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11.06.2025 06:48
She took out a bottle of perfume from her eight-digit Hermes bag and smiled dotingly.
At night, my best friend, Reymond Blunt called me to drink.
“I can’t help it. This is the girls nowadays.”
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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 ….”
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 was already angry and hearing these words only added fuel to the fire.
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[Congratulations for becoming a boyfriend and becoming a regular employee officially.]
She also said that she liked my innate arrogance and rebelliousness the most.
Hearing those words, both of them were stunned.
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“Rosie is taking a day off today. You take a shower first and I’ll go fry you a steak,” she said.
I had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, so everything had to be neatly laid out.
“Lionel, you can’t just think about yourself.”
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In his latest X post, he posted a picture of Louisa lying in his arms and sleeping soundly.
Just overnight, he changed the way he called his boss from “Ms. Louisa” being “Louisa”.
My head exploded with a loud bang.
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No man could bear to see the girl he loved using his own money to buy gifts for other men.
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“I’ve been waiting for this car for almost half a year and no one can take it away, not even you, my girlfriend.”
Marco took a step back, lost his composure and apologized several times.
Although I did not want to admit it, I was now so jealous that I was insane.
In what capacity was he asking me not to blame my girlfriend?
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“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.”
With an annual revenue of nearly 10 billion, she said we were not a match.
As early as yesterday, I had entrusted someone to send her a breakup message.
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I suddenly felt ridiculous.
“You’re the boss, Lionel, this is a matter of words.”
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.
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I felt a chill in my heart and blurted out. “Go ahead.”
“Am I strange?”
I looked at her deeply and believed her pledge of allegiance for the time being.
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I nodded and looked at her leaving back, then opened the cabinet where my underwear was stored.
A supercar worth nearly two million seven hundred dollars was not something that a marketing director with no background like Louisa could afford.
I saw admiration and heartache for another man in her eyes.
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My hand, which was about to sign, paused and I raised my eyes.
“Can’t you go tomorrow? Why do you have to go out so late?” asked me in annoyance.
Her eyes were a bit red and her gaze was full of charm.
Haha … I sounded like a stingy person from his words.
After five years of ups and downs, we opened the largest clothing company in Araya.
Louisa who was wearing a white suit and holding a white crocodile leather bag, stepped out of the car.
I just wanted my favorite supercar back.
Nine years of giving everything for a girl, but in the end, she still did not appreciate it.
“As the marketing director, you have a keen eye, so you shouldn’t miss it.”
My father even agreed to a blind date with the Scott Family on my behalf overnight.
[Marco and I go to meet some clients and have lunch together.]
Faced with his provocation, my gaze turned a bit cold and I found it somewhat funny.
The girl’s cold face showed some dissatisfaction.
As a cold and aloof beauty, men pursue her and compete to get her.
[Having a boss who cares for her subordinates is my happiness.]
Forget it, it was better for the person who did not belong to me to leave.
And staying up the whole night working on a project together and drinking American coffee at 3 a.m.
No.
I frowned and responded calmly, “Let go, it’s so dirty.”
“Mr. Gilmore, good evening. Ms. Watson and I just had dinner outside and came back a bit late. Please don’t blame her.”
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.
As soon as I arrived, the airport lobby was crowded with people.
I took out my mobile phone and called my father who was far away in Brimstone.
Until my assistant nervously handed me Marco’s X account and said, “Sir, I think I should let you know about this.”
I was furious instantly and lost my sanity.
“You can prepare dinner yourself.”
Followed Marco behind her.
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. Please don’t blame Ms. Louisa.”
Marco was the partner who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her.
I had loved her for so many years, what storms had I not seen.
“I haven’t said anything yet, but you’re eager to put the blame on me.”
Only when we did not love could we make rational judgments.
Now, he even called her “Louisa”.
Let her pick and send it away.
“Mr. Gilmore is already busy with work, so it’s better not to trouble him with these small matters.”
There were comments below.
“But the fact is, the value of these orders is far less than that of a supercar.”
“Do you want me to use my authority to force the people below to shut their mouths up?”
“It’s too late now. It’s not safe to go out. You can go tomorrow.”
It was time to end this tangled triangle relationship.
I took a sip of my mojito without saying a word.
There was no point to keep a woman who had left my heart.
I walked out and stood in front of the girl.
We had been in relationship for nine years and this was the first time I had gotten so angry over another man.
[Wow, after reading your secret stories on your crush for four years, you finally got her love!]
Marco’s eyes slightly lifted and his cold face turned slightly pale.
She grabbed her assistant’s hand, pushed the office door and left without looking back.
She pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, sighing.
Marco pursed his lips and said no words.
As a man, he should know why I was angry.
“On X, her assistant posted a message thanking Ms. Louisa for treating him to a delicious meal.”
