Chapter 44

The drama ended with Jasper promising not to meddle in the Gardner Group’s business.

After Sophia and Javier left, Newton looked around at the mess in anger. “What a shame! All the men in our family just have to fall for those scheming Gardner women!”

Jasper bent down to pick up the things on the floor while his mind spun. Could someone have replaced Jonah at the meeting in Yoarkley?

But he knew his father wouldn’t have recognized the wrong person. They had fought twice at a shopping mall. There was no way Newton could have been mistaken unless he was showing early signs of dementia.

Jasper picked up a hand fan and asked, “Grandpa, is this yours?” Newton sighed and said, “Just look at me. I must have lost my senses in anger. Bring it to me.”

Newton’s gaze softened, and he said, “Alice made me this fan herself. The patterns and calligraphy are all her own work.”

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very mundane compared to Liana, who knew how to play the piano, dance, and sing. Besides being gentle, obedient, and pretty, Alice had no other talents. She was no different than the

like a diamond after leaving him? She exuded confidence now. And her previously unknown abilities were being revealed one by one, surprising

she thought that he did not deserve her at her best, but Jonah did? So she didn’t love him, but was only fulfilling her duties – as his wife to please

Other times, she would accompany me in the study for the entire afternoon, but she didn’t mind.

pen to paper, I could tell she had more than ten years of experience. She wrote with poise and skill. Her graceful

and sighed. “She’s so much better than that decadent Gardner girl. But alas, you’re blinded by love and can’t tell what’s

pursed his lips and opened the hand fan. There was one meaningful and beautifully written prose on it. It said, “If I were young

and style looked identical

Alyssa was in charge of. He also recalled hearing Alice’s footsteps in the corridor when he was leaving Alyssa’s office that day. Could Alice know

no way Alyssa and Alice were one and the same person, right? How could it be? Alice was so naive and

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