It wasn't until the moment they got off the plane that Audrey dared to approach."Kathy, I've booked a hotel. Shall we go together?"Catherine was starting school tomorrow. Audrey knew Catherine didn't like waking up early, so she had come a day early to accompany Catherine and booked a hotel to stay for the day, which was quite considerate.Catherine glanced at the man beside her and thought he might also have plans.Sure enough, when Catherine looked over, Branden revealed his plans."Let's stay at my place!"Catherine didn't object. For her, it didn't matter where she stayed. The main thing was to consider Audrey's preferences."Stay at your place?" Audrey looked at Branden with surprise. "Mr. Duncan, have you bought a house in Loxton?"Kim, who was standing nearby, wished he could dig a hole and bury the somewhat clueless Audrey.Branden was the heir of the Duncans and the Duncan Corporation. If he didn't have a house in Loxton, it would be unusual."Yes," Branden replied
After yesterday's interrogation, Catherine received a substantial sum from Branden. She called it hush money.The next day, Catherine felt significantly better both physically and mentally.Audrey was now a rising star in the entertainment industry. She had a large following of fans.If she accompanied Catherine to school today, it would surely attract attention, potentially leading to unwanted trouble.Considering her unique status, Audrey decided to have Branden accompany Catherine for the enrollment at Styre University.Styre University admitted only a limited number of students each year, unlike other schools.Usually, it wouldn't exceed 200 students, which was even fewer than the students in a typical department at a regular university.That was why getting into Styre University was such a prestigious achievement, as rare things were often considered valuable.Thousands of students took the entrance exams yearly, but only a handful could make it to Styre University.Altho
The dormitories at this school were standard four-person dorm rooms. Branden accompanied Catherine and found her room.After Catherine knocked on the door, she pushed the door open.She arrived not too early, as the other three roommates were already in the dorm.The sound of the door opening startled the girls inside the room.They all turned their heads and saw a girl with an air of nobility standing at the doorway.The lowered brim of her hat concealed her face.As the earliest arrival among the roommates, Isabella Whitmore was the first to inquire."Hey, are you our roommate for room 403?"Catherine removed her hat, looked calmly at everyone, and let out a muffled sound."Yeah."When Isabella got a good look at Catherine's face, she was instantly shocked, and her eyes widened."Wow. How can there be such a beautiful girl? You are so beautiful! We have some stunners in room 403. First, we have the new campus beauty, Beatrice, and now we have another gorgeous beauty."The
Catherine, with her hands crossed, slowly walked toward Branden.As she passed by him, she deliberately didn't stop. She planned to tease him a bit.However, Branden didn't give her a chance. He simply grabbed her hand and pulled her down the stairs.At that moment, Catherine felt like she could hear the hearts shattering behind her.How miserable!As Branden dragged her downstairs, they reached a corner.Suddenly, Branden got tough and pushed Catherine into a dark corner.Without waiting for Catherine's response, he pressed up against her.His cold, thin lips met Catherine's soft ones with a hint of domination and punishment.Catherine let him have his way. She enjoyed watching Branden when he lost control occasionally. It was quite entertaining.After a while, Branden reluctantly released Catherine.He rested his head on her shoulder, and his hoarse voice echoed in Catherine's ear."Dare to watch from the sidelines next time?"Catherine coldly chuckled, and her voice was
There was also a group of her supporters standing beside Jada. Seeing Jada being humiliated, the few supporters gathered together."Jada, who are they? Why are they so rude?""That's right. Their words are too rude. Where are their manners?"Jada felt much more comfortable when she heard the supporters around her criticizing Catherine and the others.She pursed her lips and smiled with great grievance."It's nothing. One of them is my friend. It's just that those two new friends he made don't like me very much, and to stop me from being friends with him, they targeted me."Hearing this, the surrounding people blushed with anger."How can there be such people?""They're so shameless!""Jada is such an excellent person, still from a rich and powerful family. It's an honor that Jada is willing to be friends with them. How dare they dislike her? They really don't know what's good for them!""Jada, I've seen that boy, the one in black."This attracted Jada's attention. She fixed
Catherine threw the detailed steps of the question to Amelia. Seeing this, Beatrice wanted to say that Catherine had a problem with the answer.In the next second, however, she heard Amelia shouting at Catherine excitedly, "Catherine, you really deserve to be the top student with full marks. I've been working on this question for nearly a month to no avail. But you actually solved it in just a few minutes. No wonder Professor Hartley wanted to win you to our school. You really are a genius!"Catherine remained calm in the face of such enthusiastic praise.She responded politely. "I happen to have met similar questions before."Catherine's words seemed to Beatrice to be a loophole. Her voice was heavy with irony as she said at the side, "You're just lucky."Catherine's expression froze, and her face darkened slightly.However, before she could say anything to retort, Amelia, who was on the side, could not sit still.She directly rushed in front of Beatrice and glared at her strai
