Book 1: She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement Annulment

Chapter 41

Chapter 121: A Soft And Squishy Daughter!

As soon as Whitney said that, a low and deep voice reached her. “I don’t know if she’s the Lord himself or not, but I do know I can help you go to Heaven and speak to the Lord himself.”

“…”

Whitney suddenly froze. As though she had been petrified, she slowly turned her head to see Justin standing right there.

Dressed meticulously in a black suit with his tie fastened tightly, he was the very picture of a cold and unfeeling man without any desires. He was tall and slender, and had a strong and commanding aura around him. His countenance was also cold and solemn, and even the beauty mark at the corner of his eye seemed to be exuding an icy chill.

The air at the kindergarten’s gates instantly solidified.

Whitney had seen Justin before.

It was at a business dinner in New York that she had attended with her husband, Bob Lowe. Mr. Hunt was sitting in an area far away that time, and all around him were people who wanted to go up to him and curry favor but didn’t dare to.

He was very young and was only in his twenties. As though a divine being who had descended into the mortal world, he was very handsome and carried himself extraordinarily well.

It was at that time that Whitney had finally witnessed what an aristocratic aura and background were truly like.

As such, he had left a very deep impression on Whitney.

Even so, why was he here right now?!

Just as she was wondering about it, Cherry exclaimed in surprise, “Daddy?!”

Whitney, “!!”

She looked at Cherry incredulously before looking at Justin again. She pointed at Cherry and stammered, “I-is this your child, Mr. Hunt?”

Justin looked at Cherry with love and affection in his dark, bottomless eyes. His voice was low, it was shaking a little—though outsiders would never notice it.

“Yes.”

He had said ‘yes’…

Whitney felt thunderstruck!

Cherry’s father really was Justin Hunt!

Her legs went limp and she almost fell onto the ground. She tried her best to control herself, barely managing to avoid embarrassing herself in front of everyone. She felt as if she couldn’t quite breathe anymore.

Justin stepped forward, bent down, and picked up Cherry.

He was tall and long-legged while Cherry was cherubic and adorable.

They formed an exceptionally harmonious picture. No one, however, noticed that the arm that Justin was carrying Cherry with was actually a little stiff.

It was as if he was afraid that he would hurt her if he exerted too much force.

After getting Cherry into a comfortable posture, Justin looked at Whitney and asked, “Who is your husband?”

Whitney didn’t want to answer, but she didn’t dare not to, so she replied, “… T-the Lowes.”

“Bob Lowe?” Justin snorted softly. “I see.”

‘I see’…?!

What was that supposed to mean?!

Whitney knew that Justin was a gentleman who didn’t bully women.

Should a woman offend him—in the case of single women, he would approach their fathers; in the case of married women, he would approach their husbands!

So, did this mean that Justin was planning to make things difficult for Bob?!

Whitney couldn’t keep herself together anymore. She staggered and fell onto the ground.

Ms. Lynn didn’t know Justin. She merely thought that Cherry’s father was very handsome. Seeing that he had taken the child with him, she finally looked at Whitney and asked, “What’s the matter, Mrs. Lowe?”

Whitney, “…”

She got up, hastily got into the car with Sinead, and ran off as if she was fleeing for her life.

Elsewhere.

Cherry, who was in Justin’s arms, widened her eyes big and round. Her bright and shiny eyes were full of shock.

Daddy was so cool just now! No, wait, had he recognized who she was?

Just as she was wondering about that, Justin looked at her and asked very gently, “What are you doing here instead of being at the Quinn School of Martial Arts?”

Cherry, “?”

Justin continued and said, “I passed by the area during work. I thought it looked like you when I looked over from afar, so I came over to take a look. Why are you wearing the kindergarten uniform? And even a dress at that?”

Cherry understood now—stinky Daddy still hadn’t recognized who she was!

He had mistaken her for Pete!

Cherry immediately nodded and said, “Daddy, Grandpa Quinn brought me here, yeah!”

There was nothing she could do aside from pushing the blame onto Grandpa Quinn for now! Should Daddy press further, she would just get Grandpa Quinn to make up a decent excuse.

Or so Cherry thought, because she completely didn’t notice the big smile at the corners of a certain somebody’s lips.

