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.

take it? Philip Parker,

you're useless, and that the company can't possibly

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

would he rather give it to you,

roared, like a wild beast gone

shrugged and spread my

you'll have to ask that good

home that evening, ambulances and

I asked the housekeeper

Sebastian

pushing, Peter lost his balance and fell from the second floor, landing headfirst and dying on the spot. When an

couldn't accept this reality. She held the lifeless Peter and started singing a nursery

the one our mother used to sing to

childhood, remembered the

feel to

is this your first time

it three

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 front of you? It wasn't until I saw how much you

didn't like children, but that you didn't like my

It was you, Sebastian, who approached me first. It was you who pursued me

ended up falling in love and getting hurt

destined to

people who truly fall in love deserve to

I had already found an apartment

pulled my suitcase and

is dead. Does

if she wanted to eat

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

sneered, firmly grasping her wrist and pushing

clearly shocked. Helen, who had always been weak and accustomed to their bullying, had

immediately informed Lilly

the new project contract as

A strong alliance, invincible.

wanted to uncover the truth, while I just wanted to

the truth was out, getting the new project was what

apartment, enjoying the peace and

gave the project to me. The two had a big fight, father and son falling

cerebral hemorrhage and

was in chaos. The exposure of the scandal had a huge

lost all face at the company's board

secured another new project and secretly

interests as leverage, I allied with several directors who held significant shares, proposing to remove Sebastian from

latest projects in my hands,