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09.06.2025 02:17
After five years of ups and downs, we opened the largest clothing company in Araya.
Louisa became anxious. She frowned and said in defense, “How can this be a small matter? You follow me on business trips every day and I don’t want others to criticize you everywhere.”
Her eyes were fixed on Marco, who opened the car door for her, with a hint of aggressiveness.
Why do companies cull employees during financial downturns without saying so?
My assistant shook the mobile phone in his hand with a look of surprise.
“I haven’t said anything yet, but you’re eager to put the blame on me.”
“You dare to give a supercar worth two million seven hundred dollars to the man who adores you, Louisa ….”
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I spent the next whole week busy with the transfer.
Just as I was trying to calm my emotions and go downstairs, she pushed open the bathroom door with the flip-flop sound of her slippers.
Only when we did not love could we make rational judgments.
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Just overnight, he changed the way he called his boss from “Ms. Louisa” being “Louisa”.
Before getting off work, I received two business trip applications for two people and clicked “agree”.
“No, I do.”
“Lionel, Marco has returned the car to the dealer, but I need to go over to cancel the account.”
“Don’t you like this car? It’s also for your sake that I canceled it early.”
I frowned.
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A pair of gleaming silver stiletto heels stepped on the ground.
As a cold and aloof beauty, men pursue her and compete to get her.
With an annual revenue of nearly 10 billion, she said we were not a match.
Until my assistant nervously handed me Marco’s X account and said, “Sir, I think I should let you know about this.”
“Rosie is taking a day off today. You take a shower first and I’ll go fry you a steak,” she said.
In the past five years, I had transformed from a rich second-generation who knew nothing to a first-generation entrepreneur.
What can you do if you are a full-grown adult, but never experienced being a child?
Marco’s eyes slightly lifted and his cold face turned slightly pale.
I turned my gaze away from the door and let out a long sigh.
“Do you want me to use my authority to force the people below to shut their mouths up?”
Do women like watching men sucking men?
He bowed to me, his voice pleading. “I’m sorry, Mr. Gilmore. I didn’t think carefully about this matter. I will solve it myself. Don’t blame Louisa.”
I was furious instantly and lost my sanity.
But now everything had changed.
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I handed the breakfast to my assistant and asked him to go out and sell me another one.
Ms. Louisa?
The guilt I felt for impulsively agreeing to the blind date last night completely disappeared.
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“Got it! Marco and I have nothing, not now and not in the future.”
Until I saw a post on X.
Hearing those words, both of them were stunned.
Did she know what it meant to give a man underwear as a gift?
I dragged my suitcase towards the security checkpoint and ran into Louisa and Marco who were rushing back.
She did not let my hand go, instead she patiently said, “I know you’re angry, I apologize to you, okay? But Marco and I really have nothing, you’re sold your shares and broke up ….”
He looked up, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.
A majestic roar came from afar and a limited-edition supercar with black and gold paint appeared in front of the villa.
She had some impatience on her face, but she still held back her patience to explain to me.
“As the marketing director, you have a keen eye, so you shouldn’t miss it.”
“When is your blind date with the Scott Family arranged? Have you really decided to leave Araya?”
I got in the car and headed to the airport.
I was sure now.
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I was too lazy to argue with her, so I just opened X and showed her Marco’s X account.
“Am I thinking of myself?”
[Marco and I go to meet some clients and have lunch together.]
Not only did he dare to accept it, he also dared to post it openly on his X post and another social media to show off.
We had been in relationship for nine years and this was the first time I had gotten so angry over another man.
This clothing company was co founded by me and Louisa. She and I both hold half of the equity.
Her voice came from outside the door. “Oh, by the way, Rosie said that your underwear needs to be replaced, so she threw them all away. You can get new ones from the bottom.”
A relationship that had changed in quality was like an unappetizing breakfast. There was no need to force ourself to eat it.
She said the sports car had been cancelled and sent back to the automotive dealership.
She and Marco would go back to the company to work overtime tonight and would not go home.
Marco pursed his lips and said no words.
Followed Marco behind her.
I waited for her for so long that I was starving. I then opened my mobile phone and saw Marco’s social media.
Although I did not want to admit it, I was now so jealous that I was insane.
An hour later, her male assistant drove the car and posted a message on his social media.
And that’s where we’ll leave the story for now. The journey ahead is full of twists, turns, and unforgettable moments you won’t want to miss.
“Speak! Marco!”
[Driving the car given by my boss to send her home and even the wind was sweet.]
