Serenity held Zachary’s arm and entered the store with him. She said with a smile, “You’re right. If she doesn’t come to complain, we won’t know that the Browns don’t like Jessica.”Zachary and Serenity bought several kinds of fruit from the supermarket and came out with two big shopping bags.When they arrived at Liberty’s rented house, Liberty nagged at them.Liberty did not reprimand her brother-in-law and only nagged at her younger sister. “Zachary still has to repay the mortgage. Even if he has a high income, he still needs to save some money. When you have children, your expenses will increase. I’m not short of food or anything else, so you should stop Zachary if he wants to buy us things.”“Liberty, your brother-in-law is just being nice to you, so you should just accept it. If you feel sorry for him and think that he’s under pressure to pay off the mortgage, I’ll transfer the money to him later. Just take it as I bought these for you, okay? “Also, I realize that you’re be
“Mrs. Lewis wants Duncan to marry a woman whose family has at least several billions of dollars in assets. She thinks that’s the kind of woman who is worthy of Duncan.”Duncan himself had a net worth of tens of billions of dollars.Mrs. Lewis felt that her youngest son was excellent in every aspect except for his scarred face. Since her son was so outstanding, only an equally outstanding woman would be worthy of him.Josh thought Mrs. Lewis appeared friendly, but in fact, she was rather condescending. When he met Mrs. Lewis at a banquet, Mrs. Lewis would only talk to other women with similar status to her and would look down on everyone else.Perhaps Duncan knew his mother too well and felt that it was difficult to find a girlfriend who could satisfy his mother, so he just gave up.If Duncan were present, he would say, “I really don’t like anyone. That’s why I’m not dating.”“By the way, are you pursuing Ms. Sox or her younger brother? When I returned from my business trip, I hea
After leaving the office, Zachary got into Josh’s car.Josh said to him, “I get that you don’t want to take your luxury car, but why aren’t you driving the MPV that you specially bought to deceive your wife?”Zachary said while fastening his seat belt. “If I go with you, my wife won’t have to worry about me being unemployed.”“You, unemployed? Why is Serenity worried that you’ll be unemployed?”Josh almost laughed out loud.Serenity was not worried about anything but Zachary losing his job. If Zachary did not take charge of York Corporation, all eight of his younger brothers would cry to death. He could take on the burden of nine of them by himself.“She didn’t say it, but she’s starting to feel sorry for my wallet and told me not to spend money carelessly. If I’m seen with you frequently, she’ll think that I’m licking your boots, so she won’t have to worry anymore.”Josh said, “She doesn’t know that she’s actually the real boss, huh?”At the mention of Serenity, Zachary’s eyes
Serenity saw Josh and Duncan and asked in surprise, “You mentioned you were going to have dinner with Mr. Bucham and a client. So, that client is Mr. Lewis?”“Yes.”Zachary turned to his friends. After receiving the signal, the two men walked over one after the other.“Mr. Bucham. Mr. Lewis.”Serenity got up and greeted Josh and Duncan with a smile.Jasmine also stood up.After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Serenity said casually, “If you guys don’t mind, you can join us.”“Sure!”Zachary responded the swiftest.Josh looked at Jasmine and said with a smile, “Ms. Sox, do you mind?”Jasmine felt that these two men were ignoring Duncan, their important client, so she looked at Duncan and said, “If Mr. Lewis doesn’t mind, we can eat together.”Mr. Lewis was the main character, yet these two men who were supposed to have dinner with their client marginalized him.Duncan thought, ‘So, they asked me out to be the third wheel, huh?’His friends had their respective partners, so
After all, Duncan started noticing Liberty only because of Zachary.Zachary and Serenity suddenly got married, and Liberty became Zachary’s sister-in-law. For his friend’s sake, Duncan undercharged Liberty for the repair fee when she scratched his car.He knew that his friends had misunderstood him for having a crush on Liberty.However, he could not be bothered to offer an explanation. The more he tried to do so, the more suspicious he would appear; he would come off as defensive.When the men joined, Zachary ordered two bottles of wine. Duncan did not drink because he had to drive later while Josh and Zachary drank a little without getting themselves drunk.After their meal, everyone was ready to leave when Josh suddenly said, “Zachary, Duncan, how am I supposed to go home? I can’t drive ’cause I drank.”Duncan knew in an instant that Josh was doing this on purpose because the latter wanted Jasmine to bring him home.“I’m busy, so I’ll leave first,” Duncan quickly said and sli
“It might be my mom.”Zachary got up and said, “I called her after you fell asleep last night and asked her to come over to accompany you to buy an evening dress for the company’s annual dinner.”Upon hearing that, Serenity’s eyes snapped open. She sat up on the bed and said, “You go back to sleep. I’ll go get the door.”As she spoke, she quickly had a change of clothes and combed her hair.Zachary watched her as she moved swiftly and said, “When you go out, go to the kitchen first and put on an apron.”“Why?”“Just do as I say.”Zachary grinned. “Go on and get the door. Don’t keep your mother-in-law waiting.”Serenity turned to leave. After leaving the room, she followed Zachary’s instructions and went to the kitchen to get an apron. After putting it on, she jogged over to the door while calling out, “Coming.”The person standing in front of the door was indeed her mother-in-law, Tania.“Morning, Mom.”Serenity smiled sweetly and greeted her mother-in-law.Tania was carryi
“What time is it already? And he’s still not up?”“Zachary is always busy and has to work overtime for social engagements. Let him sleep a little longer.”Tania said, “It’s typical for him to work until midnight before coming home, and he still gets up early the next day for his morning run. He’s only lazy now because you’re here. Serenity, you shouldn’t spoil him. Whether it’s men or women, you’ll be the one suffering if you spoil them rotten.”“Mom, are you badmouthing me behind my back?”Zachary came out of the room dressed in a suit. He exuded a certain glow and looked dashing.However, he did not put on his suit jacket and his tie was not worn.He carried those in his hands.Tania got up and walked over. “You came out just as I called you lazy. It’s fortunate I wasn’t scolding you.“The weather has warmed up a bit these two days, but it’s still cold in the morning. Hurry up and put your jacket on so you don’t catch another cold, lest you tire out Serenity again.”Tania wa
Zachary’s words instantly ignited his mother’s anger.“Who said that a wife has to get up early to make breakfast for you? Who said that a wife has to clean up the house? It’s not natural at all. She doesn’t owe you anything and doesn’t need to serve you like a king. Zack, you said you learned from your father, but you couldn’t be more wrong about that.“You better correct yourself right now. Where did you learn those ideas from? All women who married into our family are spoiled by their husbands. You’re the only one who treats Serenity like a servant, and you dare say it’s only natural? Thank goodness I was the one coming over today. If your nana heard what you just said, she’ll knock you over with her cane and beat you half to death.“Serenity, Serenity!”After Tania scolded her son, she called out to Serenity, who was busy in the kitchen.Serenity quickly came out of the kitchen. “What’s wrong?”“Come here.”When Serenity approached Tania, the latter pulled off Serenity’s apr