Chapter 128

“What is a bad thing?”

Annie focused on the road ahead, her hands firmly on the steering wheel, her gaze resolute. “To me, anything that goes against morals, the law, or ethics is a bad thing.”

Noella chuckled softly. “I feel the same way.”

Annie sighed in relief, grateful that Ms. Noella shared her views. It gave her the courage to share her troubling discovery!

“The guy Yvonne was playing cards with seemed a bit too close for comfort. I checked Yvonne’s accounts, and the money coming in recently was either from Ashlyn or that guy, and it wasn’t chump change. From their chats, it looked just like a normal business relationship. At first, I thought he was some relative of the Schnabel family, but he wasn’t. That’s why I kept an eye on them.”

Annie believed that anyone giving away large sums of money for no apparent reason was definitely suspicious!

“The thing is…” Annie hesitated, clenching her teeth as if struggling to speak, “Yvonne, she calls the guy ‘Dad‘.”

The chat logs gave Annie the creeps.

She thought she’d stumbled upon something bizarre, but it turned out this guy really acted like a dad to Yvonne. Yet, she’d never heard of the Schnabel family adopting godfathers for their

kids.

Noella nodded, understanding that if someone was that close to Yvonne and giving her so much money, he was probably her biological father.

If she remembered correctly, Ashlyn publicly claimed that Yvonne was an orphan. It seemed they might have been pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes.

“What’s his background?”

“He’s a businessman, but from the Gruber family. We can’t really probe further.”

The Gruber family held significant sway in Imperial City. Though they didn’t quite match the Pollack or Schnabel families, they still held influence. Digging into Gruber affairs wasn’t simple.

Annie did right not to pry deeper.

“I see. Thanks for the ride. Go home and rest; we can talk more after you’ve slept.”

Noella noticed the dark circles under Annie’s eyes – a clear sign of lack of sleep, probably from the hectic days with Yvonne.

welled in Annie’s eyes! Did Ms. Noella ask

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Chapter 128

What kind of angel was

watching Noella enter the gallery, reluctant to

Ms. Noella, chatting with her every day.

jobs!

“Ms. Noella, several of our partners have abruptly cut ties with us, and we have an exhibition scheduled – the invites are already out. If we can’t proceed as planned, it

the verge

entered the gallery, her tone

retract the invites, but those suppliers just backed out on us

in her office chair and glanced

A coincidence?

tied to the Gruber family or related businesses. Essentially, all were industries that thrived thanks to the Gruber

many pieces are we

thirty, and we still need to set up an exhibition hall. We can’t get the materials – there’s only one company in Imperial City that

exhibition hanging by a

she was overwhelmed

solution for the exhibition hall. Leave the artwork

If it

reputation. We don’t use subpar

a space frame system, using aluminum for the main frame. Change the venue to an oil painting theme, based on Master Killian’s

work, but the

If finding a suitable space frame supplier were easy,

10:05

I need a batch of space frames for the exhibition tomorrow.”

them delivered

flickered in Travis’s evest

he forget? His new boss was none other than Ms. Noelta from

paintings, let alone Master

a plan.

to say more, but seeing Noella’s

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