Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 579

Corley frowned, a hint of impatience lacing his voice, "So, are we doing this my way, or are you still trying to call the shots?"

The man shrunk back, not daring to utter another word.

A familiar voice caused Roseanne to glance their way instinctively.

Just then, Halley called out to her, "Roseanne, come sit with us!"

Corley whipped his head around.

Their eyes met, both momentarily taken aback.

Corley was the first to recover, a smile breaking across his face as he stood and walked towards her, his eyes filled with surprise and delight, "What are you doing here?" "Checking out the construction site."

"Why are you interested in a construction site?"

Roseanne retorted, "Can't I be?"

"It's just... you're not studying architecture or making money from it. What's the catch? Looking for some inspiration or just for kicks?"

Roseanne coughed lightly, "I own a piece of land here, planning to build a house. Is there a problem?"

"Here? You own land?"

then it clicked, "The piece

know about that?!" Roseanne's eyes

man scoffed lightly, "What about you and

he'd sought Corley's opinion. Seeing the

looked down on Murray's stinginess and felt that Roseanne, after all her hard work and dedication over the years, deserved better. Their joint venture was now a publicly listed company, and all Murray could offer one of the co-founders was a check and a piece of land?

would let him get away with that, tolerating him. Any other entrepreneur would have outright rejected such an unfair distribution of benefits. Sure enough, Roseanne had accepted it without demanding

finding out, had been green

Why him?

Murray land such

a

Just one step!

him twice, "Daydreaming? You didn't even hear

about a fool. Don't mind me, go

was asking, what

project here, broke ground last month. Came to check on it today." Roseanne blinked, "You're

As far as

more

money on market trends

high risk,

pleased, quirked a smile, "You

Seems she's still interested...

Roseanne, oblivious to his