At three in the evening, the party ended and Joseph drove Clarissa and Mrs. Faber home.Clarissa was sitting on the sofa with the two dolls in her hands. She wondered where to put them.Mrs. Faber dropped by, and saw Clarissa’s great liking for the dolls. She didn’t think much of them and thought they were just two little dolls.“Do you really like the dolls that much, Madam?” Mrs. Faber asked Clarissa.“Yes. They mean something,” Clarissa said in a mysterious tone. The house suddenly felt so cold when she came home from the annual meeting today. Clarissa recalled the past, and then remembered how busy it was last year. At around this time, her mom was probably getting ready to go to Damien’s house for New Year celebrations.Last year, Mom and Grandpa were still around… This year, they were all gone.Clarissa couldn’t help but feel a little sad.Mrs. Faber noticed Clarissa’s sudden change in mood. She was happy earlier, but she suddenly started wiping her tears while sitting o
In the following days, Clarissa rarely saw Damien. She was still sleeping whenever he left earlier. When he came back, she was already in her room.They worked at different times, and so avoided seeing each other.Clarissa guessed that Damien might have taught her a lesson for raging at him before. Luckily for her, he had been restraining his temper and desire since she was pregnant.A few days before New Year’s eve, Clarissa got a message from Lily on WhatsApp.Lily: [Clarissa! Landon, Bethany, and I are planning to visit you this New Year’s eve. What do you think? Since you’re pregnant, you’ve stopped having fun with us.]Clarissa knew she had to ask Damien if they could come. What if Damien was in a bad mood when they arrived? Damien might kick them out disrespectfully.Even so, Clarissa couldn’t be bothered to text Damien. She took a screenshot of Lily’s question on WhatsApp and sent him that, followed by a question mark. Damien did not reply to her.Clarissa took a deep bre
“Madam has fraternal twins of opposite sexes?” Mrs. Faber was puzzled but happy for Clarissa.“Well, that’s what the ultrasound shows. In the end, only the truth will prevail.” Bethany looked like she wasn’t going to take responsibility if the babies came out as a twin of the same sex.“Why didn’t Madam tell us this big news?” As Mrs. Faber complained about Clarissa, she glanced at Damien at the same time.Damien was frowning hard in silence. Clearly, he was unaware of this either.Damien immediately understood why Joseph gave Clarissa the two porcelain dolls as a gift. The gift wasn’t to represent Joseph and Clarissa. It symbolized Clarissa’s babies!In other words, Joseph long knew that Clarissa was pregnant with fraternal twins of opposite sexes. Meanwhile, he, whose number was saved as the president of the New East Corporation on her phone, was kept in the dark. If Bethany hadn’t been here today, he would never know until the day Clarissa gave birth.Even so, there was nothin
Clarissa stopped thinking about other things and cleared her mind. Then, she started to play the card game seriously. This time, it was Landon who won the round.“D*mn it! I didn’t win at all. Damien, do you want to play?” Ray said to Damien, who was on the couch.Clarissa furrowed her brows a little and glanced at Damien. Could he play?She thought Damien only read books all day. Could a scholar like him play cards?Damien didn’t say anything and took Ray’s seat.Clarissa soon found out that Damien was very good at cards. He was calm, but the more he played, the harder he attacked. The way he played left Clarissa breathless. Lily kept screaming about the game while Landon said, “It’s over. D*mn it… I can’t even win with this.”In the end, Damien won without a doubt.Clarissa reluctantly transferred one thousand dollars to him. She thought Damien didn’t know how to play, but he emerged as the best player.Clarissa lost several games consecutively, and transferred several thousa
Damien turned off the lights and turned on the bedside lamp. Then, he started undressing Clarissa. Clarissa stayed quiet the whole time, not daring to say anything. She was trembling until she was naked in bed.In the past, Clarissa had a perfect curve and a fair-skinned body. Her curves had changed since she got pregnant, but she was somehow still quite sexy.Damien rolled his throat a little as he turned off the light. He hadn’t touched Clarissa’s body for a long time. It felt like it had been a while since their so-called honeymoon.Clarissa remained silent throughout the whole time.A layer of sweat covered Clarissa’s head by the time he was done with her. She was deathly frightened the whole time. She was afraid of hurting the baby and not satisfying him. Anyway, she remained tense and terrified.After that, Clarissa drifted off to sleep. Damien rubbed her belly from behind.The next day, Damien woke up from Clarissa’s phone ringing. Meanwhile, she was still sound asleep.
Clarissa didn’t know what Damien meant by that, so she stayed silent.After that, Damien headed to the living room.Clarissa asked Joseph to enter her bedroom. The moment he entered the room, his gaze landed on her bed.In the past, there was only one pillow on Clarissa’s bed. Now, there were two pillows. There were even obvious signs that someone had slept on the other side of the bed for a long time. It was clear who had been sleeping with her.As expected, the two got back together again.“Happy New Year, Joseph!” Clarissa held her long hair as she attempted to tie it.It had been a while since he last saw her. Even her hair had grown.Joseph revealed an awkward smile and greeted her back. “Happy New Year, Clarissa. I went to church with my mother today. She asked for a cross for you, to protect you and your kids from harm.”Then, Joseph took out the cross and attached a string to it, turning it into a necklace.“Aww! You don’t have to do that. Thank you, though.” Clarissa
Around five in the evening, Damien knocked on Clarissa’s door.“Clarissa, it’s dinner time,” he said.At this moment, Clarissa was writing in her journal.She felt like a stupid woman for having sex with Damien again yesterday. If she knew she would come back to him again, what was the point of fleeing overseas to suffer alone? The knowledge that Damien was her mother’s killer flooded her with instant remorse after she had slept with him.With these conflicted emotions surging inside her, Clarissa bit her lip, as if trying to make sense of them.Damien’s sudden appearance made Clarissa shudder slightly.“What are you so afraid of?” Damien asked.“Nothing, it was very quiet just now. The way you suddenly spoke scared me, is all,” Clarissa replied. She stood up and went to the dining table.Today, she had purposely worn a fur jacket to hide the necklace on her neck, which Joseph had gifted her just now.Although Damien wasn’t that good at cooking, he still went out of his way to
Damien entered the bathroom immediately.When he saw Clarissa on the ground, he helped her up slowly.Right now, it wasn’t easy to carry her in one go. He had to find his balance and slowly heave her body upright.After all, she was around 160kg at the moment.Shocked to the core, Clarissa’s face was shining with sweat.Damien grabbed the showerhead and cleaned her body. With her back facing him, he realized she had bruised herself from the fall.Then, Damien reached for a towel and wrapped her up.“Are you…” Before Damien could finish speaking, his attention was drawn to the pendant around her neck.Damien didn’t notice the necklace yesterday, but today, she was wearing it around her neck.One look and Damien knew that the cross was worth around 10k. How generous of Joseph to give something as expensive as this to Clarissa!Today, Joseph was the only one who had visited Clarissa.No wonder she was wearing a thick fur coat when they were having dinner just now!Fury surged
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