Samantha’s smile stiffened as she became awkward and almost sullen. However, Lily remained calm and confident. She stood up and introduced Darryl, “This is Darryl. We’re married.”“Oh… Samantha’s son-in-law, I see. He seems like a decent man. Where does he work?” Melanie said.“At a company,” Darryl answered calmly. He knew what Melanie was getting at but was not bothered. “What company? What position?” Melanie asked with a smile as if she genuinely cared.Without flinching, Darryl answered, “Just a normal office boy.”‘Ah! Just an office boy!’ Melanie thought. With that said, a faint disdain appeared on the faces around him. Watching their reactions, Melanie was pleased. “An office boy is good enough. It’s okay if you don’t work as well. Lily is so outstanding; there wouldn’t be any problem if you just stay at home,” she added.The sarcasm implied was obvious. Samantha’s face darkened. ‘It was all Darryl’s fault. Was he not aware of his position? Did he think it was oka
“My car? Hmm…I always believed that it's just a means of transportation, so I bought a normal car, an Audi R8,” Darryl answered, under the pressure of everyone’s gaze. He was not wrong. An Audi R8 was entry-level among all the top sports cars in the world. But it was not just a normal car.Wow! An uproar filled the room again. Everyone looked at him in disbelief that they thought they must have misheard.At the same time, both Samantha and Lily almost choked on their tea. ‘How did he dare to say this? His boss lent him this car, and now he claimed it belonged to him? This guy has thick skin,’ both of them thought. Jimmy was startled. ‘An Audi R8? The asking price was almost two million dollars! Was he faking it?’“Oh Samantha, you’re so nice to your son-in-law to have bought him such a nice car,” Melanie smiled, recovering from the shock, as she mocked Darryl and Samantha.Of course, she did not believe Darryl could afford an Audi R8. It must have been a gift from Samantha
Leaving would only make her look like a joke to Melanie, so Samantha stayed with all her strong will. She also decided that she would make her daughter divorce the piece of trash once she got home tonight. She would make sure the papers were settled by tomorrow. Lily thought Melanie was a little too much, but looking at Darryl beside her, she felt helpless. ‘Other people’s husbands could impress their mother-in-law’s friends, but her husband? Forget it!’ Lily thought. At this moment, Melanie turned to Darryl and asked with a smile, “Darryl, what do you think of the gift Jimmy bought me?”Without looking up, Darryl replied with a flat tone, “Not bad.”‘Not bad? What a joke. Could he afford it at all?’ Melanie thought. At this instant, everyone in the room laughed to themselves with looks of disdain on their faces.‘What were these people on about? What was so fun about comparing everything?’ Darryl wondered. Darryl could no longer stand their mocking. Helplessly, he stood u
Inside the box laid a glamorous necklace. The rubies on the necklace were as big as pigeon eggs. The necklace was dazzling and beautiful under the light. In comparison to this, the diamonds on the dress given by Jimmy were just like sands. Anyone with a pair of eyes would have figured out which gift was more valuable.However…“One ruby of this size would have cost a few million? Doesn’t that make this necklace at least twenty million?“From him? Such a valuable gift from him? Impossible!”“Exactly, I think it’s a fake.”The surrounding people were criticizing while Jimmy’s mind went blank. Others might not be able to tell, but Jimmy worked in the jewellery industry, he could tell from just one look. The rubies laying in front of him, with their surface gloss and clarity of texture, were as real as rubies could get, or worse, the quality seemed to be better than all the rubies he had seen in his life. Was he not a useless son-in-law? How..did he afford such an expensive gift?
As she watched the car disappear in sight, Lily frowned and went into the house.…At Darby Seaview Mansion.Jackson woke up in the bedroom. Confused, he opened his eyes with a hangover. He could not remember how much he actually drank at his wedding. But he seemed content. After running a two-year love marathon with Rebecca, they finally got married, and what further pleased him was that even Darryl, whom he had not met for years, showed up at his wedding. With that, a warm smile appeared on his face, as he stood up and walked out of the bedroom.“Rebecca?”He called out in the living hall, with no response, he felt something bad was about to happen.He saw the door of the guest room was opened and rushed over swiftly. When he was by the door, he felt as if he was struck by lightning; a shiver trembled over his body vigorously, as he saw something he would never forget for the rest of his life.His newlywed bride, lying on the bed.“Ah!”Jackson roared with anger, his eyes tu
“I felt a sharp pain at first, then I thought it was you, so I...”After recalling, Rebecca felt horrible. At the same time, she looked at the eight-diagram mirror and started suspecting Darryl.Jackson did not speak but hugged her tight with his fists, almost bleeding from his nails stabbing his flesh. In order to protect her reputation, they would not tell the public about this. The best thing to do was to investigate on their own.However, their conversation was overheard by the two maids outside the bedroom. They looked at each other in shock.During the wedding reception in the afternoon, Rebecca saw the maids were tired, so she asked them to take a rest. Therefore, when Rebecca was assaulted, the maids were resting and did not know what happened, up till when Jackson roared in anger that they were woken up.By then, both of them went back to their room, after overhearing what they were not meant to hear.On the next day, the rumor spread around the Darby family. Florian, wh
At the moment, Granny Lyndon sat down, her gaze searched through the crowd as she spoke in a serious tone.The crowd was made of family members of the Lyndon family. Everyone had a sullen look on, keeping silent. The final power of Lyndon Enterprise had fallen onto Paul James’ hands, as a matter of fact. Paul was not an ordinary man, Granny Lyndon trying to get back the authority from him seemed more of a dream than reality. At this instant, William Lyndon’s eyes twinkled, he stood up saying, “Granny, I have an idea.”“Great, William, tell us your idea!” Granny Lyndon said with a joyous look.Due to the incident with Giselle Lindt in the show earlier, William was punished by not being allowed to get involved with the family business. Yet this was a serious matter concerning the life and death of the enterprise, so Granny did not care about the punishment. Most importantly, this was mainly due to Granny’s favoritism of William. Granny’s welcoming attitude encouraged William, he sai
Granny Lyndon repeated again, “William, if we successfully sold out our shares, I’ll not only reward you greatly, I’ll also handover the Lyndon Enterprise to you.”“Thank you Granny. Thank you Granny!” William almost burst with excitement, he intentionally glanced at Lily.‘Aren’t you the highest achieving one here? My deal with Platinum Corporation was stolen by you. Yet, now that our enterprise faced danger, wasn’t it me, William Lyndon who saved it?’ William thought to himself.Sometime later, a black limousine pulled over by the entrance of Lyndon Residence. A man walked down the limousine in casual wear with sunglasses on. It was Trent Young, with a few bodyguards following behind him. He was in his twenties, but with his outstanding skills, he made a name of himself in the martial world. A very capable man.“Granny, Master Young is here.”People who practiced martial arts were called ‘Master’ as a form of respect.“Please, please come in,” Granny said excitedly as she stoo