Book 2 : She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement

Chapter 10

Chapter 636 Good News~~

Upon hearing what she said, Justin suddenly said, “I’m starting to feel more and more like Xander is our son.”

Nora was taken aback. “How so?”

Justin suddenly smiled. “He went to bed very early last night, but he is still asleep even now, and he always looks like he doesn’t get enough sleep. Did he inherit that from you?”

The corners of Nora’s lips spasmed.

In the bedroom upstairs.

Xander had actually already woken up a long time ago. In fact, he was even hiding behind the curtain at the windowsill and looking down at the lower floor.

When Justin picked up Cherry, a lump had even formed in his throat. For a moment, he really wanted to throw Cherry onto the floor. But when he thought of how they might be Cherry and Pete, the friends whom he had gotten to know through the Internet, he resisted the urge to do so.

That woman had given birth to Cherry and Pete.

The four of them were a family, whereas he, Xander, was an extra. Therefore, he wasn’t going to join them.

Hah.

The proud Xander continued hiding upstairs. He closed his eyes and continued pretending that he was asleep.

Xander was asleep, so after the family of four entered the living room, Nora sat on the sofa, closed her eyes, and rested.

Cherry was in Justin’s arms. She was showing him her ranking in her game on her cell phone. She said, “Daddy, look! I have already achieved 100 stars in the game! Aren’t I amazing?!”

Justin nodded. “Yup, Cherry is the best.”

Cherry grinned happily at the praise. Next to them, Pete couldn’t help sighing. “Even if you stick your foot in his face, he would still say it smells nice.”

Cherry: “?”

She retorted indignantly, “But my feet do smell nice!”

Why would a little princess’ feet possibly stink?!

Pete: “…”

The few of them engaged one another in a rather vapid conversation. A while later, when Justin was about to invite Nora upstairs to pick a room for their master bedroom after marriage, footsteps suddenly came from the door. Then, with the help of the housekeeper, an unsteady Mrs. Hunt walked in.

As soon as she entered, her gaze fell on Nora. She said, “I heard that Pete is back, so I came over to have a look. So, Ms. Smith is also here?”

Nora opened her eyes, raised her eyebrows, and ignored her.

The old lady walked up to Pete. “Pete, come over to Great-Grandma and let me see if you’ve lost weight? How have you been? Have you been healthy? Have you been eating well? Did the Smith's mistreat you?!”

By saying such things in front of Nora, Mrs. Hunt was deliberately trying to anger her.

Unfortunately, she found that Nora was not affected by her questions in the least. Pete also answered earnestly, “No, the Smith's are great too. Grandpa treats me very well.” Seeing that Nora was still ignoring her, Mrs. Hunt suddenly found all this rather boring.

Thus, she stopped trying to be mean and sat on the sofa instead. She looked at Nora and said, “Ms. Smith, I have already given the Livingstones instructions not to spread the news about your misdiagnosis!”

Nora raised her eyebrows when she heard this.

What was she trying to say by that?

While she was thinking about it, Mrs. Hunt went on. “I initially thought that your medical skills must be very impressive since you are Dr. Zabe’s disciple, but you ultimately still have too little experience in comparison with him. Only the elderly are good at alternative medicine! It’s different from modern medicine.”

She then said, “Originally, Thomas thought you were in collusion with Helen, so he was hell-bent on publicizing the matter. I was the one who stopped him.”

After saying that, she looked at Nora.

She’d thought that Nora would thank her for it, but unexpectedly, the woman’s attitude towards her was actually still as halfhearted as ever. Mrs. Hunt became rather angry at once. “Ms. Smith, I know you don’t care about such things—after all, your reputation is already in tatters—but you still have to pay more attention to it in the future. After all, even if you don’t care about it, the Hunt's do!”

As soon as she said that, Justin cast his eyes down and said, “On the contrary, I think these things about fame and status aren’t very important. Haven’t I also been notorious all these years? How has that affected the Hunts'?”

Upon being talked back right to her face, Mrs. Hunt found herself at a loss for words.

A short while later, she finally stood and said, “Fine, it’s this old lady here who was being too meddlesome! Thomas is a loudmouth. I daresay that if I tell them that I’m washing my hands off this matter, news of Nora’s misdiagnosis will definitely become the talk of the city tomorrow!”