I saw them exchanging a few words with each other and Louisa smiled particularly happily.
“Mr. Gilmore, good evening. Ms. Watson and I just had dinner outside and came back a bit late. Please don’t blame her.”
“I’ll cancel and return it to the dealer as soon as possible.”
I lit a cigarette and blew a puff into the air.
Love did not become a burden when two people’s hearts were truly together.
I had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, so everything had to be neatly laid out.
Haha … I sounded like a stingy person from his words.
“Alright, Lionel, doesn’t he have to pick me up and drop me off every day for work?”
Everyone was in an uproar, expressing shock hearing this news.
I did not need to be too concerned.
I saw admiration and heartache for another man in her eyes.
My raging anger suddenly died down and what followed was endless coldness and disappointment.
In what capacity was he asking me not to blame my girlfriend?
I did not even glance at them, just brushed past them.
[Congratulations for becoming a boyfriend and becoming a regular employee officially.]
I just wanted my favorite supercar back.
A nice and friendly reminder to board the plane sounded at the airport.
His slender fingers gripped the steering wheel and the corners of his mouth curved in just the right angle.
Whatever Louisa wanted to do, I accompanied her.
I had money, good looks and a good figure, so why should I waste my time on someone who did not love me!
Wasn’t it normal for people to criticize a boss who gave his or her assistant a luxury car?
Getting up early and having breakfast together in the hotel.
She also said that she liked my innate arrogance and rebelliousness the most.
At night, my best friend, Reymond Blunt called me to drink.
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She took a deep breath and said, her eyes filled with disapproval of me, “You took back the gift I gave him in public and now you’re letting him waste so much time at the dealer.”
At that moment, all my expectations were dashed.
She frowned and pouted.
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. Please don’t blame Ms. Louisa.”
Marco Tucker walked around the car to the passenger seat and opened the passenger door gently and considerately.
I took a sip of my mojito without saying a word.
At one o’clock in the afternoon, I finished dealing with all the documents, but there was no sign of Louisa.
A supercar worth nearly two million seven hundred dollars was not something that a marketing director with no background like Louisa could afford.
The next day, the real estate agent came to register the sales information of the villa.
“Lionel, sorry, I didn’t get back from meeting with my business partners at noon. I just had a quick bite outside. Have you eaten yet?”
“First of all, a person of integrity has nothing to fear. If you, Louisa, are doing your job impartially, rewarding him for bringing huge profits to the company and giving him a supercar is understandable.”
I took out my mobile phone and called my father who was far away in Brimstone.
My face turned cold and so did my heart.
Let her pick and send it away.
“Also, today, I suddenly remembered that you had ordered a supercar, so I picked it up and gave it to him.”
Spending their time together watching the sunset on the beach after chatting with their bussiness partner.
I wanted to rush downstairs and question that girl right away.
“Mr. Gilmore is already busy with work, so it’s better not to trouble him with these small matters.”
“The blind date with the eldest daughter of the Scotts, I’ll go.”
“If I want to have a future with you, I have to get stronger. Of course, you can act childish and ask me not to go today, but I don’t want to disappoint my subordinates who fight side by side with me.”
“I would like to inform everyone that I will be stepping down as the general manager. The company will be fully handed over to Mr. Blunt and Mr. Vaughan beside me.”
Louisa stepped in front of him and pulled my sleeve.
“You’re the boss, Lionel, this is a matter of words.”
In his post, there was a box of underwear of this brand.
She took out a bottle of perfume from her eight-digit Hermes bag and smiled dotingly.
I fixed my gaze full of pressure on him.
She reacted, quickly stopped me and angrily said to Marco behind her, “What the hell is going on! When did I lie down with you?!”
A message from Louisa popped up on my mobile phone.
I, who felt heartbroken at first, became numb in the end.
“But you have to know, as an assistant, what you should and shouldn’t accept.”
I frowned and responded calmly, “Let go, it’s so dirty.”
I felt a chill in my heart and blurted out. “Go ahead.”
He uttered a dull response. “Hmm”.
I looked at her deeply and believed her pledge of allegiance for the time being.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Louisa pushed the door to my office and stepped in with her high heels.
When we were in love, she once whispered in my ear that she would only love me and only me in her life.
Faced with his provocation, my gaze turned a bit cold and I found it somewhat funny.
She was standing in the crowd, looking at me from afar.
Having been in society for so many years, everyone had gained some insight.
In the past, I admired her rational and clear nature the most.
