that method.

Physical torture and mental torture was only things left. Tanya found different ways to enact them. Which one would she choose this time? Sophia didn't even think what the Harts would do. Harts, though rich, were not super rich. They lorded over peasants and covered in front of lords. Their opinion would not matter here.

Alright, let's plan for the worst options first. Physical and mental torture to the extreme - not new to her. But it would affect her plans.

Sophia called Brian and Mrs Higgins. They would call her with different numbers each time and use their relative's name as conversation starter. This way, others monitoring her calls would not be worried. No more calls for just FYI. No more simple chats. Till she called directly, they would not disclose any matter related to her to others, not even their kith and kin. Brian agreed because he saw a new beginning in Sophia. Mrs Higgins pitied this poor soul. Whatever the reason, in next few months, they would follow her lead. Afterwards...well, it depends.

Sophia also transferred some petty cash into various accounts, for easy access.

Next, she wrote a requisition letter to one of the good souls left in Sky Lark High school, one of the descendants of Lark family. She merely explained her situation in plain terms, asked permission from the school to allow her to sit for all her exams, even without her parents' consent or permission. Hopefully, the administrator would accept this wish and no start quoting laws and regulations. She attached her emancipation letter, just in case. A school with technically half of scholarship students should not withhold students exams just because the exam fees were not paid.

Any loose links? Any thing left to do?

She didn't search her memories for Tanya anymore. Tanya had grown up and left the city after her finals, never to return again. No need to break the head on what happened later on.

Now, she was bored. What to do? Waste time online ofcourse. She had found one nifty website, probably geared for newbies hackers. Every few days the questions in it would change. The answer would lead to another new site with fresh sets of questions and so on.The first few, tend of thousands would flock to answer and leave a reply before shifting to next one. By the time fift set of questions were done, the vistors would in in hundreds. And the bragging would start from that point. Sophia was struck in seventh set. Visitors struck here were excellent hackers. Yes, within a month os learning computers, out dear MC had turned into decent hacker, cough cough. Still, as she didn't have solid base, her worked more through her intuition rather than skills. So she cherished talking to her fellow hackers, however baggart they might turn out to be. Her favourites were ninety nine rockets to the moon and warriors are not noobs. Nine ro ketd was frivolous most of the time but he did come to rescue for basic problems. Warriors are not noob on other hand was out and out egoistic *** ****.

Why Sophia was so angry at this fellow hackers? Because he created that name after seeing her game name- noob warrior. He took helped her. However, his way of doing so...He didn't waste a single extra letter. Yes turned into S, symbols popped up for phrases. If it was just that much, many have different tendencies. What always turned Sophia angry was he had hacked her. Just to give detailed explanation. It was a link y the article. He could have DMed. No. He could have suggested the same in the site. No. He had to hack her and then send the link. If you are hacking, just copy and paste the whole article. She would have felt good that someone had hacked to give out necessary materials. No. Nope. Will send you the article link and let you be frustrated. Anyway, what can you do? Trace it backwards? Hehehe. Sophia had tried and burnt her fingers. This b*stard had piggy backed from national security networks. The ones manned round the clock by famous hackers.

Author note -

From tomorrow, the pace of writing chapters will increase.

And yes, the b*stard hacker is out Male lead. You should have guessed his behaviour from this.