Mocked at the Socialites' Gala

At an alumni afternoon tea at a Manhattan rooftop club, Elle was mocked by her old rival Vivian as a worthless, penniless housewife for wearing "no-logo" clothes. Yet when Sebastian, Wall Street's top tycoon, arrived with an armored motorcade and called her "wife" with absolute possessiveness, every socialite in the room froze solid. But that was only the opening salvo. Vivian not only stole Elle's top design drafts to climb the ladder at Aura Luxury Group, but also schemed to impersonate the ten-billion-dollar heir to New York's old-money Vanderbilt family. Faced with the green-tea rival's escalating pressure and wild provocations, Elle stopped hiding. She returned to Fifth Avenue, cutting a swath as the mysterious top designer "C," and finally, at the New York Annual Charity Gala broadcast live worldwide, the family's chief lawyer publicly revealed her identity as the true heiress, ruining Vivian — the woman who had stolen her life — and staging a thoroughly satisfying New York socialite comeback!