Chapter 49 The Reason William Hates Her
# Peace Group President's Wife Cheating During Marriage
# William's Ex-Wife Secret Meeting with Lover
# William Cuckolded
These three trending topics froze everyone in place.
They exchanged glances, not daring to speak.
When Tony knocked and entered, William was patiently feeding Emily, who waved at him enthusiastically.
Seeing the urgency and tension on his face, William's deep eyes showed curiosity.
Tony immediately handed him the tablet.
His eyes instantly clouded over with gloom. William tightened his jaw, his face dark as he watched the video playing silently on the screen.
This video... he had seen it four years ago.
The video was from a hotel corridor surveillance camera.
Sophia was entering and leaving the room, with a day and night in between. When she left, she had changed into a different outfit.
Her face looked haggard, her steps unsteady.
Hotel, changed clothes, weakness... these elements combined easily led people to conclude that Sophia was "cheating during marriage."
William's gaze flickered for a moment.
When the two children were one year old, Sophia would go out for two days every month, rain or shine. This habit continued for three months.
Four years ago, the moment he saw this video, William had Tony completely block any news related to Sophia to prevent anything unfavorable to her.
He didn't expect it to resurface today.
The video had one difference from what he'd seen before: there was now a man's figure in it!
He wore a baseball cap, sunglasses, and a mask, tall and well-built, deliberately avoiding the surveillance camera position, so only the top of his head could be captured.
William's eyes were deep, hiding endless dark currents beneath.
Emily sat in her high chair watching him, puzzled as to why he stopped feeding her. She reached for the spoon, ready to feed herself.
Emily pulled William's wandering thoughts back.
William's eyes were extremely deep. "Take it down immediately."
Tony understood his meaning right away and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after leaving the office.
On the other side.
Sophia had just come out of the operating room.
After finishing a busy night, the patient's condition suddenly deteriorated this morning. The medical team responsible for the patient threw themselves into intense rescue efforts again, finally managing to save the person.
After surgery lasting a night and a day, Sophia's eyes showed exhaustion.
At the door, her assistant Amelia immediately stepped forward to support her, wanting to speak several times but swallowing her words back.
After Sophia finished washing up, the assistant immediately followed her.
The two walked together toward the cafeteria.
Not having eaten in a long time, Sophia felt her stomach was terribly empty.
Amelia kept stealing glances at her, then looking away.
After eating, Sophia took the initiative to ask her, "What are you holding back so hard? I've seen you open your mouth at least ten times."
Amelia quickly showed her the online news.
After reading it, Sophia's eyes turned ice cold.
"I'll handle this. You focus on the lab work."
"Okay."
Sophia took out her phone and called someone she hadn't contacted since things ended four years ago.
"Charles, I need to speak with Mr. Samuel Harris."
The person on the other end seemed to have anticipated her call.
"Ms. Johnson, rest assured, Samuel already knows about this and has arranged for people to handle it. Don't worry, something like this will never happen again."
Charles Green's voice was full of solemnity.
The hotel surveillance video should have been destroyed four years ago, but somehow someone with ulterior motives secretly collected it.
Samuel was very angry about this. The consequences would be severe.
Sophia exchanged a few pleasantries with him before hanging up. Four years ago, Charles and his team handled everything, and she didn't pay attention.
She didn't expect that four years later.
This boomerang would come back to hit her.
Compared to being falsely accused of "cheating during marriage," she was more annoyed that her secret marriage to William had been exposed.
From now on, when she went out.
She would have an additional label as "William's ex-wife."
Sophia went back to her room to catch up on sleep.
Since she was already at the lab, she decided to check on both Raymond and that foolish girl's physical conditions, so she could finalize treatment plans for both of them as soon as possible.
Tony's heart was very uneasy.
Just as he contacted the PR team to handle the trending topics, in an instant, all news about Sophia and William online completely disappeared!
Not only did this news disappear, but Sophia's name couldn't be searched anywhere on the entire internet.
Her name was more like a forbidden word!
Tony's expression became grave. From when the video appeared until now, less than half an hour had passed.
Even for the Peace Group, the efficiency wouldn't necessarily be this high.
The person behind this...
He reported everything truthfully to William.
William's cold gaze shifted from the news on the screen to Emily, who was sitting on the carpet playing with building blocks. He became increasingly curious about Sophia's mysterious identity.
A bankrupt orphan girl, yet she had such capabilities.
