All Chapters of The Smart Speaker Exposed My Wife’s Affair: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

The cab stopped in front of Sun Design Co. I looked up at it and found the glass wall dazzling under the sunlight, just as its domineering momentum in the industry over the past two years had dazzled many others.It was the main rival company of our design company, Dream Co. The young female receptionist was very professional. She did not put on a sour face, even though I was the boss of her rival company. She merely did her job and dialed the intercom. A man in casual clothes quickly appeared a few minutes later. He looked decent and innocent. His name was Samuel Wilson.He panicked briefly when he saw me. But he soon calmed down and faked a smile.“Hello! May I have your name?” “I’m here to talk about my smart speaker.” I got straight to the point and looked at him calmly. “Your account is on the login record.”“Ah, that smart speaker!” Realization dawned on him. Then, he scratched his head in embarrassment. “It was my roommate. He used my phone to log in to the speaker a

Chapter 2

Alex was surprisingly fast. In half an hour, my phone vibrated.I received a link and a comment from him. [It’s a generous contribution from the best actor of the year. The evidence is so complete that I can’t bring myself to charge you with a full payment. Take your time and enjoy.]I clicked on it and realized that it was Samuel’s social media account. It was set to public. The newest post was a close-up photo of a wrist with the bracelet that I was most familiar with because of the engraved “L.” The caption went something like this:[The Sun is coming to you, Miss C.]My nickname “the Sun” and my bracelet had become another man’s prizes.My face was devoid of expression as I scrolled down. The background of one of the photos was the study in my house. Samuel held his face and smiled innocently, with the out-of-print architectural atlas I had collected from Lasnon behind him.[I’m learning in Miss C’s study, and I’m getting better!] Samuel held a pen and was drawing on

Chapter 3

The bidding conference of the Sky Center project was full of people.I sat at an inconspicuous corner and watched as the representative of Sun Design Co. walked onto the stage.It was none other than Samuel. He had put on a slim-fit professional suit with leather shoes that day. His hair was neatly done. His naive and innocent demeanor had been replaced by the confidence of a seasoned professional.He took a deep breath and started describing the concept of his design. “My design is inspired by the Eyes of the City. We don’t want it to be a cold building, but something that can breathe with this city. We hope it can be a living thing that witnesses the city’s development…” Those were the exact words I once told Linda. Night after night, I made coffee and burned the midnight oil as I told her those very things.I once thought that trust was the unspoken bond between our souls as a married couple.Finally, I learned that I was only playing a part, and Linda had been the most p

Chapter 4

Samuel looked at me warily. I ignored the host and walked straight on stage.The host felt helpless and instinctively wanted to stop me, but one look from me made him retrieve his hand.I got the microphone from him. The cold, metallic microphone in my hand helped me calm myself.“Hello, ladies and gentlemen.” My voice resonated in the entire hall. It was firm and steady. “I’m Charles Simpson, the founder of Dream Co.” That created quite a commotion among the audience. All the people in the industry knew me. I paused and scanned the room before I looked at the woman among the judges, whose face had gone pale.Then, I added, “I’m also Ms. Clark’s husband.”My words dropped like a bomb and created an uproar among the audience. People looked between Linda and me. They were flabbergasted as they tried to make sense of it and gossiped among themselves. These gazes were like delicate needles that pierced through the decency Linda had painstakingly maintained.I ignored the whis

Chapter 5

The bidding conference ended in a more chaotic way than I had imagined.The organizer struggled to keep things in order. Then, the meeting ended early because of the sudden turn of events.Linda protected Samuel and they left together with the security guards’ help.When she walked past me, she stopped. Her face, which I was very familiar with, was overcome with nothing but resentment. “I’ve got to hand it to you, Charles.” She gritted her teeth and said, “You’ll regret it.”I kept quiet and watched her.She claimed that I would regret it. She had not even allowed me the privilege of the truth when she gifted another man with my hard work. I was back in my car. I had yet to start the car when Alex called me. I could hear him typing on his keyboard in the background.“Congratulations, Charles! You’re now trending!” I could not tell if he was teasing me or was being serious. “The title’s rather strange. They call you a crazy man who made a scene in a bidding conference.” I fr

