Chapter 9

When I got back to the office, I relied on medication prescribed by the hospital to slow down the pain.

Stay engaged in your work.

Luckily, my father didn't think much of the company in the first place either, and transferred all the company's authority to my name when he divided it up.

Otherwise I can't even imagine looking at the company in all its glory today.

How can he sit still and not come after me.

But I was still naive and underestimated the level of chutzpah of that group.

Within a few days, an announcement came from the secretary claiming that my father was waiting for me downstairs in the lobby.

I frowned, but continued down the stairs.

As soon as he saw me, my father changed the mean look he used to look down on me and held my hand and smiled sarcastically:

"Xiao Xuan ah, how all thin, these days busy work hard bad, right?"

I, on the other hand, was not in that mood to tangle with him and spoke bluntly:

"What are you trying to do here, didn't the dinner party earlier say you disowned me as your daughter?"

When my father heard this, he was embarrassed, but he remained persistent and went up to take my hand, saying:

"What a silly thing to say, you child, we are family."

When I didn't respond, he rubbed his hands together and said to himself:

"That ... I heard Xiao Gu say you recently took a big project he handled, if I say ah, this does not like your man we do not want, only family is your only backing, right?"

I just find the wrinkled face in front of me beyond ridiculous.

All he cares about is profit, and he turns to whoever can give him more help, and it makes me sick.

I ignored him and turned to go back up the stairs and instructed the security guards not to listen to anything he had to say anymore and to just throw him out.

Anyway, the company was completely ceded to me in the first place, and he still has nothing to do with it.

I just didn't realize that the other uninvited guest looked like he had a deal with his father.

Lining up to get my ass kicked.

I had just finished a meeting in the conference room when I saw Charles Torres sitting on the seat in my office.

Alarm bells went off in my mind that he was going to steal the secrets of that program.

Hurriedly, he walked over and said in a cold voice:

"What are you doing here, I made it clear enough at the hospital to leave me alone."

And Charles Torres looked like a different person, suddenly red-eyed.

He fell to his knees in front of me, tugging at my coat tails with a deadly grip, and said:

"Patricia Nelson, that was all a misunderstanding before, will you listen to me and explain?"

I was startled and backed away, but the office door had long since closed.

And Charles Torres didn't even give me a chance to say no and started rambling.

He tells the truth about that year.

As it turns out, Charles Torres has long had his eye on the Bruno family's fortune.

And the only way to annex their family is to capture Alice Bruno's heart and make her fall in love with herself.

That's why, Charles' mom and dad were always upset with me.

After saying all this, Charles Torres, who had long since burst into tears, got up and embraced me fiercely, crying:

"Patricia Nelson, from the beginning to the end, it was you I loved, this was just a play I put on, I didn't know you had stomach cancer or I wouldn't have wanted any of those bullshit possessions at all, I'd rather spend that time with you."

Instead, I wasn't moved in the slightest by his words of contrition, and only felt my stomach turn.

So exerting all his strength to push him away, he said word for word in the most vicious tone of his life:

"Charles Torres, aren't you wicked and disgusting and bad, and now you come running to touch yourself?"

"Since you'd rather stay with me than have property, why don't you give me your family fortune?"