Justin raised his eyebrows. “Oh, it’s okay.”

Nora still looked as though she wasn’t intending to speak. Mrs. Hunt was infuriated. “Fine, fine. Since all of you are taking that attitude, then I’ll get someone to tell them about it right away!”

As she spoke, she started walking out.

When she reached the door, Nora suddenly said, “Mrs. Hunt.”

Mrs. Hunt stopped and looked over. As expected, Nora must not want to be embarrassed either, right? So, was she giving in now?

But as soon as the thought flashed through her mind, she instead heard Nora ask, “When are the Livingstones planning to get the divorce done?”

Mrs. Hunt: ?

She was furious. “I just received news that they have already gone to the court. Looking at the time, the two of them should be out by now!”

“Oh?”

Nora raised her eyebrows when she heard this. Then, she chuckled and said, “In that case, I also have a piece of good news here to celebrate with you, Mrs. Hunt.”

Mrs. Hunt was taken aback. “What’s the good news?”

Chapter 637: Thomas The Huge Cuckold!

Nora cast her cat-like eyes down and slowly said, “I have never made any mistakes in my diagnoses.”

Mrs. Hunt frowned.

She clenched her jaw. “Heh, are you trying to say that your diagnosis of Thomas is correct?”

Nora raised her eyebrows and said nothing.

Mrs. Hunt balled up her fists. As someone who had experienced so many things in life, she had actually already had her own suspicions when Thomas said that Cecelia was pregnant. She had even personally brought it up to the Livingstones.

At that time, Mrs. Livingstone and Thomas had clearly promised that they would investigate it properly.

Since they had proceeded with the divorce, she’d thought that it was because Thomas had already made sure that the problem didn’t lie with him, or that he had confirmed that the child in Cecelia’s belly was his! But judging from how confident Nora looked.

She couldn’t help but think of the Zabe Corporation’s Calming Pills that Nora had made. Dr. Zabe was the only person in the world who could make those pills, but he had long since become bedridden and unable to make medicine anymore.

Nora was the one and only disciple whom Dr. Zabe had personally accepted. When Mrs. Hunt thought of this, she suddenly became flustered.

She hurriedly walked out with the help of the housekeeper!

Seeing her staggering back, the corners of Nora’s lips lifted into a smile.

Justin looked at the cheeky smile on her lips. For some reason, he suddenly found it terribly difficult to resist the urge in him. He couldn’t help but step forward and give her a kiss at the corner of her lips.

As soon as he did that, both of them were stunned.

Even Cherry and Pete were dumbfounded.

Then, Cherry turned away and covered her eyes. “Yikes, how shameful! But I can’t see anything anymore! Mommy and Daddy can continue what they are doing!”

As for Pete, he lowered his head and said calmly, “Did something happen, Cherry? I was working on my problems just now, so I didn’t see anything.”

Cherry shook her head wildly at once. “Not at all, not at all! I was playing games the whole time, so I didn’t see anything either.”

Nora: “…”

She kept quiet for a while, but in the end, she couldn’t help but expose Cherry. “You haven’t even logged in to your game.”

Cherry paused. Then, she picked up her phone and said, “Really?”

She sighed silently. “These detestable underage restrictions! The child lock is still stopping me from playing games! Alas!”

Justin also couldn’t resist exposing Pete. “Your book is upside down.”

Pete: “…”

He straightened the book in silence. He was about to say something when Justin suddenly exchanged a look with Nora. Then, as if they were telepathic, the two of them picked up the two kids and gave Cherry and Pete each a kiss on the cheek.

Cherry and Pete, who were caught off guard and kissed by their parents, reacted completely differently.

Cherry blinked and said, “Mommy, your mouth smells nice~ I feel like my heart is soaring through the skies from the kiss, and I feel like I’m in such a good mood that I can play a hundred rounds without losing my temper!~”

Nora replied, “It seems that you’re only allowed to play for an hour a day, though?”

Cherry: “…”

Hmph, Mommy is so mean! Why does she always have to poke her where it hurts?!

As for Pete, he wiped his cheek in silence with a look of disgust.

Justin: “…”

He looked at the son in his arms, and then at his soft, tender, and sweet-talking daughter. Justin suddenly felt like he had kissed the wrong person!

