Karine fumed. Her cheeks flushed.

Reputation was everything to her. Now that she was humiliated, she vented her rage on Cordelia. She lifted her arms to hit her, but the people around her stopped her.

They pointed at the surveillance camera on the ceiling, asking her to hold back.

Karine glared at Cordelia with a vengeance and said to her while gnashing her teeth a moment later, “What’s there to flaunt about having married a poor man? A diamond ring aside, he can’t even afford a copper or iron ring! Stay poor for the rest of your lives, you wretched couple!”

She turned to leave as soon as she was done. Cordelia grinned as she watched her leave in a rage.

It seemed she would not have peace in the office from now on.

She must plan ahead and come up with a backup plan.

On the next day…

Cordelia looked different than before when she showed up at the office again.

She, who did not wear makeup, put on light makeup today. She had something on her finger, too—a huge emerald ring.

stared with their eyes open wide. The ring seemed to be of pure gold with detailed carvings on

the design was rather old, like

softly

had taken the ring out of the box the previous night. Her fingers

wear it after they got the size adjusted at the jewelry store, but she could

not said that her husband could not even afford

what she had on her

ladies in the office surrounded her and looked at the ring curiously. “I’ve

very old,” someone said. “It

you this? Why did he give you a ring that’s too big? Did it belong to your mother-in-law? Is it

nothing while

passed her by and peeped at the

the ring had an old design, it

did Cordelia obtain such

a

awkward looks on their faces as they returned

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