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Chapter 7

Author: Marvelous Meow
After returning to Norchester, I moved into the rehabilitation hospital with Mom.

The company I'd resigned from five years ago reached out to ask if I was willing to return.

"I'll rejoin, but only if it's at the Norchester branch."

The human resources representative agreed without a second thought.

On my third day at work, I was assigned a smart eldercare community project.

The client was interested in the senior-friendly interactive system I'd designed five years ago.

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    Three months after the divorce, Mom completed her rehabilitation. On her first day back home, she insisted on going to the market to buy fish. I couldn't talk her out of it, so I had no choice but to push a shopping cart behind her. Mom took her time picking through the produce, complaining that the tomatoes weren't red enough and the ribs were too fatty. When we reached a flower stall, she came to an abrupt halt. "Our balcony could use some life. Let's buy a couple of potted plants."Thus, I picked out two pots of jasmine. After we returned home, Mom sat on a small stool and directed me to repot the plants. "Pack the soil down a little more, or the roots won't take hold properly." "Got it.""Don't give them too much water. Anything in excess can end up doing more harm than good." I looked up at her. Mom pretended not to notice and turned around to go into the kitchen to braise the fish. …After the project went live, the first batch of senior-friendly equipment was

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    Samuel didn't meet up with Willow, after all. He handed the call recording and the company documents to the cops. The investigation results came back in no time. The so-called original documents Willow claimed to have were actually copies she'd taken from the company computer while she was filming a promotional video. She had used them not only to blackmail Samuel but also to sell confidential product information to a competing company. When the cops tracked her down, she was already at the airport. Initially, she denied it. Eventually, she shifted all the blame onto Samuel. "He was the one who said he'd do anything for me. When I asked him to come over in the middle of the night, he came. When I asked him to lie to his wife, he did that too. He was the one who had no boundaries. Why should I take all the blame?" When her words made their way back to the company, even the last few shareholders who'd still been supporting Samuel fell silent. The investment fell through, and th

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    The proposal was far more detailed than I'd imagined. Willow would deliberately damage household appliances in advance and get Samuel to come over and fix them. She would edit secretly recorded footage into suggestive clips and pair them with titles like "A Decade-Long Promise" and "The One Who Got Away".Every time traffic to her account increased, she would raise her advertising rates. Samuel hadn't been completely in the dark. Their chat history showed that Willow had once asked him if he was willing to cooperate with the filming.Samuel: "Keep my face out of it. Janice will overthink if she sees it."He was well aware that I'd be hurt, so he chose to hide it from me. The operations employee also provided unreleased footage. That day, before Willow arrived at Mom's ward with the fruit basket, she'd smiled at the camera and said, "The look on Samuel's wife's face when she sees her husband's ex taking care of her mother is going to be priceless!"The moment the footage was

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    After returning to Norchester, I moved into the rehabilitation hospital with Mom. The company I'd resigned from five years ago reached out to ask if I was willing to return. "I'll rejoin, but only if it's at the Norchester branch." The human resources representative agreed without a second thought. On my third day at work, I was assigned a smart eldercare community project. The client was interested in the senior-friendly interactive system I'd designed five years ago.After my first presentation, the project lead shook my hand. "Ms. Fischer, your design addresses two major problems for seniors—accidental inputs and emergency alerts. Why haven't you officially launched it?" All of a sudden, I recalled how Samuel had told me that elderly users had little purchasing power and zero commercial value. Yet, when Willow said she was afraid of the dark, he had been willing to customize the entire system just to give her personalized nighttime lighting. "I chose the wrong business

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    Samuel didn't touch either document. "Leave us. I'd like to talk to my wife alone." Mr. Smith looked at me. I shook my head. "That won't be necessary." Samuel stared at me, anger simmering in his eyes. "Do you really have to air our dirty laundry in public, Janice?""My lawyer isn't an outsider. He's my legal representative." I paused for a beat before continuing, "You, on the other hand, won't be family much longer." The moment the words left my lips, a slight tremor ran through his fingertips. In the past, every time we fought, I'd always waited for him to offer me an olive branch. A meal together, a bouquet of flowers, or even a simple "Cut it out" had been enough to make me stay. He had probably never imagined that one day, I would speak to him in such a polite, aloof tone."My company's raising capital right now. If you sue me, dozens of employees will be affected." "All I'm asking is that you stop violating my intellectual property rights and recalculate the revenue

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    When Mom came to, the first thing she asked about was the bracelet. "I seriously didn't take it, Janice!"I held her hand. "The surveillance cameras caught everything. Willow was the one who put it in your bag."Mom froze for a couple of seconds before tearing up. "Does Samuel know?""It doesn't matter anymore."Mr. Smith sent the surveillance footage into the Sullivan family's group chat at my request.Layla immediately called me. "Willow knows she was in the wrong, Janice. Why did you have to send it in the group chat? It was just a momentary lapse of judgment on her part. She didn't mean to hurt anyone! "Besides, your mother's fine now, isn't she? We're family. You really shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill!"I pressed stop on the recording. "Minor or not, the cops will be the judge of that."The other end of the line fell silent. Willow sent me a voice message in no time. "I've apologized to Mrs. Fischer, Janice. I only meant to leave my bracelet there for a mome

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