Dying Father Passes All His Money to Elder Daughter, Younger Gets a Miniature Ship in a Bottle — Story of the Day

A dying man decides to cede all his money to his elder daughter while he gives her younger sister a miniature ship inside a bottle — it would later take her to riches, but she didn’t know that.

Noah Nissi wished he could live forever. It was a purely selfish desire; he knew but didn’t care. Why? Because he believed it was for a good reason.

He was a 60-year-old man who was a father to two girls he cherished very profoundly. The firstborn was Sarah, while Elsa came ten years later.

Regardless of their ages and differences, Noah loved his daughters equally. Sarah, his first, had developed a passion for money at a very young age.

She had a head for figures and always aced anything involving arithmetic, so it did not surprise her father much. He supported her aspirations — sponsoring her education and priming her to take over his small company.

The only problem was that the older she got, the more ambitious she became. And what was more? She did not care who she trampled on to reach her goal, purely believing that the end justifies the means.

When she was old enough, she started working at her father’s company, but all the employees didn’t like her. She was very rude and self-loving, never ready to help unless it benefitted her.

As far as she was concerned, the employees were irrelevant, and so it was not necessary to maintain a good relationship with them. “There is little I stand to gain from playing nice with peasants,” she would often tell herself.

Her greatest desire was to become the sole owner of her father’s business. “Let’s see if they won’t like me when their livelihood is in my hands. Daddy just needs to hand the reins over quickly.”

Her sister Elsa was totally different, and many often described her as the direct opposite of Sarah, which was only too true. Unlike her older sister, Elsa did not have the aptitude for arithmetic or business; in fact, she found numbers...