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Who writes and reads novels nowadays?

Last Updated: 18.06.2025 01:15

Who writes and reads novels nowadays?

I was sure now.

I was stunned for a moment and frowned. “Where did you see them?”

Seeing that I had given in, she pushed the door open and left without any hesitation.

What are some reasons why people may fear strong men?

“You’re the boss, Lionel, this is a matter of words.”

His slender fingers gripped the steering wheel and the corners of his mouth curved in just the right angle.

I was too lazy to argue with her, so I just opened X and showed her Marco’s X account.

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But now everything had changed.

“You dare to give a supercar worth two million seven hundred dollars to the man who adores you, Louisa ….”

Having been in society for so many years, everyone had gained some insight.

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“If I want to have a future with you, I have to get stronger. Of course, you can act childish and ask me not to go today, but I don’t want to disappoint my subordinates who fight side by side with me.”

In a flash, I remembered the X post Marco posted two days ago.

I had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, so everything had to be neatly laid out.

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“The blind date with the eldest daughter of the Scotts, I’ll go.”

Louisa then pulled me all the way into the bathroom.

He uttered a dull response. “Hmm”.

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I picked up the documents she brought back and gave a faint response. “Hmm.”

A side photo taken from the perspective of the girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat.

He bowed to me, his voice pleading. “I’m sorry, Mr. Gilmore. I didn’t think carefully about this matter. I will solve it myself. Don’t blame Louisa.”

Why do some people tell the girl I like that I don’t like her when I do like her?

Now everything had changed.

“Am I thinking of myself?”

“Marco Tucker, right? It’s just a car. I can still afford it.”

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She was stunned for a moment, her lips slightly parted, with an incredulous expression.

Since we wanted to sever ties, we naturally had to settle everything.

Spending their time together watching the sunset on the beach after chatting with their bussiness partner.

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“I’ve been waiting for this car for almost half a year and no one can take it away, not even you, my girlfriend.”

I nodded and looked at her leaving back, then opened the cabinet where my underwear was stored.

She pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, sighing.

It is day 42 of the Trump administration. Is the war in Ukraine over? Is inflation solved? Are groceries cheaper?

At night, my best friend, Reymond Blunt called me to drink.

[Marco and I go to meet some clients and have lunch together.]

I looked at her deeply and believed her pledge of allegiance for the time being.

Why does my narcissistic ex told me that he f*cked and sleep with other woman and then at the end says that it also happened because of me?

“Do you want me to use my authority to force the people below to shut their mouths up?”

I stepped down from the stage and left the conference room.

It seemed like the superior-subordinate relationship between them was closer than I imagined.

How do teachers justify punishing a student for fighting back against their bullies?

I stared at it for a long time.

Louisa stepped on her high heels to protect the man behind her and hugged my waist.

“Also, today, I suddenly remembered that you had ordered a supercar, so I picked it up and gave it to him.”

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“Am I strange?”

Now, he even called her “Louisa”.

I just wanted my favorite supercar back.

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The perfume in her hand was more of a brand I had long since disliked.

“As the marketing director, you have a keen eye, so you shouldn’t miss it.”

[Wow, after reading your secret stories on your crush for four years, you finally got her love!]

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“It’s too late now. It’s not safe to go out. You can go tomorrow.”

At one o’clock in the afternoon, I finished dealing with all the documents, but there was no sign of Louisa.

Getting up early and having breakfast together in the hotel.

“This is your own problem. I shouldn’t have to put on a leadership role and help you solve it.”

I saw admiration and heartache for another man in her eyes.

I lit a cigarette and blew a puff into the air.

My face turned cold and so did my heart.

“The way he looks at you is not the way an ordinary subordinate looks at his superior.”

“I feel strange with you like this.”

The atmosphere was silent.

“I can’t help it. This is the girls nowadays.”

“Speak! Marco!”

Louisa became anxious. She frowned and said in defense, “How can this be a small matter? You follow me on business trips every day and I don’t want others to criticize you everywhere.”

It was obvious that it was not what she was prepared for me.

Haha … I sounded like a stingy person from his words.

“You can prepare dinner yourself.”

A relationship that had changed in quality was like an unappetizing breakfast. There was no need to force ourself to eat it.

Louisa held my hand and said in a deep voice, “Lionel, why are you so angry?”

We had been in relationship for nine years and this was the first time I had gotten so angry over another man.

I nodded and responded, “Next week, I’ll transfer the management rights of the company to you and leave.”

Followed Marco behind her.

