Mr. Watson’s expression was icy cold.” The Watson Family never goes looking for trouble.However,if someone insists on stepping on us,we’re not going to just sit back and watch. Mrs. Watson looked at me with a much gentler look.“Emily,from now on,you’re one of us. You don’t have to endure anything anymore and you certainly don’t need to explain yourself. Your only job… is to be happy.”
I was so touched and I nodded gently,
This time,when I turned around,the person beside me wasn’t a distant stranger;there were countless supportive eyes that watched over and supported me.
I wasn’t alone anymore.
Ken came home with a vivid red mark and a swollen face that was caused by Charles’s punch. As soon as he walked through the door,he threw off his coat and collapsed onto the couch.He looked completely defeated.His mind was buzzing,like someone was hammering against his skull again and again.
All he could see over and over again was the image of me standing beside Charles in front of everyone,holding his hand,shielding him without hesitation.
He couldn’t make sense of it. How could I,in just a few short months, be willing to stand up for another man like that?
Clenching his jaw,Ken’s eyes were full of barely restrained rage and a flicker of fear he’d never fel before.
“Emily isn’t just some ordinary woman,” Ken muttered to himself.
To set up his and Hazel’s engagement party, Ken had to spend hundreds of dollars on his connection before he was able to snag a temporary slot in a venue that was known in the circle for only accepting high–society clients.
So how did she end up there?
He’d never cared to ask about my background. We were a campus couple and always dated in secret.Neither of us had introduced the other to our families.He just assumed I came from a regular family.
“Investigate.Look into Emily’s background,” he growled at the assistant standing by the door.” want everything. The more detail,the better.”
The assistant blinked,a little stunned,but nodded.
No one knew how shocked he had already been when he learned that General Manager White and the President were in a relationship. Even as he left the room,the assistant’s expression remained strangely conflicted.
If they were dating now…. then what was Hazel to him?Was the President just playing with Miss White’s feelings and then changed his mind?
An hour later,the assistant returned and her hand was holding documents. As he handed them over,his expression had grown even more complicated.“President Dixon,this is everything we found on Miss White.”
Ken opened the file. The first page was a family photo of me and my parents. We were standing in front of our ancestral estate. The building had all the elegance of a European castle.It was grand and luxurious, but not at all tacky.
His eyes darkened as he flipped through the pages.
My mother came from a family of artists,generations steeped in fine arts and jewelry. craftsmanship. Her family owned several overseas jewelry brand branches. My father,meanwhile,was a silent shareholder in one of the country’s largest real estate groups. He was wealthy,but had always been low–profile.
Then came the final blow.I had a brother. He was someone Ken had heard about countless times at industry conferences.A rising star in venture capital,a legend in the making. The same man Ken had tried to pull strings to meet with him,only to be politely turned down.
All this time,he thought I was just some ordinary girl from an ordinary family. A sweet,quiet woman who had spent seven years, by his side doing laundry,cooking for him and waiting patiently without complaint.
He flipped through the pages and his hands began to tremble.
The last one was a photo of me at the university, where I was receiving a scholarship and giving a speech at a university event. He stared at it and his eyes went blurry for a moment.
He remembered that photo. On that day,I had texted him through WhatsApp with excitement.l told him that I had won the award and invited him to come and listen to my speech,but he was so busy socializing that day and did not even give a reply.
had never once flaunted my background.Ken always thought that every single achievement I made came from” an ordinary girl who was willing to suffer a hardship“.
Only then did he realize that I was born into high society and I also chose to lower myself to be able to walk beside him through those seven ordinary years.