She had some impatience on her face, but she still held back her patience to explain to me.
On the contrary, Marco posted photos related to Louisa every day.
I stared at it for a long time.
Since the argument that day, Louisa had blocked me on X and WhatsApp.
But I did not expect, Louisa brought me breakfast on the table with the sticky note on the bag.
A message from Louisa popped up on my mobile phone.
“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?”
A relationship that had changed in quality was like an unappetizing breakfast. There was no need to force ourself to eat it.
[Finally, from crush to girlfriend ….]
Thank you for joining me, and I can’t wait to see you in the next chapter!
Louisa, after nine years of our relationship, did you have any feelings for me?
It was obvious that it was not what she was prepared for me.
I stared at the perfume in her hand and recalled every moment of us for the past nine years.
“I still have over a dozen supercars in my basement. Choose any one you want and consider it as a gift from me.”
Louisa, took my underwear and gave it to his assistant?
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.”
She frowned and pouted.
I spent the next whole week busy with the transfer.
I squinted as I walked into the villa in a cold voice.
I did not have any emotions more, I just smiled indifferently and returned the phone to my assistant.
I wanted to rush downstairs and question that girl right away.
“Got it! Marco and I have nothing, not now and not in the future.”
A side photo taken from the perspective of the girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat.
Seeing her smile and express her emotions towards him.
I frowned.
She defended him.
“I’ll cancel and return it to the dealer as soon as possible.”
Louisa stepped on her high heels to protect the man behind her and hugged my waist.
I laid in my bed and stayed up the whole night.
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.
After all, there was no evidence that they were having an affair.
I was stunned for a moment and frowned. “Where did you see them?”
It turned out that all this time she always felt that we were not a good match.
I leaned back in the recliner and sneered.
The next day, the real estate agent came to register the sales information of the villa.
A majestic roar came from afar and a limited-edition supercar with black and gold paint appeared in front of the villa.
She said I was her life.
“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 was too lazy to argue with her, so I just opened X and showed her Marco’s X account.
Now everything had changed.
He uttered a dull response. “Hmm”.
“You have a prominent family background, Lionel, unlike ordinary people like me.”
The guilt I felt for impulsively agreeing to the blind date last night completely disappeared.
Marco Tucker walked around the car to the passenger seat and opened the passenger door gently and considerately.
The atmosphere was silent.
I did not need to be too concerned.
I did not even glance at them, just brushed past them.
“I feel strange with you like this.”
The next day, I came to the company with hungry stomach from the night.
I dragged my suitcase towards the security checkpoint and ran into Louisa and Marco who were rushing back.
I bent down and opened the bottom cabinet.
I fixed my gaze full of pressure on him.
“Lionel, Marco has returned the car to the dealer, but I need to go over to cancel the account.”
“With so many supercars you have, you don’t mind, do you?”
I waited for her for so long that I was starving. I then opened my mobile phone and saw Marco’s social media.
A pair of gleaming silver stiletto heels stepped on the ground.
“Louisa, do you want to hear what you’re saying right now?”
Targeting? He was not worthy.
“Also, today, I suddenly remembered that you had ordered a supercar, so I picked it up and gave it to him.”
She and Marco would go back to the company to work overtime tonight and would not go home.
“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.”
Even though the gift she gave was to serve herself.
It seemed like the superior-subordinate relationship between them was closer than I imagined.
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 saw them exchanging a few words with each other and Louisa smiled particularly happily.
He looked up, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.
Seeing that I had given in, she pushed the door open and left without any hesitation.
Louisa then pulled me all the way into the bathroom.
Marco behind her spoke up, “It’s okay, Mr. Gilmore, a few rumors can’t hurt me.”
Ms. Louisa?
“No, I do.”
I was sure now.
In the past, I admired her rational and clear nature the most.
“This is your own problem. I shouldn’t have to put on a leadership role and help you solve it.”
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She was standing in the crowd, looking at me from afar.
“Marco Tucker, right? It’s just a car. I can still afford it.”
The perfume in her hand was more of a brand I had long since disliked.
She said the sports car had been cancelled and sent back to the automotive dealership.
That night, I brought all the top-of-the-line sports cars that I had collected in my garage to her.
An hour later, her male assistant drove the car and posted a message on his social media.
It was her handwriting.
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 reacted earlier than Louisa.
“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 now everything had changed.
Did she know what it meant to give a man underwear as a gift?
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Louisa pushed the door to my office and stepped in with her high heels.
If he dared to accept it, he should be able to guess who the original owner of the car was.
Marco took two steps forward with his long legs and blocked me.
At first, I suspected that Marco took the photos secretly behind Louisa out of vanity.
She also wanted me to defend him with her despite feeling disgusted.
I stepped down from the stage and left the conference room.