Early in the morning, Catherine was woken up by the alarm ringing across the bed.When she was training, she also lived with the others.But her roommates at the time were quite self-disciplined. They would never do such a wicked thing as leaving the alarm on to wake everyone up while they themselves were still asleep.Catherine rolled over in bed and precisely located the source of the ringing.She nimbly removed a useless screw from the iron bed frame beside her and held it between her index finger and ring finger.Then she aimed and flicked the screw out.With a soft click, the alarm died abruptly, and the dormitory instantly quieted down.After that, Catherine glanced at the time. There was still half an hour before her wake-up time, and she could continue to sleep.Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.After waiting for the two roommates to get up, Catherine slowly got out of bed and began to wash and tidy up.Seeing that everyone was up but Beatrice was still on t
Calvin looked at Catherine with a smug smile as if he had expected that Catherine would not admit it."Don't deny it. You know in your heart what you did. How dare a freshman like you to be so arrogant?"Catherine looked up and adjusted the brim of her hat casually, revealing her stunning face."I really don't know. Could you please tell me about it?"The moment her perfect face was revealed, the people around her were all stunned.Their eyes were fixed on Catherine. It seemed that they didn't expect to see such a beautiful person in the real world.Beatrice, hiding at the side, became anxious instantly after seeing that Catherine had charmed all the boys as soon as she revealed her appearance. She originally wanted to see Catherine make a fool of herself.She cursed inwardly, "Bitch!"Then she rushed in Catherine's direction angrily.In the last second, she was still angry. But when she came to the boy who asked for justice for her, she pretended to be very aggrieved.She ge
In the end, Branden couldn't stand it anymore. He took the initiative to snatch Catherine back, only then did the scene come under control.Now, no one dared to continue touching Catherine's belly.Once he snatched Catherine back, he held her tightly in his arms and prevented anyone from touching her. He thought in his mind, "Since these people like this brat so much, I'll just give the brat to them when Catherine gives birth. Saves one more person from sharing my wife with me."Triston smiled and watched the crowd as the birthday party began exactly as it should.The big screen began to show all the images of Audrey from her debut until now that were outstanding or worthy of recording. Some of the images weren't even in Audrey's possession, but Triston had found them and made a video of them.As the images flashed by, Audrey's tears couldn't help but fall from her face. She cried not only because she remembered the hardships she had endured in showbiz for many years, but also bec
Since Triston brought Audrey to meet his family, he had worked non-stop to put their marriage on the agenda.Audrey was a popular actress, and to not affect her career, Triston chose to propose in a low-key manner.Triston arranged a party on Audrey's birthday and invited many of Audrey's friends.Audrey originally thought Triston was too high-profile, but Triston insisted. "I didn't participate in so many of your past birthdays. I finally have a chance to participate this time."He persuaded Audrey repeatedly. Audrey couldn't resist him and could only agree to let him arrange the party.Luckily, he only invited Audrey's close friends and did not send out invitations widely, so she could take this opportunity to have a gathering of friends.Audrey was surprised to see Catherine when she arrived.Catherine was now eight months pregnant. Normally, she would be rejected by Branden if she wanted to visit Catherine.Branden was now very careful with Catherine every day, and Audrey w
Sure enough, only after Audrey said those words, Willa's face completely darkened.Seeing that Willa was about to explode, suddenly...Triston applauded happily, which instantly attracted the crowd's attention.Triston calmly met everyone's gaze and looked at Audrey gently. "Good. You're worthy of being the woman I love. I'm most annoyed with those women who stay at home day in and day out and like to gossip when they have nothing else to do. You have your own career and I'm very supportive of that."Triston said this with a proud look on his face and raised his eyebrows at Audrey, full of smugness.Willa's face instantly turned gloomy.Her son had demeaned her by calling her a gossipy woman just to please another woman, and it made her furious.Egbert kind of realized that his son was totally in love with Audrey. He thought it was good because Triston used to be a playboy and was always surrounded by messy women. At that time, he was really worried that Triston would marry an u
