“Alyssa, please help me plead with grandma. I don’t have any other place to go. You all are my only family, please don’t do this to me,” She cried, glancing at the cold faces of the other Chen members.Old Lady Chen stared at her with an icy look in her eyes. “You not only made us lose a multimillion dollar contract but also a company and three million dollars all due to your carelessness and selfishness. If you had allowed Elias to handle it like I had ordered why you stared in the sidelines to help him out was that a bad thing?”Odessa’s tears flowed down without stopping. She hadn’t made herself the sole proprietor of the contract and she had no idea how that happened.Aurora Corporation was a company she had created and worked so hard to build. Her own legacy and now it’s gone.She had gone to Sterling Corporation two days straight to plead with the chairman but no one attended to her. Even Mavin Sun had ignored her. “Grandma, please. You all are the only family I have. Where wo

“George Wang, I respect you a lot but I won’t have you stand here and make threats,” Theodore said calmly. “Whatever issues you think we may have can be solved diplomatically.” “Diplomatic?” George seethed. “My grandson is lying in the hospital and the doctors say he has no chance of ever having children in his lifetime and this is all your son’s doing!” Theodore’s brows furrowed in confusion. “I don’t quite understand what you mean.” “Your son went to Raisins Entertainment Hall and harmed my son. Not only that, he crippled Mei Fang. Doesn’t your entire family owe the Wang family an explanation?” Theodore listened calmly to George. Even though his son was quite reckless, he wasn’t this stupid to harm someone from the Wang family without provocation. He was the heir of the Wu family and he knew what could jeopardize the Wu family. “Is there proof that my son was actively involved in the assault on your son?” He questioned. George frowned out of impatience. “We have e

“Arghh! Let me go!” Odessa cried.The tray of food fell to the floor with a loud clang.“Let go of me!” Riven, who was in the room at the end of the hall was attracted by the cries. That sounded familiar. Was that Odessa?He bolted out of the room only to see two maids standing over Odessa trying to slash her face with a knife.“Miss said your face is the reason why she has to live miserably everyday. Perhaps, if we disfigure your face, you won’t have to compete with her anymore,” Lisa sneered.“Yes. That’s right. Who do you think you are to even try to compete with the rightful Miss of the Chen family? You’re just an illegitimate granddaughter who married herself to a mentally unstable man because of your selfishness. You don’t even deserve to live!” Bea added.Odessa’s eyes widened as she thrashed around trying to escape from their grip as the knife slowly came in contact with her skin.Then—BANG!“Let go of my wife!” Riven yelled, kicking Lisa who was holding the knife a few metr

“Huh? What do you mean? Are you scared?” Riven asked.“Scared? You are about to get us killed and I’m trying to save us. This is the Pinnacle Villa, one of the highest, most expensive Villas in the city.”“I know and it’s ours.”“How?” Odessa frowned, folding her arms over her chest. “You don’t even work and my cards are frozen. How would you owe such a Villa?”Riven pursed his lips.He couldn’t tell her about his identity, not yet.“The Zhao heir gave it to me as a gift.”Odessa’s features relaxed slightly. “The Zhao’s heir?”She looked around. That explains it then. But this was a huge coming from the Zhao family or were they sorry for selling Riven’s family’s company to someone else?Odessa stared at Riven with a soft gaze.Life too hasn’t been the best for him as well. “Let’s go in?” Riven said, gesturing at the opened door while he took her luggage. “But you might not need this though.”“Why?”“Clothes have already been arranged in the room for you already.”Odessa was stunned.

Riven’s face went flush immediately he felt Odessa’s soft body on his. Odessa opened her eyes and coughed nervously, disengaging slowly from the hug. “Sorry. I was just too happy,” she said, scratching the back of her neck.Riven nodded awkwardly. “I will be going now.”“Okay,” Odessa responded, pursing her lips.This was the first they had had such a moment. She was blushing so hard. “Wait, I need your help,” She stopped him.Riven turned around, tilting his head questionably. “What do you need?”“Uhm, my friend would be coming in from Japan tomorrow and I’m supposed to go pick her up but since I have this interview, I won’t be able to do it. Perhaps you can help?”“I just need to treat her to a nice lunch so—“ she added.“Alright. I will do that.”Odessa smiled softly.“Thank you.”…The Wang’s Residence. “Dad, Jake is getting better but he will be confined to a wheelchair for a period of time,” Phil told George while he got settled into a chair in the study room.George gave a