“Okay.” Jaime nodded. After locating Quinn’s cell phone number, he dialed it. However, Jaime received a prompt from the other end of the line: “Sorry, but the number that you have dialed has already been turned off. Please try again later.”Jaime was even more baffled when he saw that Quinn had actually turned off her cell phone.After all, how could he have known that Quinn had already long turned on the ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode on her cell phone. When her cell phone was in this mode, only a few people who were on her approved list would be able to call her. As for other people, regardless of who they were, when they called her, they would only receive a prompt stating that her cell phone had been turned off.So, Jaime hurriedly asked someone to check the relevant information at Aurous Airport, but he could not find Quinn’s entry registration information at the airport.He instinctively thought that Quinn must not have arrived in Aurous Hill yet. Perhaps she had been delayed in Eas
Jaime was not exactly a very influential person in Aurous Hill.Therefore, even though he could make use of many of his connections, the reliability of such connections was not high. His subordinate would basically have to beat around the bush and go through several layers of connections in order to get in touch with the key person.Normally, if Jaime wanted to check the information of someone in Aurous Hill, he would simply need to make a phone call to his subordinates. After that, his subordinates would mobilize their local contacts to look for local connections in Aurous Hill. Although it was a little troublesome, it was not that difficult.However, what Jaime did not know was that the BMW that he wanted to check this time was registered under Charlie’s wife, Claire’s name. As the Wade family’s spokesperson in Aurous Hill as well as Charlie’s right-hand man, Isaac had already taken care of all the upper and lower relations a long time ago. Isaac would receive very timely alerts
...After solving all the problems in the fastest time possible, Isaac immediately called Charlie. At this time, Charlie had just driven not too far away from the Olympic Center.After the phone was connected, Isaac said to Charlie, “Young Master, someone looked up your wife’s car information in the traffic data system just now.”Charlie frowned and asked, “Who did it?”Isaac hurriedly said, “It was a mid-level management personnel from the relevant department.”As he spoke, Isaac then reported everything that had happened to Charlie.After listening to Isaac’s words, Charlie spoke up, “Mr. Cameron, you’ve handled this matter very well. You did a very good job by taking these preventive measures.”“This is my original duty.”Charlie then asked again, “Did you counter-check and find out who exactly is trying to find out my wife’s car license plate?”Isaac hurriedly said, “The information that I received after the counter-check is that the person who wanted this information was
Due to his extremely bad mood, Jaime sat in his Rolls-Royce, and he did not get out of his car.Even when the sound of Quinn’s singing during her rehearsal came out from the venue, Jaime remained motionless in the car.At this time, he was in an extremely unhappy and dissatisfied mood.On one hand, the reason for his dissatisfaction was because of Quinn’s intentional avoidance of himself, and on the other hand, it was because of the unidentified driver of the BMW.Moreover, Jaime could not understand why someone like Quinn would actually deign to come to the venue in such a cheap BMW car.After all, in the Eastcliff rich heirs’ circle, a brand such as BMW was simply trash that no one would want to get their hands on.For rich heirs such as themselves, the premium customized version of the Rolls-Royce was basically the standard for travel. A car from a class such as the BMW was not even worth anything in front of the premium customized Rolls-Royce.When Jaime saw that more than
In that case, there was either something wrong with his subordinate or something wrong with this BMW 520. Perhaps it might even be a car with a fake car license plate.At this time, Jaime received a few official detailed pictures of the BMW 520 and the BMW 760 from his subordinate.Jaime could tell at a single glance that the official BMW 760 detailed pictures were exactly the same as the car that he had recorded just now.This meant that the car just now was indeed a BMW 760 that had changed its tail number.At the same time, this also meant that the car was indeed from Emgrand Group.Jaime frowned and called his subordinate as he asked, “Do you know who is the owner of Emgrand Group?”“I’m not too sure.” The other party replied, “The legal representative of Emgrand Group is Doris Young. She is the vice-chairman of Emgrand Group, but the shares of Emgrand Group are not under her name.”As he spoke, the other party further explained, “Although this company is registered in Aurou
Jaime would never have dreamt that all of the information he had obtained through his subordinate was actually a scheme that Charlie had deliberately asked Isaac to set up. He had deliberately revealed his identity as the chairman of Emgrand Group to Jaime in order to make him feel a sense of urgency. That way, he would be able to divert Jaime’s attention completely.Otherwise, if Jaime were to continue making a fuss about his wife’s BMW, Jaime would be able to get his hands on Charlie’s wife’s real identity very soon.So, Charlie deliberately got someone to send a fake message over to inform the other party that the car belonged to Emgrand Group. At the same time, to strengthen Jaime’s trust, Charlie deliberately exposed the fact that the BMW was actually a BMW 760. This way, he would naturally be able to convince Jaime.As soon as Jaime believed that this car belonged to Emgrand Group, Jaime’s attention would be completely diverted because of him.After that, Charlie also released t