Although Audrey was born into a wealthy family, Triston's mother, Willa Lambert, had always been prejudiced against showbiz and therefore did not approve of Triston's pursuit of Audrey.In Willa's opinion, female celebrities in the showbiz industry had always appeared in public, which was not like the demeanor of a lady from a wealthy family.It was only after learning that Audrey and Triston might be together that she eagerly introduced Triston to girls in the first place. She didn't realize that after all this time, her son still hadn't given up on Audrey, and this was the first time she'd seen her son so attached to a girl.If it weren't for that, she wouldn't agree to appear at today's dinner party now.Triston led Audrey into the door, and everyone from the Lamberts had already arrived.The scene of everyone sitting in the private room made Audrey feel a bit guilty. She looked guiltily at the crowd and whispered, "I'm sorry. I'm late."Triston's father, Egbert Lambert, had a
Audrey never expected to be so suddenly arranged to meet Triston's family.She couldn't react when Triston talked to her about it. Looking at Triston with disbelief in her eyes, she said, "Pardon me?"Triston's handsome face carried a gentle smile. "I've inquired with Kim. You don't have any work arrangements since this afternoon, and you can also take a day off tomorrow. It's just right for us to have dinner together in the evening."Audrey frowned and asked inwardly, "Is that what I care about?"What she cared about was who Triston had just said she would have dinner with tonight. "Why are you suddenly asking your family to have dinner with me?"The Swanns and the Lamberts were both in Casier and they were also considered to be friends. For Triston's family, although Audrey was not familiar with them, she had seen them at major parties.But in the past, they used to meet as ordinary friends.Now that she and Triston were in a relationship, his sudden proposal to take her to di
Audrey hesitated for a moment but still answered the phone with a nervous heart.She believed that Catherine definitely had a way to get her to answer the phone, but things would be troublesome if she made Catherine take her actions.She put her phone to her ear and inquired in a low voice, "Morning, Kathy. What's the matter?"Catherine's voice remained as cold as ever, without any emotion. "Tell me, what is it that you haven't told me?"Audrey had already figured out a strategy to deal with it and how to excuse herself, but as soon as she answered the phone, Catherine asked her so directly, which made her suddenly unable to react.Audrey had no choice but to tell Catherine the truth.After listening to her trembling narration, Catherine only asked coldly, "Are you sure you want him to be your boyfriend?"Audrey was a bit hesitant. Everyone blessed her and Triston after they found out they were together again, but Catherine was the only one who asked her to calm down and think i
Faced with Triston's questioning, Ronin looked arrogant. "Catherine and Audrey are sisters, so Audrey is my sister. You can bully anyone, but you can't bully her. Or else, we can't even be friends."Ronin's words sounded childish, but there was seriousness inside his eyes when he said those words. He grew up with Catherine and regarded Catherine as his most important family member. To him, Catherine's sister was his sister.After listening to Ronin's words, Triston faintly laughed out. "I see."Ronin thought that Triston didn't take his words to heart, and immediately felt a burning anger. "What do you mean? You don't understand my warning, do you?""Easy!" Triston gestured for him to calm down, then said calmly, "Even death row inmates have a chance to explain, right? You should at least hear me out.""Hmph!" Ronin snorted disdainfully. He secretly thought in his heart, "If Triston says any more asshole words, I'll definitely not show him any respect."Triston put away that cyni
They had an appointment at a recreational manor, a new property Zobber had just bought. Zobber had invited them to come along for the experience.Since Catherine's pregnancy, the entire Hacker Alliance had had much leisure time. Even though there was less to do, they had earned no less money and were basically in a dominant position.Zobber enjoyed the current situation too much becasue there was still money to be made easily. They might only have one business per year, but the profit from this business was already enough for them to spend for a year.After wandering around with her friends, Zobber excitedly looked at everyone. "How about this place? It's not bad, right? I bought it at a high price!"This was Casier, and Triston was aware of any changes in the real estate industry.He had indeed received the news when Zobber auctioned off the manor, and he also knew that Zobber had given an above-market price to take the land. But he knew that Zobber had plenty of money. It was fi
Since that dinner, Audrey had been in a special kind of relationship with Triston.Although they didn't make it clear, Triston could feel that Audrey had slowly accepted him.The number of times they met increased, and most of Audrey's work this year was in Casier.Whenever Triston had free time, he would stay alongside Audrey.Whether on set or during recording sessions, one could always catch a glimpse of Triston.Everyone kind of knew deep down that Triston was the man behind Audrey.But nobody ever exposed this whole thing, mainly because of Triston's identity.Neither he nor Audrey wanted too much attention paid to their relationship right now. If he didn't spill the beans, who else would dare to report on it?Besides, the reason Audrey and Triston's dating didn't cause much jealousy was they were a good match.Among the Four Noble Families in Casier, the Lamberts and the Swanns each held a seat, and the Swanns' power was not weaker than the Lamberts.Plus, now that Cath