William felt an indescribable frustration, but more than that, a desire to know more about her.
Emily got tired of playing and climbed back into William's arms.
This time, Emily wasn't sleepy. She looked at the computer in front of her with bright eyes, then looked back at William and pointed at the computer.
Emily: "Watch sheep."
William didn't really understand this child.
He patiently asked what sheep, and Emily explained with words and gestures, her expressions animated, telling him about a cartoon about sheep.
William searched for all sheep-related cartoons on his laptop. Each time he played one, Emily in his arms would shake her head.
Having no choice, he had to call Tony to come ask.
The childless secretary knew even less about sheep cartoons.
He went to ask employees who had children and finally found the sheep cartoon Emily was talking about.
Then this scene appeared.
Emily sat in William's arms, holding a freshly made bottle with both hands, with the laptop on the desk in front of her, playing the sheep cartoon.
And William?
One hand held Emily to prevent her from falling out of his arms, while the other hand calmly handled work.
This scene looked exactly like a doting father with his daughter.
Tony quickly shook the bubbles out of his head, placed the new documents that needed signing on the desk, and quickly retreated.
But just as he turned around, Sophia's call came.
After examining both patients and discussing different treatment plans with the medical team, Sophia returned to the lounge and inevitably thought of the children.
James and Michael were in class at school and couldn't be reached now.
She first called Allan to ask about Emily's situation, only to learn that Emily had been taken to the company by William.
Sophia was full of questions.
Back when James and Michael were so clingy to William, he wouldn't let them go to the company, but now he'd "abducted" her daughter to the company?
Had William taken the wrong medicine today?
Worried, Sophia immediately had Amelia arrange a flight back to Empire City.
She wasn't afraid William would do anything to Emily. William's upbringing and character wouldn't allow him to do such a thing.
But Alice, that woman, was another story.
Sure enough, when Alice learned that William had taken Sophia's daughter to the company, her face darkened, and the venom in her eyes was about to overflow.
The Rivera family went bankrupt, her family was locked in prison, the man she loved rejected her confession, and the video she had anonymously posted was taken down in the blink of an eye, with all accounts involved in that video being blocked!
One thing after another, piece by piece, made her rationality collapse.
At this moment, Alice showed a sinister smile, "Sophia, you forced me to do this!"
Son and daughter, let's see how you choose!
Emily had worked hard following William around all day at the office.
On the way to pick up James and Michael, she nestled in William's arms and slept the whole way, only feeling secure when holding onto his shirt.
William looked down at the child in his arms with complicated eyes.
She was like a miniature version of Sophia.
Delicate features - she would definitely grow up to be as beautiful as her mother.
William couldn't explain where his natural affinity with Emily came from.
From the first moment he saw her, he really liked Emily.
The car drove all the way to the kindergarten.
"Mr. Smith, James and Michael were picked up by their mother. It's been a while now."
William frowned at this, his instincts telling him something was wrong.
"Sophia is on a business trip. She's not in Empire City these two days."
Teacher Scarlett Lewis's heart immediately tightened. She knew William's identity, and if something really happened to the children... she didn't dare imagine what consequences awaited her.
William said with a stern face, "Check the surveillance!"
Scarlett immediately took William to the surveillance room, and they quickly obtained today's after-school surveillance video.
James and Michael couldn't wait to leave the classroom after school.
They looked around at the entrance, and after seeing the Johnson family's familiar car, happily called out, "Mom."
The rear window rolled down a crack, just enough to see the woman's familiar hairstyle and highly similar eyes.
The person in the car waved at them.
James and Michael ran forward, opened the car door, and got in.
The car quickly drove away from the school's surveillance range.
Looking at the license plate, it was identical to the car Sophia usually sent to pick up the children, but there was no guarantee it wasn't a cloned plate.
After watching the video, William's face was terrifyingly dark.
Young Scarlett stood beside him, her calves trembling uncontrollably. "Mr. Smith, about this incident..."
As a teacher, letting two children get directly into a car without confirming who was inside was indeed her responsibility.
William had Tony negotiate to obtain surveillance from the surrounding roads, and they quickly tracked the black car, which drove in the opposite direction from the Johnson family.
It finally stopped at an abandoned factory.
The last thing they saw was a burly man carrying the two children, one on each shoulder, into the factory.
The last place the black car appeared was by the sea.
All traces had been erased.