Chapter 197 Are You Going to Apologize to Little Guo?
Adeline slept through the night in a daze.
All night long, she was dreaming.
In her dream, she saw the images captured by those pinhole cameras spreading all over the internet.
Everyone was pointing fingers at her, mocking her, despising her, telling her to hurry up and die.
When she was awakened by the phone in the morning, Adeline was covered in cold sweat.
She endured the headache and picked up the phone. "Who is this?"
"It's me." Nan Xun's elegant voice came from the phone. "Blake contacted me this morning and said you were wronged."
After speaking, Nan Xun took a deep breath. "There are some things to deal with at my gallery, I should be able to see you in the afternoon."
Adeline hesitated. "I'm fine, you don't need to come."
"It's necessary." Sebastian sighed on the other end of the phone. "Blake has told me everything. The humiliation at the party, and the pinhole camera, are not trivial matters.
"Jasper and Stella have reconciled, he will definitely always support Stella. If I don't come to see you, who will support you?"
Sebastian's words made Adeline's heart skip a beat.
She bit her lip, unable to speak for a while.
It seemed like in this city where she had lived for twenty years, there was no one who could support her.
Finally, she sighed. "Well... thank you."
In fact, she wasn't that strong.
"Don't worry, I'll be there for you in the future."
After Sebastian said these words solemnly, he exchanged a few more pleasantries with Adeline before hanging up the phone.
Putting her phone aside, Adeline looked up at the ceiling in a daze.
After some time passed, there was a knock on the door.
She opened the door.
Standing at the door was a smiling Stella.
Just like yesterday morning, Stella handed breakfast to Adeline. "Jasper and I went out to buy breakfast and brought you a portion."
Behind her, Jasper stood by the window in the corridor, looking outside.
Adeline pursed her lips and handed the breakfast back to Stella. "I'm not hungry."
After speaking, the woman slammed the door shut with a bang.
Outside the door came Stella's dissatisfied voice. "Jasper, look at Adeline! I kindly brought her breakfast."
After Stella's coquettish voice, Jasper's indifferent voice followed. "If she doesn't eat, I will."
"Jasper, you're the best..."
Listening to the conversation between the two outside the door, Adeline suddenly felt like laughing.
Sebastian was right.
Jasper was supporting Stella.
And she...
Had no one to support her.
At nine in the morning, Ryan knocked on Adeline's door, "Ms. Wilson, we should leave."
Adeline focused, put on her coat, and took the materials Jasper gave her last night as she left.
There was a van parked outside the hotel.
After Adeline got in, she realized that besides Jasper, there was also Stella and a man she had never seen before in the car.
Seeing her getting in the car, Stella linked arms with Jasper. "Adeline, this is Ronald, a designer from the Moore Group. He was specially sent by Luna to accompany us on visits to major manufacturers."
After speaking, she smiled gently at Adeline. "The Evelyn's Family sent someone to accompany us on the visits, probably feeling sorry for what happened at the party, right?"
"Yes."
After saying that, Ronald pushed his glasses up and looked Adeline up and down with narrowed eyes. "Ms. Wilson, such a beautiful woman like you being misunderstood is normal. Morgana has already received the appropriate punishment, I'm here today to... make sure Ms. Wilson feels at home."
Ronald's gaze made Adeline uncomfortable.
There were two rows of seats in the van facing each other.
Jasper and Stella sat on one side, while Ronald sat on the other.
After hesitating for a moment, Adeline sat down on Ronald's side.
She deliberately chose a spot far away from him.
But to her surprise, after she sat down, this man named Ronald shamelessly moved closer. "Ms. Wilson, I heard you're a genius jewelry designer?"
The smell from the stranger made Adeline very uncomfortable.
She subconsciously moved an inch to the side.
Ronald moved closer by an inch.
In the end, Adeline had to put all the files in her arms next to her and create some distance from the man.
Ronald frowned and tried to take the files.
"Enough." Just as he was about to move closer again, the man sitting across from him closed his eyes and coldly said, "The Foster Group's files are not for you to touch."
Ronald's hand hesitated in mid-air.
After a moment, he withdrew his hand. "Mr. Foster, I was out of line."
Jasper glanced at him indifferently, then reached out to remove Stella's hand that had been holding his arm.
In Stella's shocked gaze, the man elegantly stood up and walked to Adeline. "Stand up."
Adeline furrowed her brows, not sure what he was up to.
