“Don’t worry. The show is about to begin.”
At that very moment, under Evan’s influence, Lisa’s actions on Adam’s mistress were being twisted to look like Adam’s doing.
The mistress was led to believe that Adam wanted to kill her and her unborn child in order to seek Lisa’s forgiveness as well as to preserve his “good reputation”.
In order to become Adam’s mistress, the woman had her own tricks up her sleeve. After she successfully thwarted the attack, she instantly revealed to everyone that Adam wanted to kill her and her baby.
Sobbing in front of the cameras as she recounted how her child and herself barely escaped an attempt on their lives, the mistress successfully gained the pity of the nation. She even claimed that if anything happened to her and her child, it had to be Adam’s doing.
With that, Adam was instantly villainized.
Ryan was overjoyed at this development. He instantly contacted the company’s board members whom he was close to and plotted an attack on Adam during the next board meeting, in which he will effectively kick his brother off the board.
Once Davin heard about the impending boardroom shakeup, he went to Imperial Garden to deliver the good news.
“Nicole, Uncle Adam will be a complete goner! Uncle Ryan is a much easier opponent than Uncle Adam. With Uncle Adam out of the picture, I’ll get rid of Uncle Ryan. Soon, the Seet Group won’t be so divided.”
Yoda looked at him and scoffed. “That’s what you think will happen.”
“Well, what else could happen?”
“Adam isn’t a pushover. It’s not like he’ll allow himself to get screwed over by Ryan.”
“But the news of him trying to kill his mistress and child has gone viral. That’s-”
“He can find plenty of ways to claim his innocence. Besides, that woman is perfectly alive and well.”
Davin thought about it. “Is he going to kill her?”
Yoda looked at him. “He’d probably get struck by lightning for doing something like that to a pregnant woman.”
“So, what exactly do you mean?”
“Someone will end it properly.”
Nicole understood exactly what Evan meant: he was probably going to reveal himself.
“Davin, don’t worry so much. Just enjoy the show later on at the board meeting. In fact, you might end up thinking you’re seeing things.”
Davin frowned. My eyes are perfectly fine. ”Alright then, I’ll wait and see.”
After Davin left, Nicole turned to look at Evan. “Do you think you can control them during the board meeting?”
“Get rid of the ‘do you think’ in your question and you’ll have my answer.”
That is extremely confident of him. Fair enough. After all, he is Evan Seet, the long-time president of the Seet Group. I should trust him.
The next morning was the start of the weekend. Since there was no school, the four kids naturally caused a ruckus in the house.
Nicole was startled awake by the commotion and gave Evan a nudge. “Your sons and daughters are arguing. It’s your turn to check on them.”
“Aren’t they your kids, too?”
“As of this moment, I don’t have children. I’ll be their mother again when I properly wake up.”
Nicole then buried herself under the covers and went back to sleep.
Evan remained quiet and listened to the argument outside. The kids seemed to be fighting over a broken toy.
He got out of bed and opened the door, only to see all four of them bickering in front of the master bedroom.
“Are you all done yet?”
The children looked up at the sound of Evan’s voice.
“Daddy, Juan broke a toy and tried to blame it on me.”
“No, I didn’t! It wasn’t me!”
“Who else could it be? Of course it was you!”
Evan looked at them coldly before saying, “Your mom was right. We should try for a few more obedient children.”
All four of them fell silent. What does that even mean?
Are we going to be replaced by obedient kids because we’ve been too naughty?
They looked at Evan with their big question on the tip of their tongue.
Evan simply looked at them before turning away impatiently and closing his bedroom door.
