Chapter 65
After listening to the voice message,
Toby frowned. It was the first time he
felt repulsed by Titus’ actions. It was
somewhat despicable to use such a method to quash her just because he was unable to purchase the
land.
All of a sudden, his phone vibrated. Pulling his thoughts back to the present, he lowered his head to look
at the screen only to discover that it was
another text message from Sonia. What do you think I should do?’
There was even the emoji of a little
person sighing with their face cushioned against their palm at the
end of the message. It was very cute. As he looked at the emoji, his mind inexplicably reced it with the
image of her face. Perhaps she was doing the very same thing at this moment.
Nheless, he quickly realized he was forming thoughts he shouldn’t have and rearranged his
expression back into a cold one. Whatever she looks like at the moment has nothing to
do with me! How can I think about such
things?
And so, he answered, ‘I don’t know.
When she saw the reply, she felt
somewhat lost.
Previously, it was his idea that helped
her acquire Continental Co. For some
reason, she was subconsciously
treating him as a sounding board and
hoped to get some help from him again. Only now did she realize it was
the wrong mentality to have.
“I swear you’re regressing, Sonia!” she muttered at herself, pping her forehead before picking up her
phone and typing, ‘Sorry, I was just asking casually. Don’t take it to heart. My friend and I wille up
with our own
ideas.
Friend?
He narrowed his eyes. ‘Boyfriend?’
ncing at the balcony, she answered,
‘Yes.
Since Z-H was Zane’s friend, she didn’t find it a big deal for him to know that she had a boyfriend.
However, what
they didn’t know was that Charles was her fake boyfriend.
At her admittance, he felt inexplicably
vexed. After tugging at his tie, he typed,
It’s not that hard to build a factory. I
have a solution!
“Huh?” Astonished, she stood up.
What‘s up with him? I thought he said he didn‘t know what to do. But now…
Throwing aside those questions, she
quickly asked in a voice message,
“What’s your solution?”
After hearing the trust and urgency in her voice, he loosened his tightly furrowed brows and the irritability
in his heart lessened tremendously. With that, he typed, ‘The government has ns to build a cultural
museum in
Seafield to exhibit world-famous
heritage treasures, but they haven’t been able to find a suitable plot ofnd. You don’t need such arge
piece ofnd for a factory. You could give half of it to them.
The mention tingled her senses. All of a sudden, she realized where he was going with this and started
laughing. “You’re right! If I give them half of the
gain their favor and be able to apply for
an engineering team from them. Then,
I’d be able to build my factory!”
This meant the country was helping
her build her factory and that Titus
wouldn’t be able to mess with her
ns so easily. At the same time, she could ask for a rmendation for a machinery nt from them.
She could kill two birds with one stone!
As the smile on her face grew, she chirruped happily, “Thank you! You’ve
helped me once again!”
You’re wee,’ he replied.
After a moment of thought, she added, “By the way, we’ve chatted so many
times, and yet I don’t know your name or how to repay you.”
Unfortunately, even after she sent the voice message, he did not reply. She figured he would no longer
reply, and so she sighed and exited the chat interface.
Just then, Charles finished making his calls and came in from the balcony looking incensed. “You were
right, baby. Titus is a sly old fox. He really went around and told all the
engineering teams and machinery
nts in Seafield not to do business
with us. It didn’t matter what I said;
nothing worked. I’m so angry!”
Realizing that his voice was hoarse
from making all those phone calls, she went and poured him a ss of
honeyed water. “It’s alright. I have a
n now.”
“What’s the n?” he asked eagerly,
taking the ss but being too impatient to drink.
And so, she detailed the n to him. Instantly, he pped his thigh. “What a
great idea! How did youe up with
it, baby?”
She shook her head. “I’m actually not the one who came up with it. It was a
friend.”
“A friend?” He looked at her
suspiciously. “Was it the friend who
gave you the idea to acquire Continental Co.?”
“That’s right.” She nodded.
Putting down his ss, he confronted
her. “Tell me honestly-who is that person? What’s your rtionship with him? Why does he keep helping
you?”
In the face of her good friend’s interrogation, she lowered her eyes, not knowing how to answer. After all,
even
if what happened that night was an
ident, she could not tell him.
“Alright, stop asking so many
questions. Drink your water, and when
you’re done, we can go to the government department,” she said,
changing the topic.
Since she didn’t want to tell him, he
didn’t push her and only yed along. “Alright, alright. Stop nagging.”
After squabbling for a while, they finally left Paradigm Co.
Meanwhile, in a room at the club. As Zane finished singing, he noticed Toby sitting alone in a dark corner
in the
distance. Thus, he fetched two sses
of red wine over to the table.
“What’s up with you? You’ve been on
your phone ever since you set foot into
the club. I invited you out to rx, not to work,” he said as he handed one of the sses of wine to Toby.
After receiving the wine and taking a sip, Toby answered, “I’m not working.”
“What are you doing, then?” As Zane sat down and peered at Toby’s phone, his jaws dropped in shock.
“Isn’t that your ex-wife? Are you chatting with your ex–wife?” He looked incredulously at Toby
Mildly, Toby answered with an
unchanging expression, “She doesn’t know it’s me.”
“So, you’re hiding your identity to get close to her?” Zane’s expression grew
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Tilting his head, Toby swept Zane a cold nce. “Of course not!”
“Then what-”
“Just drop it!” Toby interrupted impatiently, rubbing his temples. “You have an uncle working with the
government, don’t you?”
“Yes, why?”
After taking a sip of wine, Toby said, “Sonia might apply for an engineering team from them. Have your
uncle pave the way for her.”
Zane gave him an odd look. “So, you helped her with Rentoor, and now
you’re helping her again. What are you up to? Don’t tell me you’re still hung up on her.”
Frowning, Toby answered coldly, “You‘re overthinking it. I’m only doing this because Tina hurt her and I’m
making reparations on Tina’s behalf.”
“Really?” Zane studied him
inquisitively.
Unhappily, he pursed his lips. “Really. Why else would I be doing what I’m doing?”
“Thought you still had feelings for her.” Zane mumbled. After all, he had
overheard Toby’s phone call from Titus and knew not only how Tina injured Sonia but the enormous
compensation Toby had to make as a result.
Sincepensations had been made, there was no need for Toby to make any more reparations to
Sonia, and the
fact that he was insisting on helping
her meant she still held some kind of
ce in his heart. With Tina in the mix,
Zane could foresee things getting worse in the future. Thinking of that, heughed gleefully and put down
his wine ss. “Alright. I’ll call my uncle.”
Toby hummed his acknowledgment
before grabbing his coat and standing
up from the couch. “I’m leaving.”
“But it’s still early!” Zane protested to
his back.
Without stopping in his stride, Toby told Zane, “I’m taking Tina out to
dinner.”
After hearing that, Zane no longer attempted to stop Toby and instead lifted his cell phone to his ear.
“Hey, Uncle…”