Stolen Crown by EminaDaisuki

I was Ava Chen, a senior software engineer at NovaTech Dynamics, deliberately hiding my true identity.

My secret: I was the legitimate heir to the tech giant, Chen Legacy Holdings, meticulously planning to reclaim my father' s empire after his recent death.

My engagement to NovaTech' s CEO, Mark Olsen, was simply a strategic facade.

Then Mark introduced Jess Riley, a new intern he hailed as a coding prodigy.

She was my younger half-sister, the daughter of the woman my father left my mother for-the woman who shattered our lives.

Mark, completely oblivious, assigned me to mentor Jess.

Instead, Jess constantly undermined me, taking half-baked ideas directly to Mark, who praised her "initiative."

When I submitted a professional review detailing her incompetence, Mark publicly tore it up.

He then humiliated me, promoting Jess to my Project Lead role and demoting me to junior coding, telling me to "learn a thing or two."

The ultimate betrayal came when our flagship project' s database was wiped.