In the days that followed, Olivia's life divided neatly in two.
Inside the office, it was numbers, contracts, and endless meetings.
Outside, it was photos and headlines.
Every morning, Carrie came in with a tight face and a phone in her hand.
“Ms. White," she would say, “you're on the hot list again."
Sometimes it was an old photo from her wedding, cropped to show only Anderson's hand on her waist.
Sometimes it was a new one: Olivia and Vincent walking out of a building together, talking in a corner at a reception, standing side by side at a factory visit.
The captions were always the same.
WHITE GROUP HEIRESS AND LIU HEIR, LOVE OR BUSINESS?
ABANDONED BILLIONAIRE? MRS. GRAY SEEN CONSTANTLY WITH “MYSTERY CEO"
Olivia stopped clicking after the first few days.
“I can't control what