Louisa stepped in front of him and pulled my sleeve.
“Alright, Lionel, doesn’t he have to pick me up and drop me off every day for work?”
“Don’t you like this car? It’s also for your sake that I canceled it early.”
My face turned cold and so did my heart.
Louisa was stunned and frowned.
Jealousy over a slightly more good-looking male assistant was truly a fall from grace.
But she refused decisively and stayed by my side wholeheartedly.
Her eyes were fixed on Marco, who opened the car door for her, with a hint of aggressiveness.
But in the cabinet, a box of men’s underwear was missing.
I put my hands in my pockets, curled the corners of my mouth and a hint of coldness and anger flashed in my eyes.
I ignored her shock, put away my mobile phone and walked past her.
“Am I thinking of myself?”
When we were in love, she once whispered in my ear that she would only love me and only me in her life.
At that moment, all my expectations were dashed.
Getting up early and having breakfast together in the hotel.
She was stunned for a moment, her lips slightly parted, with an incredulous expression.
Five years ago, after graduating from university, my father asked me to return to Brimstone to inherit the family business.
I nodded and responded, “Next week, I’ll transfer the management rights of the company to you and leave.”
His slender fingers gripped the steering wheel and the corners of his mouth curved in just the right angle.
In the past five years, I had transformed from a rich second-generation who knew nothing to a first-generation entrepreneur.
Everyone was in an uproar, expressing shock hearing this news.
She raised her hand and slammed the table angrily, saying harshly, “We can handle it ourselves. We don’t need you.”
“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?”
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.”
Since we wanted to sever ties, we naturally had to settle everything.
I turned my gaze away from the door and let out a long sigh.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, I walked into the largest conference room of the company with Reymond on time.
“Speak! Marco!”
The way he called her changed to be more intimate.
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.”
Shouldn’t we have anticipated such a result?
[Driving the car given by my boss to send her home and even the wind was sweet.]
I picked up the documents she brought back and gave a faint response. “Hmm.”
In his post, there was a box of underwear of this brand.
“The way he looks at you is not the way an ordinary subordinate looks at his superior.”
“You took the car without my consent. I just wanted to take back what belonged to me.”
My assistant shook the mobile phone in his hand with a look of surprise.
I handed the breakfast to my assistant and asked him to go out and sell me another one.
Louisa did not expect me to speak so bluntly and her face suddenly turned ugly.
This clothing company was co founded by me and Louisa. She and I both hold half of the equity.
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.
In a flash, I remembered the X post Marco posted two days ago.
Leaving me only the refreshing fragrance of gardenia that dissipated into the air.
“Are you used to driving?”
Wasn’t it normal for people to criticize a boss who gave his or her assistant a luxury car?
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 money, good looks and a good figure, so why should I waste my time on someone who did not love me!
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?!”
“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.”
“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.”
I got it.
Louisa and I had been dating since we were in college until now.
Until I saw a post on X.
“Notify everyone that there will be a staff meeting this afternoon.” I ordered.
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.
“When is your blind date with the Scott Family arranged? Have you really decided to leave Araya?”
Whatever Louisa wanted to do, I accompanied her.
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.
“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 got in the car and headed to the airport.
Rosie paid extra attention to this and checked it carefully every day.
Seeing I stopped talking, she sighed.
A series of notifications popped up on my phone and it was an X post that Marco had just posted.
However, I did not want to leave Louisa, so I stayed in Araya.
The breakfast box she brought in the bag was my least favorite lamb sandwich.
My raging anger suddenly died down and what followed was endless coldness and disappointment.
“You dare to give a supercar worth two million seven hundred dollars to the man who adores you, Louisa ….”
“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. I shouldn’t have accepted Ms. Watson’s gift.”
“The blind date with the eldest daughter of the Scotts, I’ll go.”
“This is an irrefutable evidence. Do you want me to expose all the dirty things you have done?”
Louisa held my hand and said in a deep voice, “Lionel, why are you so angry?”
“Didn’t you give him the car and he accepted it? What’s the point of having me, an outsider, wipe his ass?”
“Well, my Baby, here … I bought you a new limited-edition perfume, so don’t be angry.”
I was really reluctant to leave everything behind and return to Brimstone now.
I lit a cigarette and blew a puff into the air.
In the evening, I stood on the balcony of the villa and gazed the sunset.
At one o’clock in the afternoon, I finished dealing with all the documents, but there was no sign of Louisa.
I, who felt heartbroken at first, became numb in the end.
Spending their time together watching the sunset on the beach after chatting with their bussiness partner.
I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled.
He joked that I should have changed a long time ago.
Having been in society for so many years, everyone had gained some insight.
Before getting off work, I received two business trip applications for two people and clicked “agree”.
“But you have to know, as an assistant, what you should and shouldn’t accept.”