As she spoke, she smiled disdainfully, “I wondered why he wastes his time on this kind of person.”
“Excuse me, Ms. Steward. Where are we going now?”
“Go home.”
Half an hour later, the black car was driven into the Stewards.
When Phoebe arrived home, Charles was reading a newspaper in the garden. Hearing the sound, he
looked up at her and asked, “Phoebe, where have you been?”
Phoebe answered, “I... I went shopping with my friends. What’s up, Dad?”
Charles put down the newspaper and took a sip of the tea, “Nothing. Since your engagement with the
Conrad family has been called off, we don’t have any relationship with them any longer. You’d better
not go to the Conrads’ Mansion in the future.”
Upon hearing it, Phoebe paused a bit, “Dad...”
“I know it was Clarence Conrad’s personal decision to call off the marriage and it almost had nothing to
do with the Conrad family, but people will talk. I don’t want you to be gossiped in private.”
“Dad, I understand what you meant. I won’t go to the Conrad family anymore in the future.”
Charles nodded, “Okay. You may leave now.”
Phoebe slightly pressed her lips. She wanted to say something but she didn’t utter any word eventually.
After a hum, she went upstairs.
Charles picked up the newspaper again, continuing to read the financial news today.
Since more than two months ago the Conrad family announced to call off the marriage with the
Steward family, Steward Group started to suppress a few cooperated companies, which more or less
made trouble for their cooperated projects with Conrad Group.
Those companies didn’t have the guts to be against Conrad Group. Now, they had Steward Group as
their backer, so they worked together and made some bold movements.
They had thought that they would give Clarence a heavy blow more or less and cause a certain
negative impact on Conrad Group. However, Clarence didn’t take them seriously at all - he directly
changed the companies to cooperate in the projects decisively and quickly, causing some loss for
those companies off-guard as if he had planned it long ago.
No one would want to compete against such a person.
Charles returned to his senses and folded the newspaper in half. When he was about to stand up, he
saw a notice in a missing-persons column.
When he saw the photo of the notice, his expressionless face had a crack, his eyes full of disbelief.
...
“What did you do? Did you post the photo in a newspaper? But, nowadays, fewer and fewer people will
read the newspaper. Are you sure it works?”
Looking at Sherry’s shocked face, Channing said flatly, “Just have a try.”
“Then...” Sherry lowered her voice, “Have you told Stella about it?”
“Yes, I have. She didn’t object.”
Sherry exhaled, “That’s good then. I was afraid that she wasn’t willing to.”
Stella looked quite easy-going, but she was extremely stubborn.
If she didn’t agree to do it, nobody could convince her.
After thinking about it, Sherry noticed that Channing kept bending down his head. She said, “Chan,
don’t overthink. It’ll be good if she can find him. If not, it doesn’t matter either. Anyway, Stella is always
your elder sister.”
Channing muffled, “I know.”
Sherry patted him on his back, “Then you shouldn’t be so depressed. Nobody could choose their
parents, but they could choose their futures. You are outstanding enough. If you didn’t have any
shortage, you would be way too perfect to exist in this world.”
Channing chocked up.
Right then, Winnie came in from the outside. She took off her mask, “It seems you are quite busy
today. Where’s Stella?”
Sherry answered, “She’s sorting out the clients’ orders at the back. I was so worried that we wouldn’t
have any clients. You do you have a large network, Winnie.”
Winnie smiled. She didn’t tell Sherry that almost all their clients today were working for Conrad Group.
Although Winnie also informed a lot of her own friends, most of them were busy shooting in at the
filming sets or had projects in other cities. How could they rush back to City N all of a sudden?
As she spoke, Sherry was a bit worried, “But I doubt if those clients would be our sustainable ones. If
they only came here once per several years, it would be deadly boring.”
Winnie said, “No worries, Sherry. This is just the beginning. They were informed by their friends to
come cover. Later, when your studio got famous, you’ll have more clients. At that time you would have
your exclusive brands. Will you still be afraid of being bored?”
“It makes sense.”
Winnie looked over at Channing, tilting her head, “Handsome, why are you ignoring me? We’ve just
met yesterday. Have you forgotten me?”
Channing put down the thing in his hands. When he was about to answer, Sherry said, “Just ignore
him. He’s always like this. Otherwise, he would already have a girlfriend since he’s so good-looking.”
Channing was speechless.
Winnie raised her eyebrows, nodding slightly in agreement with Sherry’s words.
Stella walked out of the inner office and heard that they were teasing Channing. She smiled, “I’ve
finished sorting the orders out. Let’s go for dinner.”
Channing said, “I still have something to do in college. I’m taking off.”
Sherry pulled him to stop, “Aren’t you on vacation now? What are you busy with? Besides, will you feel
easy to dump such beautiful women like us? What if we encountered someone with evil intentions
when having dinner?”
...
Meanwhile, the Conrads’ Mansion.
As soon as Annie heard about calling off the engagement, Annie hopped up immediately. She said
excitedly, “Impossible! I don’t agree!”
Justin said, “Annie, I’ve told you before. The marriage should be based on the affection of the couple.
You’ve engaged to Mr. Jason for such a long time but there was no development in your relationship at
all. It doesn’t make any sense if you hang on like this.”
“It’s all because of that shameless bitch Stella. If it weren’t for him, Horace would already...”
“Annie, ask yourself - even if Stella didn’t exist, would Mr. Jason like your character?” Justin said in a
solemn voice, “You should know when to keep a low key. Reflect yourself. Don’t just blame others for
your own mistakes.”
It was the very first time that Justin blamed Annie so harshly. Instantly, her eyes were reddened in
anger. She turned around and looked at Joanna as if she was asking Joanna for help, “Aunt Joanna...”
Joanna didn’t speak anything, looking as expressionless as usual.
Dempsey, however, echoed, “I agree with Justin. Horace Jason doesn’t like you. Even if you managed
to marry into the Jason family, you’ll suffer.”
“Uncle Dempsey, but you said differently earlier...”
“In the past, I thought that you are young and you might be changed after getting married. Now, I
realize you wouldn’t change at all. It’s better to stop loss in time rather than letting you marry Horace
Jason and cause trouble every day.”
Of course, Dempsey didn’t suddenly become so reasonable. As the matter of fact, he had successfully
cooperated with Charles already and received powerful financial support from him. Now, the Jason
family meant nothing to Dempsey.
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