‘Yeah’…

Yes, that was exactly the feeling.

Justin couldn’t suppress his smile. So, this was… how an adorable, soft, and squishy daughter was like!

As expected, she was completely different from that little brat.

Just as Cherry thought he was going to press the matter, Justin instead said, “Let’s not go home yet. Shall we go and buy you some toys?”

Cherry, “?”

She blinked and blurted out, “Huh?”

Justin’s heart melted into a puddle of goo. He asked, “What do you like?”

“Barbie dolls!”

And so, Justin took Cherry to a toy shop that sold Barbies. She looked at the dazzling array of dolls, holding on to one excitedly while also refusing to let go of another.

Which should she get? Oh, what a tough choice this was!

Just as Cherry found herself awfully troubled, she heard her stinky father say, “Pack all of these up and send them to my house.”

Cherry, “!!”

Aaahhh!! All of a sudden, it seemed like she had forgiven stinky Daddy just a little!

No, she, little Cherry, mustn’t bend over backwards just for a few dolls!

At the sight of how his daughter was obviously not as mad anymore, Justin breathed a sigh of relief.

_

At the Quinn School of Martial Arts.

Pete had already waited for over half an hour, but the tyrant still wasn’t here to pick him up.

The bored little boy sat at the doorstep with his chin in his hands.

A jeep stopped at the entrance at this point.

Nora got off the car and strode over. “Come with me, Pete.”

Pete, “?”

Nora touched her nose and said a little embarrassedly, “Your father happened to see Cherry and mistook her for you, so he took her with him. I only knew about it after I went to the kindergarten but didn’t find Cherry there, so I was late picking you up.”

Pete, “…”

Pete couldn’t help but feel like the tyrant had abandoned him.

He already knew he had a daughter though, so why didn’t he think that Cherry was his daughter when he saw her?

He heaved a sigh, deeply worried about his father’s IQ.

Luckily, he was a boy, so his IQ was completely inherited from Mommy.

On the way home, he suddenly asked, “Mommy, what will you do if Daddy realizes Cherry’s existence?”

Nora’s long, slender fingers rested casually on the steering wheel. A sharp look flashed across her almond-shaped eyes and she replied, “I’ll take Cherry and you with me and flee for as long as we can, I guess.”

Pete, “…”

Nora pursed her lips and said lazily, “To be honest, it’s not that we can’t tell him the truth, either. It mainly depends on why your father hates me.”

She didn’t feel that she had done anything abominable at all!

The two of them reached the Anderson's very quickly.

Pete went upstairs after greeting Melissa coolly. After entering the bedroom, he picked up his cell phone and gave Cherry an emergency call.

Cherry was currently immersed in the sea of Barbies and unable to extricate herself.

At the door.

Justin smiled when he saw her cheering happily.

At this point, Lawrence suddenly came over and said, “Mr. Hunt, I’ve found some information about Ms. Smith.”

The look in Justin’s eyes turned serious. He glanced at Lawrence and indicated for him not to say anything. It was only after they went into the study that he ordered, “Tell me.”

Chapter 122: He Had Already Seen Through Everything A Long Time Ago

A respectful Lawrence gave him his report.

“We found out that when Ms. Smith became pregnant back then, the Smith's once said that her pregnancy had come about inexplicably and they didn’t know who her lover was.However, no one believed them, and said that they were just making up an excuse to cover up her immoral conduct.”

An inexplicable pregnancy…

Justin suddenly thought back to her asking him how he had come to have Pete. He had replied that he didn’t know and asked her if she believed him.

She had said that she did.

He’d thought that it was because she was so in love with him that she believed everything he said. He didn’t expect the truth to actually be like this!

Justin lowered his gaze, “Anything else?”

Lawrence shook his head.

Justin instructed, “Investigate how come she gave birth to twins.”

Lawrence was astonished. “Twins?”

His brows drew together and he said, “We haven’t found anything about that at all! Moreover, there really isn’t any information about how Ms. Smith spent those five years abroad.”

Justin waved him off while saying, “Continue the investigation.”

“Yes, sir.”

Justin sat on the desk after Lawrence left.

The look in his eyes was deep and unreadable as he listened to Cherry’s laughter next door.

