Some scenes popped up intermittently in her mind, just like a movie.She asked him to carry her and said he could not take three hundred thousand dollars for nothing.She also ordered him to help her take a bath.When she saw Abel about to walk in, she said coldly, “I don’t need your help. I can do it on my own.”She would not have to be embarrassed as long as she was thick-skinned enough.Abel glanced at her. Then, he closed the door and left.While Ruth washed up, Mrs. Greenwell prepared pumpkin porridge and some light side dishes. She lovingly asked Ruth whether her head still hurt and whether she felt uncomfortable.The night before, she had been as drunk as a skunk, and Mrs. Greenwell saw Abel carrying her back. However, Mrs. Greenwell did not ask anything after seeing them go upstairs.Ruth sat down at the dining table and stared at the porridge in the bowl absentmindedly.Mrs. Greenwell hurriedly asked, “Is it not to your liking?”Ruth did not answer, but asked a quest
He thought she was a gold digger, so he was on guard against her.Was it a lie when he said he liked her?He made it up to hide his identity?Abel explained his side concisely and looked into her eyes. “I’ve told you everything. Is there anything you want to say?”The underlying message was this: I have apologized, so it’s your turn now.Ruth raised her head and glared at him. She did not want to say anything when she saw his calm expression.She only wanted to throw the bowl of porridge at his face.But she did not dare to do so.After she learned his real identity, his aura seemed to have become more imposing. All his gestures had the air of superiority, so she did not dare to do whatever she wanted like before.She held the spoon tightly and endured the urge again after remembering that Serenity reminded her to “figure out what she wanted.”In the end, she angrily said, “I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have gone to a nightclub to look for gigolos! The cute guy had a good figure, a
Nathan explained that Eternal Corporation had not yet come up with the final result of the plan to invest in Lockton Entertainment.The proposal to sign the contract was staged by Mr. McGreen. “After yesterday’s incident, Eternal Corporation found out about his other illegal activities. He will be fired soon and held accountable for all of it. However, it’s hard to say whether our contract will take effect.”“What exactly were he and Caelus planning to do?” Ruth suddenly asked. She could not find out yesterday before she left.If they had no intention of signing the contract, why did they trick her into coming to that hotel?Why did Caelus use to persuade Mr. McGreen?Nathan’s expression darkened. “Caelus told Mr. McGreen that you have a close relationship with Nicholas Blakewell. If he sent you over to Nicholas as a gift, he would have a higher chance of getting the project in the suburbs.”After hearing the reason, Ruth realized what was going on. It turned out that this was
Ruth was gloomy all afternoon and could not devote herself to work.When she got off work, she remembered she forgot to contact Solomon and explain Serenity’s matter.She called him, but no one answered.He should be shooting the drama. Since Ruth would be unhappy if she went home, she decided to go to the filming spot. She could also reprimand the traitor, Apollo, after explaining things to Solomon.Solomon had just finished shooting a scene when she arrived at the filming spot.He was stunned after hearing her intentions. “The boss of Regality just called to explain. He said he made a mistake, and the gigolo went to the wrong address.”Ruth was so surprised that her tone changed. “He made a mistake?!”Solomon took a sip of water. “Yeah. Is that not it?”Ruth subconsciously nodded. “It is. It makes sense that they went to the wrong address! Serenity is a good girl. How could she do such an inappropriate thing?”But if this matter was settled, why did Serenity not tell her? Sh
Abel was in Blakewell Corporation, but he was also absent-minded all afternoon. He gave it some thought and felt that what Mrs. Greenwell said made sense. Ruth was not someone who made trouble out of nothing.But what other mistake did he make?The phone on the table vibrated. It was a call from Apollo. Abel frowned and answered it. “What’s the matter?”Apollo sounded flustered and anxious. “Does Ruth know the truth?”“Yeah. What’s wrong?”The calm answer made Apollo splutter.Did Abel just ask him what was wrong?“You don’t sound anxious at all. She didn’t get angry at you and just accepted the truth peacefully?” Yet she told him to eat sh*t. How unfair.Abel’s silence made Apollo relax. “So she got angry, right? Aren’t you anxious after doing something wrong?”Abel sounded helpless. “I apologized to her, but she didn’t accept it.”The underlying message was this: There’s nothing else I can do.“You only apologized to her? Did you do anything else?”“What else?”Apollo wa
“How many takes has it been? Are you picking on me?” Eislyn’s expression instantly changed, and her voice became sharp and mean. “The original script was good enough. Why did she change it? To highlight that she is the head screenwriter?”Hugo frowned in displeasure. “You haven’t read the edited script?”Eislyn spluttered. “I’d act like this even if I had read the edited script! This is how Maia is. You can’t force me to change her character! I’m tired. Let’s end today’s shooting.”After saying that, she threw the props away and turned to leave.Her manager immediately rushed forward and gave her coffee and a fan. The manager also comforted her and asked her to calm down.Why should she calm down?The people who were angry were the staff of the production team!They had been filming this scene for two days, but the director was still not satisfied. The filming had also ended like this yesterday.All the actors of the drama were newbies, so Eislyn was the most famous among them.
