CEO's substitute bride (Alyssa)

What had happened in the morning spread throughout the entire company in just a mere few hours. By the time they were having their lunch break, Alyssa was already the center of attention. She’d feel eyes following her direction everywhere she went.

Her face was still swollen from the slap, but she continued to keep her head high. Halfway to the washroom, she could hear a bunch of her female colleagues discussing their opinions as to what really happened.

“What’s going on? I heard that only one woman applied for a leave today. There wasn’t any man!” One of them whispered.

“Isn’t it obvious?” One of them arched up an eyebrow. “Skylar and Dawson must’ve worked together to set Alyssa up! Why else would there be this mysterious male colleague that suddenly disappeared? Ugh, the nerve of them!”

“But she’s just been here for a few days! How could she offend Manager Black?”

“Everyone knows what kind of bastard he is, feeling up the women whenever he gets the chance. If I know any better, I’d say this little matter had been addressed by Alyssa herself! That’s why he had gone to the hospital.” The colleague gritted her teeth in disgust.

“Could she really be that ruthless?”

“What are you saying? If anyone’s ruthless here, it’s Skylar,” the other intercepted. “Have you seen the slap? I could hear it a mile away! They’re sisters or stepsisters, but still! How could she beat her own family so mercilessly?”

Alyssa leaned against the wall, not bothering to say a word. It was only when they had left did she step into the washroom.

Standing in front of the wash basin, she gazed at the mirror.

Her reflection was awful. While the left side of her cheek was pale and pristine, her right cheek was dark blue. It looked like it had been painted on given the large splotches that danced across her skin. Her fingers slid down her cheek, and she looked scary.

Skylar really hit her hard.

It was even worse than the time Skylar had slapped her back at the Moore Villa. Skylar must’ve really wanted vengeance this time if she really thought of damaging her reputation just to get back at her. Alyssa slowly drew her hand away.

“Wait and see. Let’s see who gets the last laugh.”

While it was still lunch break, Alyssa went out to eat. This time, no one invited her for lunch, far too busy gossiping about her and staring at her from afar, but she couldn’t care any less. After all, she wasn’t exactly in the mood to socialize.

Just as she had gone out, her phone in her pocket rang out.

It was “Justin”.

frowned and

if he didn’t hear the impatience laced

to reply before

Seeing as she had no other choice, she grabbed her phone and

she immediately spotted the black Bentley by the side of the road. In the morning, when

base price! It’s still dependent as to the owner’s customization, and by the looks of it, “Justin” really spared no cent in beautifying his

just too

worth ten million, Jason would’ve refused. That was how

were already a few of her colleagues discussing Justin’s car. Not wanting to garner any more attention, Alyssa ducked her head and moved towards the car’s direction. Hopefully, nobody would notice her

had planned to wait for the car to pass, only to

opened

into the restaurant and she didn’t show

driver. Looking up, she immediately caught sight of

shocked. She looked at Alyssa in disbelief and

her eyes still remained cold. Her

her own biological mother couldn’t even recognize her!

changed, but ignored the swollenness of her

unknown whether it

plastic surgery? Was that the reason you didn’t come when I called you

appeared across her face as she glared at Aurora. “I looked like this ever since I was young. But you’ve always said that I shouldn’t be prettier than Skylar. So the older I grew, the uglier I

her head. How could Alyssa have

sorrow, “I wanted to be a good daughter. I wanted to make you happy, so I had been doing it all my life ever since I was young. Because

the old woman was at a

years and how beautiful she was. Her grades had also been brilliant. Yet after she had scolded her, saying that she shouldn’t be better than her older sister, her grades became worse. And her complexion became dark yellow. Back then, Aurora had thought that the fates were listening to her…unaware that her

done that to yourself. You can’t blame me!”

for a while, stunned by her response. After all these years of abusing her position, she was going to deny everything she did? Her eyes turned red as she looked at Aurora. “Mom, am I really your

“You…”