After lunch, Morgan and Jessica left the private room. Morgan still looked sullen. Jessica held his hand and said with a smile, "Dad, don't be so upset, please!" Morgan looked down at his beloved daughter and forced a smile. Seeing that, Jessica couldn't help but laugh. "It's such a fake smile." Then, Morgan was truly amused. "What can I say? At school, you would take revenge if someone bullied you. You have grown up but lost your spirits. Whatever you do, I'll protect you." Hearing Morgan's words, Jessica stopped smiling. "I'm an adult now. Of course, I can't be as impulsive as before." Morgan thought of the past. He started talking about Jessica's unruly life at school. As he spoke, Morgan forgot about the matter that made him upset. The father and daughter chatted happily. Jessica was still holding Morgan's hand. From a distance, they looked very intimate. People who knew them would compliment their good relationship. However, people who didn't know them might mis
Morgan was the CEO of the Hall's Group. Consequently, he was busy the whole day. It wasn't easy for him to ask his secretary to save a day to come over to LA to see his precious daughter, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen. Morgan still had an important dinner party tomorrow, so he had to go back to New York tonight. Otherwise, he would wait for Wendy to find out where the so—called "Sugar Daddy" rumor came from and then take Jessica to find the one who spread the rumor. Jessica had a business dinner tonight, so she couldn't send Morgan to the airport. Before Morgan left, he repeatedly asked Wendy to tell him at the first moment as soon as Wendy found out who started the rumor. Jessica promised again before Morgan got into the nanny van. After sending Morgan to the car, Jessica got into Wendy's car and was ready to go to the business dinner tonight. The winter was still cold in LA at the beginning of April, and the wind at night was a little fierce.
Jessica hadn't even finished speaking when a familiar male voice came from the side. Terry walked over to her. His brownish eyes curved slightly as he looked at Cedrick. "I'll pay one billion and I'll take her away, Mr. White." Jessica had been in the hall for more than ten minutes, but she hadn't met Terry. She thought that he hadn't come tonight. She didn't expect to meet him at this time. Cedrick could not afford to offend Terry, so he gritted his teeth and looked at Jessica before turning to leave resentfully. Jessica tilted her head and glanced at Terry. She raised her glass and smiled. "Thank you." "My pleasure." Terry raised his glass and lightly clinked it against the edge of hers, looking at her wryly. Terry took a sip of red wine. "Miss Hall, you seem to be in a good mood today." Jessica looked at him and raised her eyebrows slightly. "Kind of." After all, nothing particularly bad happened recently except for the rumors. However, Jessica would never allow
The conversation between the two women was clearly recorded. As soon as the recording was finished, the two women turned pale. They could afford to offend Jessica, but they could not afford to offend Terry. They also did not know why Terry took a fancy to Jessica. Terry had publicly declared that he wanted to pursue Jessica after she had just divorced for a few months. Now it looked like he wanted to protect her. They were right. After listening to the recording, Terry raised his eyebrows and clicked his tongue. "So this is how the Graves family and the Garraway family raised you?" They were from the same social circle. Even if Terry did not have any personal relationship with those two women, it was not difficult for him to recognize which family they were from. Tess Graves and Nina Garraway froze when they heard Terry's words. Jessica, who was standing next to Terry, looked at the two wryly. "Miss Graves and Miss Garraway, aren't you going to apologize to me?" Tess
The black car that Jessica was in was moving in the moonlight. She tilted her head and looked out of the window. Recalling what Lucas had said, she frowned slightly. Wendy called her softly, "Miss Hall?" Jessica came to her senses and then asked Wendy, "What's wrong?" "The rumormonger has been found." Wendy paused and glanced at Jessica before continuing, "It was Miss Thomas." It didn't surprise Jessica, who chuckled, "Olivia is marvelous!" Jessica smirked. Wendy didn't know what Jessica was thinking. "Should I tell Mr. Hall about it?" "Of course! Why not?" They bullied her again and again. Why should she continue to endure? "Got it, Miss Hall." Wendy sorted the evidence and sent it directly to Morgan's secretary. That night, Morgan's secretary called to report it to Morgan. When Morgan finished the call, he was so angry that he slapped the table. "This is too much. The Thomas family is going too far!" Mrs. Hall heard the news and came over. She didn't kn
Mrs. Hall saw their stealthy interactions and clicked her tongue. "Jess, the issue is not about you alone. Mom and dad don't just uphold justice for you. Don't be confused." Of course, Jessica knew it. She was just worried that they were tired from the flight. Now, it seemed that she was overthinking. Jessica laughed, "I'm not that stupid." May snorted and thought to herself, "If she is not stupid, why did she insist on marrying Lucas?" But Jessica was her daughter, so May could not bear to render her more wretched. "Let's go to the parking lot." Jessica led them to the parking lot. When she opened the door, she found that Morgan was carrying a box. She couldn't help but frown. "Dad, what's that?" "Nothing." Morgan waved his hand and bent down to get in the car following May. Jessica did not ask any more questions. Instead, she said to Wendy, "Wendy, let's go to Thomas' house." Wendy was stunned for a moment but soon reacted. The Morgan couple rushed over in a h
