After accepting the call, Clarence turned his head and saw Stella choking over water and coughing.
He walked over and patted her back softly.
Stella immediately turned off her phone's screen.
Clarence retracted his gaze and said, “What are you talking about?”
Stella said, “Nothing, nothing at all.”
She took her cup again and drank it as she lifted her head.
When she finished drinking, Clarence took the thing beside him, “You haven't had your medicine.”
Stella, “...Oh.”
She poured another cup of water, turned her head and looked at Clarence, “The video of you playing
the guitar was uploaded to the internet.”
Clarence tore the aluminium foil, took two pills out, and slowly said, “I know.”
Stella recalled the call that he just received, he was probably talking about this matter.
She said, “Have you taken down the trending?”
Clarence put the pills in her hand, “What for? It would be very expensive.”
Stella's smile was gone, “I didn't think that you like to be the hot topic that everyone would discuss.”
Clarence said, “I don't. However...”
He puts his hands by Stella's side to the edge of the table, holding her in his embrace, and continued
speaking, “Didn't I do this to make you feel a sense of crisis?”
Stella was speechless.
Was he crazy?
He really had good eyes, he could even see that.
Clarence smiled, took the cup on the table and handed it to her as he slowly said, “My love is endless.”
My love for you would be endless.
Stella accepted the water, deliberately keeping her calm, “Sorry, my English is not good, I don't
understand what you are saying.”
He tactfully said, “Since that is so, then when you go overseas for the fashion week in several months,
you will need a translator, I'm willing to help.”
“Chan can go with me.”
“He has no time.”
“You knew it again.”
Clarence said, “I always have a precise ability to judge things that have yet to happen.”
Stella didn't want to pay attention to him, she turned around and ate the medicine.
...
After a weekend had passed, Stella had fully recovered from her sickness.
Monday morning after she put her things back, she played with the child and went downstairs
with Channing.
They just walked to the neighbourhood gate, the Rolls-Royce parked by the road was opened and
Clarence's figure appeared before their eyes, “Hop on, I'll send you.”
Stella acted like she didn't see it as she spoke to Channing, “I'm leaving first, send me a message
when you get to school.”
Channing nodded, “Okay.”
After Stella left, Channing said, “Don't you guys stay together through the weekend? Why is there no
progress at all?”
Clarence snorted coldly, “Don't you know that your sister turns hostile faster than turning the page of a
book?”
After saying that, he got into the car.
Channing raised his eyebrows, turned around, and went to the MRT station.
...
Stella just entered the company and heard most of the staff members were talking about the video of
Clarence playing the guitar.
She rubbed the space between her eyebrows as that made her headache.
Not long after she arrived at the office, Samuel entered and said, “Ms. Radomil, I have contacted
Bonnie there, she said that she's going to report the case to the police this evening, I've sent people to
go with her in case Mr. Bernard's men will do anything on the way.”
“Have you contacted the other victims?”
“I did, but... After all, those were all profitable exchanges at first, and they had received a lot of bonus
or is now the company's high-level, asking them to show up and testify against Mr. Bernard will make
them expose their own scandal back then, so...”
No one was willing to come out.
Stella said, “It's fine, just let this be. With Bonnie's testimony, he wouldn't be able to be out for quite
some time, as for the others, we'll see how the police handle it.”
“Okay, then I'll go out first.”
“Wait.” Stella called him, coughed, and said, “Is that... still in the trending?”
Samuel was stunned before he realized what she was asking about, he answered and said, “The
trending is less popular this morning.”
Stella sighed in relief, she was thinking, if she was still on the trending list, she would just spend money
to take it down.
In any case, Clarence was the CEO of Conrad Group, who would often use such a strange way to get
to the trending, no matter the Conrad Group or the Steward Group, both would inevitably be gossiped,
and the influence wouldn't be good as well.
Samuel spoke again, “But...”
“But what?”
“Half an hour ago, Conrad Group’s official Twitter put out a statement.”
Stella took her cellphone out and opened Twitter.
‘Conrad Group’s official Twitter VIP account, we didn't think that Mr. Conrad would appear in front of
everyone in such a way and we also thank everyone for your fondness of Mr. Conrad. As for the matter
last night, there are two important points that Mr. Conrad told us to convey. First, please don't call him
“Honey”, his family is strict and he has only one wife in all his life. Two, it's not “ex-wife” but “girlfriend”
who will be his future life partner, please don't use the wrong adjective again.’
Stella looked at that declaration and sneered.
Samuel left at a right time.
Stella put her cellphone down, looked up and took a deep breath.
What the heck did she do wrong?
At the same time, in the Conrad Group's CEO office.
Clarence scrolled through the comments below that statement, slightly smiling.
Seeing the situation, Nathan tried to say, “Mr. Conrad, you can play the guitar.”
Clarence was speechless
Clarence slightly looked up at him without any expression.
Nathan immediately looked to another place, pretending that nothing ever happened.
Clarence said, “How's Armand?”
“Still in the investigation, he won’t admit it like what we thought about before, he persists on saying that
Lyndon used him, Logan slandered and framed him. But regarding his sexual assault, Madam has
contacted the victim and they will go to the police station to report the case this evening.”
Clarence lightly tapped the table with his finger, “With the current situation, no one is willing to help him
anymore, he can't persist for long.”
At that time, Nathan's cellphone rang, he walked to the side and accepted the call.
After one minute, Nathan stood again in front of Clarence, his expression became even more serious,
“Mr. Conrad, it's a call from the Conrad family, saying that Young Master Justin wants to see you.”
Clarence's hand slightly stopped before he finally answered, “Tell them that I'll go there in the evening.”
Nathan said, “Mr. Conrad, are you really going to go?”
“Or else?”
“Even if Madame Conrad commuted suicide, but after all, she planted seeds of hatred between you
and Young Master Justin... Wouldn't it be better if you don't go?”
Clarence indifferently said, “He wouldn't go as far as setting traps and tricks around the Conrad family
to harm me.”
Nathan was silent before he replied to the call.
One just said, the “game” that Joanna left before she passed away seemed like a stalemate game, but
it's ever-changing and full of turbulence.
Once one was careless, one would fall into it and be doomed forever.
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