To be honest, all the mysteries had been solved the moment he saw Cherry in the live-stream.

Everything had clicked at once.

His son’s personality change, the special situation at the hotel in California… As well as Nora paying so much attention to him for some strange reason…

In that instant, apart from the joy of realizing that he had a daughter, there was also another complicated emotion in him—anger at being deceived!

That woman wasn’t trying to get close to him because she liked him; rather, it really was because of his son!

The discovery made him exceptionally displeased.

As it turned out, from the beginning to the end, he was the one who had been flattering himself in this relationship.

He felt a mixture of joy and sorrow in that moment.

He was delighted that there were actually such ties between the two of them, and also happy that he actually really had a daughter.

But at the moment of discovery, a thought had also suddenly formed in his mind—he’d rather not have discovered the truth.

He had pretty much subconsciously pretended not to know who his daughter was and had put up a show in front of his son by instructing Lawrence to investigate the matter.

This was to confuse the other party and make them think that he hadn’t found out yet.

Afterward, knowing that he had deleted his daughter from his f*******: account, he hastily added her back in hopes of repairing their relationship.

Then, he thought back to his interactions with that woman during this recent period of time.

That woman had once said that her child’s father was an i***t. At that time, he had intensely disliked and even been a little jealous of that so-called ‘i***t’. But as it turned out, that i***t was actually he himself?!

He knew that his daughter was studying at the Golden Sunshine Kindergarten because that woman had used his name to enroll her daughter in the school. That was how he knew that their daughter was there.

His thoughts had still been on this when he was waiting quietly at the kindergarten.

If it had been the old him, if he hadn’t known Nora, and if he hadn’t had in-depth interaction with and understanding of Nora—after stabilizing the situation with them, the first thing he would have done after he saw his daughter would likely have been to take her from her mother and bring her home!

His, Justin Hunt’s child mustn’t be left out in the wild!

But when he saw his daughter being bullied and came forward to back her up, his heart had softened again.

Should he really do that, they would fall out with each other completely,

and it would probably be impossible between him and that woman anymore.

Justin lowered his gaze. His fingers tapped lightly on the desk as he tried to think of countermeasures.

All three of them didn’t want him to know the truth. This showed that they must have already reached a consensus among themselves. It was likely because they were afraid that he would separate them from each other.

In that case, then he would just keep things as they were for now!

At least he had already brought his daughter back home.

It was just a shame that he had utterly offended his daughter when he was still in the dark. In that case, he would give her a taste of her own medicine!

He would restore his dignity as a father while his daughter was still unaware that he already knew her true identity!

Didn’t that teacher bully his daughter?

In that case, he would make the Lowe's go bankrupt immediately!

The Lowe's were already on the verge of bankruptcy because of their investment in real estate anyway. He didn’t mind doing a little something to speed things up!

Justin looked at the computer. His fingers flew across the keyboard at high speed and he entered the Imperial League’s system.

After finishing what he wanted to do, Justin picked up his cell phone and looked at the time—it was time for his daughter’s live-stream.

His daughter had told Sponsor Grandpa the day before not to tip her anymore.

But if he didn’t, she definitely wouldn’t make it through today’s face-off. At times like this, he, Sponsor Daddy, would have to come forward!

Although saving the damsel in distress was an old and cliché trick, it undoubtedly worked well.

With that in mind, Justin stood up and walked out of the room.

Sure enough, he saw his daughter secretly lock the door from the inside of the bedroom.

The corners of his lips curled upward and he returned to the study.

Then, he entered her live-stream.

sweetcherry had already advanced to the top forty and would be advancing into the top twenty after the face-off today. Thus, one could consider this the semi-finals. As only those in the top ten would receive advertising opportunities, the top ten were considered the winners of the contest.

The further one advanced, the harder it would get.

The day before, she had been matched with Ika, a rich second-generation heir. Today, as luck would have it, sweetcherry was matched with a big-name live-streamer with eight million followers.

The other live-streamer’s fans had already tipped him with three million dollars worth of virtual gifts at this point, so it was very difficult for sweetcherry to beat him.

sweetcherry said softly, “There’s really no need to fight to win this match anymore! We only have less than a million fans. There’s no way we’ll win!”

Justin’s lip corners curled upward.

