Halia returned to the ballroom just as Emerson finished his dance with Marissa. After they bowed politely at each other, Marissa tried to hold Emerson back for another song, but Emerson spotted Halia and quickly excused himself.
Marissa glared at Halia and stormed over to a waiter to grab a glass of champagne. Who was that woman? She had never seen her before.
As she held onto her glass of champagne, she turned to one of her friends and asked them about Halia. It didn't take long for her to learn that Halia was the infamous daughter of the chairman of Fengtai Corporation. This discovery made her scowl. Sure, she was a millionaire with an inheritance that her husband left for her, but she was what people considered as 'new money'. On the other hand, Fengtai had been around for generations. They were one of the most influential families in the alcohol trade in China. Everyone that was anyone knew about them and even the rich tried to suck up to them. This made Marissa furious.
