Chapter 5 Messy Private Life

“Ding.”

Melanie’s phone rang. She looked at the message that her bestie, Annie Snow, sent from the second floor. [Everything’s perfect. Don’t worry.]

Although the Snows were not the best in doing business in Harbor City, all of the famous families were afraid of them because they were the best private detectives. Therefore, with Annie’s assistance, she was a lot more relieved.

Melanie then kept her phone as she wanted to sit in a corner quietly and execute her plan after nightfall. However, the voices around her started to grow and she could not help but get distracted by them.

“Melanie’s a cripple. Why did Bryan want to marry her?”

“How can you not know about it? The Wests want to get involved in the medical field as well, of course, they’re using her!”

Listening to the crowd badmouthing Melanie and seeing her pale face, Lena had never felt so happy before.

Lena purposely asked her friends to set the pace by joining in. She hoped they could make nasty remarks about her!

Melanie listened to the crowd quietly as she glanced at them occasionally. With one look, she knew which one was talking the most among the crowd. It was Lena’s best friend.

“Although their perfume business is dying, their medical business is still operating fine. Melanie’s dad is dead, and now her mother is holding on. Undoubtedly, her mother is truly a capable woman!”

“How can an old woman run their family businesses? She must’ve done those… Well, you know…” Lena’s bestie said in a weird tone.

“Slap!”

Before she could finish her sentence, Melanie went up and slapped her.

“Ah! What are you doing?”

After Lena’s bestie let out a sharp scream, Melanie warned with cold eyes, “What difference does it make if your parents are still around? Have they not taught you any manners? If not, let me do it. So, mind your language!”

Lena never thought that Melanie would have a temper. However, she tried to suppress her annoyance and separate her bestie from Melanie. “Alright, that’s enough. It’s my sister’s bachelorette party today. Can you all do me a favor, please?”

“Who do you think you are?”

Again, Lena did not expect Melanie to refute her, so she turned to look at her pitifully as tears started welling up in her eyes because she felt wronged. “Melanie… Why are you acting so strangely today?”

“Strange?”

Melanie sneered disdainfully. “Well, I can only talk sense to a human.”

Lena choked as tears streamed down her cheek.

“Melanie! How could you say such a thing to Lena?” Bryan rushed over when he heard the commotion and quickly stood beside Lena, the bitch.

“Does it pain you?” Melanie shifted her gaze to Bryan.

Bryan avoided her eyes. “I just… I don’t want you to be controlled by your emotions. Lena was trying to protect you.”

What a lovely couple!

Melanie squinted her eyes, trying her best to keep her composure. It was not the right time to expose them yet.

Suddenly, the lights in the ballroom were turned off and the big screen was turned on as it started to display some of Melanie’s pictures. Then came the emcee’s enthusiastic voice. “For the past 800 days and nights, these are the proof of Mr. West and Miss Jones’ undying love…”

Melanie had never thought that he would prepare a surprise for her.

She fixed her gaze on the big screen. The ballroom fell into a hushed silence as everyone was enjoying her beautiful pictures. However, after a moment, the pictures took an unexpected turn.

Toward the end, the pictures were all about Melanie drinking and having fun with different men. She looked at them coldly because she knew that something was going to happen.

The men in the pictures were renowned figures in the business world. With that, the crowd in the ballroom started murmuring.

“Hey, do the Joneses use their daughter to maintain their family businesses?”

“Well, I’ve never thought that a young lady from a distinguished family would have two different personalities!”

“Lena is so pure and on the other hand, Melanie is such a dirty woman. They’re completely different from each other.”

Some of the directors from Jones Enterprise were there as well. They were discussing several different projects with a few partners, but they chickened out after seeing this. “It seems like Young Lady Jones didn’t learn her principles from President Jones...”

President Tyler Jones and his wife, Eliza Jones only had one daughter, Melanie. She was the only heir of Jones Enterprise. Hence, her improper behaviors would have a huge impact on them.

The directors wore grim expressions as they approached Melanie and asked, “Young Lady Jones, how are you going to explain this? We’re not interfering with your private life, but you’ve been exposed this time. Some of our partnerships are on the verge of falling apart!”

Bryan’s parents looked grim as well. The Wests were a distinguished family in Harbor City. Now, the crowd was discussing why Bryan wanted to marry a woman with such a messy private life. With that, Bryan’s mother went up to Melanie.

“Melanie, what is this? Bryan said that you were a gracious and intelligent woman. Is this how you prove to us that you’re such a woman?”

Lena concealed her satisfaction as she tried to fuel the flames. “Yeah, why didn’t you filter out some of those pictures? You should’ve kept some of them hidden.”

The crowd started to grow. Some of them were laughing at Melanie while the others sneered. When faced with criticisms, Melanie looked down, covering the light in her eyes. No one knew her emotions at that moment.