By the time Elizabeth Liang woke up, it was already afternoon the next day. The sun shone through the curtains, and the air conditioning in the room was set to a pleasant temperature. "Mmh..." Elizabeth raised her sore hands and rubbed her painful head. As she was massaging her head and looking at the curtains in her room, a question arose in her mind——She was glad to be back in this familiar room, but how exactly did she get back? Elizabeth tried hard to recall what happened, but to no avail. The last thing she remembered was dying from the heat in the hotel bathroom, and then somebody saying that they were going to take her to James Lu. When she remembered this, last night's events quickly flashed through her mind——she drank something that she shouldn't have. Why did James feed that to her? If he wanted something from her, why couldn't he have just asked? Why did he have to do something so vile? So, James was the one who took her home? But, k
James Lu leaned back his head and downed all of the whiskey in his glass. But not only did it fail to quell the anger in his heart, but it caused him to flare up even more. Consumed with rage, he raised his hand and smashed the glass on the floor. "TSHH—" James didn't even wince from the huge noise of the glass shattering in this extremely quiet room. "Hey! What's wrong with you?" Isaac Bai had just stepped through the door, and asked in bewilderment when he saw the utter mess that James had created on the floor. "..." James ignored him. He took a bottle of alcohol and began directly drinking from it. "Hey, hey, hey!" Surprised, Isaac rushed over to James and snatched the bottle from his hand. "Are you trying to kill yourself by drinking like that?" "..." James saw that his bottle has been robbed by Isaac, so he turned around and opened the drinks cabinet to grab a new bottle. "Hey!" Isaac saw this and hurriedly put down the bottle in his
"...Evelyn..." "In conclusion, you got him completely wrong!" Evelyn Wu was getting anxious as well. "James Lu left with you first yesterday, but his assistant later told me that James Lu abandoned a billion-dollar deal to come and save you!" "A... what?" Elizabeth Liang shuddered and widened her eyes in disbelief. "You're saying he..." "Elizabeth, do you know how blessed you are? Do you know how ridiculously wrong you were today?" Evelyn pulled at her hair as she spoke like a disappointed mother. "......" Evelyn hesitated, but eventually asked cautiously, "Was... was it a really bad fight?" Elizabeth didn't even know what to do anymore, she didn't know whether to laugh or get mad. Should she laugh at herself for how stupid she was, or should she be mad at herself for being an ungrateful wretch and letting his kind intentions go to waste? She was so angry and disappointed just a moment ago, thinking that she got played by James like a fiddle, w
When Josephine Liang woke up, her head ached and her entire body felt sore and weak. She put her hands to her head and massaged her painful forehead. The light in the room was quite dim, with sheer curtains on the windows. When her eyes finally adjusted to the darkish room and looked around, she realized that the interior design was that of a hotel, and not her bedroom at all. "AH..." Josephine reflexively screamed out loud. The events that happened while she was conscious abruptly flashed through her mind. Her blood froze and her entire body began trembling. After James threatened her menacingly, he told the male waiter whom she had bribed to stay in the room, and the waiter began pervertedly feeling her up and down... She pulled away the sheets with shaking hands——she wasn't wearing anything! She... At that moment, the sound of someone washing their hands came from the bathroom. Josephine gritted her teeth and pushed down th
"Director Chen!" Josephine Liang couldn't talk to him on the phone, so she came to wait for him at his house. It was completely dark inside, which meant that Director Chen wasn't home. Josephine was extremely anxious, but she had to wait patiently by the door. It was almost July, and the night breeze was rather pleasant, but it only felt cold to Josephine. When Director Chen finally drove back home, Josephine opened her car door and rushed over before he could even park his car. She kept hitting on Director Chen's car window. "What's going on, Director Chen?" Director Chen glanced at the unseemly woman besides his car. He frowned slightly, but still opened the door and got out. Standing in front of Josephine, his expression was cold and was no longer as gracious and cordial as he used to be. "Why are you here?" "I just want to know why you removed me from the role?" "Have you read the news?" Director Chen raised his eyebrows. "The investor said
In the end, James Lu did not return to South Lake villa. Although Elizabeth Liang knew that it wasn't very likely for him to return to his old home, she still made a phone call to them just in case. Of course, it was in the name of greeting Mr. and Mrs. John Lu. Meanwhile, John Lu and Lydia Song were having dinner. Lydia chewed on her food as she told Elizabeth to come to their house for dinner with James, and she went on and on about a very delicious soup that Auntie Chang had made... Elizabeth politely turned down Lydia's invitation. Seeing that James still wasn't home, she looked around the well-lit interior of South Lake villa as she felt a little disappointed, but also slightly relieved at the same time. Elizabeth had no idea how to face James if he came home. Even though she had learned from Evelyn Wu that he had saved her, and she was truly grateful for that, she didn't know what had happened after the rescue. How did he cure the drug in
As soon as Elizabeth Liang finished her part-time job at Kuture, she rushed to the cafe where Charlotte Dong wanted to meet up with her. Just as she walked to the door, she was in such a hurry to go inside that she unexpectedly bumped into someone who was coming out. "I'm sorry." A gentle male voice spoke by her ear, and he even chivalrously reached out to hold her. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Elizabeth apologized profusely before looking up. "Doctor Bai?" Isaac Bai looked at her and realized that she was his good friend's new wife. "Sis?" Isaac raised one eyebrow. "Why are you here?" "Um..." Elizabeth smiled awkwardly. "I'm meeting someone here." "Oh, I see." Isaac nodded. "Go ahead." Elizabeth wanted to ask him if he knew where James Lu was, but after some thought, she decided against it. She didn't want others to laugh at her for not knowing her lawfully-wedded husband's whereabouts and having to ask his friends about where he went.
"What does Miss Superstar Josephine Liang have to do with me? You think too highly of me, Mrs. Dong." Elizabeth Liang sat back down and said slowly. "It wasn't you?" Charlotte Dong clearly did not believe her. "I'm telling you right now, Elizabeth, don't try to play dumb with me!" Elizabeth was unfazed. She looked at Charlotte who was sitting across from her with a furious expression, then said in a sardonic tone, "It might've been me if I were still the heiress of the Liang family. But you guys kicked me out, remember? Do you honestly think that I'm capable of doing that in my down-trodden state?" Elizabeth would've never been able to say something like this in the past. Perhaps it was thanks to James Lu's influence that she was able to easily form sarcastic and derisive sentences like this. "Hmph! You might be powerless, but that doesn't mean whatever sleazebag you hooked up with is the same!" "What do you mean?" "What do I mean?" Charlotte hateful