This action proved that Elijah was quite strong.Although Sally was in pain after being scrubbed by him, at least she was completely relaxed after the bath.After bathing, she started bugging him about going out to shop again.“I promised Uncle I would buy souvenirs for Auntie and the others.”The girl laid on the couch, two hands holding Elijah’s arm, which was tapping away on his laptop, and shaking it back and forth. “Hubby, you can’t bear to see your wife be called untrustworthy and a liar, can you?”Elijah smiled lightly. He pulled his hand out to caress her head. “Be good. Don’t think I didn’t hear you—you were the one who wanted to bring gifts for them in the first place.”Sally was speechless. “…“Even if I was the one who wanted to get them gifts, I already said those words. I can’t go back on my word, right?”As she said this, she resumed clinging to his arm pitifully, shaking it over and over. “Hubby~“Hubby~ Hubby~ Hubby…”Elijah shook his head helplessly with a s
The Caucasian employee he had abruptly stopped replying to on the computer just now had already sent him more than ten messages.[Boss, where did I not do well enough on that you aren’t even willing to criticize me?[Boss, if I didn’t do well enough, you must let me know; I’ll definitely correct it.[You haven’t replied to me for so long, Boss. You couldn’t be considering how to fire me, could you?[Boss…]Elijah shook his head helplessly. [Don’t overthink.[I have no problems with you. My wife just pulled out my laptop’s power source just now.]The employee: […][However, the mistake in your report earlier did indeed disappoint me very much.]The employee instantly became fearful again. [Then, Boss, I…][I’ll give you a chance to make up for it.[Tell me, what mall did our company open recently?]The employee: […]‘Sir, you’re already so lazy that you can’t even remember your own mall franchise’s name anymore?’…Half an hour later, Pierre parked the car in front of the
The real reason Sally wanted to toss Elijah in the men’s resting area alone was because she had a mission. She wanted to buy Elijah a gift.The whole time they were together, whatever she ate, used. and spent were basically all his.On the other hand, she had never done anything substantial for him.Two days ago, the money from her bursary was sent to her account. This was the last time she would receive the bursary.After all, ever since she married Elijah, she could not be considered a poor student anymore. As such, she felt that the school’s bursary should be given to others who need it more.However, as she had applied for this bursary in the last semester, it was still sent to her according to the school’s regulations.As she walked, she pondered. With $8000, what kind of present could she get him…He wanted nothing and lacked nothing. The clothes he usually wore were all in the five figures.The girl frowned as she browsed. A pen? A cufflink? A tie?Just as she was deep
“Aren’t you going to take a look at the price?”Sally was very tired from all the running and completely missed the deeper meaning behind the shop assistant’s words. As she panted, she waved her hand dismissively. “I’m not going to look at the price. I’ll take it!”Once these words left her mouth, Queenie’s face instantly turned pale as she had just given up on the bag because of the price.Jill’s brows furrowed as well, and she raised her hand to block the saleswoman who was just about to ring it up. “Ms. Tate will take this bag.” “Alright, I’ll wrap it up for Ms. Tate.”The salesperson nodded frantically.Sally frowned deeply. “But I said I wanted it first.”She had clearly heard Queenie say to forget it and that she was not buying it, which was why she had spoken up.She did not like to be petty. Ignoring the fact that Queenie had a grudge against her, even if it were a stranger, if someone else had spoken up first, she would not come over to fight for it. At most, she woul
The salesgirl was startled.If she remembered correctly, her boss... was someone unreachable.Why would a student like her speak as if her husband was the boss?Although the salesgirl did not believe Sally's words, she quickly put down the bag and got up to search for the name of the mall owner so that she would stop arguing with Ms. Tate...A minute later, the salesgirl walked over with a smile, picked up the bag, and smiled at Sally. "Mrs. Moses, would you like to use cash or card?""Card."Jill did not expect the salesgirl to behave that way.She was shocked to see the salesgirl’s attitude make a 180-degree turn "Why, you!"What kind of attitude is this?!"She was furious. "Queenie has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars here every month over the past few years! How could you treat a long-standing customer like this!?"The salesgirl did not look back. "Miss, we can afford to lose a big customer like Ms. Tate, but we can't lose the boss’s wife!"Jill was horrified. "How
"She’s going to use it while she goes square dancing with the other aunts in the village! It’ll look great on her!”Jill, "..."Queenie, "..."…After sending away the two parasites, Sally happily put the bag away and continued to stroll around the mall.After shopping for a long time, she finally chose a pen which she planned to give to Elijah.The pen he usually used in the study seemed a bit old.She guessed that the pen must have meant a lot to him.That was why she intended to give him a new pen and let him store the other one for keepsake.By the time she finished shopping, Elijah had also finished arguing with Seth.After instructing Pierre to send the things to Tate Manor, Elijah took Sally to a popular steakhouse.The man looked at her slicing her steak clumsily across from him and smiled helplessly."Eat this."Elijah gracefully pushed the cut steak toward her and took her cut of steak that had been cut crookedly.Sally smiled embarrassedly. "I'm a little stupid
