When May Conner saw what Emily Quest did, she immediately snatched the wine glass away from Emily. May tapped Emily on her arm. “My child, are you mad? Since you are pretending to be pregnant, you should act the part. Why are you drinking? What if your dad or other people see you?”Emily frowned unhappily before she looked around. “It’s late already. Everyone has gone to sleep. Who would see me? Besides, I’m not that unlucky.”“Please be careful!” May said seriously.“I know,” Emily snorted coldly. She appeared fully confident.Outside, a red Maserati came to a halt in the courtyard. Exhausted, Xyla Quest gave her forehead a pinch before she unbuckled her seatbelt.However, instead of getting out of the car immediately, she plopped down into her seat and zoned out.Ever since the preparations for the property launch started, she had been working overtime. She continuously motivated herself to keep working hard. Now that she had accomplished her goal and was completely exhausted, she ap
Jeremy Quest could not be bothered to respond to May Conner. Instead, he continued to look at Xyla Quest affectionately. “Xyla, go to bed. Oh, right. I have already transferred Emily’s five percent of shares to your account.”“Okay. Thank you, Dad.” Xyla chuckled as she stood on her tiptoes to give Jeremy a peck on his cheek. After that, she exhaustedly made her way upstairs.After Jeremy glared at his wife and younger daughter, he walked upstairs in a huff.“If Xyla Quest continues to stay in the limelight, the Quest family’s business will really end up in her hands!” Emily said frantically.“Therefore, we must do something more extreme to her.” May had a cunning look on her face.“I asked you to check on something before. How is it going?” May asked.“I’m still looking into it.”***“Fifth Master, these are the receipts from Master Armstrong, Master Lakes, and Master Brenand.”Buried in a deep pile of work in front of his high-class desk made of Narra wood, Stanley Batton slowly lift
“In that case, there’s still the money I owe you for the car. I really must return it to you,” Xyla Quest added.The man stopped replying to her.Feeling a little upset, Xyla tapped Five’s name on the screen. “You really are a weirdo.”After that, Xyla transferred two hundred thousand dollars to Stanley on WeChat and recorded a voice note. “Since you aren’t going to give me your bank account number, I will transfer two hundred thousand dollars to you every day until the full amount is completely transferred.”Before she had even finished speaking, he had returned her the full amount.Xyla was so angry that she sent him an emoji of a knife.After approximately five minutes later, he responded. “Be a good girl; keep quiet.”His affectionate words caught Xyla off guard.She sent another emoji of a knife. “I don’t like being indebted to someone else.”However, Stanley no longer replied to her. When she opened his social media page, there was nothing new posted there.The last post was a ne
Since it was rare for her to relax like this, Xyla Quest decided not to set the alarm.By the time she woke up, it was already ten o’clock in the morning.After looking at the time, Xyla stretched her arms and slowly crawled into a seated position. As the sun shone against her pretty face, her skin was so fair that it seemed to glow.Knock. Knock. Knock.Xyla was about to put her slippers and get out of bed when someone knocked on the door. Closely after that, a female servant’s voice could be heard. “Miss, your father wants you to come down right away.”“Got it.”Xyla then quickly entered the bathroom to freshen up. After applying a layer of protective skin product on her face, she put on a silk sleeping robe over her sleeping dress and hurriedly made her way downstairs.When she arrived, Jeremy Quest, May Conner, and Emily Quest were all present.While Jeremy sat on a single couch and sipped on his coffee, Emily and May sat next to each other on a long couch next to him as they chatt
“Xyla, is this true?” Jeremy Quest was trying hard to suppress his anger as he looked at Xyla Quest.He hoped that everything about this was fake.However, Xyla did not speak and nodded gently instead before she took another sip of her tea.“Did you really get married overseas? It’s a huge deal. Why didn’t you talk to me about it?“What are you trying to do? Do you want to rebel against me?” The veins on Jeremy’s neck were becoming apparent. After that, he angrily tossed the documents onto the coffee table.Suddenly, the temperature in the living room dropped. It felt as if the air was being compressed.Jeremy placed a lot of hope on Xyla. Initially, he planned to find Xyla an excellent man to become her husband.However, he did not think that she would hastily get married without consulting him.How could she keep such an important thing from her father? Did she even think of him as her father?“Why else? It must be because her husband is a nobody. Dad, I bet that man is a gangster or
Xyla Quest did not dare to tell her father the entire truth.Since Jeremy Quest was a man of tradition, he would be enraged if he found out Xyla got married to a stranger to recover her looks. More importantly, the fact that she remained in a marriage, which lacked solid foundations and might even end up being divorced.Perhaps, Jeremy might think that Xyla lacked self-love and was a harlot.Instead of telling the truth, which might make him upset, Xyla thought it was a better idea to create a story where she and her husband were living a happily married life. This would make Jeremy feel a lot better.Therefore, Xyla needed to make sure the story was perfectly logical. More importantly, she must appear very happy in this story.After finishing her sentence, Xyla immediately stood up and kneeled in front of Jeremy. “I’m sorry, Dad. I should not have done something like this behind your back.” There was a serious expression on her face.Xyla was saying those words from the bottom of her
“He said he wanted to rely on himself,” said Xyla. Jeremy’s eyes were filled with approval. “He seems like a fine young man. Bring him home next time so I can meet him.” “Okay,” replied Xyla, nodding. Emily chimed in, “When?” To find out whether or not Xyla was lying, Emily would just have to interrogate her so-called husband when the time came. If the man had no medical knowledge, that would mean he was lying. Xyla would be done for! She firmly believed that the day when Xyla would shoot herself in the foot was near. “Why don’t you get Brother-in-law to come to my wedding? It’s the wedding of your only sister, there’s no reason for Brother-in-law not to attend, right?” Emily pressed on, not giving Xyla any opportunity to drop the subject. Xyla answered casually, “Sure.” “Alright then. I’ll be heading to the company,” said Jeremy. He patted Xyla’s hand affectionately before leaving the house.Xyla had no time to spare for the mother-daughter duo either. She got up, abo
Xyla’s heart wrenched painfully, her eyes filled with disbelief. Back then, Georgie’s little brother had studied at Country Y with them. Although they went to different schools, they would spend their weekends together. He was a cheerful and sensible child. Xyla had always thought of him as her own little brother. A few days earlier, he had even sent her a message through WeChat, reminding her to take care of her health.How could such a bright existence be gone, just like that?Tears instantly started to fall from Xyla’s eyes. “Okay, I’ll give you a month off. Where are you? I’ll come to you.” “There are many things at the company that need your attention, so you don’t have to come. I will burn a few more joss sticks for my brother on your behalf.” As she spoke, Georgie’s voice eventually dissolved into whimpers. “Where exactly are you?” asked Xyla again. “President Xyla, now’s not the time for you to be capricious. Listen to me… okay?” “Enough with the nonsense. Tell me w