Wasn’t it normal for people to criticize a boss who gave his or her assistant a luxury car?

I got in the car and headed to the airport.

I walked out and stood in front of the girl.

“Lionel, sorry, I didn’t get back from meeting with my business partners at noon. I just had a quick bite outside. Have you eaten yet?”

“Louisa has been with me for nine years and has seen a lot of things. I don’t think a supercar is a big deal.”

I dragged my suitcase towards the security checkpoint and ran into Louisa and Marco who were rushing back.

As a cold and aloof beauty, men pursue her and compete to get her.

I ignored her shock, put away my mobile phone and walked past her.

A nice and friendly reminder to board the plane sounded at the airport.

The next day, the real estate agent came to register the sales information of the villa.

“Well, my Baby, here … I bought you a new limited-edition perfume, so don’t be angry.”

Even though the gift she gave was to serve herself.

Marco behind her spoke up, “It’s okay, Mr. Gilmore, a few rumors can’t hurt me.”

There was no point to keep a woman who had left my heart.

A message from Louisa popped up on my mobile phone.

I squinted as I walked into the villa in a cold voice.

Nine years of giving everything for a girl, but in the end, she still did not appreciate it.

I had loved her for so many years, what storms had I not seen.

As early as yesterday, I had entrusted someone to send her a breakup message.

Louisa stepped in front of him and pulled my sleeve.

I was really reluctant to leave everything behind and return to Brimstone now.

As soon as I arrived, the airport lobby was crowded with people.

“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. I shouldn’t have accepted Ms. Watson’s gift.”

“No, I do.”

On the contrary, Marco posted photos related to Louisa every day.

It turned out that all this time she always felt that we were not a good match.

Hearing those words, both of them were stunned.

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She frowned and pouted.

Whatever Louisa wanted to do, I accompanied her.

She had some impatience on her face, but she still held back her patience to explain to me.

He joked that I should have changed a long time ago.

“I’ll cancel and return it to the dealer as soon as possible.”

She also wanted me to defend him with her despite feeling disgusted.

Only when we did not love could we make rational judgments.

At three o’clock in the afternoon, Louisa pushed the door to my office and stepped in with her high heels.

I waited for her for so long that I was starving. I then opened my mobile phone and saw Marco’s social media.

I frowned.

Just as I was trying to calm my emotions and go downstairs, she pushed open the bathroom door with the flip-flop sound of her slippers.

Until I saw a post on X.

Marco took a step back, lost his composure and apologized several times.

Although I did not want to admit it, I was now so jealous that I was insane.

[Having a boss who cares for her subordinates is my happiness.]

Seeing her smile and express her emotions towards him.

“Got it! Marco and I have nothing, not now and not in the future.”

I leaned back in the recliner and sneered.

The breakfast box she brought in the bag was my least favorite lamb sandwich.

He looked up, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.

I threw the document on the table, interrupting the two people who were staring at each other.

After all, there was no evidence that they were having an affair.

She took out a bottle of perfume from her eight-digit Hermes bag and smiled dotingly.

[Driving the car given by my boss to send her home and even the wind was sweet.]

I felt a chill in my heart and blurted out. “Go ahead.”

My head exploded with a loud bang.

Marco reacted earlier than Louisa.

Louisa, took my underwear and gave it to his assistant?

Love did not become a burden when two people’s hearts were truly together.

As a man, he should know why I was angry.

Just overnight, he changed the way he called his boss from “Ms. Louisa” being “Louisa”.

Louisa did not expect me to speak so bluntly and her face suddenly turned ugly.

My hand, which was about to sign, paused and I raised my eyes.

Louisa, after nine years of our relationship, did you have any feelings for me?

My father even agreed to a blind date with the Scott Family on my behalf overnight.

An hour later, her male assistant drove the car and posted a message on his social media.

I wanted to rush downstairs and question that girl right away.

Targeting? He was not worthy.

Her eyes were a bit red and her gaze was full of charm.

I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled.

Louisa was stunned and frowned.

In the past, I admired her rational and clear nature the most.

She really took the car that I had been longing for half a year away from the automotive dealership secretly and gave it to someone else.

Her voice came from outside the door. “Oh, by the way, Rosie said that your underwear needs to be replaced, so she threw them all away. You can get new ones from the bottom.”

I saw them exchanging a few words with each other and Louisa smiled particularly happily.

She and Marco would go back to the company to work overtime tonight and would not go home.

“Can’t you go tomorrow? Why do you have to go out so late?” asked me in annoyance.

Let her pick and send it away.

I was already angry and hearing these words only added fuel to the fire.

