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10.06.2025 06:18
I nodded and looked at her leaving back, then opened the cabinet where my underwear was stored.
I suddenly felt ridiculous.
I stared at the perfume in her hand and recalled every moment of us for the past nine years.
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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.
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This clothing company was co founded by me and Louisa. She and I both hold half of the equity.
It was time to end this tangled triangle relationship.
I did not have any emotions more, I just smiled indifferently and returned the phone to my assistant.
I was really reluctant to leave everything behind and return to Brimstone now.
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A pair of gleaming silver stiletto heels stepped on the ground.
[Having a boss who cares for her subordinates is my happiness.]
“Didn’t you give him the car and he accepted it? What’s the point of having me, an outsider, wipe his ass?”
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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.”
Faced with his provocation, my gaze turned a bit cold and I found it somewhat funny.
The breakfast box she brought in the bag was my least favorite lamb sandwich.
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Until I saw a post on X.
It turned out that all this time she always felt that we were not a good match.
“This is an irrefutable evidence. Do you want me to expose all the dirty things you have done?”
Why do men find women with bigger buttocks attractive?
She said the sports car had been cancelled and sent back to the automotive dealership.
I laid in my bed and stayed up the whole night.
In the evening, I stood on the balcony of the villa and gazed the sunset.
How long can a marriage survive after a long-term affair?
“I’ve been waiting for this car for almost half a year and no one can take it away, not even you, my girlfriend.”
“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.”
But she refused decisively and stayed by my side wholeheartedly.
A series of notifications popped up on my phone and it was an X post that Marco had just posted.
I got in the car and headed to the airport.
I nodded and responded, “Next week, I’ll transfer the management rights of the company to you and leave.”
She also wanted me to defend him with her despite feeling disgusted.
[Finally, from crush to girlfriend ….]
I bent down and opened the bottom cabinet.
“You took the car without my consent. I just wanted to take back what belonged to me.”
A supercar worth nearly two million seven hundred dollars was not something that a marketing director with no background like Louisa could afford.
That night, I brought all the top-of-the-line sports cars that I had collected in my garage to her.
The atmosphere was silent.
I stepped down from the stage and left the conference room.
She was stunned for a moment, her lips slightly parted, with an incredulous expression.
Louisa then pulled me all the way into the bathroom.
Marco’s eyes slightly lifted and his cold face turned slightly pale.
In what capacity was he asking me not to blame my girlfriend?
I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled.
“Do you want me to use my authority to force the people below to shut their mouths up?”
[Marco and I go to meet some clients and have lunch together.]
Louisa and I had been dating since we were in college until now.
A side photo taken from the perspective of the girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat.
I just wanted my favorite supercar back.
She frowned and pouted.
I did not need to be too concerned.
I took a sip of my mojito without saying a word.
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 felt a chill in my heart and blurted out. “Go ahead.”
As early as yesterday, I had entrusted someone to send her a breakup message.
“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 fixed my gaze full of pressure on him.
I was too lazy to argue with her, so I just opened X and showed her Marco’s X account.
Marco was the partner who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her.
There was no point to keep a woman who had left my heart.
“Mr. Gilmore is already busy with work, so it’s better not to trouble him with these small matters.”
He looked up, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.
Louisa held my hand and said in a deep voice, “Lionel, why are you so angry?”
Although I did not want to admit it, I was now so jealous that I was insane.
“Rosie is taking a day off today. You take a shower first and I’ll go fry you a steak,” she said.
[Driving the car given by my boss to send her home and even the wind was sweet.]
“Notify everyone that there will be a staff meeting this afternoon.” I ordered.
The perfume in her hand was more of a brand I had long since disliked.
Getting up early and having breakfast together in the hotel.
After all, there was no evidence that they were having an affair.
In a flash, I remembered the X post Marco posted two days ago.
I was furious instantly and lost my sanity.
“As the marketing director, you have a keen eye, so you shouldn’t miss it.”
I got it.
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.
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. I shouldn’t have accepted Ms. Watson’s gift.”
But in the cabinet, a box of men’s underwear was missing.
However, I did not want to leave Louisa, so I stayed in Araya.
In the past five years, I had transformed from a rich second-generation who knew nothing to a first-generation entrepreneur.
“Well, my Baby, here … I bought you a new limited-edition perfume, so don’t be angry.”
Louisa stepped on her high heels to protect the man behind her and hugged my waist.
She said I was her life.
With an annual revenue of nearly 10 billion, she said we were not a match.
It was obvious that it was not what she was prepared for me.
“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?”
“You’re the boss, Lionel, this is a matter of words.”
I was sure now.
Forget it, it was better for the person who did not belong to me to leave.
“Louisa, do you want to hear what you’re saying right now?”
The next day, I came to the company with hungry stomach from the night.
It was her handwriting.