“Lionel, you can’t just think about yourself.”
Marco reacted earlier than Louisa.
No man could bear to see the girl he loved using his own money to buy gifts for other men.
“You took the car without my consent. I just wanted to take back what belonged to me.”
If he dared to accept it, he should be able to guess who the original owner of the car was.
However, I did not want to leave Louisa, so I stayed in Araya.
I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled.
My hand, which was about to sign, paused and I raised my eyes.
“Notify everyone that there will be a staff meeting this afternoon.” I ordered.
I stared at the perfume in her hand and recalled every moment of us for the past nine years.
She grabbed her assistant’s hand, pushed the office door and left without looking back.
Louisa did not expect me to speak so bluntly and her face suddenly turned ugly.
Marco took a step back, lost his composure and apologized several times.
I had loved her for so many years, what storms had I not seen.
She also wanted me to defend him with her despite feeling disgusted.
My father even agreed to a blind date with the Scott Family on my behalf overnight.
My assistant suddenly pushed the door and casually said, “Sir, I saw Ms. Louisa and her assistant went to eat seafood. What do you want to eat? I’ll order it for you.”
A series of notifications popped up on my phone and it was an X post that Marco had just posted.
She said I was her life.
“This is your own problem. I shouldn’t have to put on a leadership role and help you solve it.”
I nodded and responded, “Next week, I’ll transfer the management rights of the company to you and leave.”
“Can’t you go tomorrow? Why do you have to go out so late?” asked me in annoyance.
Louisa stepped on her high heels to protect the man behind her and hugged my waist.
Louisa held my hand and said in a deep voice, “Lionel, why are you so angry?”
“You can prepare dinner yourself.”
Rosie paid extra attention to this and checked it carefully every day.
I laid in my bed and stayed up the whole night.
“Marco Tucker, right? It’s just a car. I can still afford it.”
“I feel strange with you like this.”
Marco took two steps forward with his long legs and blocked me.
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. I shouldn’t have accepted Ms. Watson’s gift.”
In his latest X post, he posted a picture of Louisa lying in his arms and sleeping soundly.
“Are you used to driving?”
After all, there was no evidence that they were having an affair.
Leaving me only the refreshing fragrance of gardenia that dissipated into the air.
It was time to end this tangled triangle relationship.
Thank you for joining me, and I can’t wait to see you in the next chapter!
She knew that I loved cars as much as my life, yet she dared to steal it and give it away to someone else.
And staying up the whole night working on a project together and drinking American coffee at 3 a.m.
It was obvious that it was not what she was prepared for me.
Louisa and I had been dating since we were in college until now.
But she refused decisively and stayed by my side wholeheartedly.
That night, I brought all the top-of-the-line sports cars that I had collected in my garage to her.
“It’s too late now. It’s not safe to go out. You can go tomorrow.”
I was already angry and hearing these words only added fuel to the fire.
Jealousy over a slightly more good-looking male assistant was truly a fall from grace.
[Wow, after reading your secret stories on your crush for four years, you finally got her love!]
The way he called her changed to be more intimate.
At first, I suspected that Marco took the photos secretly behind Louisa out of vanity.
“The way he looks at you is not the way an ordinary subordinate looks at his superior.”
Then, her tone was both coaxing and scolding, brought me back to my senses. “I know you are jealous because you love me, but the others who don’t know will think you’re targeting someone else’s staff.”
I walked out and stood in front of the girl.
Louisa was stunned and frowned.
I threw the document on the table, interrupting the two people who were staring at each other.
“She just feels too tired being with you. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t earn even one-tenth of your family’s money and she can’t spend your money with peace of mind.”
“I still have over a dozen supercars in my basement. Choose any one you want and consider it as a gift from me.”
“I don’t care if you misjudged his contribution to the company or you feel sorry for him for accompanying you on business trips and driving every day. The company has given him enough salary and if it’s not enough, he can ask for more, instead of you secretly using my supercar to compensate him.”
I squinted as I walked into the villa in a cold voice.
I got it.
The perfume in her hand was more of a brand I had long since disliked.
Now everything had changed.
Now, he even called her “Louisa”.
I was stunned for a moment and frowned. “Where did you see them?”
Since the argument that day, Louisa had blocked me on X and WhatsApp.
She really took the car that I had been longing for half a year away from the automotive dealership secretly and gave it to someone else.
Louisa, after nine years of our relationship, did you have any feelings for me?
