No longer a pushover

Chapter 319

Noelle coldly replied, "I never said I would change my last name."

Her parents gave her the name, and she would keep it.

"But what you're doing is no different than changing your last name. Do you still have the face to honor them during the holidays?"

"Don't use Mom and Dad to pressure me."

"Noelle, you insisted on going out to buy a cake. Mom and Dad pampered you and went with you, and that's when the accident happened. At that time, all kinds of opportunistic people came out, trying to seize our family's wealth and devour us whole!

"I took it all on myself, came to Yasnia to start over, and that's how you got to live a good life. Frank stayed behind, taking care of you while growing up. He could've done better, but now you've ruined his company's project, costing him the bid and half of his fortune. Noelle, is this how you repay us?"

After hearing this, Noelle realized that Donovan would guilt trip her. He knew that her parents had always been her soft spot. Out of guilt, she had always obeyed her family in her past life, giving everything to them, only to end up dying in misery.

Her voice was cold. "Xenia and Lucas stole my ideas, and you allowed them to use my idea, which led to you losing the bid. I didn't force you to do this.

this would have happened. But

fall for this kind of manipulation. She owed none

even hold onto his phone! Finally, he spoke. "You're getting sharper with your words.

project, not me. Don't

not wanting to waste any more words. Donovan kept calling, but she just

ready to

head to the gym, Justin swaggered in. When someone from the business school showed up, the people at the base became

conflict between

ended with Samantha publicly apologizing to Noelle, and the people from the business school have not caused trouble since then.

looked at him indifferently. "What? Do

here to discuss

"Why should I care?"

followed her. "Xenia just made a mistake by accident. You don't need to take

still liked Xenia, who was