Lucas glanced at Jessica, who was standing by Mrs. Hall's side nonchalantly. Hearing Morgan's words, Rebecca said quickly, "Mr. Hall, Mrs. Hall, let's talk about it inside." Olivia could not help but call out, "Mom!" The Hall family was menacing, and it was obvious that they were here to settle old scores. Olivia glanced at Jessica, but unexpectedly, she met her gaze, which made Olivia stiffen and feel guilty. What the hell! How could she feel guilty while looking at Jessica? Rebecca stared at Olivia and shook her head, suggesting that she shut up. Rebecca was so smart a woman that she couldn't fail to see that Jessica's parents came in a fit of anger. They entered her house. Rebecca asked a servant to prepare coffee, and Morgan immediately rejected. "We don't need coffee, Mrs. Thomas. We came here today for our daughter. Formalities are unnecessary. After all, even if we are not enemies, we are by no means friends later." Morgan's words sounded serious. The two fa
The Thomas family was one of the best among rich families in LA, but it was the first time they had seen so much gold. The box of gold was a bit dazzling under the light. They were all stunned. Justin reacted and was slightly stunned. "Mr. Hall, what do you want to do?" Morgan looked up at Justin and said, "Mr. Thomas, the Hall family has never liked to owe others a debt. Jess married into your family for three years. I think this box of gold is enough to cover her expenses there." He paused for a moment. "We, the Hall family, don't owe you anything until this moment. Now it's time to count how many evil deeds you did to us?" Morgan had been in the business world for many years and had long since developed the ability to look dignified without being furious. He kept a straight face while speaking, but anyone present could hear the anger in his words. Justin's face turned cold when he heard Morgan's words. "Mr. Hall, I don't quite understand what you mean." That was the
The Howell family and the Hawthorne family had been neighbors for so many years. When Hannah was just born, Georgia said that Kendall's mother would come to the Howell family every day, saying that she just wanted to have a daughter.Later, as she grew up a little, Kendall's mom would always mention how envious she was of Georgia for having a daughter like her.As she grew older, she even mentioned, intentionally or unintentionally, about having her and Kendall become doll siblings.However, Georgia did not agree and has always been refusing.Ever since Kendall's parents divorced, Hannah hasn't seen Kendall's mom much.I didn't expect that this time, Kendall's mom would call her directly.The person on the phone seemed to have changed, as soon as they spoke, they asked her if Kendall was with her.Hannah didn't feel anything was wrong at first, and politely explained that she was on a business trip.No sooner had she finished speaking than the woman on the other end of the phone sudde
It was a dinner party in the evening, and Hannah returned to her hotel room after 9 o'clock at night.At tonight's dinner party, she was offered quite a few drinks, even though it was just red wine with a moderate alcohol content. However, Hannah hasn't really been drinking for over half a year.At that moment, the person returned to the hotel room and didn't feel like taking a shower. They collapsed on the sofa and just wanted to sleep.Sophia worried about her and, not knowing where she got it from, made her a cup of honey water."Ms. Howell, drink some honey water slowly."Hannah squinted her eyes and looked at Sophia, then smiled and said, "Sophia, was I great today?""Yes, yes, Ms. Howell performed really well today!"Sophia had been Hannah's secretary for almost three years, so she knew Hannah quite well.During this period, Hannah suddenly made great progress, which surprised everyone in their company.Sophia knew that Hannah had a childlike personality, and she had been praisi
The train arrived at four o'clock, and Hannah and Hollis got off the train only to find that it was already dark. Both of them were momentarily stunned and asked, "Did we miss our stop?"How did it get dark around four o'clock?The wind blowing over was especially cold, and Hannah's face felt like it had been scraped by a knife. She looked at the weather forecast on her phone and said, "There will be a heavy rain today. I need to hurry, or else I'll have to spend the night at this Train Station!""It was quite cold today!"Hollis straightened his clothes and said, "Let's hurry up and go!"The two of them dragged their suitcases and walked outside. It was difficult to hail a taxi in this weather, but luckily there was a subway.Hollis had no plans to look for a job and followed Hannah back to the villa.The two of them came out of the subway station, and the rain had already stopped.Hannah took a taxi half an hour in advance, so she didn't have to wait for long.With such heavy rain,