"However, you’re the one protecting me now!"Sally smiled and looked up at Elijah. Her smile was so big that her eyes were half-closed. "I am very happy to have married you."When she was seventeen, she wished to marry a man who was handsome, well-mannered, rich, and who spoiled her.Evonne even laughed at her dreams for being too far-fetched.Who could have thought that a little girl from the countryside would actually end up... marrying someone like Elijah.No one would have believed it.That was why other people were jealous of her, sarcastic toward her, and constantly laughed at her. She took all of it in her stride.She took all of it in her stride because she was beyond blessed!Elijah looked at her face and could not help smiling."Sal."He looked at her solemnly before saying to her across the table, "I’ll be good to you forever.""I know!"The girl smiled and plated some vegetables into his bowl. "When shall we go back to A City?"Evonne said that Zoey's drumstick
"Woah! Little Bunny is still a good student!"Zane smiled and winked at the old man. "Any praise for her?"The old man stroked his beard helplessly and smiled. "Good grades means that Sal is serious!"She’s much better than my son!"When he was still in school, he just wanted to run away with his guitar!”The middle-aged Bennett frowned and coughed. "Dad!"Why talk about the embarrassment of his youth in front of a group of irrelevant juniors?"Hey, why are you shouting at me? It’s not like shouting at me will make your grades any better!”The old man glared at him and continued to hold Sally's hand with a smile. "Study hard, fulfill your dreams, and chase your passion!”"Don't... don't be like Eli. All his days are filled with work.”Sally pursed her lips. "Yes, Grandpa. I will.”"I really like you, so visit often in the future!"The old man held Sally's hand as tears rolled down his cheeks. “After you leave, I won’t be able to see my happy pill!"I won’t be happy!"Sall
————One year later. The wedding of Zoey Williams, president of Yoder Corporation, and Thomas Yoder, the young master of the Moses family, was held at A City’s grandest hotel. On the wedding day, Zoey wore a gorgeous wedding gown as she walked over to Thomas. She raised her head and smiled at him. “When I was a kid, Freya always said that I would have to marry her brother when I grew up.” “However, I realized that I did not like Elijah. I much preferred Sis Sally.” “Who would have thought that at the end of the day, I would still end up marrying Freya’s younger brother. As per her wishes, I’ll be taking care of her brother forever, and allowing her brother to care for me for the rest of my life.” Thomas smiled as he pulled her into his arms. “My beloved ZZ, I finally get to marry you.” Freya, carrying Frigg and sitting with the rest of the family, turned to exchange smiles with Bennett. The wedding was joyful and romantic. Everyone attending basked in the loving atmosp
“If you destroy everything I have, then I’ll destroy everything you have!” Queenie gritted her teeth, a hideous expression on her face as she glared at Sally and said, “If it weren’t for you, I would still be the high-and-mighty young lady of the Tate family!” “It’s all because of you that I became nearly a stand-in for you. I’ve enjoyed many years of lavish treatment at the lavish family, but I was discarded unceremoniously into the dust!” “Sally Summers, it’s all your fault! Everything is because of you!” “I won’t forgive you even if I become a ghost!” “Alright then, go be a ghost!” Elijah narrowed his eyes and raised a hand to grip Queenie’s chin. The hatred in his eyes caused Queenie to smile. “Elijah Moses, choke me to death if you have the guts to do so!” “If you can’t choke me to death, I have multiple ways to make life miserable for you!” “Your sister is just one part of my plan!” “You probably don’t know this yet.” Her lips curled upwards into a bloodthir
The woman lying in bed frowned and said in a weak, hoarse voice, “You are…” “I’m the woman who did it for a long time with your husband.” She sat down on a nearby chair and watched gleefully as the woman’s face turned increasingly paler. “You have a pretty bad memory, Mrs. Lucca.” “We just met the other day.” She shook her head as she spoke. “It makes sense, though. It’s only normal that a half-dead person would not have a great memory.” “Forgive me for being blunt, Mrs. Lucca. President Lucca told me that you don’t have many days left.” “When you’re gone, he’s going to leave his daughter and marry me.” The woman lying in bed turned pale as she shook her head and said, “Impossible… That’s impossible…” “Quincy, he…” “Nothing is impossible.” Queenie continued smiling a gleeful and flaunting smile. She threw her pregnancy test strip onto the woman’s face. “Look, I’m pregnant.” “How could I have gotten pregnant if we only did it one time? Such coincidences don’t exi
“In your dreams!” Quincy gritted his teeth together tightly. “I wouldn’t want you even if every other woman on the planet was dead!” The woman on the other end of the line laughed lightly. “You’re going to abandon your child because Freya Moses is dead?” “You planted your seed in my stomach.” Quincy gritted his teeth and was about to continue arguing when Elijah gave him a look. Quincy pursed his lips. “So, what do you want?” “Let’s meet up.” Queenie yawned. “Can you pick a place?” “There’s a cafe nearby the hospital.” Quincy sighed. “I don’t have much time for you, so don’t try talking nonsense after we meet.”“What a man you are, trying to ghost someone after you’ve slept with them.” The woman shrugged nonchalantly. “Alright. You can wait for me. I’ll be there soon.” She hung up. Quincy pursed his lips and looked up at Elijah. “Why do you want me to meet her?” “You’ve got to have some bait if you want to trap someone.” “This time, Quincy, you’re the bait.
