Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 269

At Harmony Hillside Homes.

When Kieran and Julie arrived, Julien was arranging flowers in the living room.

It was surprising to see Julien, who usually excelled at martial arts, showing a knack for flower arranging. As they entered, they saw Hayden sitting on the couch across from Julien.

“The origin of flower arranging art lies in people’s love for flowers, expressing a kind of artistic conception through still life to experience the reality and brilliance of life. Now look at what you’ve arranged,” Hayden pointed at the pot of flowers arranged by Julien, his tone icy.

Upon entering, Julie saw a chaotic, cluttered mess. It was less flower arranging and more like shoving stems haphazardly into a pot. It was not a pleasant sight.

The arranger Julien, however, looked impatient at Hayden, “You asked me to arrange flowers, so I did. If you’re not satisfied now, I can remove them.”

With that, she reached out to pull out the flowers.

But Hayden stopped her, grabbing her wrist, “So you think you’re so great now, huh?”

“I am your pawn. You can throw me away, let alone scold me.” She pulled her wrist from his grasp, then noticed Julie and Kieran.

She turned to grab some documents to hand to Julie, “This is all the information on Zenith. In short, Zenith is clean, hardworking, ambitious, a graduate of a prestigious university, with no bad records, no stains on his life, and no suspicious activities.”

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Julie opened the file and began to review it with Kieran.

Zenith was born and raised in Sycamore Village. He attended elementary and middle school there, then went to the renowned Whispering Pines High School for high school. Later, with a full scholarship, he was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Medical University. He met Fred during a lecture at the medical school, followed him to Veridia to develop his career, and became Fred’s proud disciple.

It was said that Fred and Zenith had a dispute over a paper on awakening vegetative patients. Rumors circulated that Professor Fred plagiarized Zenith’s theory, but Zenith, unable to fight back, was blacklisted by Fred. However, Zenith had personally accepted a written interview with a newspaper, clarifying that he had unilaterally decided to give up being a doctor.

Later, with Fred’s financial support, Zenith established Zenith Group, which specialized in crisis management for companies. Then, as everyone knows, the team under Zenith Group became the gold medal team, and Zenith, who had never been seen, became the chairman.behind Zenith Group.

His background was impeccably clean, indeed, they could not find any flaws.

But Julien said, “The more flawless the lie, the harder it is to expose, but it also raises more suspicion.”

Hayden stood up and said to Kieran, “Zenith’s parents died when he went to university, leaving only a blind grandmother at home.”

“If you think Zenith is suspicious, I’ll go to Sycamore Village tomorrow,” Julien said.

spoke, “I’ll go

tourist attraction. Known for its flower culture, every year tens

summer, Hibiscus of fall, and Cherry Blossom Grass of winter. Each season has its unique beauty. Julie had heard of it, but never visited. From Whispering Pines to Sycamore Village, it’s only about a two-hour drive on the

take Ivan out for a while. Missing out on the spring and autumn outings, taking him to Sycamore Village to enjoy some family time seemed like

Village for a vacation, his aloof persona instantly crumbled. Excitedly, he grabbed Julie and asked, “Mom, this is

hand, Julie smiled and nodded, “Of course.”

to accompany his son.” Ivan said,

smiling at his son, “I’m accompanying your mother, not responsible for

Mom, not Dad,

learning ability, Julie was amazed at her

at this time, probably because of the recording pen she had

soon as you can, so the child won’t

our son needs to be raised

sync, not mentioning Zenith in front of Amanda. He ruffled Ivan’s hair, “Go pack your things,

this, Ivan happily ran into his bedroom.

prepare some

from school and they told him the good news, so they

pulled Julie back, “Shannon

the spot next to her

aback as she noted the ring on Amanda’s hand, a flawless green emerald, perfectly complementing the elderly woman’s slender fingers. Amanda had a fair complexion, transparent nails meticulously trimmed, yet very simple.

a simple gesture like tapping the couch

sit next to

she called out sweetly.

enough as if he was afraid Amanda

Joyce’s training going?” Amanda shot her grandson

“Didn’t you ask

disdainful look before turning back to Julie, “Learning is useless if you can’t

obediently, “Okay.”

their conversation, asking Amanda, “You

by his own wife. After that, with Amanda’s husband gone, only the two grandsons remained. It was utterly unexpected that the eldest

but refusing to acknowledge

asked Amanda, “Do you remember any distinct birthmarks on

fulfilling life. If it was a girl, it meant attracting the love of a husband, if it was a boy, it meant

didn’t want to discuss this