Rosie paid extra attention to this and checked it carefully every day.

But in the cabinet, a box of men's underwear was missing.

In a flash, I remembered the X post Marco posted two days ago.

In his post, there was a box of underwear of this brand.

I was furious instantly and lost my sanity.

Louisa, took my underwear and gave it to his assistant?

Although I did not want to admit it, I was now so jealous that I was insane.

We had been in relationship for nine years and this was the first time I had gotten so angry over another man.

I wanted to rush downstairs and question that girl right away.

Did she know what it meant to give a man underwear as a gift?

Just as I was trying to calm my emotions and go downstairs, she pushed open the bathroom door with the flip-flop sound of her slippers.

"Lionel, Marco has returned the car to the dealer, but I need to go over to cancel the account."

"You can prepare dinner yourself."

I was already angry and hearing these words only added fuel to the fire.

"Can't you go tomorrow? Why do you have to go out so late?" asked me in annoyance.

Louisa was stunned and frowned.

"Don't you like this car? It's also for your sake that I canceled it early."

My face turned cold and so did my heart.

"You took the car without my consent. I just wanted to take back what belonged to me."

"It's too late now. It's not safe to go out. You can go tomorrow."

She took a deep breath and said, her eyes filled with disapproval of me, "You took back the gift I gave him in public and now you're letting him waste so much time at the dealer."

"Lionel, you can't just think about yourself."

"I feel strange with you like this."

My raging anger suddenly died down and what followed was endless coldness and disappointment.

I suddenly felt ridiculous.

"Am I thinking of myself?"

"Am I strange?"

"Louisa, do you want to hear what you're saying right now?"

She had some impatience on her face, but she still held back her patience to explain to me.

"My words were harsh, but you should know that Marco is the man in the company who can help me share the workload the most. You made him lose face in public today and I can't just abandon him now."

Seeing I stopped talking, she sighed.

"You have a prominent family background, Lionel, unlike ordinary people like me."

"If I want to have a future with you, I have to get stronger. Of course, you can act childish and ask me not to go today, but I don't want to disappoint my subordinates who fight side by side with me."

My head exploded with a loud bang.

It turned out that all this time she always felt that we were not a good match.

Marco was the partner who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her.

I got it.

I felt a chill in my heart and blurted out. "Go ahead."

Seeing that I had given in, she pushed the door open and left without any hesitation.

Leaving me only the refreshing fragrance of gardenia that dissipated into the air.

In the past, I admired her rational and clear nature the most.

She also said that she liked my innate arrogance and rebelliousness the most.

Now everything had changed.

I turned my gaze away from the door and let out a long sigh.

There was no point to keep a woman who had left my heart.

I took out my mobile phone and called my father who was far away in Brimstone.

"The blind date with the eldest daughter of the Scotts, I'll go."

Five years ago, after graduating from university, my father asked me to return to Brimstone to inherit the family business.

However, I did not want to leave Louisa, so I stayed in Araya.

In the past five years, I had transformed from a rich second-generation who knew nothing to a first-generation entrepreneur.

Whatever Louisa wanted to do, I accompanied her.

After five years of ups and downs, we opened the largest clothing company in Araya.

With an annual revenue of nearly 10 billion, she said we were not a match.

I was really reluctant to leave everything behind and return to Brimstone now.

A message from Louisa popped up on my mobile phone.

She said the sports car had been cancelled and sent back to the automotive dealership.

She and Marco would go back to the company to work overtime tonight and would not go home.

I laid in my bed and stayed up the whole night.

The next day, I came to the company with hungry stomach from the night.

But I did not expect, Louisa brought me breakfast on the table with the sticky note on the bag.

[Marco and I go to meet some clients and have lunch together.]

It was her handwriting.

The breakfast box she brought in the bag was my least favorite lamb sandwich.

It was obvious that it was not what she was prepared for me.

I handed the breakfast to my assistant and asked him to go out and sell me another one.

A relationship that had changed in quality was like an unappetizing breakfast. There was no need to force ourself to eat it.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, I finished dealing with all the documents, but there was no sign of Louisa.

My assistant suddenly pushed the door and casually said, "Sir, I saw Ms. Louisa and her assistant went to eat seafood. What do you want to eat? I'll order it for you."

I was stunned for a moment and frowned. "Where did you see them?"

My assistant shook the mobile phone in his hand with a look of surprise.

"On X, her assistant posted a message thanking Ms. Louisa for treating him to a delicious meal."

I lit a cigarette and blew a puff into the air.

The guilt I felt for impulsively agreeing to the blind date last night completely disappeared.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Louisa pushed the door to my office and stepped in with her high heels.

Followed Marco behind her.

"Lionel, sorry, I didn't get back from meeting with my business partners at noon. I just had a quick bite outside. Have you eaten yet?"

I picked up the documents she brought back and gave a faint response. "Hmm."

She pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, sighing.

"Lionel, I don't know how the news about the sports car spread in the company. The staffs are all talking about Marco behind his back. Can you come and help Marco explain it for the sake of signing big orders today?"

My hand, which was about to sign, paused and I raised my eyes.

"Didn't you give him the car and he accepted it? What's the point of having me, an outsider, wipe his ass?"

The girl's cold face showed some dissatisfaction.

"You're the boss, Lionel, this is a matter of words."

I leaned back in the recliner and sneered.

