Korbin had been aware of Johnathan's presence at the Swann Corporation from the moment he stepped in. He knew his son had a volatile temper. However, with everything he had been dealing with since his father's passing, he had no time to pay attention to Johnathan. Despite hearing rumors about the brat's behavior, he couldn't be bothered by it. He believed Johnathan's visit would cause trouble for Catherine and put her in her place.Little did he expect to hear about the beating. The news shocked him, and he found it hard to believe. He knew Catherine was bold, but would she seriously dare to beat Johnathan in the company publicly?He dropped everything and rushed to Catherine's office, only to be met with a scene that left him astounded.Catherine had indeed beaten Johnathan and had not held back.Even in his presence, Catherine's expression remained cold and unchanged, showing no signs of emotion.In Korbin's eyes, her behavior was deeply disrespectful towards him. Catherine
Rachael rushed to the hospital and was horrified to find Johnathan lying in bed, covered in bruises. His face appeared pale and lifeless, almost as if he were dead. It shook her to the core, causing her legs to weaken. While she loved Liana dearly, Johnathan held a special place in her heart. After all, she gained a foothold in the Swanns only because she had given birth to a son.Approaching him cautiously, Rachael felt her hands trembling, unsure of how to handle the situation. "Johnny, how did this happen to you?"Johnathan held a grudge against his father for not standing up for him. However, Korbin had always been harsh to his kids, so he dared not speak up.However, now that he had his mother as his staunch supporter, everything felt different.Despite the pain, Johnathan summoned the strength to sit up and rushed toward Rachael.The sudden movement caused him intense pain, tears streaming down his face, making his plea more convincing. "Mommy, you're finally here! If you
Bryan's concern grew as he looked at Catherine. The presence of the principal in their class indicated the seriousness of the situation. He hesitated for a moment. As the current situation became increasingly dire, he decided to wake Catherine before making further decisions."Boss, something is up! Wake up!" The next moment, after he finished speaking, Catherine slowly awakened and glanced at him.Bryan felt awkward as he pointed towards the stage where several people stood.Catherine looked up and saw the group of individuals on the stage. She remained unfazed by the math teacher's malicious gaze.Although she had just woken up, Catherine's usually cold expression had transformed into a slightly endearing look of laziness.Standing on the stage, the math teacher was infuriated by Catherine's lack of guilt. She waved a few exam papers in her hand and confidently addressed the students of Class 8. "Present here are the outstanding students of Sincere High School. Class 8 has a
After Bryan called out, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.Now, the entire class was waiting for Bryan's explanation.Bryan did not back down either, and he met everyone's eyes."Catherine made it clear," Bryan said confidently. "Since the test questions can't be leaked out, it is therefore impossible for her to get it in advance and cheat. Furthermore, if she were to cheat, the only option would be to copy from someone else. No one scored higher than her, so who would she have copied from?"The logic is so simple. How can you all not figure it out?"When Bryan said that, it finally dawned on everyone, and they nodded."That makes sense!""That makes a lot of sense!""It is more than making sense," David said. "Whatever Bryan says is a fact!"Everyone rolled their eyes at David.Hearing this, the homeroom teacher found that it made sense too. She looked at the principal, waiting for his statement.However, the math teacher still refused to believe it. "Who knows
Faced with the requests from the homeroom teacher and students, the math teacher stared so hard till her eyes were about to fall out of their sockets. She did not want to give in, but the principal was there.The principal had shot her a look earlier, urging her to decide quickly. She had no choice but to make a compromise to avoid offending the principal.She stared at Catherine coldly and said with clenched jaws, "Catherine, I am sorry. I take back what I said to you earlier."Catherine scanned the math teacher slowly. She would have forgiven her if the math teacher had apologized sincerely."Excuse me, did you forget something?" Catherine suddenly asked.As soon as she did that, Bryan and the others piped up. "Yeah, did you forget about what you agreed on earlier?"The math teacher turned around and glared at Bryan. "Shut up!" she barked coldly.Bryan shrugged as if he could not care less. Then he put on a hurt expression and said, "Fine then. Since you do not hold up to your
Bryan noticed that the guys were stunned at what they saw, so he turned around. Instantly, he started gaping.Vroom! Vroom!The sound of an engine roaring and it was deafening.A top-range motorcycle, a Phantom Harley-Davidson, zoomed past. It made a beautiful turn in front of Bryan and slowly came to a stop, which was so cool and handsome.The person on the motorcycle took off their helmet.Catherine did an attractive hair flip to throw her messy hair back to normal. Her luscious hair danced in the wind.This scene stunned everyone who was watching."Wow!""Oh my!""So, so hot!"Catherine was honestly so attractive. She was beautiful, hot, and also had an air of mystery. It was impossible to describe the feeling.Bryan felt his heart pound as butterflies fluttered in his stomach. Some emotion was about to burst out of his chest. He felt like he was going out of control.After Catherine parked the bike, she arched an eyebrow at the group of guys with their mouths wide open.
The one who had the biggest shock among all at the table was Bryan. Never would he think that he would see Branden here. It turned out that he had not been wrong that day.That car did belong to Branden, which meant that he did know Catherine.Bryan felt stupid for his naive thinking that he had been hallucinating. He had been lying to himself.Catherine looked back and saw Branden, as well as Triston, who was standing beside him.Her beautiful and delicate features scrunched up as she furrowed her brows. A frigid feeling gathered between her brows, but she did not speak. Branden sensed her unhappiness."You are not allowed to drink!" he said slowly. His voice was cold, but there was rare gentleness in his tone.With his words, a strange atmosphere fell over the table.Everyone there knew about Catherine's temper. They also knew she was not the type to take advice from others.Catherine was the type who could hold her ground even and out best many people all by herself.But
It was supposed to be a simple meal of barbecue. However, due to the appearance of Branden and Triston at the venue, the atmosphere at the dinner table became incredibly creepy.Branden did not eat much himself. Occasionally, he would take some food and put it on Catherine's plate. He did this so naturally as if they were an old couple.Triston felt a little jealous. He had known Branden for so many years. However, the latter had never taken the initiative to pour him a glass of wine, let alone take food for him. He felt crushed!Bryan felt very uncomfortable looking at how Branden was showing his attention to Catherine. He felt that Branden was going to cheat his Boss. "Boss, that is the big bad wolf. Do not be cheated," he shouted in his heart frantically. However, the said big bad wolf was his Uncle Branden. He would not dare to challenge Branden, even if he had the guts. And as such, he drank quietly. David saw that Bryan was not in the right mood. The others were not eati
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