LA in November became completely cold, Hannah made an appointment with Hollis to go to the hot springs.Hollis recently became unemployed as well, with nothing to do all day, he went to look for Hannah.Two idle people gathered together, always thinking about how to have fun every day.Hannah booked a villa just for her and Hollis. The villa had a hot spring, so they didn't have to go to a public hot spring pool to soak."Hey, I heard that Kendall was going to get engaged to that Sabrina Novak. Do you know about this?"Hannah paused for a moment with her phone in hand and said, "I haven't heard.""Did Kendall look for you before?"Upon hearing Hollis' words, Hannah glanced at her and said, "Who's been feeding you nonsense again?""My younger brother, he said that one day he saw you with Kendall, and you two seemed quite close. He originally wanted to go up and say hello to you, but then he thought it would be better not to.""Drake had a bad look in his eyes, how could the word 'intim
All of her belongings from her student days are inside the miscellaneous room at home. Georgia only allows people to organize them, but she has never thrown away any item.Hannah quickly found the gift that Kendall had given her back then. After nearly fifteen or sixteen years, the outer wrapping paper had become slightly worn.Hannah held the package and returned to the room. The adhesive tape had completely stuck the wrapping paper, and she couldn't open it, so she had to tear the wrapping paper directly.Underneath the wrapping paper, there was a gift box. She opened the box and inside, there was a bed of lavender. The first thing she saw was the postcard placed on top.Hannah raised an eyebrow, picked up the postcard, and turned it over to see the message Kendall had left for her.To say or not to say, Kendall's handwriting was quite nice.Hannah, there's something I've been hesitating about for a long time, but I feel like I should tell you. I don't even know when it started, but
That night, Kendall indeed did nothing. The two of them, rarely calm and peaceful, sat together, reminiscing about the things they had experienced in the past decade.Many things were brought up again, and Hannah realized that she had many misunderstandings about Kendall as well.For example, it was not Kendall who told Georgia about her failing mid-term exam, but Georgia went to school to bring her some snacks and casually asked about it.Back in college, the incident where Kendall switched the love letter she intended to confess with was because that senior was not a good person. Kendall knew that she wouldn't listen if she told her, so she took matters into her own hands.The two of them chatted until after three in the evening. Hannah didn't even know how she fell asleep, but when she woke up, Kendall was already not in her villa.The mess on the desk has been tidied up, and everything on it is neatly arranged. Under her water cup, there is a takeout receipt, on which Kendall left
The box was just sitting there on the side, and Hannah found it to be in the way. She had just put on gloves to eat the crayfish, but she couldn't resist and took off one glove. Then she took the box and walked over to a shelf nearby, and stuffed the box into it.When she turned back, Kendall looked up at her.Hannah glanced at him and said, "What kind of look is that?""Did that box offend you?"Hannah sat back down and, as she put her gloves back on, she hummed, "If you keep asking, you will soon offend me.""OK, I didn't ask anymore."Hannah ate four or five crayfish and felt like something was missing. She looked at Kendall beside her and said, "Don't you think we're missing something?""What was missing?"Kendall handed her the peeled crayfish, and Hannah didn't hesitate to take it: "Beer, huh? Don't you drink beer when you eat barbecue?""There were a few cans of beer in the refrigerator, go and get them!"Hannah kicked him directly, Kendall took off his gloves, and got up slowl
Hannah started the car and returned to the villa, paying no attention to Kendall: "There are guest rooms on the first floor, don't come up to find me unless it's necessary."This was Kendall's second time coming to Hannah's place. Last time, Kendall didn't stay for long before being chased away by Hannah.This time, I came over...Wasn't it a little better, at least he got to sleep in a guest room on the first floor, right?Hannah finished speaking and went upstairs. Kendall didn't feel like guessing what idea he had in mind, and he didn't have the patience to play with him either.Since he was coming to stay over, she decided to give him a guest room, as there were plenty of rooms in her house.As for the rest, he can dream on!However, she thought well, but reality turned out to be somewhat contrary to her wishes.Hannah had just played two rounds of King of Glory by herself when Kendall's phone rang."What's up?""Were you playing King of Glory?""Yeah, do you have any opinions?""
Mona was not surprised at all. She only became acquainted with Hannah after junior high school, when she was young and naturally couldn't see the constant arguments between Hannah and Kendall.Later in high school, she also had a crush on Kendall, and when she saw what Kendall did to Hannah, she vaguely understood something.She remembered in her sophomore year, she even told Hannah that Kendall might like her.Hannah's reaction was very strong, telling her not to make such jokes, she couldn't handle it.Not long after, it was heard that Kendall had a girlfriend, and Mona even briefly doubted if she had sensed something wrong.Later on, Kendall went abroad after studying in her home country for only two years. After going abroad, she also vaguely heard from mutual friends in the circle that Kendall had a girlfriend again. Mona no longer mentioned Kendall's feelings for Hannah.Five years ago, Kendall came over to this side of LA to find Hannah. She was quite surprised because at that