As for the draft that Catelyn had submitted, it was cast aside before Granny Atherton could even see it—not that she had the mood to view it, regardless.Lola sneered smugly. 'You dare stand against me, Catelyn? Try again in your next life!'Lola had put in a lot of effort and purposefully arranged the contestants with poorer designs ahead of Catelyn so their presentation time on stage would be minimized, making sure that Catelyn would not make it back in time....Catelyn was stuck in the bathroom.She had thought that she simply had food poisoning and would soon recover after taking some rest, but the reality had proved her wrong.She had stayed in the bathroom for almost an hour, and she had asked for the staff's help to purchase extremely strong antidiarrheal. Eventually, her diarrhea finally subsided.By the time she came out of the bathroom, she was as pale as a ghost. Her lips were numb, and she felt like she would lose consciousness at any moment.Keeping her hand on th
In the corridor outside the Chandier Jewelry’s meeting hall, Catelyn sat on a bench with her back pressed against the wall. Her consciousness was drifting, while her entire body felt like it was swaying. Her head dropped slightly from time to time, only for her to be woken by the motion.The process repeated multiple times, and just when she thought she was reaching her limit, she heard the door to the meeting hall opening, followed by sounds of people talking. She stood abruptly, before falling back onto the bench helplessly.By the time she managed to stand upright again, Lola had led Granny Atherton outside.Catelyn ran after them.Lola spotted Catelyn from the corner of her eye and felt pleased by how miserable she visibly looked. 'This is what you get for crossing me!'She carefully supported Granny Atherton as she ordered the bodyguards, "There are too many people here. Stop any unidentified persons from coming to us; don't let them get in Old Madam's way.""Understood!" Th
Catelyn noticed that the car Granny Atherton was in slowed down. Assuming that the driver had stopped, she moved to run toward the car.Much to her bewilderment, the engine roared again as the car seemingly drove toward her.There was a layer of tinted frame on the window of the Bently, so she could not see into the car, but she could sense an icy, viscous stare directed at her, almost like the way a hunter would stare at his dying prey.It had to be Lola.The driver had not expected Catelyn to stand her ground in the middle of the road, even when he sped up. His hands started shaking, and a thin layer of sweat gathered on his forehead as the car got closer to Catelyn.Catelyn froze in place, unable to move as her feet felt extremely heavy.'Lola had the gall to run over me with Old Madam Atherton by her side? Or is this Old Madam Atherton's command?' she thought as her heart sank into her stomach.Screech!The driver steered the steering wheel.Just as the car was about to ra
"Edwin, I was the one who ordered the driver to run her over. It has nothing to do with Lola."Edwin sneered and said nothing.He forced the driver out of the car and placed Catelyn in the passenger's seat before driving to the hospital, much to Granny Atherton's chagrin at how much Edwin seemed to care for Catelyn."Are you taking her to the hospital?"Edwin kept both hands on the steering wheel and through the rear-view mirror, he saw the enraged expression on his grandmother. He turned his attention to Lola's innocent-looking face and narrowed his fox-like eyes coldly. "Catelyn Clark isn't as horrible as you pictured her to be."At this moment, Granny Atherton sat at the back and could not see Catelyn's face as she was seated in the passenger's seat. She had already had a bad impression on Catelyn before this, and the more Edwin defended her, the more irritated she became."I'm not too old to tell right from wrong. Catelyn Clark was accused of plagiarism. She ignored the rules
Granny Atherton growled as she knocked her cane on the solid ground.Granny Atherton had always been the most respected person among the Athertons.She was no ordinary person, and Lola rarely got to see her in such anger, hence why she was ecstatic.Catelyn had managed to anger Granny Atherton to such length. She could never win!"I know Catelyn did go overboard, Grandma, but she—""I'm talking to you!" Granny Atherton turned and glared at Lola.The air froze in seconds. Lola stiffened, and she could barely breathe. It felt as though an invisible hand squeezed her heart as her mouth gaped open in disbelief."G…Grandma, you must be mistaken, right? Catelyn was the one you were angry at, and she—""Why didn't you tell me earlier that this woman was Catelyn?"Granny Atherton had someone that she trusted to look for Catelyn after leaving the Chandier Jewelry shop. However, the shop's surveillance cameras had only managed to capture Catelyn's side profile; no one could trace her.
Catelyn did, however, feel someone lifting her while she was still in a daze.She then felt someone cutting the sleeve off, and the wound on her arm burned in pain as the fabric grazed over it."Mmph!" Catelyn moaned faintly in pain as she frowned subconsciously. Her pale face was scrunched in agony, and her pale lips pursed tightly.Cedrick, with Catelyn still in his arms, straightened his back when he heard her pained moan and shot the female doctor, who was cleaning her wound, a sharp glare. "Didn't you hear that? Can't you be more gentle?" he growled.The doctor shuddered and almost spilled all of the iodine on Catelyn's wound.The air in the room felt stifling and ominous.The doctor knew that if Catelyn moaned again, Cedrick would throw her out of the window without a doubt. She thus squeezed out a smile as she said to Cedrick, "The wound had been left to bleed for a while, and the fabric was stuck on her wound, so we have to pull it off."Cedrick looked away as he saw no
Cedrick glared coldly at the doctor."Why would she be on diet pills when she's already so skinny?" uttered Cedrick coldly, and the air in the room became suffocating once more.The doctor did not respond.Cedrick looked back at Catelyn once again.He had never seen any sort of diet pill when he was over at her house, and on top of that, she had always been particular with her diet and her well-being. There was no need for any sort of diet pills at all.In other words, Cedrick was certain that Catelyn had not been taking any laxatives.The other possibilities were that she had either taken it by mistake, or someone had poisoned her.Cedrick was the one who bought her breakfast that morning, and he ate the same thing as her as well, so it could not have been that.The biggest possibility was…that someone bore ill intentions toward her.Granny Atherton frowned when she heard that Catelyn had taken laxatives, but what she was trying to understand more than anything was the relati
Well, things did escalate before her. She did allow the driver to run into Catelyn."Fine. You want an explanation, no? I'll give you one.""All I need is a word from you, Granny Atherton. I'll investigate the rest myself."Cedrick's eyes were cold and stern. All he wanted was Granny Atherton's agreement.…Catelyn woke up to the smell of faint disinfectant. She forcibly opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was a clean white ceiling.Her brain was still foggy at this point.She stared at the ceiling for a while before she stared at her surroundings. A bag of intravenous drip was hung by the bed frame, sending fluids down the line and into her body.The last thing she remembered was Edwin running toward her and shielding her with his body.She faintly remembered the Athertons' car running over her.Catelyn tried moving her body and realized that her left hand was held tightly by another hand.She traced the hand only to find Cedrick sitting on a chair in front of the