Even though the gift she gave was to serve herself.
Wasn’t it normal for people to criticize a boss who gave his or her assistant a luxury car?
Louisa did not expect me to speak so bluntly and her face suddenly turned ugly.
Nine years of giving everything for a girl, but in the end, she still did not appreciate it.
In his latest X post, he posted a picture of Louisa lying in his arms and sleeping soundly.
I picked up the documents she brought back and gave a faint response. “Hmm.”
Since the argument that day, Louisa had blocked me on X and WhatsApp.
“You dare to give a supercar worth two million seven hundred dollars to the man who adores you, Louisa ….”
She raised her hand and slammed the table angrily, saying harshly, “We can handle it ourselves. We don’t need you.”
Marco took two steps forward with his long legs and blocked me.
No.
She knew that I loved cars as much as my life, yet she dared to steal it and give it away to someone else.
“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.”
At one o’clock in the afternoon, I finished dealing with all the documents, but there was no sign of Louisa.
I threw the document on the table, interrupting the two people who were staring at each other.
Love did not become a burden when two people’s hearts were truly together.
I was already angry and hearing these words only added fuel to the fire.
The next day, the real estate agent came to register the sales information of the villa.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Louisa pushed the door to my office and stepped in with her high heels.
Everyone was in an uproar, expressing shock hearing this news.
“Lionel, Marco has returned the car to the dealer, but I need to go over to cancel the account.”
I turned my gaze away from the door and let out a long sigh.
No man could bear to see the girl he loved using his own money to buy gifts for other men.
Rosie paid extra attention to this and checked it carefully every day.
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.”
Marco took a step back, lost his composure and apologized several times.
“You can prepare dinner yourself.”
As a man, he should know why I was angry.
Seeing I stopped talking, she sighed.
“When is your blind date with the Scott Family arranged? Have you really decided to leave Araya?”
He uttered a dull response. “Hmm”.
“Got it! Marco and I have nothing, not now and not in the future.”
And staying up the whole night working on a project together and drinking American coffee at 3 a.m.
I frowned.
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. Please don’t blame Ms. Louisa.”
I saw admiration and heartache for another man in her eyes.
At first, I suspected that Marco took the photos secretly behind Louisa out of vanity.
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 ….”
Louisa, after nine years of our relationship, did you have any feelings for me?
Louisa, took my underwear and gave it to his assistant?
“Am I strange?”
I wanted to rush downstairs and question that girl right away.
I lit a cigarette and blew a puff into the air.
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.”
She had some impatience on her face, but she still held back her patience to explain to me.
In the past, I admired her rational and clear nature the most.
“Don’t you like this car? It’s also for your sake that I canceled it early.”
We had been in relationship for nine years and this was the first time I had gotten so angry over another man.
When we were in love, she once whispered in my ear that she would only love me and only me in her life.
Her eyes were a bit red and her gaze was full of charm.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, I walked into the largest conference room of the company with Reymond on time.
My hand, which was about to sign, paused and I raised my eyes.
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.
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.”
“Am I thinking of myself?”
Did she know what it meant to give a man underwear as a gift?
Seeing that I had given in, she pushed the door open and left without any hesitation.
She took out a bottle of perfume from her eight-digit Hermes bag and smiled dotingly.
Hearing those words, both of them were stunned.
After five years of ups and downs, we opened the largest clothing company in Araya.
He joked that I should have changed a long time ago.
I had money, good looks and a good figure, so why should I waste my time on someone who did not love me!
There were comments below.
A message from Louisa popped up on my mobile phone.
My father even agreed to a blind date with the Scott Family on my behalf overnight.
“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?”
I put my hands in my pockets, curled the corners of my mouth and a hint of coldness and anger flashed in my eyes.
Before getting off work, I received two business trip applications for two people and clicked “agree”.
“No, I do.”
Followed Marco behind her.
I spent the next whole week busy with the transfer.
Louisa who was wearing a white suit and holding a white crocodile leather bag, stepped out of the car.
I waited for her for so long that I was starving. I then opened my mobile phone and saw Marco’s social media.
She grabbed her assistant’s hand, pushed the office door and left without looking back.
“Are you used to driving?”
“Lionel, you can’t just think about yourself.”
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.
I stared at it for a long time.
I looked at her deeply and believed her pledge of allegiance for the time being.
The way he called her changed to be more intimate.
My head exploded with a loud bang.
On the contrary, Marco posted photos related to Louisa every day.
Marco behind her spoke up, “It’s okay, Mr. Gilmore, a few rumors can’t hurt me.”
An hour later, her male assistant drove the car and posted a message on his social media.
“Speak! Marco!”
“But the fact is, the value of these orders is far less than that of a supercar.”
“This is your own problem. I shouldn’t have to put on a leadership role and help you solve it.”
