Chapter 8 The Work Of The Master
"What did I do now? Who are you calling a thief?"

Maria's brows slightly furrowed but she didn't really panic in the face of Vivian's outright accusation.

"Who else but you!" Pointing a finger at Maria's neck, Vivian almost exploded. She spouted fiercely, "You know what you did! You stole Jadee!"

A bit confused, Maria looked in the direction where Vivian was pointing and found that she was referring to her pendant.

"This thing?"

As if she still didn't care about what was happening, Maria casually took off the pendant, and threw it to Bill.

Not expecting that Maria would do something like this, Bill was startled.

Fortunately, he stretched out his hands in time and managed to catch it immediately. Vivian and Julie also came over to take a closer look and to check if it really was Jadee.

But among everyone else, Lily was the most surprised one.

It was actually good for her that the whole Jenkins family had caught Maria red-handed. But that wasn't the point.

How on earth did Maria have the same precious jade piece as Vivian?

It was supposed to be the work of an extremely famous master. There was no way that poor Maria could possess something like that.

More importantly, it was impossible that Maria was the one who stole it because all of this was just a part of Lily's plan to get back at her. She was the one who had hidden Jadee in a safe location.

Maria, and it was exactly what happened. The jade piece from Maria didn't need to be the original Jadee

do you care to explain yourself? Why do you have this?" Bill asked

planned to make her marry into the Wilson family in Vivian's

most

with Bill's social status, he couldn't easily get an opportunity

of the Wilson family, suddenly came to Bill with a proposal. He wanted his grandson, Anthony, to be engaged

course, Bill was overjoyed with this good news. Of all the other prominent families in Sheffield, Michael chose the ordinary Jenkins family. How could Bill refuse such a tempting

unexpected happened right after the

were powerful and influential, it also meant that they had many enemies. One night, Anthony was ambushed by his enemies,

grandfather, sustained collateral damage from

angry that he disinherited

the senior executives of the company where Vivian was working had suddenly ranked her high enough to

skyrocketing, Anthony became a cripple. Naturally, like any father, Bill didn't want someone marrying his daughter if he wasn't

Bill was afraid of offending the Wilson family. With that in mind, he came up with the brilliant

based on their oral agreement, he only promised to marry his daughter to Anthony. They didn't

adopted Maria. Now, he officially had

older than Vivian. As part of the

up being the

the daughter he adopted turned

to the police even though they had conclusive evidence right in front

would be a perfect opportunity to teach her a lesson instead. He wished to purge all the unpleasant characteristics that she acquired growing up by disciplining her thoroughly. Besides, all his effort would be in vain if he couldn't turn her into a suitable bride for

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