Summer was stunned by her yelling and did not dare to say anything. She bit her lip while feeling wronged.It was true that they had to repeat a scene in the afternoon once because she forgot her lines.At that time, something was wrong with Eislyn’s gaze, so she paused for a second.However, the director did not stop them. Yet when she wanted to say her lines, Eislyn started scolding her.After Summer admitted her mistake by staying silent, Eislyn smiled proudly. Then, she turned and went for Hugo. “And you! You can’t handle something as basic as coordinating time, but you dare to lecture other people. I wasn’t interested in this web drama, but I accepted it because of Vincent, yet the reality of its filming has disappointed me!”Her manager chimed in as well. “Yeah! Eislyn is a famous actress. It’s your honor to cooperate with her! But if you keep that attitude, we won’t be able to continue working with you! I’ll make it clear in front of Miss Ruth. If you don’t apologize to us,
Her words sounded familiar. They were clearly what Hugo meant earlier. Ruth just expressed them in a different manner and tone.When Hugo suggested reshooting that scene, he said, “I think we need to reshoot it.” On the other hand, Ruth concisely said, “No, reshoot it.” She also scolded Eislyn mercilessly after that.Hugo used “please bear with it” when he asked Eislyn to stay, while Ruth gave an order by saying, “No one will leave until the shooting is finished.”When Ruth said they did not hire Eislyn to give attitude to the investors, it clearly meant that she had seen what had happened.She did not believe a single word of Eislyn’s lies.Everyone was delighted.Eislyn was used to putting on a fake nice act. Whenever Vincent or Terran came, she pretended to be professional, and no one could find fault with her.However, the moment Vincent and Terran were not present, she looked for trouble in various ways.Anyway, she was not cooperative and walked with her head up to show
Galen stood nervously at the side. At first, he wanted to step in and help, but he held himself back.In the end, he gave up and watched the fight.The more he watched, the more startled he was.Despite her delicate frame, her moves were calculated and ruthless.Many of her moves were lethal.She was a young woman who was loved. She was pampered and adored by everyone. How was such a person so ruthless in combat?It was as if she often fought to the death…Mr. Watson was shaken as well. He covered his neck with one hand, while his other hand hung limply by his hand. He looked at Lily in shock. His other hand hung weakly by his side. He looked at Lily in shock.How could such a small and delicate-looking person possess such strength? Was she really the heiress of the Cavendish family?“Do you want to verify it? The wounds match with the one who attacked me. I broke his right wrist on the spot, though. After that, I didn’t wait for reinforcement to come. I moved immediately an
Her hand paused while hefting the silver fork.Ruth’s husband was really very considerate. He loved her sister truly and everyone in her family.She decided to find a boyfriend like him for herself in the future.“I definitely will!” She thought.She stood in the spacious living room and looked at the man beside Galen who wanted to get to the bottom of this investigation. Her fingers tightened on the fork. “Words might not be enough to explain. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you give this a try?”Galen had not reacted when Charles spoke, nor when Abel had talked about switching it to a blunt weapon, but he definitely did now. “Nonsense!” he said sternly and stood up.Lily’s fighting spirit was ignited, but his stern rebuke deflated half of it. “Why not? Is it now allowed? You said attacking a police officer wasn’t allowed, didn’t you?”“He doesn’t count!” Galen said with disdain.Lily’s aggressive stance was completely deflated. “Well… if he doesn’t count, then his skills
The seemingly innocent question was directed at the young police officer.He looked troubled.Her delicate appearance did not help.The young police officer turned to the stern-faced man beside Galen for some help. The man pursed his thin lips and spoke in a deep voice.“Your Excellency… Madam… the nature of this case is severe, but the process of investigation is smooth. If your daughter doesn’t reveal the whole truth, it’ll be difficult for us to reach the crux of the issue. I assume that you don’t just want the result from this investigation but also the truth?”His firm voice was authoritative yet respectful.Charles turned to look at him. His brown eyes were calm, and he was sizing up this person.The police officer’s cold demeanor momentarily faltered. He quickly looked away and did not dare look him in the eye. “We’re just following procedures. To prevent this matter from escalating further, we hope for your cooperation.”He sounded intimidated yet resolute. It seemed