She grabbed her assistant’s hand, pushed the office door and left without looking back.

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I did not have any emotions more, I just smiled indifferently and returned the phone to my assistant.

“Mr. Gilmore is already busy with work, so it’s better not to trouble him with these small matters.”

In his post, there was a box of underwear of this brand.

“But you have to know, as an assistant, what you should and shouldn’t accept.”

“Didn’t you give him the car and he accepted it? What’s the point of having me, an outsider, wipe his ass?”

At three o’clock in the afternoon, I walked into the largest conference room of the company with Reymond on time.

Marco took two steps forward with his long legs and blocked me.

No man could bear to see the girl he loved using his own money to buy gifts for other men.

“This is an irrefutable evidence. Do you want me to expose all the dirty things you have done?”

I stared at the perfume in her hand and recalled every moment of us for the past nine years.

Everyone was in an uproar, expressing shock hearing this news.

Five years ago, after graduating from university, my father asked me to return to Brimstone to inherit the family business.

“Lionel, you can’t just think about yourself.”

Marco Tucker walked around the car to the passenger seat and opened the passenger door gently and considerately.

“Rosie is taking a day off today. You take a shower first and I’ll go fry you a steak,” she said.

Louisa Watson, who was showing off her affection to me on X a second ago, quietly took away the limited-edition sports car that I had reserved for a long time in the automotive dealership.

“Don’t you like this car? It’s also for your sake that I canceled it early.”

In the past five years, I had transformed from a rich second-generation who knew nothing to a first-generation entrepreneur.

Rosie paid extra attention to this and checked it carefully every day.

Faced with his provocation, my gaze turned a bit cold and I found it somewhat funny.

I laid in my bed and stayed up the whole night.

Until my assistant nervously handed me Marco’s X account and said, “Sir, I think I should let you know about this.”

“I don’t care if you misjudged his contribution to the company or you feel sorry for him for accompanying you on business trips and driving every day. The company has given him enough salary and if it’s not enough, he can ask for more, instead of you secretly using my supercar to compensate him.”

Before getting off work, I received two business trip applications for two people and clicked “agree”.

She said the sports car had been cancelled and sent back to the automotive dealership.

My raging anger suddenly died down and what followed was endless coldness and disappointment.

My assistant shook the mobile phone in his hand with a look of surprise.

The girl’s cold face showed some dissatisfaction.

A supercar worth nearly two million seven hundred dollars was not something that a marketing director with no background like Louisa could afford.

At that moment, all my expectations were dashed.

In the evening, I stood on the balcony of the villa and gazed the sunset.

“You took the car without my consent. I just wanted to take back what belonged to me.”

If he dared to accept it, he should be able to guess who the original owner of the car was.

I fixed my gaze full of pressure on him.

That night, I brought all the top-of-the-line sports cars that I had collected in my garage to her.

I put my hands in my pockets, curled the corners of my mouth and a hint of coldness and anger flashed in my eyes.

Ms. Louisa?

A series of notifications popped up on my phone and it was an X post that Marco had just posted.

“You have a prominent family background, Lionel, unlike ordinary people like me.”

I turned my gaze away from the door and let out a long sigh.

With an annual revenue of nearly 10 billion, she said we were not a match.

A majestic roar came from afar and a limited-edition supercar with black and gold paint appeared in front of the villa.

Then, her tone was both coaxing and scolding, brought me back to my senses. “I know you are jealous because you love me, but the others who don’t know will think you’re targeting someone else’s staff.”

And staying up the whole night working on a project together and drinking American coffee at 3 a.m.

I handed the breakfast to my assistant and asked him to go out and sell me another one.

She took a deep breath and said, her eyes filled with disapproval of me, “You took back the gift I gave him in public and now you’re letting him waste so much time at the dealer.”

But I did not expect, Louisa brought me breakfast on the table with the sticky note on the bag.

She also said that she liked my innate arrogance and rebelliousness the most.

“When is your blind date with the Scott Family arranged? Have you really decided to leave Araya?”

The next day, I came to the company with hungry stomach from the night.

Jealousy over a slightly more good-looking male assistant was truly a fall from grace.

“With so many supercars you have, you don’t mind, do you?”

No.

Louisa who was wearing a white suit and holding a white crocodile leather bag, stepped out of the car.

“Lionel, Marco has returned the car to the dealer, but I need to go over to cancel the account.”

But she refused decisively and stayed by my side wholeheartedly.