The sharp end of the knife sank into Quincy’s skin. Intense pain came, but he did not seem to feel a thing as he continued pushing. Suddenly, a large, strong, and dry hand took hold of him. Quincy frowned as he tried to continue forcing the knife in, but he could not exert any more strength. Elijah’s cold voice rang beside his ear. “Do you feel like my sister will live on for much longer if you die before her eyes?” “Have you ever thought about how much she likes you and how important you are to her?” Stunned, Quincy turned instinctively to look at Freya. The woman was sobbing controllably. As she gazed tearfully at him, it seemed that she had multiple things she wanted to say but could not find the words. Tears flowed once more from Quincy’s eyes. Ignoring the blood flowing from his chest, he dashed over to Freya and held her tightly. “It’s my fault.” “It’s all my fault!” “Freya… I can’t live without you.” “I cannot… I…” Freya could not stop herself from wr
After Freya was hospitalized, Quincy canceled all his work plans and spent all his time in the hospital watching over her. Although she never let him in, and although he could only ever gaze at her through the window from afar. However, he insisted on not taking even a step away from her ward. He stood guard there stubbornly, and no one could talk any sense into him. Both Elijah and Thomas could not bring themselves to chide or drive Quincy away when he acted this way. And thus, Freya finally agreed to meet him on the seventh day. The woman’s face in the ward was pale, and she was considerably thinner than from before hospitalization. She looked extremely haggard. Tears welled in Quincy’s eyes when he saw what his beloved looked like from a close distance. It was all his fault. It was all his fault! He had caused her to end up this way! All because of him!“Is there anything you would like to say?” Freya leaned against her pillows. Eyes shut, she seemed to have
Sally’s lips pursed themselves together when Freya’s name was mentioned. She would admit that she had had a horrible first impression of Freya when they first met. The woman had stripped nearly twenty years of Zoey’s life away from her. Even now, Zoey still bore the scars she had inflicted upon her on her face. And she had even attacked Sally’s mother during her and Elijah’s wedding. However, times had changed, and five years had passed since then. Sally could not bring herself to be cruel toward Freya, who now showed complete remorse. Additionally, she had treated Sam and Little Sarah with genuine kindness lately. Sally had begun to think of her as family. Yet, now, something like this happened. She sighed. “Freya…” “Freya will not be in great condition when she regains consciousness. You need to prepare yourself mentally.” Freya’s illness was in her heart. The sort of illness she had made it so that she could not be made angry, excited, or frantic. If not, not e
Evonne and Sally were slurping instant noodles when Elijah and Thomas arrived at the doctor’s on-call room. They were starving and had virtually no energy left. The only thing in the room they could use to fill their stomachs was instant noodles. When the door opened, Elijah frowned slightly when he saw his petite wife steadily making her way through a pack of instant noodles. The man strode over and grabbed her bowl. “Unhealthy stuff.” Sally had been enjoying herself and raised her head angrily when her instant noodles were taken away. “I don’t care if it’s not nutritious! I’m hungry… Hubby?” The emotions in the woman’s eyes turned from anger to shock, and then to surprise! Reaching out her arms, she encircled Elijah’s neck and jumped into his arms. “You’re back!” “I missed you so much!” He had been on his ocean trip for more than half a month. They had never been separated for so long since getting back together. The signal on the sea was spotty, and she could never
When Sally finished suturing the last ruptured blood vessel in Freya’s heart, she was starving, exhausted, and had little to no energy left. Evonne, who was beside her, was not much better off. “It’s steady! The patient’s heartbeat is steady again!” The nurse staring at the electrocardiograph yelled out excitedly! Given the condition the patient was in, if it weren’t for these two doctors, they would never have been able to save her! “Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner are amazing!” “Of course.” A senior doctor standing nearby smiled as he stroked his beard and said, “How did you think Dr. Summers earned her title of genius surgeon?” The young nurse’s mouth widened in surprise. “In that case… why are Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner no longer working as doctors?” The senior doctor sighed. “I guess they have their reasons…” In another corner, Evonne leaned against the wall, exhausted as she turned to look at Sally. “Dr. Summers, do you still plan to stay on as a housewife?” Sa