Eevonne laughed at herself. "Kingston, if your…friend, the friend who had also faked her academic qualifications, had encountered such a matter and was accused by everybody that she had stolen something, how would she deal with it?""Her?" Kingston chuckled. "If it's that friend of mine, this would be a small matter to her. She may not even look at those people who have accused her. She would just do her job seriously as usual. While doing that, she might raise her head and look at the people in her surroundings who were questioning her and ask, 'Do you have any evidence? If you do, call the police to arrest me. If you don't have any evidence, don't be here blocking my way. You're blocking my light. If I made a mistake while drawing the draft, I would come and settle scores with you.' That friend of mine would certainly handle it like that."Kingston was incredibly proud when he said that.He knew Sabrina very well. If she had met such a thing, she certainly would handle it like tha
She was alone and helpless, and she shouted angrily as if she had gone mad. The people next to her certainly thought that she was extremely ferocious. However, only she knew how lonely and helpless she felt at that time.At that moment, when Kingston heard the girl telling him about it, he also understood it. He could very much relate to the feeling of being marginalized and not being trusted."In the future, this…won't happen anymore. It won't happen anymore," Kingston said firmly.The girl sobbed in his arms. "Kingston, do you know that at my age, there has been nobody, there has never been a person like you who is willing to listen to me, let me explain, and have no prejudice against me. You've no idea how it evolved to the point that all of the people in the company collectively suspected that I am a thief. I had become an animal that was despised by everyone in the company. Everyone in the company looked down on me. At that time, my life was simply a living hell. However, it so
Kingston looked at Eevonne with a confused expression. "This matter has been clarified, but could it be that they still blamed you?"Eevonne nodded. "Not only did they blame me, but none of the people present apologized to me. On the contrary, they kept accusing me.""Assholes!" Kingston shouted.After crying for a while, Eevonne had already calmed down. She then recounted softly and calmly, "The thing that was missing from the company was a small art piece of a famous tower. It had been gifted to the company by a client from abroad. Originally, the art piece had always been placed on my boss' wife's desk. However, that morning, the tower was suddenly missing. The following day after I went against the entire company because of this matter, it so happened that another client wanted to take a look at our new products. My boss and the lady who was in charge of the company logistics then took the key and went to open the door of the showroom. In that instant when the door opened, bot
Eevonne shrugged. "Kingston, have you heard of the boiling frog?"Kingston immediately understood what she was implying. His expression was sorrowful as he nodded. "Of course, I know about that."Eevonne continued softly. "Frogs are very sensitive in terms of jumping. If the water in the pot has been boiling since the beginning when the frog is thrown in, it may jump out immediately to escape, and it won't be scalded. However, if the frog was put in the pot when the water was cold, and the temperature of the water was raised little by little, the frog would get used to the surrounding temperature over time. Finally, when the water is truly boiling, it won't feel like it is a kind of torture anymore. It would boil to death in the end. I am that frog. I was just slightly humble and slightly tolerant in the beginning, but in the end, everything was already normal to me. I had already gotten used to it. Other than being vain, having a fake diploma, and often getting in conflict with the
Eevonne smiled. "That's right. I finally resigned. However, my resignation was not decent at all. I was thrown out of the company.""What?" Kingston asked."Because I often had arguments with my colleagues, everybody in the company looked down on me. Whenever I argued with someone, it would always be my fault. However, Kingston, when I argued with the other person on the following day, I had actually already endured it for a very long time. Do you believe me?"Before Kingston answered, Eevonne smiled. "You certainly won't believe me. Nobody would.""I believe you!" Kingston answered firmly."As the saying goes, once a man is down, people will take advantage of the situation to attack him. That is an old saying. You wanted to work in that company to earn your salary. Even if it was just because of your vanity, you did not want to leave that place at all. Since you wanted to keep that job so much, of course, you would want to suffer in silence to let the matter pass. If it wasn't be
"However, there are no ifs in this world. That's the harshness of reality. I was in that kind of situation back then where I basically had a small argument every three days and a huge argument every five days. Sometimes, I may even argue with a few people in just one day.""Actually, they were the ones who picked a fight with you, right?" Kingston asked.Eevonne shook her head. "To be honest, even until today, I can't distinguish if I was the one picking fights with them or they were the ones picking fights with me. I can't tell them apart clearly anymore. Perhaps this is a kind of, what is it? Butterfly effect? Domino effect? For example, I am in the office and I just had an argument with the colleague sitting next to me because of a work-related matter. In less than an hour, the factory manager reprimanded me. I did not dare to argue with him. I raised my head and looked at him very weakly and cowardly, and said, 'Did you already sign the papers yesterday agreeing to let your worke
