Female Novel
Chapter 31
‘Jameson stole the ring and took the liberty of proposing to you with it. That was never my idea.’After a long deliberation, Pierre finally made up his mind to send Meredith the message. Althoughhis frankness would definitely break the lady’s heart in a cruel way, he still figured that telling her thetruth was the better way to deal with this mess since he knew he was a terrible liar.
The man then continued to sit in his car and smoked while brooding on the matter in a preoccupiedmanner. Meredith has always replied to my every message almost instantaneously, even though Ihave never done the same in return. However, she seems to be taking longer than usual to reply tomy text this time.
Even after waiting for a long while, she still hadn’t replied. Well, maybe she feels awkward andthinks it’s better not to bring it up. So, that’s probably not a bad thing for both of us either. At thethought of that, Pierre tossed the cigarette butt out of the car window and drove off.
Meanwhile, Meredith and Megan were still arguing with each other over the former’s phone that wasdropped into the toilet bowl. “I’m not gonna pick it back up from that ‘pit’,” Meredith said. “Come on!I’m getting married soon, so I don’t wanna get jinxed. Furthermore, I’m going to be a laughing stockif people hear about this.” Deep down, Meredith was sure that her sister would never reach herhand into the toilet bowl for her phone, but even so, she wasn’t willing to do it herself. Of course, herreason was exactly the same as Megan’s.
“Why don’t you get the maid to pick it back up?” Megan chuckled and added, “But are you sure youstill want that phone, Meredith? It’s been down the ‘pit’, after all.”
In fact, that phone was her own personal one, which she had specially bought because of Pierre.Thus, there was nothing else in it besides her contact with Pierre. Megan’s right. I’m not going touse that phone anymore even after it’s been taken out of that ‘pit’. After all, I only bought this phone
because of Pierre, so it must never be tainted and dirtied. “Fine then!” After the maid retrieved thephone from the toilet bowl, Meredith directly threw it into the trash can.
The next day, Meredith had her assistant create a backup of all the information within her phone,only to realize that it had been damaged by the water too much to do that. Therefore, she had nochoice but to send her phone for repair. She was adamant on recovering the data within it, so shekept begging the technician to get it repaired.
In the meantime, Roland was troubled by an issue that revolved around his company. As the newseason was about to arrive, Yard Group had to renew its contract with its suppliers. Since thecompany’s business was about fashion and clothing brands, they needed to constantly reordermaterials, such as fabric, buttons, threads, and many other accessories. At the same time, Finneas’Lake Corporation hadn’t worked with Yard Group as frequently as it did, though the prices theycharged were undeniably one of the cheapest ones over the years. Even so, Roland’s companywas barely holding its own in the recent years due to its unsatisfactory business performance.
In fact, Yard Group had been suffering from difficulties selling out its clothes, which led to anoverstock of inventory in the warehouse. Although they had swiftly counteracted the problem byreducing production, their suppliers were forced to increase their prices since the raw materialsordered were now lower, resulting in the increased cost of production. Because of that, Yard Groupwas forced to mark up their prices when they put their clothes on the shelf for sale. As a result ofthat, they displeased their customers and inevitably found themselves trapped in a vicious cycle.Therefore, Roland was worried about his contract renewal with the suppliers.
At that moment, Megan happened to walk into the study and noticed Roland’s furrowed eyebrows.“What’s wrong, Dad? You’re frowning so much that your forehead is covered in wrinkles!”
“Hey, you’re the company’s designer, so can you show a little concern about the company’sprospects? It’s time for us to renew our contract with the suppliers. Look at their prices! They arenovelbin
even higher now than they were in the last season!”
Roland then slammed the document onto the table, which Megan took and flipped through. Theprices are indeed higher, but I guess that’s because our purchase amount from them is much lowernow. “Come on, Dad! You can’t blame our suppliers for raising the price. Look how much you’veonly ordered. How do you expect them to give you discounts for that small order?” Megan threw thedocument back onto the table.
“What do you know? In fact, this seems a lot to me! We haven’t been doing well in sales for the pasttwo years! I wish you could take a look at our warehouse for yourself! We barely have enoughspace left to keep those clothes.” Roland sighed and continued to say, “Once you’re done with yourwedding, please work more on the designs for the next season! I want to see some improvements!”