The brat simply mustn’t be pampered.

While the four of them were being rowdy, upstairs, Xander’s eyes were widened as he watched them in disbelief.

It seemed like he had never seen people kissing one another like that.

He touched his mouth and suddenly curled his lips disdainfully.

Mouths were meant for eating. Wasn’t it dirty to kiss people like that?

Hah, those two stupid kids!

But he nevertheless touched his lips with his fingers. Then, he put two fingers together and rubbed them against his cheek.

Was this what a kiss felt like?

Xander was in a daze. But right after, he suddenly shuddered. Yuck, how gross! He would never do such childish things.

He would never play with them either!

With that in mind, Xander shrank back and crawled back into the bedroom.

The family of four downstairs didn’t see Xander come down even when lunchtime came. When Nora went upstairs to take a look, she found that Xander was pretending to be asleep. However, since he wasn’t sick, she didn’t expose him.

After all, even though Xander might be her son, the final results weren’t out yet. She didn’t want to invest her emotions in him too early.

In the event that it turned out that they weren’t parent and child in the DNA test, yet she had already developed feelings for the child, things would become troublesome.

And she had always been someone who hated trouble the most.

Therefore, Nora went down the stairs and played with Cherry and Pete for a while. After that, the four of them went upstairs to pick the master bedroom.

Princess Cherry straight-up took two rooms. She wanted to merge the two rooms and then put her dolls in them.

Pete’s room was beside Cherry’s.

Even though Justin hadn’t brought it up, he had also wanted to merge two rooms for Pete. However, Nora said, “I think you can merge these two rooms and use one of them as a study. Pete’s robots and books can be placed in there.”

She felt that their father was being too partial to one party, so she had to even things out.

Pete’s eyes, which were looking at Nora, lit up brightly at once. At the sight, even Nora couldn’t help but ruffle his hair with a smile.

Justin originally wanted to say that they didn’t have to go about it in such a troublesome way. Once the brat grew up, he would just give him a small house and let him stay there instead of living with them.

However, this was the only suggestion Nora had given about the renovation, so after a 0.1-second-long silence, Justin still agreed to it in the end.

When they left at night, Nora left Cherry there.

After all, she couldn’t let Justin be all alone either, could she?

She had completely forgotten that when she first learned about the two children, she had wanted to kick a certain someone away and escape with the two kids.

“Bye-bye, Mommy, I will miss you!”

Cherry stretched out her chubby little hand. After she said that cutely, she immediately took Justin’s hand and raised her head. Her black jewel-like eyes were damp and moist, making it unbearable to see her like that. She said, “Daddy, I’m so sad that I can’t play my games! Can you really bear to make a cute little girl like me sad?”

Justin: “…”

“Daddy, can you ask Y to write me a program that can fool the system and make me look like an adult?”

In response to his pitiful daughter’s demands, Justin only made one request: “Don’t tell your mom about it!”

“Don’t worry, Daddy!”

Cherry’s eyes were bright and shiny. “I love Daddy the most!”

Justin: “…”

After that, Cherry went upstairs happily.

While the family of four was happily spending time with one another, Mrs. Hunt was deeply troubled.

After Nora had said that, she had returned to her house and called Thomas right away. When she called, Thomas and Helen had just exited the court.

As he looked at the divorce decree in his hand, Thomas said, “Helen, you should also understand that for wealthy families like ours, heirs take top priority. Nobody would want a woman like you who can’t reproduce! On account of how we were married for three years, why don’t you stay with me? I’m going to marry Cecelia, though-after all, I have to give my child a proper identity! But don’t worry, I won’t treat you badly. What do you say?”

Helen clenched her fists as she listened to the disgusting things he was saying.

She took a deep breath. A moment later, she slowly said, “Thomas, what is so good about being with you? Are you that good in bed? Do you know how happy I am to be able to divorce you?! At last, I don’t have to tolerate your incompetence and inexplicable self-confidence anymore!”

Her words stabbed right into Thomas’ sore spot. He had always been smug about his great stamina in bed. Thus, he immediately got angry and said furiously, “Good going, Helen! You shameless ingrate! Okay, then we’ll see just how miserable you’ll be in the future! Heh, don’t expect that I’ll hide the truth for you when others ask me why we divorced!”

