Seven Years of Marriage with Jake

Chapter 41

Book 3- Chapter 5

I left home and went directly to the Parker family company.

News of my acquisition of the project and shares spread quickly through the company. The vice president, who previously wouldn't even lift an eyelid when he saw me, now respectfully bowed so low he could almost lick my shoes. Hah, human nature.

I completed the handover procedures and directly became the youngest director on the board.

Looking at the company's timeline hung on the office wall.

It was in the year I died that Sebastian and Sofia expanded the company's scale, leaping to the forefront of the industry.

The company was originally founded by Sebastian and me, but on the timeline, it was all Sebastian and Sofia's names, without even half a mention of me, Julia!

I clenched my fists, the bone-deep hatred gradually eroding my bones. Scenes from my previous life flashed through my mind like a movie.

Back then, to establish this company, I spent half a year conducting market research on the streets.

A full half a year. Sebastian went to his nine-to-five job, while I gave up my iron rice bowl, taking research reports to the streets, pleading with one person after another.

The sweltering heat of midsummer caused heatstroke, menstrual cramps were suffocating.

But for Sebastian's dream, I endured it all, not missing a single day.

We were poor then. To save money, I only ate one piece of bread a day, couldn't even afford to buy a bottle of water in the hot summer, and eventually developed a severe stomach illness.

In the early days of the company, we couldn't afford to hire people. I single-handedly took on all the sales roles, running business day and night, enduring countless cold shoulders and grievances. To accompany clients, I drank until I had a gastric hemorrhage.

A word or two of comfort from Sebastian would make me happy for a long time.

I was truly blinded by love, debasing myself to dust for the sake of so-called love.

"Helen! What right do you have to take this project?"

"Give the project back to me!"

Philip's voice interrupted my thoughts. I shook my head, those painful memories making me increasingly clear-headed.

I'm no longer the Julia I used to be. I've been reborn. A man's sweet words and promises can't be relied upon. Only power and money that belong to oneself are eternal.

I will take back everything that originally belonged to me!

Philip ran over, red-faced, to question me. It seemed he had just received the news.

llooked up at him, feeling completely calm inside.

it? Philip Parker, your

project, that you're useless, and that

got this project, I could enter the board of directors! Why

is mine! Why would he rather give it to you, an outsider, than

a wild beast

shrugged and

ask that good

that evening, ambulances and

asked the housekeeper

left, Sebastian dragged Peter

allow it at all costs. In the midst of the three of them pulling and pushing, Peter lost his balance and fell from the second floor, landing headfirst and dying on

held the

used to sing to us when we were young

still remembered things from childhood,

it feel to

this your first

it

wasn't your biological son, you raised him for over a decade. He called you dad for so many years. How does it feel to watch him die right in

turns out it wasn't that you didn't like children, but that you

approached me first. It was you who pursued me for three

up falling in love and

people destined to be

in love deserve

no point in staying in this house any longer. I had already found an apartment and

my suitcase and

is dead. Does

if she wanted to

misfortune! You jinx! If it weren't for you, my son wouldn't have died! I'll strangle you to death!" She

grasping her wrist

had always been weak and accustomed to their

immediately informed Lilly about

new

A strong alliance, invincible.

to uncover the truth, while

getting the new project was

the peace and quiet

Sebastian about why he gave the project to me. The two had a

cerebral hemorrhage and nearly went to meet

was in chaos. The exposure of the scandal had a

all face at the

and secretly acquired some of the company's

I allied with several directors who held significant shares, proposing to

projects in my hands, determining