At the same time, in the Fuller family.

Wendy returned with her parents. All three of their expressions had been ugly the entire journey back.

Wendy threw her high heels away angrily the moment she entered the door.

Magdalene was about to appease her when she saw her daughter stride upstairs with a dark expression.

Then, there was a deafening slam of the door.

She was obviously furious.

Upstairs, Wendy had slammed the room door. Her fingers were tightly embedded in her palms as she was shaking with anger. Her ears were filled with the voices of the people who had been at the dinner banquet.

‘Seeing how high-spirited Wendy has been these days, I thought there were finally prospects to her marriage with Byron, but who would have guessed…’

‘The Fullers only rose to where they are now because of the Lawrences. Looking at President Lawrence, the Fullers seem to be bracing for a storm in the future!’

‘It's been so long yet everything’s but empty joys? Tsk, what a joke!’

Ever since