Xavier, though strict with his subordinates, was never stingy. He promoted Leonard and doubled his salary.Leonard's cold face showed no emotion, but as he was about to leave, he couldn't help but ask Xavier, "Mr. Lane, is Kiki really going to marry into the Shaw family?"Leonard had heard some rumors about Xavier and Tristan being close friends.Xavier didn't deny it. "Yes. She's engaged."A strange expression flickered across Leonard's face at those words. "Mr. Lane, Kiki is a friend of your wife's. Could you do me a favor and ask Tristan to let Kiki go? He shouldn't marry her."Xavier didn't understand what Leonard was implying. Instead of asking why, he coldly replied, "Mr. Cook, we only have a professional relationship. I don't make it a habit to interfere in other people's personal affairs. If you don't want Kiki to marry Tristan, you should talk to both of them directly."He despised getting involved in others' relationships.Upon hearing that, Leonard could only leave wi
Noah looked at the gift Yara brought and pretended to be curious. "Is this an airplane?""Yes! I will help you open it.""Okay."Yara thought it would be easy to entertain a child, unaware that Noah had a mischievous plan. After she took out the model airplane, she handed it to Noah. "Should I teach you how to play with it?"Noah took the model, lifted it, and with a flick of his little hand, the wing jabbed right into Yara's eye."Ouch!" Yara couldn't dodge in time and cried out in pain."Grandma, are you okay?" Noah feigned innocence as if he had just realized what happened.Assuming it was an accident, Yara waved her hand. "I'm fine."But Noah wasn't going to let her off that easily. He picked up the remote control and started the toy airplane, making it fly around Yara's head. The buzzing sound started to give Yara a headache."Noah, could you make the plane fly outside?""Sure!"Despite his words, Noah pretended to lose control of the plane, directing it straight toward
Yvette, who was writing a song, also heard the screams. She walked out in confusion and went to the hall.Even from a distance, she saw Yara in the living room, covering her face with one hand and pointing at Noah with the other."Did you do it on purpose?" Yara shrieked. It was understandable if it had only happened once or twice.Noah still had a confused and pitiful expression. "Grandma, what's the matter? Why are you yelling at me?"Wendy shielded him behind her. "Madam, Noah definitely didn't do it on purpose. He is the best child there is."Yara didn't believe it. "This is obviously alcohol, not iodine. My face feels like it's on fire!""Noah hasn't even been to kindergarten. How can he tell the difference between iodine and alcohol?" Wendy thought that Yara was too inflexible.She had even claimed to be Noah's grandmother. How could a grandmother be so inconsiderate to her grandson?Yara thought that Wendy was right. The child in front of her looked only four or five yea
Yvette told Wendy not to let Yara in again.How could Yara, who didn't even acknowledge her own daughter, acknowledge her grandson?…Yara still felt pain in her abdomen after she went back. She didn't understand how it could be so painful when all Yvette had done was push her to the floor.Yara wanted to see a doctor, but soon, the pain subsided. She didn't think too much about it. As she turned on the TV in the hospital, she saw a video of Zoey dancing.Yara's eyes were full of happiness when she watched her glamorous daughter on TV."Mom, this is Yvette's lawyer's letter." Terrence handed her a stack of letters. "Yvette asked us to return the Snyder family's properties."Yara was stunned as she took the lawyer's letter and a copy of the indictment."Yvette is really going against me," she muttered."Mom, didn't you tell me that the money was temporarily lent to the Yandell family? Will the Yandell family pay it back twice? Now they're big and powerful, you should give the m
After Terrence got out of the car, Jackie, who was in the passenger seat, was a little confused."Mr. Jeremiah, I have looked into this man. He doesn't know how to run a company at all. Snyder Group lost all its money during the three years he was in charge. "The situation improved after Mr. Xavier acquired the company. He also transferred the Snyder family's funds to others. He's stupid."Jackie was under the impression that Terrence was the spoiled son of a wealthy family. Despite not knowing anything, he wanted to be a boss. No matter how much wealth he had, he would squander it.Jeremiah leaned back and murmured, "I don't need him to make money."Jackie was even more confused after hearing this. But she knew Jeremiah's "less talk, more action" personality.She changed the topic, saying, "Mr. Jeremiah, IM Enterprise has recently poached all of our artists.""Have you not found out who's behind it yet?"Jackie shook her head. "No, sir. All we know is that the company is regi
Yvette smiled: "It's worth it to exchange my life for yours, Ms. Zelnik."Gemma didn't expect her to have the guts to do something like this."Yvette, isn't your child alive and well? If something happens to you, who will take care of him?" Gemma was not afraid of death; she had already died once. However, she didn't want to die now; she still wanted to find her daughter, whom she had never met.As Yvette exerted a little more force, the dagger pierced Gemma's skin.She slowly said, "The Lane family will take care of him. My death will not affect him at all."Gemma's eyebrows were sweaty from the pain. She didn't expect that the woman in front of her would dare to come alone to take revenge.Yvette didn't really want to kill her. After all, she still had to take care of Zachary and Noah. However, as a mother, she had to keep her children safe.She drew back the knife."Ms. Zelnik, I'm teaching you a lesson. You are not wrong for protecting your daughter, but not at the expense
Xavier held Yvette's hand. "No can do. I want to celebrate it.""Celebrate it by yourself then." Yvette started to leave. Xavier gave her a hard tug, pulling her into his arms. "No. Let's go eat. You lead the way. My treat." He must have learned this somewhere.Yvette didn't want to go. Sensing this, Xavier held her tightly. They continued to stand in the cold wind. Yvette didn't expect him to act so shamelessly. At last, she could only agree to his request. "Let's go."As she hadn't gone out much since she'd been back, she didn't know anywhere that served good food.Seeing that it was getting late, Yvette looked around and finally chose a Perlinian restaurant with few people.As soon as the two entered, they attracted a lot of attention. Because Xavier couldn't see, Yvette had to hold his hand.Someone took out their phone to take a photo of Xavier's overly eye-catching face.Yvette swiftly blocked the woman with her hand. "Sorry. No photos allowed."The woman refused to
Yvette couldn't reply to those words. She focused on eating instead.She didn't know what was wrong with her. It seemed that she didn't dare to accept other people's help and kindness anymore, for fear of owing others favors.That was also why she didn't tell Kiki and Xavier even though she knew that Gemma and Zoey were behind what she and Zachary had gone through.Meanwhile, Xavier felt helpless as he listened to the sound of her eating. It felt awful to be ignored. He ended up not eating much.When leaving, Yvette went to hold his hand. "Let go."Xavier sat there unmovingly, rendering Yvette speechless. Was he actually throwing a tantrum?"Are you coming or not?" she added.Xavier didn't answer her. He stood up and hugged her. The hug was so tight that Yvette found it hard to breathe. She patted his arm, saying, "Let go! Why did you hug me?"They were about to go out when the door of the private room was opened.Zoey and Jeremiah, who had just come out of the next room aft