Over the years, Lucas’s attitude towards me had been terrible, often saying unpleasant things. Because I was tolerant of his stupidity, I oft just laughed it off.
But this behavior of him saying nasty things to me while still expecting to marry me, in Lucas’s view, made him think I was deeply in love w
him.
So he brought Lily to test my bottom line.
Did he love Lily? Not necessarily.
But I understand Lucas, he’s very obsessed with this kind of heroic, rebel–against–the–world–for–someone script.
Now, he’s just projecting these feelings onto Lily.
Poor Lily, leaving with such certainty, thinking Lucas had deep feelings for her.
Little did she know how dangerous a fool like Lucas could be when he turns on someone.
Of course, I wouldn’t put all my hopes on Lily, but her proposal piqued my interest.
Since this knife was so useless, might as well let it serve its final purpose.
I quite want to take over Lucas’s company.
Consider it compensation for ruining my birthday party.
After all, men may lie, but money doesn’t.
8
Lily moved quickly. The next day, she came to me with a copy of Lucas’s company’s bid document.
Around the age of twenty, Lucas began to realize that I seemed to be in the dominant position in our relationship.
Seeing that he couldn’t control me, he started to become wary.
I had been to his company twice, but couldn’t even enter his office.
Now Lily could not only enter his territory but even freely photograph his documents.
I let out a sneer.
Lucas and I are both arrogant people, but I know how to disguise it, while Lucas doesn’t.
I know Lucas too well. He has no guard against Lily because he believes his charm can make her head over heels for him.
In his eyes, someone like Lily isn’t as difficult to deal with as me. He thinks that as long as he sends her some gifts and sweet talks her, she will be devoted to him, like a pet he keeps.
But he can’t imagine that Lily is currently the biggest hidden danger around him.
Lily had blacked out some key information in the bid document, as if hinting that she would only work for me if I did what she said.
I asked her, “What do you want?”
Lily said:
“First, transfer me 300,000.”
I didn’t hesitate and generously transferred her 350,000.
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I said, “Buy some nutritional supplements for your brother too.”
Lily was silent for a few seconds, somewhat choked up: “What do you want me to do?”
I leaned close to her ear and whispered:
“If you really want revenge, why not get Lucas to admit his crimes himself?”
“With his trust in you, getting him drunk, coaxing him a bit, and recording it, isn’t that simple?”
“Then I’ll use public opinion. What do you think?”
Lily was silent for a long time before saying, “I understand.”
I watched Lily walk to the elevator.
Her hand fumbled in her coat pocket for a moment, pulling out a voice recorder.
Lily stared at it with a gloomy face for a moment, then threw it into the trash can the next second.
When she came, I had lightly touched her pocket and felt something that wasn’t a phone.
I guessed it was a voice recorder.
But asking her to take it out rashly would only increase her vigilance.
So when I mentioned her brother, I transferred her an extra 50,000.
It was just to tell her that I deeply sympathized with her situation and was willing to be her reliable partner.
In fact, even if she didn’t throw it away, she wouldn’t be able to use this recording before confronting Lucas.
During this time, I had a thousand ways to make this voice recorder “naturally damaged“.
But when Lily’s eyes reddened for those few seconds, I knew I had succeeded.
After all, it’s more appropriate for her to throw away the voice recorder herself.
9
Lucas’s friends invited me to a bar.
They rarely invite me, so of course I knew why.
They just enjoy watching drama unfold and wanted to see how Lucas and I would interact after such an ugly scene last time.
I sat among them, sipping my drink slowly.
During the casual chat, Lucas arrived with Lily and sat not far from me.
The others‘ eyes darted between us, revealing smiles that anticipated a good show.
I raised my hand slightly towards Lucas.
Lucas instantly bristled like a cat, his whole body alert as he stared at me, as if afraid I might suddenly slap him.
But I just reached out to take the fruit platter in front of him.
I smiled slightly and said:
“I’m a bit hungry.”
His friends laughed and started to mock Lucas: “Did you see that? Lucas was so scared his face turned white.”
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Lucas’s face instantly became extremely unpleasant, and his friends started to tease him again.
In the dim light of the bar, I took the opportunity to place a voice recorder near Lily’s leg while reaching for the fruit platter.
10
After several rounds of drinks, the group had loosened up and were chatting freely.
I pretended to accidentally step on the foot of the guy next to me.
The guy quickly lifted his foot:
“Rachel, you stepped on my foot.”
I hurriedly apologized:
“I’m so sorry, should I buy you a new pair? Oh, are these Air Jordans?”
This word sobered up half the people present.
Not for any other reason, but because their nickname for Felix was “AJ Bro“.
Lucas slammed his glass down hard, clearly looking unhappy.
Lily spoke up: “Lucas, what’s wrong?”
Before Lucas could speak, the others had already started chattering:
“Sister–in–law, you don’t know, Lucas was once punched by a guy wearing Air Jordans.”
Lily’s body trembled: “Ah, what happened?”
Lucas remained silent, while the others continued to gossip to Lily:
“That guy was clearly a poor student, but he wore a pair of Air Jordans on his first day!”
“Lucas just asked him a couple of questions, but that guy punched Lucas.”
“Luckily, Lucas’s aunt is a shareholder, so she got him expelled. Otherwise, who knows what that poor student might have done.”
Lily pressed her lips together:
“How did you ask him?”
Someone suddenly laughed: “What could we ask? Didn’t we just ask… if he earned the money by being a male prostitute? Hahahahaha.”
Several people suddenly burst into laughter.
Lucas took another sip of his drink:
“Fortunately, he became disabled. Otherwise, I would think about killing him every day”
Lily’s body had started to tremble slightly.
Someone asked: “What was that guy’s name again? Lucas, your family paid his family a sum of money at that time, right?”
Lucas gritted his teeth: “Who knows, didn’t we always call him ‘Duck Bro‘ back then?”
If the lights were brighter, I guess Lily would have shown her true colors at this moment.
Lucas and his friends had beaten Felix until he was disabled, yet they couldn’t even remember his name.
Such arrogance and malice.