This person did not beat around the bush over the phone, and he introduced himself directly to Doris as he said, “Hello, this is Vice Chairman Young from Emgrand Group, right? I’m the assistant of Mr. Jaime Schulz, the eldest young master of the Schulz family from Eastcliff. Our young master would like to discuss a collaboration with Emgrand Group. I wonder if Vice Chairman Young will have the time to meet with our young master?”“What? The Schulz family from Eastcliff?” Doris pretended to exclaim out of shock. Immediately after that, she pretended to say in an extremely flattered voice, “Oh! I’d never have dreamt that the eldest young master of the Schulz family would actually be interested in Emgrand Group! This is indeed a great blessing. I wonder when Young Master Schulz will be free? I’ll go over and visit him at any time!”Jaime, who was sitting next to him, and Jaime’s assistant himself were both very satisfied with the excitement shown by Doris. The expression on Jaime’s face
Twenty minutes later.Jaime’s convoy drove into Emgrand Group’s underground parking lot.Doris had already arranged for her secretary and the head of the security department of Emgrand Group to wait for him in the underground parking lot in advance.As soon as the convoy arrived, they immediately stepped forward and greeted him respectfully before they brought Jaime and his entourage from the underground parking lot directly to the top floor of the Emgrand Group building using the special elevator.Jaime really enjoyed this kind of feeling where many people were fawning over him. In his opinion, an enterprise such as Emgrand Group, which was merely a hundred-billion-dollar enterprise, should be treating him with the utmost respect just like this since he was the young master of the Schulz family.Doris’s secretary led the way, and as she walked, she said, “Young Master Schulz, Vice Chairman Young is waiting for you in her office. However, her office is not too big, so I’ll have to
Charlie was driving Jacob to Thompson First when the latter received the text from Matilda.Seeing that they were reaching the front gates, Jacob promptly snapped at Charlie, "Charlie, stop the car now!"Charlie did so and asked in curiosity, "What's wrong?""Matilda just texted me," Jacob replied, showing the chat log between him and Matilda.Charlie was just glancing at it nonchalantly when he saw that Matilda's contact name was 'AAA July Florist'."Wait, why is that Aunt Matilda's contact name?" He exclaimed in surprise."I changed it."Jacob explained gingerly while reading through the text Matilda sent. "Her profile picture is an iris, so I changed her contact name to a florist since I'm mostly worried Elaine would peek into my phone.""Anyway, she's asking if I'm attending her wedding with Yolden. They would send us an invitation if I accept, extended to our whole family… what do you think I should say?"Charlie asked in return. "You're planning to skip it, aren't you? T
Then, Matilda suggested, "How about this—I'll ask him before deciding." "I'll pass on inviting the rest of my former classmates too. They're too vain and love comparing, so I'd rather not have anything to do with that. Also, there are our Korean friends who have it together, and they were telling us to invite them if we were going to get married. We have to keep our promise, right?""Yeah—then, it's basically decided. Aside from Charlie, we shall invite our colleagues and Korean friends while we wait for an answer from Jacob."Yolden nodded and said, "Now, I'll talk about the honeymoon—cut me short if you have a different opinion."Matilda nodded, resting her chin on her hands and smiling. "Shoot. I'm all ears."Feeling a little embarrassed by Matilda's glowing stare, Yolden took a sip of his ice water before continuing, "My idea is to head to the States for our honeymoon after the wedding…"He trailed off, staring at Matilda and waiting for a response.However, she was merely
"Oh, Jacob…?"Matilda chuckled awkwardly. "Just today, he offered to buy me dinner, but I said I didn't have the time, and I also told him about our wedding… So, we should invite him since he's aware of it.""Jacob offered to buy you dinner?" Yolden exclaimed in surprise. "Did he say why?""Nope," Matilda shrugged, smiling. "Probably just dinner between old classmates."However, she was actually smart enough to guess Jacob's intention even though Jacob was inviting her somewhere near campus. That was why she had also mentioned she was marrying Yolden while turning down Jacob, all so that he would give up on her.After she had managed to get over their past fling completely, she didn't want to give Jacob false hopes before she walked down the aisle.In the same regard, she didn't want to worry Yolden, and therefore, had deliberately discouraged Jacob.Be that as it may, Yolden was smart too.He knew about Matilda and Jacob's past and that her son, Paul's full name was Paul Jam