Chapter 6

I ignored the hypocritical texts in the shareholders’ group as they took Linda’s side. I switched my phone to silent mode.Those disruptions were none of my concern.I drove to Alex’s law firm. He was already waiting for me with his laptop. At the sight of my car, he opened the car door and got in. “Don’t go home or to the company.” Alex placed his laptop on his thighs and typed on it. “I guess that woman is searching for you everywhere. Let’s find a place to dig up all the dirt on her.”He kept speaking furiously, but he did not stop what he was doing. We went to a private room in a secluded cafe. I watched him gain access to various databases, type in a few codes, and wait for the data to roll onto the screen. Then, he saw the registration information of a company. “Sun Design Co.,” Alex said and sneered. “The legal representative is someone called Gavin Wilson, but I can’t find anything about this person. Even his ID is fake. But the company’s foreign trust account looks

Chapter 7

I opened the door to the meeting room of Dream Co. The room was full of people.All the shareholders were present. Linda was sitting in the main seat. When she saw me, she immediately acted like she cared about me.“Here you are, Charles! Are you feeling better? Everyone is very worried about you.” She got to her feet like she wanted to support me. Well, she did put on a great show. “Take a seat! Let’s talk.”A few shareholders who were close to her echoed her words. “Yeah, Mr. Simpson. Please calm down. You need to take care of yourself.”“Ms. Clark is doing what’s best for the company. You should calm down.”They echoed each other’s words and made it seem like I was a maniac who needed to be comforted. I ignored Linda’s extended hand and walked straight to the other end of the conference table. Then, I inserted my USB flash drive into the computer. “I asked everyone to come here today not to discuss the problems with my emotions but to get rid of the black sheep of our com

Chapter 8

It was clear that everyone would kick a person when they were down.Linda was left with nothing. She must have borrowed someone’s phone in jail because she kept calling me.When I answered the phone, I heard her piteous cries. She spoke to me in a way I was very familiar with.“Charles, I was wrong. I accept my mistakes. Can you give me another chance? I went astray and did something bad. That guy seduced me first. He bewitched me! I just lost my way!”She kept crying and shifting the blame. In the end, she recounted the past. “Did you forget about the time when we first established Dream Co.? We stayed up late to make designs together. We ate cheap food together. You told me that it was our shared dream…”I listened to her terrible acting and found it irritating.“Are you done?” I interrupted her. “I’ll hang up if you’re done. It’s expensive to make an international call.”Linda abruptly stopped talking and burst into tears. I hung up and blocked the number.I did not enj

Chapter 9

A tense atmosphere filled the court.Linda and Samuel were separated and placed in the dock. They were once lovers, but they looked at each other as if they were each other’s sworn enemies.As expected, a good show was about to begin. Linda’s lawyer spoke up first. She cleared her throat and said, “My client, Ms. Linda Clark, is a kind and exceptionally capable woman. But she got blinded by her so-called lover and made a mistake.” I almost burst into laughter. After that, Samuel’s lawyer stepped forward with even more excellent acting. She made Samuel seem like a fresh graduate who was ignorant. An experienced senior had used her power and sweet words to lie to him. When she reached the emotional part, Samuel covered his face and sobbed. His shoulders even twitched a little.I could hear some pitiful sighs from the observers. Alex was sitting beside me. He gritted his teeth and whispered something that only I could hear, “What a good actor!”I kept quiet and calmed him do

Chapter 10

I did not go on the day of the verdict. Alex excitedly gave me a live broadcast through his phone.“Their crimes were combined, and they were severely punished! Did you hear that, Charles? Punished very severely!” Alex was happy.“Linda collapsed on the spot and was dragged out of the court. Samuel did not fare any better. He kept crying and yelling that he was forced into it. Unfortunately, he gave you the recording, and it was the one thing that pinned him to his crime. The judge told him that adults should pay a price for their greed and stupidity.”I spoke briefly and hung up. The sun was shining brightly outside the window. I was watering the plants on the balcony and cut off a few withered leaves. Everything was finally over.Half a month later, I retrieved most of my money and property that were transferred from the company and rebuilt it.On the day of the meeting, the room was full of people. There were some experienced workers and some new people whom I had recently recr

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