He turned around to leave after shouting at her. However, it was at this time that he received a call from Mrs. Hunt.

Chapter 638: Taking Action!

When Thomas answered the phone, he heard Mrs. Hunt asking, “Have you divorced her?”

“Yes, I’ve collected the certificate.”

Thomas said. When he turned around to look at Helen, he instead saw that she had already gotten in the car and left. The sight infuriated him at once. In his opinion, Helen had to be in tears and crying her eyes out when she left him. But judging from her appearance, why did it look like she was dying to divorce him instead?

While he was thinking about it, he heard what Mrs. Hunt said. Thomas immediately sneered, “Grandaunt, in my opinion, she must just be talking big again! Don’t worry! I know my body well! There’s definitely no problem with me! Also, I have already asked Cecelia about it. She is very sure that the child is mine! Because she is no longer in contact with her previous boyfriend!”

Cecelia was a well-known socialite in the circle and had a chaotic private life.

Mrs. Hunt frowned and said, “Even so, you should still be cautious. Why don’t you visit a hospital and go for a checkup? Even if you don’t trust alternative medicine, surely you trust modern medicine, right?”

When Thomas heard this, he fell silent. It was only after a while that he finally replied, “Okay, okay, I get it.”

After hanging up the phone, he walked to his car.

He opened the door. In the passenger seat was a woman with heavy make-up-it was Cecelia.

Cecelia asked, “Shall we go and register our marriage?”

Initially, Thomas had said that he would register his marriage with Cecelia immediately after he divorced Helen. After all, they couldn’t get married after Cecelia’s belly showed instead. If that happened, it would end up reflecting poorly on them.

But when he thought of what Mrs. Hunt said just now, Thomas suddenly felt that there was no need to rush. He kissed Cecelia and said, “Tsk, what’s the hurry? The test can be done once the baby is four-months-old, right? We’ll register the marriage after we do a DNA test. If you are in a hurry, we can hold the wedding first.”

DNA test?

Cecelia’s eyes flickered. She said, “I see, Thomas, do you not trust me? If you don’t trust me, then why are you marrying me?! In that case, I will have the baby aborted right away! I don’t want this baby anymore! It hasn’t even been born yet, yet its father is already rejecting it! Why is my baby’s life so hard?!”

Thomas looked at her. “That’s enough, what are you putting up that act in front of me for? It’s all because you have a bad reputation, so the elders at home are worried. Once the baby is four-months-old, we can do a DNA test and put my family’s hearts at ease. Why wouldn’t I trust you? But is there any use if I alone trust you? My family has to trust you too! Be good- I know you are suffering injustice here, but if you have done nothing wrong, then what’s there to be afraid of? It’s just a DNA test. What’s so scary about it?”

Cecelia bit her lip. She knew that Thomas had already made up his mind.

Cecelia could only lower her head. “I am doing this all for your sake! You mustn’t bully me in the future!”

“Okay, okay. C’mon, let’s go, baby. I’ll buy you a ring!”

As the two drove off in the car, a touch of anxiety flashed across Cecelia’s eyes.

A day later.

News that the Livingstones had divorced Helen because she was infertile spread throughout New York.

“What’s going on? Why are you implicated by this?” Sheril, whose hair reached her shoulders, said angrily in front of Nora, “Not only are they saying that your medical skills are lacking and that you were bribed by Helen, but they are also saying that you were planning to let the Livingstones be the scapegoat?”

Nora let out a huge yawn. She took a sip of water and asked, “You woke me up so early just to say that?”

A confused Sheril said, “But it’s not early anymore. It’s already eleven!”

Nora always slept until one o’clock in the afternoon!

She sighed and took out a slice of bread. As she tore it into strips and ate it, Sheril went on. “Everyone’s saying that you are too young and that you only have superficial mastery of Dr. Zabe’s medical skills and not the essence, so your medical skills are lacking! They are too much!”

Nora uttered an “oh”.

Sheril would like to say that she, an onlooker, was simply so much more anxious than the person involved herself!

She asked, “What are you going to do?”

Nora’s eyes were a little dark as she replied, “Don’t worry about it.”

She’d thought that the Stewarts would take it slow, but unexpectedly, they had actually taken action so quickly and so aggressively!