Kingston gasped. "There's another matter that made you feel even more wronged?"Eevonne smiled miserably. "Mm-hmm. Actually, I can't even distinguish if it's my fault and if I was the one who just loves to pick fights with others, but on the matter of me arguing with others, I've categorized all of them as my fault. I've always ended up admitting defeat. Matters like being in conflict with a few people in a day was something that happened very often to me. In the end, it was also after I apologized that the matter ended. I first apologized to the factory manager. I felt relieved. I turned around and apologized to that female colleague of mine too. I didn't go for lunch that day. Also, I was supposed to be helping the workers in the factory, but in actuality, the majority of the work was completed by myself. Finally, I got the samples done before one in the afternoon. When I carried them back, I saw that the factory manager and colleague were chatting, joking, and having tea. In fact,
"I would then argue with them like I've gone crazy."Kingston wrapped an arm around Eevonne and asked while feeling incredibly sorry, "Things have already developed to such a state, but your boss still did not fire you?"Eevonne smiled miserably again. "I also find it strange for a very long time. Why is it that I was already in such a state, but my boss still did not fire me? I often heard my boss say that he is giving me a chance, he is giving a chance, and if I was in another company, I would have lost my chance a long time ago. Every time I heard him saying that, I truly felt so grateful that I almost wanted to kneel before him. I was also afraid that no other companies would hire me if I go somewhere else. Therefore, even though my interpersonal relationships in the company were a hot mess to the point of being beyond salvageable, it is also because I don't have anybody on my side in the company that I had to be extremely careful in my work. I worked at the company for three yea
In a blink of an eye, Aino was already 18.She was already going to college.Her husband, Mister Ford, already had gray hairs on his sideburns and was already a man who was pushing 50.Both Sebastian and her had gone through thick and thin together for almost twenty years.That was so fast."Old man," Sabrina called out.Sebastian turned her head to the side and looked at Sabrina. "What did you just call me?"Sabrina smiled. "Isn't that right? You're going to be fifty next year, and I'm only in my early forties. I'm not an old lady, but you are a proper old man! Let me ask you something. Your sideburns have turned gray, are you going to dye your hair on our wedding day?""I'm not going to! I simply want others to say that an old man like me is marrying a young wife! Listen to me. You'd better stop dressing up and putting on makeup in the future!" Sebastian said to his wife, who looked ten years younger than him.How unreasonable!This old lady simply has not aged a day since
Yvonne hugged her children and lifted her head to look at her mother. At that moment, she was incredibly excited. She was both excited and aggrieved, which made her cry inconsolably. She rushed into her mother's arms. Immediately after, her father also hugged both her and her mother. The family of three was finally reunited. No, it should be a family of five at that moment. It would be a family of six with Marcus included. The family of six hugged each other and cried so much that the people at the side could not help but cry as well. Even the nurse also teared up.It was after a long while that Yvonne's parents let go of her."Alright, my child, let's go home. Let's go home."Helena raised her head and looked at Yvonne. Her child did not have her original face anymore, but she was truly her child. After her child went missing for five years, she finally got her child back. During that time, Yvonne got a rare condition that was hard to cure in any part of the world, but she was cure
After everything, all of it, was handled, Marcus suddenly burst out in tears."What's the matter, my son?" Missus Shaw has lost three sons and he was the only son left by her side. When she saw her son crying like that, it was only natural that she felt very saddened."Mom…I just feel that karma really is a funny thing. It's really making a fool of all of us! It turned out that everything was already destined. Everything was destined!" Marcus was covered in tears.Missus Shaw was confused. "What's the matter, my child?"Marcus cried and then he smiled. "Mom, I've finally understood why God let Yvonne go through this disaster that lasted for five years. It turned out that God had given her the biggest hardship which seemed so inhumane, but God had given her the best reward. Otherwise, the person who truly died would've been my Yvonne, wouldn't it? I would've been my Yvonne."Hearing him saying that, Missus Shaw said extremely emotionally as well, "That's right. At the end of it all
