In the article, the writer lauded Ashlyn as a genius more than once, and included a photo of her. It was the one Ashlyn had taken for her employee name tag at Nevera Designs when her hair was still long. At the same time, a photo of James was also included next to hers. She looked youthful and demure, while he looked mature and steadfast.Calvin saw this article as well. Because of Ashlyn’s career choice, he had chosen to subscribe to a digital version of the magazine.He had complicated feelings about this article. He was happy for her, and he knew it would launch Ashlyn to fame so she wouldn’t have to worry about not having any business anymore. At the same time, he couldn’t help feeling worried about James’s ever present influence.Calvin called Ashlyn. “Congratulations on being featured in such a prominent magazine! You won’t have to worry about the studio not having any business anymore.”“Really?” Ashlyn still couldn’t wrap her mind around things.“Of course. This is the pow
That night, Ashlyn received phone call after phone call. Everyone wanted to commission her to design jewelry, and she even received international calls. They all said the same thing as Margeret—that they were afraid she would raise her rates tenfold or more.In one night, she had accepted requests that totaled a few million dollars…Even she was shocked by this amount.She didn’t know whether to thank or hate James.Neil even said, “My, my. Maybe Calvin will end up leeching off you in the future. Remember not to leave me out, Almighty Designer.”“Gee, thanks.” Ashlyn rolled her eyes.Calvin would probably be happy for her, right?She took a photo of the requests she had received and sent it to Calvin, then sent him a WhatsApp message.Ashlyn: [More than a million in one night alone! Am I amazing or what?]Calvin: [Remember to buy me a meal when I’m back.]Ashlyn: [No problem!]In truth, Calvin wasn’t exactly happy about this. In a way, James had brought about Ashlyn’s succes
Ashlyn glanced at it. The text was from James, whom she hadn’t spoken to for a long time. When she saw his name, her hair immediately stood on end. She remembered how harsh and unreasonable he had been, but she also remembered how he had helped her. Of course, there was also the fact that he was the true reason for her being so busy now.Ashlyn: [Yes, I am, President Addaway.]James: [I want you to design a set of five accessories for me—studs, earrings, a necklace, a ring, and a bracelet. Use gold, emeralds, and diamonds only. I’ll bring the details over to you later.]Ashlyn was taken aback.Ashlyn: [Where are you?]James: [At my subsidiary in Genovia. I’ll head there once my meeting’s over.]Ashlyn: [Can you keep things short?] A few seconds later, she added, [My ex-colleagues are coming here, and I have to pick them up.]After sending the second message, she saw he had already replied to her first one.James: [I’ll be right there.]After her second message, he replied, [I’
James glanced at the diamond ring on her finger. “The whole world knows who you are now. It’s not odd for her to know, right?”Ashlyn nodded, a little dazedly.“I’ll give you her phone number so you can speak to her directly.” James looked down at his phone.Soon, she received a number for someone named Fiona Addaway.“I’m leaving. Talk to her if you have any questions.” Then, he added, “Also, remember to change that crystal plaque into a wooden one.”“Why?” Ashlyn looked surprised.“What’s with all the questions?” He frowned. “All I can say is that it doesn’t bring good vibes.”After that, he left.Ashlyn thought, ‘What a freak!’ There was no way she was changing it.Then, she saved Fiona’s number and sent her a message.Fiona: [Are you Ashlyn Lawrence? My brother was practically singing your praises in front of my mom. I’m going to wear these accessories after I’m married, so please put your heart into them, okay?]Ashlyn rolled her eyes. Could someone as stuck up as James
Jonah knew Ashlyn and Calvin were engaged. He would never fantasize about them having a future together. The only thing he could say to explain his thoughts was that he was merely attracted to her because she was beautiful.On the other hand, Xenia’s eyes were trained on the court. To be accurate, she was completely focused on Jonah.Shawna looked like she had discovered the cure for cancer. “Ashlyn, Ashlyn! Guess who I just saw!”Ashlyn was preoccupied with her designs, so she asked absent-mindedly, “Who?”“Here, have the binoculars and see for yourself.” Shawna had always loved bingeing on TV shows, so she was extremely short-sighted. She had brought her own binoculars to watch the game.Ashlyn wasn’t interested, but since Shawna had already stuffed the binoculars into her hand…“Who is it? I don’t see anybody.” She didn’t see any familiar faces after sweeping the crowd.Shawna looked exasperated. “Look at your one o’clock. Do you see him?”Ashlyn did as told. She jumped and
James was dressed in a smart casual style, but the clothes couldn’t completely show off his charisma. He walked toward Ashlyn, attracting everyone’s gazes.Unfortunately, Ashlyn wasn’t that great a driver. It was a little tough for her to move the car to the side of the road, and Shawna didn’t know how to drive. Xenia was a worse driver than she was; she hitched a ride with her father to work every day. The two of them sat in the car and gave Ashlyn conflicting instructions, which didn’t help.“Do you not know how to do it, or have you lost your wits?” James looked her over and immediately understood it was hard for her to move the car. “Get in the car.”She looked at the cars blocked behind them—some people were already starting to honk impatiently. At the moment, dealing with this was her priority. Everything else could wait. She got into the car.Once the car was parked by the roadside, James asked the young woman who had rear-ended Ashlyn, “Do you want to handle this officially
Shawna and Xenia couldn’t help feeling guilty about the accident. They felt it wouldn’t have happened without their presence, and Clarissa had bustled around the whole day trying to make them feel welcome. They didn’t want to continue troubling the Lawrences, so they left the next day.Then, Calvin returned from his business trip. He went to Ashlyn’s studio and saw the car wasn’t too badly damaged—a quick trip to the service center would fix everything. Ashlyn still didn’t look too happy, though.“Why the long face?” He pressed a finger to her furrowed brows.“How could I possibly be happy when someone crashed into the new car you bought for me?”“It’s fine. It’ll be fixed in a jiffy. You just won’t have a car to drive for the next few days. I’ve asked my subordinate to prepare a gift for James, so let’s give it to him together. He bought a place here,” Calvin said. “I heard his sister’s getting married, so I bought her a set of pearl accessories worth 500 thousand. What do you thi
Despite her words, Dana couldn’t help feeling upset. She had always been worried about Ashlyn giving in to temptation because she was so young. If James snatched Ashlyn away, how would Calvin face the world? Where would that leave the Conrad family? How would Calvin get anyone to respect him after being cheated on so publicly? After all, he was a prominent figure in Genovia’s business world.Damien had taught her a lesson after offending Ashlyn the last time, so Dana couldn’t make the same mistake this time.Once a person had a certain idea, everything that happened seemed to point toward that idea. Dana was more and more convinced Ashlyn would dump Calvin sooner or later, just to be with James.She couldn’t sit around and wait for that to happen. She had her subordinate find out where Addaway Corporation’s subsidiary was, then went to look for James.James was attending to some documents in his office. He was surprised to see Dana, dressed professionally and looking like an iron l
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