The next day while Calvin was working in the subsidiary company, many of his employees kept passing documents to him to get his signature. Still, he wasn’t as busy as when he was in Genovia. While signing the documents, Ashlyn’s face flooded her mind. When he thought about what Ashlyn had to go through as a child, his heart went out to her. Turning to look at his wristwatch, he was shocked to discover that it was only 10 in the morning.In the past, he felt that time was never enough for him. Now, time was dragging slowly like chains. He was waiting anxiously for Ashlyn to get off work.Somehow, he felt that he was getting infatuated with Ashlyn.Around 11 in the morning, he drove to Ashlyn’s company and sent a message to her.Calvin: [I’ll prepare lunch for you later. You can ask Shawna to join us too.]Ashlyn: [I don’t think Shawna will join us. She doesn’t like intruding when we spend time together.]Calvin: [What does she like to eat? I’ll prepare her favorite food. She’ll de
After lunch, Calvin told the ladies to go to work and even offered to clean the dishes for them. After that, he left.On the way back, Calvin made a call to Francis.Since Calvin had never called Francis before, Francis felt anxious when he saw Calvin’s name on his phone screen.“Mr. Conrad, is there anything I can help you with?” Francis asked.“Mr. Saunders. I have one favor to ask of you. Can you please look out for Ashlyn and Shawna in Nevera Designs? Just make sure they don’t get into any trouble,” Calvin said with a solemn tone. It almost seemed like he was threatening Francis to do his bidding.“Of course. Ashlyn is an outstanding designer in our company. Since she’s working closely with my daughter, I assure you nobody dares to harm her in any way. Also, who in the world dares to harm her knowing that you have her back?” Francis said.Calvin hung up. He was just doing what he could to protect Ashlyn. Knowing Ashlyn’s sad and sorrowful childhood, Calvin didn’t want anythin
After staying in Lyrdell for five days, Calvin finally went back to Genovia. At this point, Ashlyn was already used to saying goodbye to him. As such, she wasn’t much affected by their parting this time.Before leaving, Calvin promised to come back to visit her once he was done with work in Genovia.A state-level basketball competition would be held in Genovia this time around.“What are you worrying about? It’s given The Nixes will win the match again,” Neil said while sitting behind his desk.“I know our team has all the potential to win. However, there’s still one thing that we still need, and that’s called luck,” Calvin said. “Wow, I’m amazed that you’re placing so much trust in Jonah.”Neil’s face turned livid instantly, “You better shut up when you still have the chance to. Keeping him in The Nixes is my last resort!”“People are praising you to be a president who’s willing to look past personal grudges for The Nixes’s best interest. How professional of you to do that!” Cal
When Shawna saw William, she froze for a secibd. The last time she met him, he was here preparing some food for Ashlyn. This time, he was probably here to do the same thing. Every time William was here, Shawna felt like she was invisible. His eyes were always set on Ashlyn, which made her feel slightly uncomfortable. Shawna figured the reason William even bothered to greet her at all was that she just happened to live in the same house as Ashlyn. If they were to meet on the streets, Shawna bet that he wouldn’t recognize her at all.Though William did treat Shawna to a lot of expensive fruits, she still favored Calvin over William. The first reason being Calvin was Ashlyn’s boyfriend. Besides, he even prepared a meal for Shawna in person as a show of respect for her. Not only that, Shawna didn’t like the fact that William was still pursuing Ashlyn after knowing that she was already in a relationship. His actions just seemed to cross her moral boundaries.“Oh, hi, William.” While greet
Ashlyn wasn't a person who was picky with food, but one thing she couldn't stand was the smell of ginger.After she returned to the living room, she covered her mouth with a piece of tissue paper and looked at William and Shawna. "I'm sorry, but I can't eat the dumplings. You can have them without me."Then, she sat on the sofa as she looked at Shawna and William enjoying the dumplings."Wait a minute. Ashlyn… Don't tell me, are you pregnant?" Shawna shot an excited look at Ashlyn. "You had a short vacation with Calvin at Windmere City for a few days right? Did you do it with him?"Shawna gave Ashlyn a flirty look. Then, she shot a furtive glance at William.William had his head dipped low and didn't utter a single word. He seemed extremely displeased at that comment."Stop saying nonsense," Ashlyn muttered to herself. "I just don't like the ingredients in the dumpling. That's all.""What is it that you don't like? Is it parsley?" William looked up and asked.Looking at the dum
Somewhere in Genovia, Calvin let out a loud sneeze."Mr. Conrad, do you want to raise the temperature of the air conditioner?""I'm fine," Calvin said. He looked up at the powerpoint slides being projected in front of him.At this moment, a notification popped up from Isaac's phone saying, ‘William has sent an image to you.’Normally, Calvin would've ignored it, but William's name caught his attention.Isaac had not only sent one image, but 7 to 8 images."Your brother just sent you some messages. You should check them out," Calvin said."Oh, just ignore him. He's probably showing me his cooking again. It's nothing important." Isaac thought that Calvin was annoyed by the interruption."You can take a look. I don't mind waiting," Calvin said.Isaac switched on his phone and the images were projected on the screen as well."It's just the dumplings that he made. He likes to send me pictures of food." While speaking, Isaac wrote a message back to William.Issac: [It looks really
In fact, Ashlyn didn’t need Calvin to do that. After all, she was loaded too. However, she still felt happy when she heard that Calvin was offering to pay for the meal. ‘I love how he always has my back!’Being born in a rich family, her spending habits were different from that of her fellow colleagues. She could spend a minimum of 10k on a shirt. These few months, she could’ve never survived with her measly pay. Most of the time, she would use her parents’ credit cards and ask them to pay for her.When she saw the money transferred by Calvin, happiness overwhelmed her. For some reason, spending her boyfriend’s money was so much different than spending her parents’.She wanted nothing more but to live a life pampered by the man she loved.However, she wouldn’t want to be a useless human being who would leech on her husband forever. In the future, she had dreams of creating her own brand.Ashlyn: [Thank you, dear! I’ll ask for more if I don’t have enough.]Calvin: [You’re welcome.
