Outsmarting You For Strawberry Cake

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I was the most pampered son of the Carlisle dynasty, and the high-society circuit's favorite punchline: the idiot heir. I couldn't read. I didn't observe social decorum. When spoken to, I merely grinned like a child who had stared too long at the sun. My mother had summoned every world-renowned neurologist and pediatric specialist money could buy, crossing continents only to arrive at a quiet, bruised surrender: she simply wanted me to stay alive, safe, and breathing. The truth was, I wasn't an idiot. In my previous life, I had been hailed as a once-in-a-century financial prodigy. At sixteen, I dragged an international conglomerate out of bankruptcy court and forged it into an empire. But being brilliant is a relentless, bone-crushing sentence. I worked myself into early heart failure, collapsing face-first onto a mahogany desk covered in quarterly balance sheets. Given a second chance at life, I resolved to play dumb, coast through luxury, and eat myself into a peaceful grave. Then came Townsend Enterprises, the Carlisle family's fiercest corporate rival. They marched into our 48th-floor executive boardroom with ten black carbon-fiber lockboxes, claiming they held the unconditional transfer agreements for ten key subsidiaries they had brutally stripped from us three years prior. Their ultimatum was simple: solve one diagnostic problem, win back one asset. My older sister, my polished younger brother, the Carlisle Group’s executive board, and our highest-paid senior analysts took turns at the table. Not a single one got an answer right. Delia Townsend, the heiress apparent of Townsend Enterprises, was practically vibrating with smug triumph. Finally, her eyes drifted toward where I sat crouched behind my mother's leather armchair, and she barked out a laugh. ""I’ve long heard the Carlisle family keeps a brainless pet in the attic."" She pointed straight at me. ""Why not let the fool have a turn? At least it'll provide some entertainment."" Laughter rippled across th

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