The ordinary fans were still a little too lacking. In situations like this, what they were really competing was instead the live-streamer's big boss patron's spending power.

Justin intended to wait ten minutes for the disparity in the two live-streamer's point count to become much greater before he made his move. When that happened, Cherry would definitely be very moved, just like how she had been with Sponsor Grandpa the day before.

Or so he thought. Unfortunately, he instead saw…

‘Mia has given you 9,999 airplanes.’

‘Brandon has given you 9,999 airplanes.’

‘Seth has given you 999 airplanes.’

‘XXX has given you 999 airplanes.’

_

A row of airplane virtual gifts appeared on the screen—they were all Cherry’s kindergarten classmates. The children studying in the Golden Sunshine Kindergarten were all rich second-generation heirs, so they had no lack of pocket money!

It took a short while for Cherry to pull ahead of her opponent by five million dollars worth of points!

An excited Cherry exclaimed, “Why are all of you here?!”

Brandon even wrote: ‘I brought all of them here, Boss. I’m cheering for you!’

Cherry nodded. “Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!!”

Justin, whose finger was already on the gift button but hadn’t yet sent the virtual gifts: ???

His expression darkened.

Why did these little brats have so much pocket money?

It was time to have a talk with their parents and have them limit their children’s pocket money!

Having lost another opportunity to please his daughter, Justin was so mad that he almost threw his cell phone away. However, it was at this moment that the phone beeped—Nora had sent him a text message. It read: ‘Mr. Hunt, if I may be so bold to ask, why do you hate your son’s mother so much?’

The look in Justin’s eyes turned solemn when he saw the message.

It was time that they had a good talk about this.

Chapter 123: A Kindly Father And An Obedient Daughter

After sending him the message, Nora couldn’t help but feel like she had been too obtrusive. Who knew how that narcissistic man would interpret it this time.

Just as she was thinking about it, she received a reply from him: ‘Let’s talk about these things face-to-face instead.’

Nora also felt that some things were better said and clarified in person, so she agreed.

She wrote: ‘Okay. What time and where?’

Justin: ‘When are you free?’

Nora: ‘Any time is fine.’

Justin: ‘How about tomorrow morning?’

Nora: ‘No, I have to sleep.’

Justin: ‘How about noon, then?’

Nora: ‘No, I have to eat.’

Justin: ‘We can have lunch together.’

Nora: ‘No.’

The food was always served on tiny little plates whenever she ate with him. It made eating a real chore.

Nora had never been one to waste time. There was nothing better than being able to go to bed early. Rather than spending two hours having a meal, she’d rather get it done in two minutes.

Wasn’t an additional two hours of sleep a much better deal?

Justin: ‘Then when are you free?’

Nora: ‘Any time is fine.’

Justin: ‘…’

At the sight of the ellipsis, Nora scrolled upward through their chat log and was suddenly very amused. She replied: ‘Let’s meet at three tomorrow afternoon. I’ll send the location to you.’

Justin: ‘Let’s meet at Club Prism, then. It’s close for both of us.’

Nora: ‘Okay, no problem.’

After confirming the time and location, Justin put down his cell phone and quietly walked out of the study. He walked carefully over to the door to Cherry’s room.

Through the crack, he could see the little fellow sitting on her elder brother’s desk and playing games on her cell phone with her legs folded up.

Her little face with baby fat was exceptionally adorable. Her chubby fingers slid across the phone screen at high speed. She was so immersed in her game that she had totally forgotten where she was. The way she dissed her teammates and opponents loudly… was really very cute!

Justin looked around at Pete’s room.

As his son was the room’s occupant, it was designed in a more masculine style. The chairs and tables were mostly blue.

He glanced at the side.

The villa was relatively small; each floor was only about 2,000 square feet. Apart from Pete’s and his own study rooms and bedrooms, there were still two other rooms.

Yeah, he supposed he could consider merging the two rooms and turning it into a princess-style room.

However, given how many Barbies his daughter had, as well as how he would definitely be buying her a ton of princess allocate Pete’s bedroom to her, too.

The little brat was always making him angry anyway!

While envisioning future renovation plans, Justin saw Cherry finally finishing her live-stream and winning another face-off. He pretended that he had just finished his work, opened the door, and entered the room.