Ashlyn didn’t realize she had turned happier and happier after spending more time with Calvin. Perhaps she was just a woman with a cheerful disposition to begin with. Slowly, she was moving on from her nightmarish past and regaining her confidence. Before the bullying happened, she used to be a cheerful child.The next day, Ashlyn sent a message to William, asking him out for a meal.William: [Why the sudden invitation though?]Ashlyn: [Shawna and I decide to treat you to a meal to thank you for everything you’ve done for us. We’d like to return the gesture after receiving your gifts and eating so much of your food.]William was speechless after reading Ashlyn’s message.He couldn’t refuse their invitation, for fear of being perceived as rude. So, he agreed to come. Before the meeting, he even prepared a small gift for Ashlyn.Today, Calvin transferred another 20k to her account. Calvin: [Remember to treat William to expensive food. Isaac and Neil aren’t on good terms over an a
Benjamin walked to her side and suddenly hugged her. It was as if there were thousands of words that could not be said. Jacey did not refute. It was as if the two of them had known each other for a long time. It was as if they had known each other for a long time."Your mother did a good job with this exhibition," Jacey said."It's good. After all, you're an expert in this field," Benjamin said. "Or if you have any requests when you get married, tell my mother and let her customize the most beautiful jewelry for you.""Married?" Jacey didn't understand.She had never thought about marriage. Why did she feel so close to her when Benjamin mentioned it?She still felt quite confused."I'll treat you to a meal later?" Benjamin said. "What do you want to eat?"Jacey's eyes lit up. "Hotpot? How about a hotpot?"Benjamin smiled and said, "I thought you had a profound hobby. This is it."Jacey smiled again.Jacey didn't like the feeling of being surrounded by people, so she chose the
Kenny smoked as he spoke. He had the look of a veteran in society. It was hard not to believe that he was a nouveau riche who did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of his subordinates to save money."Sir, you've found the right person. Come and take a look." The workshop owner said. Then, he whispered a few words into Kenny's ear and asked, "Can you accept it?""What's so unacceptable about that? I'm definitely showing it to Party A. These people grew up in the countryside. What kind of milk have they drunk? I can't tell if it's true or not," Kenny said."Alright, alright," the workshop owner said with a smile."Just don't make it obvious. I'll go take a look at the manufacturing workshop." Kenny said.The owner of the workshop was initially quite shy, but Kenny said that he had ordered a lot, so the other party agreed.As soon as he entered the workshop, Jacey secretly turned on the pinhole camera when the workshop owner was not paying attention and filmed the production proce
Jacey felt that under Kenny's serious and unsmiling appearance, there was a soft and warm heart.This note looked like it had been around for a long time. It was unknown how long Kenny searched last night before he found it and gave it to Jacey so easily.Jacey left.However, she did not expect that something would happen on her first day there.She brought a vacuum camera and made her clothes look like rural women's. After finding the milk production point, she said that she wanted to order milk in large quantities because she heard that the milk here was very cheap.The people in the workshop looked at each other and said, "I'm not selling!"The people in the workshop were very smart and vigilant. Their workshop had a fixed delivery channel. This woman was alone and was unlikely to be here to order. They found an excuse and sent Jacey away.No matter how much Jacey dawdled, the other party refused to let her in.For a moment, Jacey didn't know what to do. She was quite depres
Jacey was a little stunned. She really didn't know much about what the parents were talking about.Moreover, she hadn't interacted with Benjamin for a few days. Moreover, when Ashlyn came to visit this time, she didn't say a word about him. It made her feel very uneasy. She even wondered if he didn't mean that at all. It was all her own wishful thinking…For the past few days, Benjamin had not come to look for Jacey. She had not contacted him either.However, a few days later, Jacey received a Whatsapp message from Benjamin. There were many photos. It was a rather high-class living room. There were boxes in the living room. The living room was simple and noble, like a top-notch courtyard house.[This is the showroom and display cabinet for my mother's medieval jewelry. How about letting your mother take a look?] Benjamin said.[Where is this place? This place is so beautiful.][My mother's dowry. The courtyard house in Genovia.] Benjamin said.Jacey thought to herself, "As expec
