C1 Chapter 1

September 4, 2014, was Evelyn's thirtieth birthday.

As a thirty-year-old woman, she has an ideal job, proud looks, and a boyfriend she has been dating for three whole years, as well as a coworker in her company named Arthur.

A week ago, she had been sent on a business trip to Switzerland by the head of the company, and Arthur had been on the phone with Evelyn for an hour almost every night.

Yesterday evening, Arthur suddenly smiled and said on the phone, "Evelyn, I missed you!"

But she has to work in Switzerland for at least five more days.

Just because of Arthur's words, "Evelyn, I miss you," Evelyn's heart suddenly bursts with a few girlish impulses.

On the day of September 4, she took the earliest flight to fire back to New York, wanting to surprise Arthur on the one hand, and on the other hand, she wanted to have Arthur by her side for her thirtieth birthday.

That's why I stayed up late and finished the work at hand ahead of time, which allowed me to make it back to New York on the eve of my birthday.

As she opened with a leap of faith in the love shack she and Arthur had shared for nearly two years, she was so shocked by the image that appeared before her that she could barely speak.

The man who claimed he would love her to the marrow of his bones was naked and cuddling with a naked woman.

What she couldn't believe was that the woman underneath Arthur was actually her cousin Ella.

Arthur, Ella, and her are also working under the Theo Group.

Normally, after graduation, Ella should have gone to her father's company to work, but she felt that her father's company would not help her future, so she went out of her way to get into Theo.

Though she and Ella were cousins by blood, the relationship between the two could be described as enemies.

How could I not have imagined that I would be away from New York for only a week and then come back to such a light?

Her intrusion not only startled Arthur, who was intoxicated with love, but also Ella, who was underneath him.

If she had come back suddenly to try to give Arthur a surprise, there was no doubt that what Arthur was doing at the moment made her feel that she had received a great shock.

"Evelyn, I can explain."

Arthur leaped off Ella's body as fast as he could, grabbing her arm and looking at her with burning eyes, "I was drunk last night and mistook Ella for you ......"

Ella on the bed instantly chimed in with a highly sarcastic sneer when she heard this, "Arthur, don't forget that I'm already carrying your child in my stomach."

Arthur's face went cold, "You shut the fuck up!"

"What? Dare to act, dare not act? Obviously, it was you yourself who told me that her skills in bed simply sucked, and now you want to pretend to be a good man; who are you performing for?"

Ignoring Arthur's increasingly ugly face, Ella bluntly said to Evelyn, "Arthur and I have been playing an underground affair for two whole years, and if he hadn't planned to cheat you out of all your assets and then dump you, do you think you would have gotten the position of Arthur's girlfriend?"

"Ella, did you not hear me when I told you to stop talking?" Arthur's face was scowling.

Ella was roared out of her anger by him and screamed shrilly, "In terms of family, looks, and figure, which point am I inferior to Evelyn? The most important point is that in my stomach, I'm already pregnant with your child."

Words hammered into Evelyn's heart, crashing into her so hard she could barely breathe.

She didn't know if she should be mad, angry, loud, or calm.

Arthur, who had always handled things with ease, seemed to be in disarray at this moment, and he waved his arms, eagerly trying to explain something to Evelyn.

Looking at his messy gaze, his bemused expression, and the look of emptiness after doing something wrong, Evelyn only asked him coldly, "What Ella just said, is it all true?"

"Evelyn, I ......."

"Answer!"

"I'm sorry ......"

"Pop!"

A heavy slap swung into Arthur's face.

The owner of this face in front of her had loved her from the bottom of her heart for three whole years, and she didn't expect that three years would accomplish his betrayal of her.

If what was happening at the moment was just a dream, she sincerely hoped it would wake up soon.

But the constant pain in her heart reminded her that she wasn't dreaming, that she was experiencing a terrible and disgusting betrayal.

The man she's been in love with for three years and his cousin are actually staging the blockbuster of the century right in front of her.

She didn't want to stay here for a moment, but this cottage, which used to be full of warmth and love, gave her only one feeling at that moment: extinction and suffocation.

The moment she rushed out of the apartment, she thought the fresh air would give her a moment's respite, and just then, a speeding black sedan came whizzing by like a demon from hell.

The moment her body was knocked off the ground, only one realization remained in her mind: today was her thirtieth birthday, but she had cut her life short with her own hands on this day.

When she woke up again, Evelyn was surprised to find that she was actually back seven years ago.

It took a full two hours for her to verify over and over again that after that car accident, she was indeed back in August of 2007.

She is now only twenty-three years old, and both of her parents were killed in a car accident nine months ago.

There was still a month to go before she graduated from college, and until she did, she was staying at her uncle's house.

It wasn't that her uncle and his family were happy to accept her, but because her uncle and her dad had opened a trading company together, which was small enough to at least ensure that the two families were well-fed and clothed.

However, a year ago, the company's internal financial situation, due to the poor liquidity, Dad, in order to make the company turn around, the three families who live in the house were sent to the bank for a mortgage.

Unexpectedly, during this period, Dad and Mom both had an accident and left the world; the repayment date, uncle refused to take the money back to the bank, and the direct consequence is that she lived for more than twenty years the house was taken away by the bank.

She hoped that her uncle would step in to solve the problem, but he refused her request, citing the company's precarious financial situation.

However, in order to gag her, her uncle had taken the homeless girl to live in his house. He said he was taking care of her on behalf of her late parents, but in reality, he didn't want to be criticized for bullying a little girl like her by a grown-up.

Dad had thirty-two percent of the shares in this trading company, and it was reasonable to assume that after her father's passing, she would have a good reason to inherit the equity left behind by him.