Flash Marriage to a Stunning CEO (Alistair and Richard)

Chapter 124 He's Not That Bad

The "two guys fighting over one girl" video had different impacts on everyone involved. Whitfield Group took a serious hit, but surprisingly, Morgan Group was the first to crumble.

Morgan Group had been struggling for a while, putting on a good front while falling apart inside. They'd been desperately trying to turn things around and might have pulled it off-until Richard's street brawl went viral. The scandal was the final nail in the coffin for Morgan Group.

This explained why Richard had suddenly given up his wild lifestyle abroad to come home and "take responsibility" for Rebecca.

He'd been eyeing the Whitfield family fortune all along, planning to get his hands on it.

Internet trolls flooded Whitfield Group's website with comments, sarcastically suggesting they should bail out Richard's family business: [The guy gave up his party lifestyle overseas for your daughter. The least you could do is throw him a lifeline, right?]

This pissed off Nathaniel so much he ordered the company website shut down completely.

After catching up on the local New York news, Alistair returned to

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Wattpad to work on his novel.

His story had officially been featured in the recommendations yesterday, and since last night, his author dashboard had been blowing up with reviews and comments. He scrolled through them, totally pumped to see what readers thought.

Earlier, Alistair had killed some time browsing through writer forums and picked up one key piece of advice-never read the comments if he wanted to keep his writing mojo. Negative feedback could mess with his head faster than anything.

Writing novels was like cooking. Alistair knew he couldn't please everyone. He had braced himself for some harsh reviews, but scrolling through the comments, he was shocked to find almost nothing but praise. The few negative comments were barely worth noticing.

Between this and getting his screenplay selected after just

spending an afternoon on it, Alistair's confidence was through the roof. It turned out he had other talents besides cooking that he'd never bothered to explore before.

He wasn't such a loser after all.

Alistair felt fired up. For him, writing stories wasn't about making money anymore. It was about proving himself, showing he wasn't just some deadbeat living off his wife.

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The whole "living off his wife" thing didn't actually bother Caroline, and honestly, once Alistair chilled out about it, it didn't bother him that much either. But that didn't mean he should just

sit around doing nothing.

Alistair checked his stats on the backend.

Before his work got featured, his daily readership was tiny. His best day had brought in just 24.20 dollars, with 20 of that coming from a single generous reader's tip.

day being

were 433.25 dollars.

meant more to him than the million dollars he got as the monthly

square.

at the earnings

excited kid. He even took a screenshot

the moment.

to dive into writing mode, an email notification popped up. He read through it carefully, then stood up

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no one else around except Caroline, who was buried

days, careful not to disturb her. He'd noticed how incredibly focused she became when working. Sometimes, when nobody was looking, he'd sneak out just to admire how lost in her work she'd get. The funny thing was, Alistair had no idea that Caroline did the same thing. While he was deep in his writing zone, she'd occasionally peek through the door just to

need to head out for a bit," he

looking up. "Okay,

going to

Where are you going, dear?”

twirling her pen.

put on his most serious face.

looking up with surprise. "Your career?

kind of career?"

she really wanted to say was that he didn't need to work so hard. He could just relax and be with

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realizing how selfish

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could give Alistair the best life money could buy, and

success.

truly wanted was to find his purpose in life, she would be acting just like those self-righteous

if Alistair genuinely wanted to pursue a career, Caroline had no reason not to

hadn't mentioned

and the millions

gave him as

himself excitedly telling Caroline, "Honey, I

and

would

that's amazing!"

made

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"Wait, you're

publishing a novel too?"

that secret

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