The Day of Choosing a Wife Chapter 4

After leaving with Gina, I immediately apologized.

She looked at me with some confusion.

"Just now when I called you Gigi, I was actually..."

"You don't need to explain. I understand!"

I breathed a sigh of relief. Good that she understood. I worried that calling her Gigi might make her think I had no sense of boundaries, since we weren't that close yet.

"But calling me Gigi... is quite nice!"

Hmm?

I couldn't help but glance at her and noticed her ears were red.

I felt something had changed, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what.

Later, when we arrived at her company, she took me directly to the 99th floor.

"This will be your office!"

I looked at the space of over a hundred square meters, impressed.

"It's currently being renovated. If you have any style preferences, just let me know!"

"Oh, and I'm right upstairs. If you need anything, come find me directly!"

Hearing her words, I was stunned.

In my previous life, I had interacted with her once or twice. The impression she gave was one of distance.

Later, when I heard about her affairs, I also thought she was very cold.

But now she couldn't be said to be a completely different person, though there was certainly a big difference from my previous life.

"What are you thinking about?"

She leaned in close to me, snapping me back to attention.

The distance between us was almost touching.

My heart suddenly beat faster, and I didn't even dare breathe deeply.

This feeling was too strange.

I awkwardly stepped back two steps and shook my head.

Afterward, we went to her office area and stayed there all morning.

Around noon, Mom called saying Susan had come over and wanted us to come back for lunch together. Unfortunately, Gina had something come up, so she had the driver take me back.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw the whole family gathered around Susan.

Although our family had some assets, we couldn't compare to even a finger of the Yates or Cole families.

This marriage arrangement was originally made because Mr. Yates and Mr. Cole were my grandfather's students. They respected the old man and valued our scholarly family background, which is why they arranged these childhood engagements.

For families as wealthy as theirs, they didn't care whether we had money. What they valued more was reputation.

However, they didn't know that this scholarly family had produced my parents—a couple obsessed with money, completely lacking in substance and refinement.

My parents were desperate for their sons to succeed, wishing we would develop relationships with the young ladies of the Yates and Cole families as soon as we came of age.

I remember in my previous life, after graduating from college, I wanted to find a job, but they rejected it outright.

"Did school make you stupid? How much can you earn at that job? Three thousand a month? Can't even afford toilet paper!"

"Courting Miss Cole properly is what you should be doing!"

I stared at my parents' obsequious smiles, snapping back to reality.

Susan really knew how to put on a show.

She wore a sweet smile, calling them "Uncle and Auntie," then praised Ryan for being tall and handsome.

As she spoke, she even acted shy.

The picture of a young girl in love.

Ryan, seeing this, straightened his back like a rod, looking at me with pride and provocation.

He even directly took Susan's hand.

He was so focused on showing off to me that he completely missed the flash of disgust in Susan's eyes.

After seeing me, Susan subtly pulled her hand away from Ryan's grasp, then smiled and greeted me.

"Hello, Clayton!"

How many people had been deceived by her sweet and obedient appearance!

I still remembered from my previous life how ruthlessly she broke both my legs with a stick.

In that past life, on the first day after marrying her, I was beaten by her.

Later, I found out from a diary that she had secretly been with a boy.

She loved that boy deeply, even considered eloping with him and abandoning our engagement.

But in the end, she was betrayed. Susan caught them in the act herself.

That scene deeply disgusted her.

It also caused her severe psychological trauma.

She even became disgusted with men, so after we married, I lived worse than a dog.

When I was useful, she'd play with me for a few days. When I wasn't, I became her outlet for emotional release.

She would even send me to other people for the company's benefit.

I tried to escape. I even sought help from my own biological parents.

But when they found out, they sided with Susan—because the Cole family had money.

They scolded me for being ungrateful.

"It's just being with someone for a while. What's so hard about that? When the Cole family prospers, you'll benefit too, won't you?"

Later, for money, they conspired with Susan, working together against me, joining forces to send me to others.

Now that heaven had given me a second life.

It was time for revenge and retribution.