The breakfast box she brought in the bag was my least favorite lamb sandwich.
Louisa who was wearing a white suit and holding a white crocodile leather bag, stepped out of the car.
Shouldn’t we have anticipated such a result?
I stepped down from the stage and left the conference room.
[Having a boss who cares for her subordinates is my happiness.]
As a man, he should know why I was angry.
But in the cabinet, a box of men’s underwear was missing.
[Finally, from crush to girlfriend ….]
A side photo taken from the perspective of the girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat.
“My words were harsh, but you should know that Marco is the man in the company who can help me share the workload the most. You made him lose face in public today and I can’t just abandon him now.”
I bent down and opened the bottom cabinet.
It turned out that all this time she always felt that we were not a good match.
She pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, sighing.
“Am I strange?”
“Louisa has been with me for nine years and has seen a lot of things. I don’t think a supercar is a big deal.”
Forget it, it was better for the person who did not belong to me to leave.
Seeing that I had given in, she pushed the door open and left without any hesitation.
I picked up the documents she brought back and gave a faint response. “Hmm.”
My head exploded with a loud bang.
I put my hands in my pockets, curled the corners of my mouth and a hint of coldness and anger flashed in my eyes.
As soon as I arrived, the airport lobby was crowded with people.
It seemed like the superior-subordinate relationship between them was closer than I imagined.
But I did not expect, Louisa brought me breakfast on the table with the sticky note on the bag.
I was really reluctant to leave everything behind and return to Brimstone now.
I did not have any emotions more, I just smiled indifferently and returned the phone to my assistant.
Louisa Watson, who was showing off her affection to me on X a second ago, quietly took away the limited-edition sports car that I had reserved for a long time in the automotive dealership.
Her eyes were a bit red and her gaze was full of charm.
Nine years of giving everything for a girl, but in the end, she still did not appreciate it.
She defended him.
No.
“I can’t help it. This is the girls nowadays.”
In the evening, I stood on the balcony of the villa and gazed the sunset.
There was no point to keep a woman who had left my heart.
Since we wanted to sever ties, we naturally had to settle everything.
“I’ve been waiting for this car for almost half a year and no one can take it away, not even you, my girlfriend.”
I nodded and looked at her leaving back, then opened the cabinet where my underwear was stored.
I leaned back in the recliner and sneered.
As early as yesterday, I had entrusted someone to send her a breakup message.
He joked that I should have changed a long time ago.
In a flash, I remembered the X post Marco posted two days ago.
“With so many supercars you have, you don’t mind, do you?”
Five years ago, after graduating from university, my father asked me to return to Brimstone to inherit the family business.
Seeing I stopped talking, she sighed.
I suddenly felt ridiculous.
“Louisa, do you want to hear what you’re saying right now?”
“This is an irrefutable evidence. Do you want me to expose all the dirty things you have done?”
She raised her hand and slammed the table angrily, saying harshly, “We can handle it ourselves. We don’t need you.”
“But the fact is, the value of these orders is far less than that of a supercar.”
The atmosphere was silent.
She was stunned for a moment, her lips slightly parted, with an incredulous expression.
I ignored her shock, put away my mobile phone and walked past her.
“On X, her assistant posted a message thanking Ms. Louisa for treating him to a delicious meal.”
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I stared at it for a long time.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, I walked into the largest conference room of the company with Reymond on time.
Marco behind her spoke up, “It’s okay, Mr. Gilmore, a few rumors can’t hurt me.”
“Well, my Baby, here … I bought you a new limited-edition perfume, so don’t be angry.”
It was her handwriting.
The girl’s cold face showed some dissatisfaction.
Louisa then pulled me all the way into the bathroom.
Even though the gift she gave was to serve herself.
When the salesperson sent me a message in the afternoon, I thought Louisa was trying to give me a surprise secretly, so I spent three hours happily in the dressing room choosing an outfit.
“Didn’t you give him the car and he accepted it? What’s the point of having me, an outsider, wipe his ass?”
Marco was the partner who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her.
“Lionel, I don’t know how the news about the sports car spread in the company. The staffs are all talking about Marco behind his back. Can you come and help Marco explain it for the sake of signing big orders today?”
The next day, I came to the company with hungry stomach from the night.
Louisa, took my underwear and gave it to his assistant?
“You have a prominent family background, Lionel, unlike ordinary people like me.”
Targeting? He was not worthy.
Seeing her smile and express her emotions towards him.
On the contrary, Marco posted photos related to Louisa every day.