At the sight of her handsome father, Cherry hastily sat up straight, put down her cell phone, and pretended that she was reading.

Justin asked, “Cherry… Pit, what do you like doing usually?”

‘Cherry Pit’?

Daddy had been influenced by her.

A secretly thrilled Cherry wanted to reply with ‘Playing games, of course~’…

But!

Just as she was about to answer, she suddenly realized that she was supposed to be Pete right now! If it was Pete, then his hobby should be…

Cherry’s eyes widened in fear. “I… I like solving Mathematical Olympiad problems the most…”

“Really?” Justin didn’t expect that his cute and squishy daughter also liked studying so much. His heart immediately softened even further and he said, “Shall Daddy teach you, then?”

Everything the little brat knew was self-taught.

But now that he had the opportunity to improve his relationship with his daughter, how could he give it up?

He would definitely control his temper well and let his daughter have a taste of a father’s tender loving care.

Justin, who was envisioning a scene of a kindly father and an obedient daughter, didn’t notice that Cherry was pouting at all.

Sob! Daddy really is the meanest! I’m never liking Daddy anymore!

_

“What did you say? Mr. Hunt didn’t get into an argument with his son but instead got along even better with him?” Tina, who had her cell phone in her hand, felt like she must have misheard.

Given Justin’s personality, there was no way he would spoil his son and let him do whatever he wanted after realizing that he was live-streaming.

After all, as a doctor who’d had frequent contact with the Hunts, she knew that even though Mr. Hunt pampered his son a lot, he was also very strict on him!

Despite his age, the little Mr. Hunt was already an all-rounded talent by now!

Lawrence’s annoying voice reached her through the phone.

“Yes, you have no idea how gentle the look in Mr. Hunt’s eyes was when he realized that the ‘little mister’ was live-streaming, so why would they possibly get into an argument?Why, Ms. York seems very disappointed about the outcome?”

An embarrassed Tina replied, “That’s not what I meant. I—”

“Don’t worry, I get it. I totally do. You were just thinking of taking the opportunity to seduce Mr. Hunt, that’s all. What a shame that he didn’t add you as a friend on f*******:, or did as you wished.”

Tina, “…”

She clenched her fists. Mr. Zimmer’s words were simply too direct and too awful!

She was about to say something when Lawrence added, “Oh, right. Mr. Hunt has something he would like me to tell you.”

Upon hearing that it was a message from Justin, Tina immediately asked, “What is it?”

“Hospital Finest doesn’t need a head of department who harbors ulterior motives like you anymore. There’s no place for you among the Hunt's private doctors anymore, either. You’d best hurry and look for your next employer, Ms. York!”

Tina, “!!”

She wanted to say something, but the other side had already hung up.

Tina clenched her fists as she listened to the disconnected tone on the phone.

It was the Hunt's support that had allowed her to become the head of the surgery department despite her age! Now that she had offended Justin, her reputation was probably going to be ruined!

No, she mustn’t allow that to happen…

There were other people she could still rely on—the Smith's! They were on equal standing with the Hunt's!

After all, it was the pills she had ‘made’ that were keeping Ian Smith alive.

Tina stood up and walked out of the room. It was getting late, so it was time for her to head to the

Smith's to give Ian a routine checkup.

Tina took out the Carefree Pill that she had asked someone to buy. She removed its packaging and placed it in a small box that she had specially made.

The box was made of a special material and looked very luxurious, making it seem as if what was resting inside wasn’t a pill but a gem.

Tina went to the Smith's with the pill.

But as soon as she entered, she saw Dr. Lincoln, a well-known traditional medicine practitioner in the circle, seated there. Her eyes widened in shock.

Next to him, the polite and mild-mannered Joel said, “Dr. York, Dr. Lincoln is here to give my third uncle a checkup. Please let him have a look at the pill that you usually give to my uncle.”

Although he spoke politely, his tone brooked no refusal.

How could Tina possibly dare to refuse him? She bit her lip, took a pill from her bag, and handed it to Dr. Lincoln.

After glancing at Tina a couple of times, Dr. Lincoln picked up the pill and examined it.

Then, he uttered hesitantly, “Huh?”

Joel looked up and asked, “What is it?”