"Norman Bennett, why are you here?"
As soon as Elliana Lyle sat in the front passenger seat, the man leaned over to buckle her seatbelt.
The man’s profile was handso, but his complexion wasn’t great, giving her an oppressive feeling of cold frost.
This attitude made her unsure—it seed like he was angry, yet maybe it was nothing at all, just a purely bad complexion.
The man didn’t answer her question. After the car started, he asked, "What have you been doing these past few days?"
The past few days?
She imdiately understood what Norman Bennett ant and answered truthfully without hiding, "Luna and I followed Simon King to collect photos so his wife would divorce him."
Then she thought of the matter of Luna’s salary deduction and said a bit boastfully, "Luna said it would apply pressure on Simon King and slow down his collaboration with Roland, isn’t that nice?"
"Hmm."
Just a simple word was Norman Bennett’s greatest affirmation.
He hadn’t expected the little girl to care about this matter. Even so, what needed to be blad still needed to be addressed.
"And what else?"
What else? Elliana was puzzled—was there anything else? Probably not.
So she shook her head, "Nothing else, I suppose."
"Confess to be treated leniently."
Upon hearing the man’s rather stern voice, she suddenly beca alard!
She’d been nesting in internet cafes the past few days... but how did Norman Bennett know? And she hadn’t told Lana where she was.
She was about to speak but dismissed the thought—no, no, she couldn’t fall for a simple trick and reveal everything!
"Norman Bennett... could you give a hint, please, hehe..." she chuckled dryly, glancing at the man.
The man showed no rcy, "Confess on your own!"
Elliana: "..."
After holding it in for a long ti, she hesitantly murmured, "I shouldn’t have stayed in the internet cafe playing gas these past few days—I’ve made a mistake."
The man’s hand paused on the steering wheel, and his face instantly turned ice-cold, freezing hard enough to make a popsicle, and then the car fell into dead silence.
He had thought the little girl rely disregarded dical advice and went to a hot pot restaurant for spicy food, not knowing she was nesting in an internet cafe.
"Norman Bennett? What’s wrong?" Elliana cautiously probed, wasn’t it said that confessing brings leniency? Why did it seem even angrier now?
The man ignored her, focusing seriously on driving. Wasn’t it said that confessing brings leniency? Why did it feel like the offense got worse?
"Norman Bennett, are you angry? I swear I’ll never go again."
"Norman Bennett, don’t be mad, weren’t you the one who said confessing brings leniency?"
Elliana kept admitting her mistakes, yet the man was no longer very angry, he just said, "Forgot what the doctor said?"
Though the words seed unrelated, they imdiately clued her in! The hot pot restaurant she went to with Luna was the biggest in South City, and it was acquired by Norman Bennett...
So that’s how it was!
By now, she began to regret it, why ntion the internet cafe so carelessly.
Elliana: My intestines, they’re turning green...
The man continued, "Avoid highly stimulating foods."
...
――― Bennett Family Villa.
Five in the afternoon.
Elliana sat blankly on the sofa while the man had already gone upstairs.
Noticing sothing was off, Lana approached with a cat in her arms, "Young Mistress, Little Lotus has gotten even fatter recently."
A round, plump cat was placed before her by Lana, who she rembered hadn’t been this fat just a few days ago.
She reached out to rub the fluffy, round head of the cat, feeling the thickness of its fur, and said to Lana, "Lana, cut its als in half from now on, if it gets any fatter it won’t be healthy."
Little Lotus: ???
Lana replied, "Okay."
...
At night.
Elliana had already showered and changed into pajamas, but the man was still in the study.
After thinking for a bit, she decided to go check on him.
She tiptoed to the study door, hesitated for a few seconds, then raised her hand to knock.
"Co in."
With the invitation, she turned the handle and pushed open the door. The man was busy at the computer and lifted his eyes to glance at her as she entered.
"Norman Bennett, are you busy?"
"Hmm."
...
The conversation was awkward.
She walked up to the man’s desk, propped her elbows on the edge, and cupped her face with both hands, seriously looking at him.
Truth be told, Norman’s concentration was srizing—the eyebrows were pleasing, the nose was appealing, the mouth even more so, everything about him was just how she liked it.
Thinking about this, she suddenly rembered her past life, why had she stubbornly refused such a great man for that bastard Shane Southwell?
If this were written in a novel, it would definitely be a clichéd scenario forced by the author!
"What are you looking at?" The man’s gaze t hers, his tone icy, yet his eyes were tender.
She boldly asked, "Can I sit on your lap while I watch you work?"
Her words received no verbal response, but after a mont, the man scooted his chair back a few inches, that jasper-like hand elegantly and calmly tapping twice on his black suit pants.
Elliana giggled and sat on the man’s lap without hesitation.
She liked pressing her face into the crook of the man’s neck, enjoying the faint lotus fragrance.
"Norman Bennett, it’s said on Weibo that you’re keeping out of sight, and that I’ve had an abortion for you, should you help clear the rumors?"
The man paused his actions, looked down at her in his embrace and comforted, "Rumors that stir up trouble— the more you care, the more trouble it becos."
"But... I’m a bit upset. I haven’t offended anyone, so why slander like this? And they slandered you too."
At this point, she abruptly stopped. If they wanted to slander, didn’t they typically target just her? Why involve Norman Bennett this ti?
Could it be...?
She stared at the man and asked, "Norman Bennett, did you offend soone?"
The man smiled faintly and tapped her forehead with his finger, "Not too stupid."
"Who did you offend?" She looked at the man with curiosity.
"Capitalists."
Just three words, but they encompassed a lot. Elliana nodded, sowhat understanding but still puzzled.
The man patiently explained, and only then did she grasp the gist.
In North City, the Bennett Corporation, as a leading group in the dostic heavy industry, has always been a target for collaboration from other companies.
But dostic business reforms greatly impacted the heavy industry. Back then, Norman Bennett foresaw the future of the industry, realizing that heavy industry reform was imperative.
Despite repeated persuasion, his father remained unmoved, leading Norman to leave The Bennetts. Coincidentally, a costics company was failing due to poor managent and was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Norman Bennett saw potential in this company and discussed it with his grandfather, who supported the endeavor without conditions.
After acquiring the costics company, they established lody Harmony, and with the few factories given by his grandfather, within just a year, lody Harmony transford from an obscure company to a well-known perfu and skincare brand.
The company continued diversifying from costics to hotels, tourism, and later into the entertainnt and film industries.
This completely shed the burden of the heavy industry, but along the way, it touched many people’s interests.
Such as Simon King, the giant in the livestreaming industry.
Yet behind Norman Bennett, there was always the support of The Bennetts, a behemoth not easily bullied even if it took a nap.
Since the livestream industry bood four years ago, no new streaming platform in the country has survived a year, even those under White Goose have faced various suppressions.
This ti, the acquisition by Radiant Light has drawn dissatisfaction from the streaming industry.
Actually, if it weren’t for the malicious slander involving Evelyn Dunn against Elliana, Norman Bennett wouldn’t have intervened so quickly in this circle. For lody Harmony, chemical industry remains its core, and trying to transition to other directions is no easy task.
After all, taking a piece from soone else’s pie will inevitably make you a target for many.
Initially, lody Harmony only intended for Radiant Light to gradually seep into this young circle, but due to a leak, it fell into this predicant, stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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