But she stood up anyway.
Jasper elegantly sat down where Adeline had been sitting, then pointed indifferently to the seat next to Stella. "You go over there."
It was then that Adeline realized Jasper was helping her.
Although she also disliked Stella, she would rather sit on this side than sit with Ronald.
So, Adeline took a deep breath, picked up the files, and moved to sit next to Stella.
There was silence in the car.
Stella clenched her fists at her sides.
Ronald was deliberately arranged by her to make Adeline uncomfortable and embarrassed!
But she didn't expect that Jasper, who always avoided contact with strangers, would personally switch seats with Adeline at this moment!
The car remained quiet throughout the journey.
Jasper pretended to doze off, Ronald was nervous and didn't dare to speak.
Stella kept glancing at Adeline from the corner of her eye.
Adeline casually wrote on the documents with a pen as if no one else was there.
At ten o'clock, the car arrived at the entrance of the Evercrest Group's factory.
As the car stopped, Adeline was about to get out when Ronald rushed ahead of her and deliberately held the car door, extending a hand toward Adeline. "Ms. Wilson, please."
Adeline furrowed her brows, not wanting to touch him, but just as she approached Ronald, someone behind her inexplicably pushed her.
Losing her balance, she stumbled directly toward Ronald.
Ronald took the opportunity to catch her in his arms, holding her waist tightly.
The smell from him made Adeline nauseous.
She struggled a few times but couldn't break free, so she angrily slapped Ronald hard across the face. "Let go of me!"
Ronald covered his face, stunned.
Adeline turned away and vigorously wiped the spot where he had touched her with a tissue.
"Sorry about that." From the car behind her, Stella got out with a apologetic look on her face. "I accidentally stepped on nothing just now and bumped into Ms. Wilson."
As she got out of the car, she looked at Ronald with a puzzled expression. "What's going on?"
Ronald coldly snorted while covering his face, "I saw Ms. Wilson almost falling just now, it was an emergency situation, so I didn't think much and just caught her. She thought I was taking advantage of her and slapped me."
Stella glanced at Adeline, who was still wiping her clothes, with a frown. "Ms. Wilson, Ronald was just trying to help... Isn't your reaction a bit too much? How about you apologize to Ronald?"
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Adeline was amused by Stella's words.
She looked at her and said, "I apologize?"
Stella bumped into her, causing her to fall onto Ronald. Ronald, in turn, held her, but now she was being asked to apologize?
"Yes, you do need to apologize."
Stella pursed her lips, just as she was about to speak, Jasper hung up the phone and got out of the car.
The man glanced indifferently at Ronald's swollen face and at Adeline, who was wiping her clothes with a grim expression, and asked, "What's going on?"
Stella hurriedly walked over and took hold of his arm, "When I got off the car just now, I lost my balance and bumped into Adeline. Ronald kindly helped her from falling, but she thinks Ronald was taking advantage of her."
She even pointed at Ronald's face with concern. "Look, he's all bruised. Adeline is even wiping the spot where Ronald touched her with a tissue... Is she being disrespectful? I asked her to apologize to Ronald, let's just forget about this, but she refuses..."
Jasper's brows furrowed deeply at the woman's words.
He gave Adeline a cold glance. "Is what Stella said true?"
Adeline paused for a moment as she was wiping her clothes.
She coldly raised her head, meeting his icy gaze. "It's true. What, Mr. Foster wants me to apologize to this man who intentionally harassed me?"
After she spoke, Ronald, who was standing nearby, instantly became displeased.
He glanced at Adeline, with a hint of sadness on his lips. "I was just trying to help you, when did it become harassment?"
"That's right." Stella quickly added fuel to the fire. "Jasper, Ronald is the guide specially arranged by the Evelyn's Family to entertain us.
"And now this has caused such a rift right after we arrived, those who know Ms. Wilson's fiery temper and strict self-discipline might think that our relationship with the Foster Group and the Evercrest Group is strained.
"It's just a small matter that could be resolved with an apology, why is Ms. Wilson so insistent on not apologizing? I don't understand. Do you really have to see others misunderstand us and the Evelyn's Family to be happy?"
With each sentence, Stella stood on a moral high ground, as if Adeline not apologizing to this creepy man would bring great harm to the Foster Group.
Adeline narrowed her eyes and threw the tissue she had finished wiping her clothes with into the nearby trash can. "I won't apologize."
She didn't consider herself a proud person.