Before Charlie had arrived, Jacob was still furious that Matilda would soon marry Yolden.After Charlie came, however, he was instead worried that Matilda would send him a wedding invitation.Meanwhile, Matilda and Yolden were discussing their list of guests.They had different social circles, but most of their friends were Stateside, and they only had some distant relatives in this country.Still, they had colleagues in Aurous Hill. Matilda had classmates too, but she was out of touch with them aside from Jacob, whom she often met.Still, as they discussed who should be invited, Matilda first suggested, "Let's go through everyone. First, our Stateside friends… I don't think we should tell them at all since it's a long journey, and inviting them would seem tactless. What do you think?"Yolden nodded, smiling, "I was just thinking the same thing. We're close with our Stateside friends and always keep in touch, but inviting them to our wedding might be a stretch. We'd just hit a wa
With that being said, once Matilda was thrown in the mix, Elaine would suddenly become an African honey badger, with every bit of black air force energy that was implied.As such, if Jacob had managed to be brave and take that one step back then, Charlie would have tried to help, stopping Elaine from harassing Jacob or Matilda.However, the reality was that Jacob had to bungle the chance when Matilda offered it to him.That was why the best option was for Jacob to understand that he couldn't get together with Matilda now so that he would feel much better.And since he had always been a coward, Charlie's slight intimidation cleared his head considerably.He then sighed, "Well, that's just life—you don't always get what you want, and you should never try to claim what you couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to choose Matilda over thirty years ago, so not being together now only makes sense.""Now, I can only pray that Elaine never finds out… or at least that things don't get out of h
Then, Jacob quickly pressed, "Dear boy, maybe you could stay a few days instead of taking more jobs. At least you could be there to stop my wife if she snaps.""Sure," Charlie chuckled, cheerfully agreeing to it. "Don't worry—Claire's returning in a couple of days too, and you'll be fine with us around. You're cheating in your mind, anyway…"Pausing, he then added a reminder, "But if she's really furious, just bear with her beatings and clawings. Live and let live, as they say."That left Jacob sulking, however. "What the hell! If I knew this would happen, I should have just taken her to court and divorced her openly! That way, I'd definitely make things work with Matilda. Yolden wouldn't even stand a chance!"Charlie had to keep a straight face. "Now, you're not quite right there—don't you know what would happen to your wife if you took this to court?"Jacob snorted coolly. "Elaine would just snap at me, hit me, and make sure I don't get a cent in the divorce. That's no big deal—
"Fuck!" When Jacob heard what Charlie said, he was horrified. He nervously asked, "Matilda isn't going to come to our house to deliver the invitation, is she? If Elaine finds out that I've been hiding Matilda's return from her all this time, I'll be so dead!" Charlie, having long seen through Jacob, knew he would never escape the shadow and claws of Elaine. He shook his head and said, "Whether they'll invite you, I have no way of knowing. If you're worried, you can tell Matilda that you don't want to be invited to her wedding and that you don't want to go." Jacob sighed. "That's just a temporary solution. Even if she doesn't know now, she'll probably find out sooner or later. A lot of our mutual friends already know about Matilda's return. You went to the gathering too. But those friends are not really in contact with Elaine, so she hasn't found out yet." Charlie smiled and said, "Matilda's return to the country was at a pretty sensitive time. If I'm not mistaken, she came b
Jacob then realized that Charlie was also driving a Rolls-Royce, and it was a more expensive Phantom. Surprised, he asked, "Charlie, where did you get this car?" Marilyn had prepared the car for Charlie when he left Scarlet Pinnacle Manor. He had driven it to Thompson First, so he had decided to use it today. Charlie replied, "A client lent it to me. You sounded urgent, so I drove it over." Then, he added, "You're something else. You're crying like a baby yet you're still in the mood to ask about the car. What's going on? Your friend said you'd cried twice already?" "That bloody Simon!" Hearing this, Jacob became furious and cursed, "He still doesn't have the slightest clue! He's such a damned fool! The more I try to avoid him, the more he keeps blabbering on and on. Argh, he's so stupid!" Charlie asked, "What exactly is bothering you?" Jacob's face instantly turned dejected, and with a long sigh, he choked up and said, "Charlie— Matilda— She's getting married—" "Gettin
Things were a little different and unique in the United States, though. Westerners tended to approach marriage with greater caution. Many couples stayed together for years, had several children, and yet remained as boyfriend and girlfriend. Being together, having children, and raising them jointly didn't necessarily mean they would get married. In fact, it was not uncommon for some to walk down the aisle only after having multiple kids. Because of this environment, elderly couples in the West often limited their relationships to dating, and at most, cohabitation. Very few progressed to the stage of marriage. However, Yolden, like a young man in the throes of passionate love, had invited her on a trip, secretly prepared a proposal ceremony by the seaside, and gotten down on one knee with a ring to propose. These actions deeply moved Matilda and, at the same time, gave her an unprecedented sense of security. Now, Yolden had moved their wedding up a big step and set the date just on