He was already determined to stake everything on his plan.“Right,” Lily said, “What about those bodyguards assigned to protect me? How were they swapped?”“Abel offered them ten times the price and bribed the group of bodyguards hired by Denver. The two poor people were taken down. The rest were replaced by our own people,” said Galen icily.Lily was shocked. She looked at him and then at Abel, who was driving calmly.Ruth looked at her husband with the same shocked face.So, this was how money made the world go round!When Denver had transferred money to that company, Lily had caught wind of it, but it seemed Abel had found out even sooner.He had already made arrangements to take drastic measures.“Don’t they have any morals? I heard that those kinds of organizations have principles. They won’t willingly betray the ones who employed them,” said Ruth.“As long as it’s not a terrorist organization, every organization needs connections. William’s group was already in dire stra
It was mainly because Denver clearly fabricated an alibi. But he had appeared on the scene and had been taken away.It was indeed quite puzzling.At that point, everyone looked at Abel in confusion.Abel looked straight ahead and did not speak. He only spoke when he was asked directly.“The father and son lost because they didn’t know each other’s motivations. It’s easy to bribe their people to send a message to the other and get them to the scene…”Before they set off, Sean received news that Denver was going all out and wanted to go down with Lily in the manor in the suburbs.Sean did not doubt it because Denver had been acting increasingly strange recently.He was transferring his assets and buying and renovating manors. It was as though he was prepared for death.He had even arranged for his funeral.Afraid that his son was taking things too hard, he put down whatever he was doing and rushed over to the scene.Since that was taken care of, it was easy to deceive Denver af
“See what you are doing? What if something happens to your sister?”Charles was not known for showing affection or caring about people outright.However, when his daughter cried and threw a tantrum, he could not stop himself.Charles stood by Lily without hesitation and scolded Abel for his incompetence.Ruth was originally filled with resentment and wanted to vent it out on Abel too, but when she saw that the father and daughter duo had joined forces to attack her husband, half of her resentment dissipated.With four bodyguards that had been arranged to deal with two outsiders, coupled with Lily’s abilities, her life was indeed not in danger…She glanced at Lily hesitantly. At this moment, Galen had cleaned up all the stains on her palm.Other than the redness between her thumb and index finger, she did not seem too badly hurt.All the resentment was gone. In fact, she was even a little protective. “Why did you have to deal with the four bodyguards?” Lily lowered her head an
Everyone was speechless.This discussion was fruitless. Everyone had their own opinions, and no one wanted to give in.In the end, Reina and the old man took a car, while Ruth, Abel, Charles, Galen Barker, and Lily got into another.The fire slowly died down.The cars left one after another.After Mr. Lockton got into the car, his cloudy eyes became shrewd. He asked his daughter, “Do you think that police officer is also interested in Lily?”Otherwise, why would he be so active and rush to the front? Why would he find such a lousy excuse to be the one to drop her home?“I think so, but unfortunately, Lily doesn’t seem to be as interested as before,” Reina said helplessly.Otherwise, why would she reject such a good opportunity to get into his car?Wouldn’t she have acted pitiful enough to earn his sympathy to get into the car?Mr. Lockton frowned. He was in deep thought.The last time he had heard that his granddaughter had fallen in love with another man who happened to be
Also, she was sure that if it was Luna being attacked at that time, he would have helped her without hesitation.This man was just like Notus. He was stupid, stubborn, and hypocritical.The reason why she spoke on his behalf was that she could not stand Luna’s smug face. Even if she wanted to drag someone down, she had to ask first.It was just the truth. She would not die if she made that clear anyway.Luna’s smug look cracked as she stared fixedly at her. Her gaze shifted from doubt to resentment and unwillingness.Aquilo was not surprised when Lily accused him. He knew that he had done something wrong. If not for Abel’s careful consideration, they would have died here today.However, he was quite surprised to hear her defend him.As he was handcuffed and escorted to the police car, he could not help but turn to look at her.“Lily…”Lily was about to walk to her car.She paused for a moment and turned to look at him calmly.Her usually playful eyes were indifferent at that
Aquilo opened his mouth but did not know what to say.Just then, a team of uniformed police officers rushed over to the scene to rescue the hostages.Looking at the people standing before them, they could not tell which ones were the hostages.Galen Barker walked over from behind and glanced at them. “What are you still standing here for? Get out quickly!”This manor had an ancient Sommersetese courtyard.The place where they were gathered was a small open space in the courtyard.After passing through the desolate artificial mountain pavilion, they arrived at the large courtyard outside the manor. There were many people gathered there, with many police cars parked nearby.A fire truck had also arrived.To Lily’s surprise, Sean Lovehart and his father were also there and were being escorted into the police car.When he saw her coming out, Denver’s face filled with hatred. He wanted to rush to her and strangle her. “You’ve got guts! You risked your life to drag us down with you!