Chapter 1 : Betrayal

In the middle of the night, Silvia woke up with a dry mouth and headache.

She had been feeling extra happy tonight.

The perfume she had been working on for a long time, “First Love,” was finally complete, and after she won the prize in tomorrow night’s competition, her marriage to Ladarius would be on the agenda.

From college to now, they had known each other for five years and been in love for three years.

She had left everything behind and devoted herself to perfume research.

She was helping him to make his company bigger and seeing a bright future beckoning her.

She had had a few more drinks than usual that night.

Silvia rubbed her brow and tried to find some water to drink, only to hear strange noises coming from the next room.

She lived alone in this small rented apartment, and Ladarius stayed occasionally, but in the guest room.

When she heard the sound, she was a little worried that he was not feeling well.

But when she got a little closer, she heard a woman’s voice…

“Ladarius, will Silvia hear us like this?”

“Isn’t that what makes it exciting? Baby, don’t worry, I put something in her drink to make sure she will sleep until tomorrow.”

The man’s words were interspersed with ragged gasps, but she could definitely hear that it was Ladarius’ voice.

A chill ran through her heart.she had often lost sleep over the years in order to do research and needed the help of drugs, so she had built up an immunity to sleeping pills.

“Wait until tomorrow’s new product takes the prize. I am a senior perfumer, the status in this circle is stable.When that time comes, there will be investors lining up and we’ll be recruiting as many people as possible. What will we need with Silvia?”

Silvia stood in the doorway and clenched her fist when she recognized Vivienne’s voice.

Her best friend from college was having an affair with her fiancé.

It’s not that she hadn’t heard some whispers, but she just stubbornly chose to trust them. Now,reality gave her a hard slap in the face

“I’m just using, Silvia. I can do everything for you, even put “something” in her recipe for the rookie competition.”

“I forbid you to mention her name. Tell me, do you love me or do you love her?”

Viviennie’s voice was soft and tantalizing

But in silvia’s ears, it was extraordinarily harsh,

She printed her torthand opened her eyes wide, as if she wanted to see through the door panel to see the adulterous couple

“Of courri love you!”

The next sound was so vomit inducing that Silvia’s palm was bleeding from gouging her nails into it asshe could resisted the urge to rush in.

How could she ever have imagined that her wholehearted dedication would be repaidwith such a betrayal?

Three years ago she became famous in a provincial perfumery competition and was offered numerous offers.

She even got offers from big companies like Warin, but for the sake of Ladarius’ fledgling business, she turned them all down and concentrated on helping and supporting it.

Two years ago, when she participated again in a major competition, she had a problem with her perfume and was ridiculed as a “perfumer without a nose”,she couldn’t figure out what went wrong at the time, but Ladarius stayed by her side and was considerate enough to let her go behind the scenes and let Vivienne do all the competitions and public appearances.

She thought they would support each other through thick and thin, but it turned out that she was simply a pawn in someone else’s hand.

When he nained the company V.L., he explained that the perfume was “victory and love”, which means to go against the trend, and she believed it. Turns out, it was simply the initials of Vivienne and Ladarius.

These two skanks betrayed her, but she was still lovestruck. It is really stupid ridiculous!

The anger finally turned into calmness. Silvia lost sleep all night, and only when it was almost dawn i did she hear the sound of the scum and the bitch leaving

She immediately got up and rummaged through her closet, and finally found the hot gold business card.

Three years ago, Simon, the president of Warin, had personally given her a business card, and she didn’t know if the phone number had changed.

Holding the phone tightly, she was a little nervous when the call was answered, “Mr. Simon, this is Silvia.”

After a pause, hearing that he hadn’t hung up on her, she quickly continued,

“We met at the provincial perfume competition three years ago, and you gave me one of your … Cards back then.”

“I remember.”

The low baritone voice, coupled with two simple words, surprisingly eased her tension.

“Here’s the thing. I have a business deal that might interest you.”

After a short silence, Simon said in a low voice, “Come to my office tomorrow morning at nine o’clock to talk about"

Before he could hang up. Silvia hurriedly replied, “Wait a minute …. Mr. Simon, tomorrow may be too late.Can it be today? Also, the office is not very convenient, can we change the place?”

She was in a hurry and spoke quickly, and couldn’t help but sweat for herself when she finished.

Warin was the kind of company that accounted for two-thirds of the entire domestic cosmetics and skincare industry, with a wide range of operations, not to mention a large back-end capital.

And Sinion, as the president of Warin, was simply a lepend in the business world.

It was bold of him to set aside time to see her himself, and it was bold of her to bargain on the time and place.

But there was really no way out

The new product launch and perfume competition was starting tonight, and if we talked about it tomorrow. it would be too late.

And going to the office would easily attract the eyes of others and would affect her plans.

she thought about it and said, “Don’t worry about the company."

There was no sound for three minutes, and just when Silvia thought she was going to be rejected, she heard Simon say, “Okay, meet me in thirty minutes, Garden Road Café.”

“Thanks …”

Before Silvia could complete her thanks, she heard him add, “Remember to bring your driver’s license.”

“Huh?”

His answer was to siinply hang up.

Silvia wondered if her ears had misheard, but time did not allow her to think about it.

She quickly changed clothes, cleaned herself up and went out.

It was a good thing that the garden path was not very far and she arrived on time. She was just about to enter the cafe when she was stopped.

“Miss Silvia?”

The person calling her name was one she didn’t recognize. “Hmm?”

“Master asks you to move there.”

He made an inviting gesture and Silvia looked in the direction of a black stretch Lincoln parked quietly at the side of

the road.

She understood at once.

Without hesitation, she walked toward the car and the driver pulled open the door from the outside.

She couldn’t see well from outside the car to the inside, only two long slender legs with clanking leather shoes on their feet were visible.

Silvia got into the car. The cold air in the car made her involuntarily shiver, then she raised her eyes to look at the other party. “Hello Mr. Simon, I …”

“Get to the point.”

Just four words, and extra cold, silvia suddenly stopped and saw his face.

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