The fake Yvonne was still conscious the second before she died. She watched herself fall over with her eyes widened. She never would have expected it. After she had plotted everything, she was only one step away from the wedding, and then she could have replaced the real Yvonne and truly be a part of the high society of South City and be the wife of a rich man. However, she was fatally shot. Who was it?There was no time for her to look into it in detail before she fell to the ground. All of her regrets were forever sealed in her body. Without even a cry or shouting, she fell to the ground. She was feeling so reluctant to accept defeat that her heart had already stopped beating but her eyes were still wide open.Marcus was also stunned. He did intend to have Bonnie's entire gang arrested in one go, and he had already done it. The police were simply there that day to have this group of people surrounded. However, never in a million years would Marcus expect that someone would kill Bon
Two female attendants wheeled out a completely sealed glass cart. The ring that was carefully kept inside the glass cart was truly colorful and dazzling. Every side of the gem was radiating in different colors as the light shone upon it through the glass chart. The fake Yvonne was stunned silly when she saw it. Another person who was also stunned silly was the tan and fat man holding a pair of binoculars while sitting in a car across from the jewelry store.The tan and fat man muttered, "Gosh! This man must love her so much. He actually is willing to spend so much on her! This woman really deserves to die! She deserves to die too much!"Inside the jewelry store, Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne gently. "Do you like the ring I'm giving you?"The fake Yvonne was so excited that tears streamed down her face. "I like it. I love it too much! I truly love it so much!""I should've given you this ring four years ago. It was such a pity that at that time…""It's fine, hubby, it's fine. Is
All thirty people in the banquet hall were stunned. At that moment, they still have not made sense of what the hell has happened. How come a group of police came in once Yvonne left? Did they arrest the wrong people?"No, officer, we're…friends of Master Marcus of the Shaw family in South City. We've saved his wife. Master Marcus even said he is going to give me two apartments as gifts. Did you…have the wrong place?" Bella boldly asked the police at that moment.Nobody answered Bella. A few police officers came up and confiscated all of their phones. Not a single one was left behind.Bella could not hold herself back anymore and said while trembling, "We're Marcus' friends. He is not an ordinary person in South City. If Marcus knew that you've arrested us, when the time comes…"A police officer sneered. "The people we're arresting are all of you, the group of Marcus' friends!""Huh? Why?" Bella did not understand. Actually, she was not too familiar with the law. She just knew tha
"A billion dollars! Isn't he just insulting us, the three Shaw brothers? Marcus loves this bitch so much! When I see her looking so happy, I just want to kill her immediately! I have to have her killed!"At this end of the call, the tan and fat man asked Marcus' eldest brother very respectfully, "Sir, as long as you give an order. Just tell me, how do you want to get this woman killed? Why don't I kill her now?""No!" Marcus' brother stopped him and said. "It's not the best time now. There are too many people in there, so it's not going to be easy for you to escape. I only have a loyal servant like you. I can't let you die. You have to find a place outside that you can easily run away after getting the deed done. Now is not the right time!"The tan and fat man instantly said, "Alright, Sir, whatever you say. I'll find an even messier place and have this woman killed! I'll be hanging up now, sir!"After he hung up the call, the tan and fat man continued watching everything inside th
When Bella heard Marcus saying that, she immediately said shyly, "Gosh, how can I trouble Master Marcus in everything? No…there's nothing else.""Come on, Bella, whatever difficulties you have, just say it. My husband is the second most powerful person in South City anyway. There's really nothing he can't do." The fake Yvonne lifted her head and looked at Marcus coquettishly. "Am I right, hubby?"Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne very dotingly. "Baby, what do you think? I'm a husband that you've picked, so could you have been mistaken?""That's right!" The fake Yvonne happily leaned her head on Marcus' shoulder. Marcus hugged the fake Yvonne and was feeling so disgusted that he almost threw up. This Yvonne and his Yvonne indeed look very alike. They looked extremely alike! If this Yvonne did not speak and remained quiet, Marcus would feel that this is his Yvonne and his wife whom he had been thinking of all day and all night. However, the real Yvonne would never make such a request o
Of course, the fake Yvonne agreed. Three days later, they held a banquet for the fake Yvonne's benefactors at the most luxurious hotel in South City. Some of them were out-of-towners. There were also some from South City. Marcus roughly scanned them and surely, the middle-aged woman was there. She was the woman who was staying in the same area with Mila back then and the one who suggested letting Mile do a DNA test.Marcus held the fake Yvonne's hand and came to the middle-aged woman. "Miss, do you still recognize me?"The fake Yvonne immediately introduced her to him. "Darling, let me tell you, this is the lady who had helped me the most. Her name is Bella Hughes. She has always been taking great care of me, including the time I had a miscarriage. She was the one who took care of me. I feel we should give her two apartments!"The middle-aged woman named Bella immediately waved. "No need, no need. There's really no need for that. To be able to escort you back to your husband's side