Today, Benjamin had already returned home."How is it? How's your first time meeting your in-laws alone?" Calvin teased Ashlyn."It's quite good. I'm preparing to hold a medieval jewelry exhibition and then let my employees learn medieval video skills. I said that I wanted to use their jewelry as an exhibition, but they didn't even want the deposit. How generous," Ashlyn said lazily as she leaned against the sofa."It's… it's over?" Calvin looked at Ashlyn and said in surprise.Benjamin sat there and smiled."What else?" Ashlyn asked."What are you going to do this time? Aren't you going to look for your daughter-in-law? Did you see what she looked like?" Calvin poured a cup of tea for Ashlyn.After so many years, Ashlyn still hadn't changed from her usual macho self. In fact, she was even more macho than before. Perhaps Calvin had been the one to deal with everything after marriage, developing Ashlyn's habit of not using her brain.Of course, it only meant that she didn't use
For some reason, Ashlyn felt like crying when she saw this. In the past, these jewelry had traveled to another country. Now, these jewelry were all back with stories.She thought about how the person who owned these jewelry had brought them overseas and brought them back…She felt that the Irving family was worthy of admiration.Linda had gone out at some point. Seeing that Ashlyn was looking at her very seriously, she didn't disturb her.When she came in again, she was carrying a cup of coffee. The fragrant Americano she'd just ordered from the coffee machine on the first floor. It was made from good coffee beans.She handed the coffee to Ashlyn."Have a cup of coffee when you're tired. Anyway, these jewelry don't have long legs. They won't run away on their own," Linda said. "You can come and take a look whenever you want. I've always been here."Only then did Ashlyn feel that she had been watching for an hour or two, but she had always been like a pious primary school student
On Saturday afternoon, Ashlyn drove to Jacey's house, a very simple villa.Ashlyn knew that writers liked to live in such a quiet place because they had inspiration in such a place.Jacey's mother, Linda, was already standing on her steps to welcome her.Linda was dressed in a Chinese-style robe. She looked very ancient, but because she was slender, she looked especially good. She looked like a fairy.Ashlyn was dressed in a very fashionable modern outfit. She was wearing a knee-length skirt, pearl earrings, and earrings. She looked especially round and beautiful. One look and one could tell that she was the kind of person who had never experienced the blow of life."I'm Jacey's mother. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Conrad." Linda reached out and held Isobel's hand. "Jacey said that you're coming to our house to take a look. I am so happy. I specially brought all the jewelry from the other houses here and packed them up. If these jewelry can be displayed in the exhibition and let everyon
"Excuse me, how did you know about me?" Jacey asked."Oh, Benjamin's phone was on the table that day. He went to the washroom and I happened to see the photo album he was looking through. I picked it up and saw these few pieces of jewelry. You know it too. As jewelry makers, we won't let go of those rare jewelry no matter what. I asked Benjamin where these pieces of jewelry came from and he told me about you," Ashlyn said neither servile nor overbearing.She understood a girl's mentality very well. She knew that if the woman found out that the man had taken the initiative to leak her news to her parents, she would be very disgusted and feel passive. Therefore, she did not say that. Instead, she said that she had seen it herself. She even said that Benjamin was looking at these photos at that time.Jacey's heart would probably feel warm. After all, a man was looking at her photo behind her back. She should have a good impression of this man.Jacey really thought so. When she heard A
After Benjamin returned home, he showed Ashlyn the jewelry he had taken for Jacey.Ashlyn was very knowledgeable. One look at this jewelry and she knew that it was priceless.Moreover, the girl wearing the jewelry also had extremely good skin and was extremely delicate.Calvin, who was sitting at the side, also watched.However, Ashlyn didn't just look at the jewelry. She said, "You only bought jewelry. Who is this person wearing jewelry behind you?"Ashlyn asked Benjamin gossipily."Don't ask," Benjamin said.Ashlyn smiled. "You said that you only took photos of the jewelry but didn't take photos of her. Aren't you trying to arouse my curiosity? Now that I'm curious, you're not making a move. However, I've been working on researching National Jewelry recently, so I'm lacking samples in this area. When are you going to ask this girl out? Let me take a closer look. From her appearance, I think she's dressed very well. Moreover, I can see her face from her bone structure. I think