"Do you want me to use my authority to force the people below to shut their mouths up?"

Wasn't it normal for people to criticize a boss who gave his or her assistant a luxury car?

Not only did he dare to accept it, he also dared to post it openly on his X post and another social media to show off.

Shouldn't we have anticipated such a result?

She defended him.

She also wanted me to defend him with her despite feeling disgusted.

Louisa, after nine years of our relationship, did you have any feelings for me?

Marco behind her spoke up, "It's okay, Mr. Gilmore, a few rumors can't hurt me."

"Mr. Gilmore is already busy with work, so it's better not to trouble him with these small matters."

Louisa became anxious. She frowned and said in defense, "How can this be a small matter? You follow me on business trips every day and I don't want others to criticize you everywhere."

I threw the document on the table, interrupting the two people who were staring at each other.

"First of all, a person of integrity has nothing to fear. If you, Louisa, are doing your job impartially, rewarding him for bringing huge profits to the company and giving him a supercar is understandable."

"But the fact is, the value of these orders is far less than that of a supercar."

"I don't care if you misjudged his contribution to the company or you feel sorry for him for accompanying you on business trips and driving every day. The company has given him enough salary and if it's not enough, he can ask for more, instead of you secretly using my supercar to compensate him."

"This is your own problem. I shouldn't have to put on a leadership role and help you solve it."

Hearing those words, both of them were stunned.

Marco reacted earlier than Louisa.

He bowed to me, his voice pleading. "I'm sorry, Mr. Gilmore. I didn't think carefully about this matter. I will solve it myself. Don't blame Louisa."

Now, he even called her "Louisa".

Just overnight, he changed the way he called his boss from "Ms. Louisa" being "Louisa".

It seemed like the superior-subordinate relationship between them was closer than I imagined.

She raised her hand and slammed the table angrily, saying harshly, "We can handle it ourselves. We don't need you."

She grabbed her assistant's hand, pushed the office door and left without looking back.

Before getting off work, I received two business trip applications for two people and clicked "agree".

At night, my best friend, Reymond Blunt called me to drink.

He joked that I should have changed a long time ago.

Nine years of giving everything for a girl, but in the end, she still did not appreciate it.

"She just feels too tired being with you. No matter how hard she tries, she can't earn even one-tenth of your family's money and she can't spend your money with peace of mind."

"I can't help it. This is the girls nowadays."

I took a sip of my mojito without saying a word.

No.

Love did not become a burden when two people's hearts were truly together.

Only when we did not love could we make rational judgments.

Forget it, it was better for the person who did not belong to me to leave.

"When is your blind date with the Scott Family arranged? Have you really decided to leave Araya?"

I nodded and responded, "Next week, I'll transfer the management rights of the company to you and leave."

This clothing company was co founded by me and Louisa. She and I both hold half of the equity.

Since we wanted to sever ties, we naturally had to settle everything.

I spent the next whole week busy with the transfer.

Since the argument that day, Louisa had blocked me on X and WhatsApp.

On the contrary, Marco posted photos related to Louisa every day.

Spending their time together watching the sunset on the beach after chatting with their bussiness partner.

Getting up early and having breakfast together in the hotel.

And staying up the whole night working on a project together and drinking American coffee at 3 a.m.

I, who felt heartbroken at first, became numb in the end.

Until my assistant nervously handed me Marco's X account and said, "Sir, I think I should let you know about this."

I stared at it for a long time.

In his latest X post, he posted a picture of Louisa lying in his arms and sleeping soundly.

There were comments below.

[Congratulations for becoming a boyfriend and becoming a regular employee officially.]

[Wow, after reading your secret stories on your crush for four years, you finally got her love!]

[Finally, from crush to girlfriend ....]

I did not have any emotions more, I just smiled indifferently and returned the phone to my assistant.

"Notify everyone that there will be a staff meeting this afternoon." I ordered.

It was time to end this tangled triangle relationship.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, I walked into the largest conference room of the company with Reymond on time.

"I would like to inform everyone that I will be stepping down as the general manager. The company will be fully handed over to Mr. Blunt and Mr. Vaughan beside me."

Everyone was in an uproar, expressing shock hearing this news.

I stepped down from the stage and left the conference room.

The next day, the real estate agent came to register the sales information of the villa.

I got in the car and headed to the airport.

As soon as I arrived, the airport lobby was crowded with people.

I dragged my suitcase towards the security checkpoint and ran into Louisa and Marco who were rushing back.

She was standing in the crowd, looking at me from afar.

As early as yesterday, I had entrusted someone to send her a breakup message.

I did not even glance at them, just brushed past them.

Louisa held my hand and said in a deep voice, "Lionel, why are you so angry?"

I frowned and responded calmly, "Let go, it's so dirty."

She did not let my hand go, instead she patiently said, "I know you're angry, I apologize to you, okay? But Marco and I really have nothing, you're sold your shares and broke up ...."

A nice and friendly reminder to board the plane sounded at the airport.

I was too lazy to argue with her, so I just opened X and showed her Marco's X account.

"This is an irrefutable evidence. Do you want me to expose all the dirty things you have done?"

She was stunned for a moment, her lips slightly parted, with an incredulous expression.

I ignored her shock, put away my mobile phone and walked past her.

She reacted, quickly stopped me and angrily said to Marco behind her, "What the hell is going on! When did I lie down with you?!"

"Speak! Marco!"