“Lionel, I don’t know how the news about the sports car spread in the company. The staffs are all talking about Marco behind his back. Can you come and help Marco explain it for the sake of signing big orders today?”

Seeing I stopped talking, she sighed.

My assistant suddenly pushed the door and casually said, “Sir, I saw Ms. Louisa and her assistant went to eat seafood. What do you want to eat? I’ll order it for you.”

I suddenly felt ridiculous.

Leaving me only the refreshing fragrance of gardenia that dissipated into the air.

“I still have over a dozen supercars in my basement. Choose any one you want and consider it as a gift from me.”

Louisa and I had been dating since we were in college until now.

However, I did not want to leave Louisa, so I stayed in Araya.

“Are you used to driving?”

I had money, good looks and a good figure, so why should I waste my time on someone who did not love me!

After five years of ups and downs, we opened the largest clothing company in Araya.

A pair of gleaming silver stiletto heels stepped on the ground.

[Finally, from crush to girlfriend ….]

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I did not even glance at them, just brushed past them.

She knew that I loved cars as much as my life, yet she dared to steal it and give it away to someone else.

Marco’s eyes slightly lifted and his cold face turned slightly pale.

It was her handwriting.

“On X, her assistant posted a message thanking Ms. Louisa for treating him to a delicious meal.”

She said I was her life.

She did not let my hand go, instead she patiently said, “I know you’re angry, I apologize to you, okay? But Marco and I really have nothing, you’re sold your shares and broke up ….”

“But the fact is, the value of these orders is far less than that of a supercar.”

“I haven’t said anything yet, but you’re eager to put the blame on me.”

“It’s my fault, Mr. Gilmore. Please don’t blame Ms. Louisa.”

Forget it, it was better for the person who did not belong to me to leave.

I, who felt heartbroken at first, became numb in the end.

Since the argument that day, Louisa had blocked me on X and WhatsApp.

Marco was the partner who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her.

I bent down and opened the bottom cabinet.

Not only did he dare to accept it, he also dared to post it openly on his X post and another social media to show off.

“She just feels too tired being with you. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t earn even one-tenth of your family’s money and she can’t spend your money with peace of mind.”

She raised her hand and slammed the table angrily, saying harshly, “We can handle it ourselves. We don’t need you.”

I was furious instantly and lost my sanity.

But in the cabinet, a box of men’s underwear was missing.

I took a sip of my mojito without saying a word.

When we were in love, she once whispered in my ear that she would only love me and only me in her life.

The guilt I felt for impulsively agreeing to the blind date last night completely disappeared.

I spent the next whole week busy with the transfer.

[Congratulations for becoming a boyfriend and becoming a regular employee officially.]

Thank you for joining me, and I can’t wait to see you in the next chapter!

I took out my mobile phone and called my father who was far away in Brimstone.

I did not need to be too concerned.

In his latest X post, he posted a picture of Louisa lying in his arms and sleeping soundly.

“My words were harsh, but you should know that Marco is the man in the company who can help me share the workload the most. You made him lose face in public today and I can’t just abandon him now.”

I got it.

Shouldn’t we have anticipated such a result?

She was standing in the crowd, looking at me from afar.

She reacted, quickly stopped me and angrily said to Marco behind her, “What the hell is going on! When did I lie down with you?!”

“Alright, Lionel, doesn’t he have to pick me up and drop me off every day for work?”

In what capacity was he asking me not to blame my girlfriend?

It was time to end this tangled triangle relationship.

The way he called her changed to be more intimate.

I frowned and responded calmly, “Let go, it’s so dirty.”

“Louisa, do you want to hear what you’re saying right now?”

“Notify everyone that there will be a staff meeting this afternoon.” I ordered.

She defended him.

Her eyes were fixed on Marco, who opened the car door for her, with a hint of aggressiveness.

“I would like to inform everyone that I will be stepping down as the general manager. The company will be fully handed over to Mr. Blunt and Mr. Vaughan beside me.”

This clothing company was co founded by me and Louisa. She and I both hold half of the equity.

 — —

“Mr. Gilmore, good evening. Ms. Watson and I just had dinner outside and came back a bit late. Please don’t blame her.”

At first, I suspected that Marco took the photos secretly behind Louisa out of vanity.

“First of all, a person of integrity has nothing to fear. If you, Louisa, are doing your job impartially, rewarding him for bringing huge profits to the company and giving him a supercar is understandable.”

Marco pursed his lips and said no words.

When the salesperson sent me a message in the afternoon, I thought Louisa was trying to give me a surprise secretly, so I spent three hours happily in the dressing room choosing an outfit.