Alice turned around and shot Joshua a puzzled look. “Didn’t I…birth two children?”Was one of the children adopted? Joshua let out a bitter chuckle as soon as he saw her baffled expression. He was wrong, after all.Alice shot him another confused glance before she finally left the room.At the design department.Luna’s finger was wrapped in a bandage. At that moment, she stood outside her office as she instructed Shannon and the rest to find an empty desk for Alice.Seeing that Alice had returned, Luna glanced at her and said, “Since you don’t like my office, I’ve requested the staff to find a nice, spacious desk for you. You don’t have to do anything in the meantime, so just try to figure out what goes on in the design department every day and get to know the rest of your colleagues.”Alice rolled her eyes, turned around, and plopped down in the seat. Then, she gave Luna a wry smile. “Thank you so much for looking after me, Director Luna.”Luna frowned and shot her a glance b
Although Luna had zero intentions to look for Joshua, she still went upstairs and knocked on his room door.“Enter,” came Joshua’s emotionless voice from the room.Luna took a deep breath, pushed the door open, and entered. “Mr. Lynch.”Joshua flatly glanced at her before he gestured with his hands. “Take a seat.”“I won’t be sitting.” Luna took a deep breath, her gaze calm. “It’s lunchtime. Please try to make this short, Mr. Lynch.”Of course, she only said that in fear Joshua had realized the whole Nigel problem, yet he still wanted to keep her in suspense.At that point, she no longer had the power to change anything.If Joshua truly realized Nigel’s existence, she only hoped that he would be done with it quickly instead of prolonging it.To Joshua, however, it seemed like she was throwing a tantrum.He gazed at her with his deep eyes. “Are you still angry about the incident this morning?”Indeed, Alice had crossed the line that morning, and he had only lightly chided her
After a long while, Luna took a deep breath and smiled. “I just made a big deal out of it, really.”Joshua raised his eyebrows wordlessly as he studied her expression.Luna chuckled lightly. “Neil once had a nosebleed from the flu. I saw how many leukemia patients were eventually diagnosed because of unstoppable bleeding from the nose, and I, worried that he’d end up like that, sent him straight to the hematology department to have a check-up. In the end, it was determined that he only had the flu. It was just a scare.”Luna pretended to shrug relaxedly. “Many people get admitted into the hospital due to the flu in the winter, so the doctor made us stay in the hematology department.”Joshua squinted his eyes. “That’s all?”“Of course. It’s that simple.” Luna chuckled lightly. She snatched the photo from Joshua, turned around, and left.Joshua remained seated in the same spot as he squinted at Luna’s leaving form.The photo restoration specialist’s questions rang in his ears...
Luna secretly clenched her fists.Alice mocked her by saying—right at Joseph’s and Natasha’s faces—that her parents barely cared about her, but the couple kept agreeing with her, saying that Luna deserved her parents not liking her.The scene felt awfully comical and ironic to her.She took a deep breath, walked past them, and headed straight to her office.The moment her hand touched the doorknob, Alice laughed a little from behind. “Ms. Luna, are you not joining us? My mom made a lot of good food, and they used to be my favorite. I can’t even finish them!”Her words were like a sharp knife that stabbed Luna’s heart violently.Back when she was still Luna Gibson, Natasha and Joseph played favoritism. No matter what, they would always let Aura pick first.Even meals.Other than when she was sick, Natasha would rarely make the food she liked when she wanted them.It was only when Aura could not return from overseas did this husband-and-wife pair realized that they still had ano
Shannon glared at her and snatched Courtney’s phone.She looked at Luna’s first draft projected on the huge screen before studying Mo Sam’s draft. She went silent.It was too…similar. Almost exactly the same.At the same time, the others in the conference room started searching on their phones for Mo Sam, the talented genius.The moment they saw it, everyone was silent.Luna accepted the phone from her assistant, Arianna next to her. She furrowed her brows tightly.The draft was the exact same as her design sketch. Even the details were the same.She had been a designer for so many years. The number of times she encountered plagiarism was quite a number, too.Nonetheless, this was the first time that the plagiarized draft was published one day before her, and in such a public manner to boot.She squinted her eyes. Mo Sam’s intentions were clear. He wanted to steal the copyright to her designs right from the beginning at the draft stage.“Director Luna, what is happening?”
Joshua was looking at Nellie’s most recent sketches when Luna called him.He had to admit that Nellie was talented, but talent was not enough. If Nellie did not have such good guidance from Luna, she would not have been able to design such exceptional sketches at such a tender age of six.However, even if Nellie’s designs were pretty, she still lacked a certain charm compared to Luna’s.When his phone rang, he swept a glance at the name on his phone. He picked up the call in a rather pleasant mood. “Are you done with the meeting? Nellie said—”“Mr. Lynch,” Luna sounded extremely serious. “Please come to the design department immediately.”Joshua’s brows knitted together the instant he picked up on her urgency. “What happened?” he spoke in a low tone.“Something happened.” Luna took a deep breath. “My designs have been plagiarized.”Joshua shuddered a little.After a while, he turned off his computer. “I’ll come down now.”Joshua hung up and went downstairs.The conference roo
Everyone eyed the screen, wanting to catch a good look at this person’s face.How could it be him?Luna sat on her chair as her entire body stiffened. It was as if she was frozen on the spot.She did not need to have a closer at the footage like the others to know who the middle-aged man was.“It’s Mrs. Lynch’s father, Joseph Gibson!”Shannon was the first to recognize the man in the footage.She slapped her thighs. “Mr. Gibson has been coming over with his wife to bring food for Mrs. Lynch! Also, he’s been extremely unhappy with Director Luna!” Shannon subconsciously glanced at Arianna, who was by the side. “I even heard him badmouthing Director Luna. You heard it too, right?” Arianna immediately nodded. “Yes! Mr. Gibson has always been bad-mouthing Director Luna, calling her a b*tch or something like that.” Joshua’s brows knitted tightly together as he turned to look at Alice. He could bear with the couples’ hostility toward Luna, and he also could deal with them consta
Alice pretended to be worried. “Joshua, I think you should…still make a police report.”She clutched her chest, and her eyes reddened. “I’m heartbroken that my own father would do such a thing. If I knew earlier that he’d do this, I would’ve stopped him.”Alice then looked at Luna meaningfully. “You know that Director Luna always had problems with me.”Sniffling, she then shakily added, “When the plagiarism incident first came to light, Director Luna had been eyeing me suspiciously.”Alice looked at Joshua with teary eyes. “I’m afraid that Director Luna wants to meet with my father alone so she can force my father to drag people who had nothing to do with this incident into this.”Finally, Alice took a deep breath. “I still think we should let the cops handle this right away. What do you think?”Joshua said nothing.Taking a seat, he eyed Alice with his deep, endless eyes before looking at Luna.In the end, he said flatly, “Alice is right. Before we clarify this matter, no one