For the sake of her son's illness, she could humble herself, work as a maid by Jasper's side, as an employee.
But even if apologizing was just a matter of a few words, she wouldn't do it.
Now was just the beginning of her interaction with this Ronald.
Next, they would be spending the whole day together.
If she apologized now, then later this Ronald and Stella would become more and more presumptuous.
Adeline was well aware of their intentions.
Even if Ronald wasn't really trying to harass her, they were just colluding, trying to disgust her, make her feel wronged, uncomfortable.
"Adeline, it wouldn't cost you much to apologize." Stella continued, "Apologizing is just a matter of a few words for you, but if you don't, things will escalate, and Jasper will have to explain to the Evelyn's family..."
"Yes." Before Stella could finish her sentence, Jasper coldly interrupted.
His voice was cold and low. "Apologizing is indeed just a matter of a few words for you."
After speaking, he gave Adeline's cold face a cold glance and then turned to look at Stella.
"Apologize."
Adeline looked up, her face turning pale.
He wanted her to apologize.
She couldn't believe Jasper didn't understand what was happening.
Just now in the car, he could have chosen to switch seats with her when she dodged Ronald, proving that he understood what that man was up to.
But now, because of a few words from Stella, he wanted her to apologize to Ronald?
She stiffened her neck, coldly locking eyes with Jasper. "Mr. Foster, do you also think that not apologizing will affect the relationship between the Foster Group and the Evercrest Group?"
Even if Ronald was arranged by the Evercrest Group, he was just a small figure!
An insignificant figure!
If the cooperation between the Foster Group and the Evercrest Group could be jeopardized by such a person, then the relationship between major corporations was too fragile!
Stella might not understand this, but Jasper did.
But... he still had a cold face and wanted her to apologize, right?
"I'm here to inspect, not to cause trouble."
The man gave Adeline a cool glance and then looked at Stella. "Apologize."
Stella was extremely pleased.
She proudly took Jasper's arm and looked at Adeline with arrogance, "Ms. Wilson, Jasper has said so, are you still not going to apologize? Even if you have a good personal relationship, he is your boss, the president of the Foster Group! If the president asks you to apologize and you don't, that doesn't make you a good employee..."
"Stella."
Before Stella could finish her sentence, the man whose arm she was holding frowned and interrupted her.
He reached out and gently pulled her arm away, "I'm asking you and Adeline to apologize to Ronald."
Stella was stunned.
She looked at Jasper in disbelief. "Me? Apologize?"
Jasper looked at her indifferently, "You accidentally bumped into Adeline, which led to the misunderstanding between her and Ronald. Ronald saw her about to fall and helped her, he did nothing wrong."
"As a woman, Adeline felt offended by Ronald's action of helping her, so she hit Ronald, she did nothing wrong either."
Stella's face turned pale.
She looked at Jasper in disbelief. "So... it's my fault?"
He glanced at her and remained silent.
This result not only stunned Stella but also left Adeline and Ronald beside her in shock.
Who would have thought... that Jasper's request for an apology would actually be directed at Stella?
But upon closer inspection...
It seemed that everything was indeed Stella's fault.
"It's getting late."
Jasper lowered his gaze and glanced indifferently at the steel watch on his wrist. "Stella, I didn't want to bring you here today. Having unprofessional individuals involved in our tour will only slow down the progress."
"If you continue to waste our time here. I'll have Ryan take you back to the hotel to rest."
Jasper's businesslike tone made Stella clench her teeth tightly.
After a while, she took a deep breath and walked up to Adeline and Ronald. "I'm sorry, it's my fault!"
After speaking, Stella turned around, wiped away a tear, and walked briskly towards the factory. "I didn't mean to, why force me to apologize!"
Adeline sneered.
When Stella forced her to apologize just now, she didn't say that.
"Stella."
Listening to her slightly tearful voice, Jasper frowned, hesitated for a moment, and eventually caught up with her.
The man put his arm around Stella's shoulder and whispered something comforting in her ear.
Watching the intimate gestures between the two, Adeline's heart felt like it was being stabbed hard, a sharp, piercing pain.
"Ms. Wilson, let's go inside."
Ronald on the side chuckled, lifted his leg, and walked into the factory, deliberately raising his voice as he walked. "Even if Ms. Foster is wrong, Mr. Foster still doesn't mind. Indeed, no matter what, Mr. Foster still deeply loves Ms. Foster."
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