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.”
If he dared to accept it, he should be able to guess who the original owner of the car was.
She pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, sighing.
Marco reacted earlier than Louisa.
Seeing her smile and express her emotions towards him.
Targeting? He was not worthy.
At that moment, all my expectations were dashed.
“The way he looks at you is not the way an ordinary subordinate looks at his superior.”
In his post, there was a box of underwear of this brand.
A relationship that had changed in quality was like an unappetizing breakfast. There was no need to force ourself to eat it.
I leaned back in the recliner and sneered.
His slender fingers gripped the steering wheel and the corners of his mouth curved in just the right angle.
“I can’t help it. This is the girls nowadays.”
I dragged my suitcase towards the security checkpoint and ran into Louisa and Marco who were rushing back.
Since we wanted to sever ties, we naturally had to settle everything.
At night, my best friend, Reymond Blunt called me to drink.
She defended him.
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.”
I had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, so everything had to be neatly laid out.
I took out my mobile phone and called my father who was far away in Brimstone.
I had loved her for so many years, what storms had I not seen.
“Also, today, I suddenly remembered that you had ordered a supercar, so I picked it up and gave it to him.”
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.”
“You have a prominent family background, Lionel, unlike ordinary people like me.”
[Wow, after reading your secret stories on your crush for four years, you finally got her love!]
She also said that she liked my innate arrogance and rebelliousness the most.
I ignored her shock, put away my mobile phone and walked past her.
I, who felt heartbroken at first, became numb in the end.
She and Marco would go back to the company to work overtime tonight and would not go home.
It seemed like the superior-subordinate relationship between them was closer than I imagined.
A majestic roar came from afar and a limited-edition supercar with black and gold paint appeared in front of the villa.
Only when we did not love could we make rational judgments.
I frowned and responded calmly, “Let go, it’s so dirty.”
But now everything had changed.
“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.”
As a cold and aloof beauty, men pursue her and compete to get her.
A nice and friendly reminder to board the plane sounded at the airport.
— —
Shouldn’t we have anticipated such a result?
Marco pursed his lips and said no words.
[Congratulations for becoming a boyfriend and becoming a regular employee officially.]
“With so many supercars you have, you don’t mind, do you?”
Whatever Louisa wanted to do, I accompanied her.
Spending their time together watching the sunset on the beach after chatting with their bussiness partner.
“Can’t you go tomorrow? Why do you have to go out so late?” asked me in annoyance.
The guilt I felt for impulsively agreeing to the blind date last night completely disappeared.
Ms. Louisa?
I squinted as I walked into the villa in a cold voice.
As soon as I arrived, the airport lobby was crowded with people.
“But you have to know, as an assistant, what you should and shouldn’t accept.”
“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.”
Let her pick and send it away.
“It’s too late now. It’s not safe to go out. You can go tomorrow.”
She was standing in the crowd, looking at me from afar.
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.
The girl’s cold face showed some dissatisfaction.
Haha … I sounded like a stingy person from his words.
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?!”
Now everything had changed.
“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.”
“On X, her assistant posted a message thanking Ms. Louisa for treating him to a delicious meal.”
Five years ago, after graduating from university, my father asked me to return to Brimstone to inherit the family business.
I was stunned for a moment and frowned. “Where did you see them?”
Thank you for joining me, and I can’t wait to see you in the next chapter!
My raging anger suddenly died down and what followed was endless coldness and disappointment.
My face turned cold and so did my heart.
But I did not expect, Louisa brought me breakfast on the table with the sticky note on the bag.
I handed the breakfast to my assistant and asked him to go out and sell me another one.
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.
I walked out and stood in front of the girl.
Leaving me only the refreshing fragrance of gardenia that dissipated into the air.
Having been in society for so many years, everyone had gained some insight.
Until my assistant nervously handed me Marco’s X account and said, “Sir, I think I should let you know about this.”
Louisa stepped in front of him and pulled my sleeve.
I did not even glance at them, just brushed past them.
Jealousy over a slightly more good-looking male assistant was truly a fall from grace.
Now, he even called her “Louisa”.
Just overnight, he changed the way he called his boss from “Ms. Louisa” being “Louisa”.
“Marco Tucker, right? It’s just a car. I can still afford it.”
“I feel strange with you like this.”
“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.”
Marco Tucker walked around the car to the passenger seat and opened the passenger door gently and considerately.
“I’ll cancel and return it to the dealer as soon as possible.”
Her eyes were fixed on Marco, who opened the car door for her, with a hint of aggressiveness.
Louisa was stunned and frowned.
“I still have over a dozen supercars in my basement. Choose any one you want and consider it as a gift from me.”
“The blind date with the eldest daughter of the Scotts, I’ll go.”
“Alright, Lionel, doesn’t he have to pick me up and drop me off every day for work?”