Emily Harper was completely bewildered. Had Ryan Caldwell's brain been infected with a virus?
He was talking complete nonsense!
Ryan thought he was being clever. Connecting the dots from what he had overheard Rachel Brooks saying to her colleagues about someone kneeling before the chairman, he concluded that it was Jeff who had knelt before Victoria Lang!
The reason for kneeling was definitely to beg Victoria Lang for forgiveness and to ask to become her bodyguard.
Ryan said, "Jeff, weren't you acting all high and mighty at the birthday banquet yesterday? When Ms. Lang offered you a way out as her bodyguard, you refused. We all thought you were really tough and would rather die than submit!" He sneered.
"Haha, I never expected that you would get up early this morning, dress up like a proper man in a bodyguard suit, and come kneeling down to beg Ms. Lang to take you in as her dog!" Ryan announced, purely speculating
"Ms. Lang, you can't agree to him! You said at the birthday banquet yesterday that you would cut off Jeff's path to survival!"
When Rachel Brooks—the secretary outside the door—heard this, she was so shocked she couldn't believe her ears.
Was Ms. Lang trying to cut off Chairman Sterling's path to survival?
Oh my god, was this real?
Victoria Lang was furious. How dare Ryan Caldwell embarrass her in public and let the employees know he had been disrespectful to the group's chairman!
Snap!
Victoria Lang slapped Ryan across the face again!
"You bastard! When did I ever say that?! Get out of here! You're not allowed back in our company. And fire the employee who brought him here immediately!"
Ryan covered his face in pain. He—the young master of the Caldwell family—had been slapped twice in public!
This was Victoria Lang's territory, so Ryan didn't dare speak harshly to her. He could only lash out at Jeff:
"Jeff, don't think that just because you've become Victoria Lang's bodyguard we can't touch you! Just you wait—soon I'll make sure you have nothing to eat, sleep on the streets, and end up in jail!"
Ryan stormed downstairs looking disheveled and got back into his car, angrily pounding the steering wheel with both hands.
"That bitch Victoria Lang! She's just a pretty face who climbed the ladder by sleeping with men! What right does she have to hit me! Once I've completely won over Emily, one day I'll make you kneel before me and call me daddy! I'll play you to death, you bitch!"
"And there's that good-for-nothing Jeff. I need to inform the Harper family immediately about his job as Victoria Lang's bodyguard."
...
An hour later, at Sterling Heights Villa.
"What did you say? Jeff—that abandoned son-in-law—became Victoria Lang's bodyguard?"
Old Madam Harper was shocked when she heard Ryan Caldwell's description.
Not only her, but also Emily Harper, Brandon Harper, Jessica Harper, as well as Michael Harper and Robert Harper, were all stunned.
Ryan said, "That's right. I saw with my own eyes that Jeff appeared in Victoria Lang's office and picked up some documents for her."
"I also heard from people at Horizon Group that Jeff knelt down the moment he saw Victoria Lang, begging her to forgive him."
"Victoria Lang took a liking to Jeff yesterday and probably softened her heart and agreed."
Hearing this, Emily clenched her fists in anger. "That bastard Jeff! He actually knelt down for another woman! I've been married to him for three years, and he's never knelt down for me once!"
"I gave him several chances to kneel down and admit his mistakes. If he had just knelt and begged me, I would have forgiven him, not divorced him, and not called the police to arrest him. But he never knelt!"
"But when he turned around, he was kneeling in front of another woman!"
Emily became more and more agitated as she spoke, and she was on the verge of tears from feeling wronged.
In the eyes of the Harper family, this was indeed a great disgrace.
Brandon laughed and said, "Emily, how have you been raising him for the past three years? He won't kneel before his own wife, but he goes to kneel before other women. He's really disgracing the Harper family."
Jessica seized the opportunity to mock, "Sister, it seems you're not charming enough! If Jeff were my husband, I would make him kneel from the first day he entered our Harper family, and make him kneel and wash my feet every day!"
Even Old Madam Harper felt ashamed and blamed Emily and her parents:
"Three years and you still can't tame a live-in son-in-law! You're all so useless! If you had disciplined him like Jessica just said, would he still dare to hit Brandon?"
Emily clenched her fists. "If I had another chance to make him my husband, I would make him kneel from morning till night! I've been so good to him for the past three years!"
In fact, Emily had been quite good to Jeff over the past three years; otherwise, Jeff would not have fallen in love with her.
But now, Emily seemed to regret being so gentle with him.
Emily felt humiliated; she couldn't make Jeff kneel down, but Victoria Lang did.
The person she was most jealous of right now was Victoria Lang!
Emily said, "Grandma, Victoria Lang went back on her word. Yesterday she said she would support the Harpers and cut off Jeff's path to survival, but today she's taking him in as a bodyguard. We should immediately sever all ties with Victoria Lang and punish her!"
Snap!
Old Madam Harper slapped Emily across the face. "What nonsense are you talking about! Our Harper family's seventy-million-dollar financing is still in Victoria Lang's hands—how can we be her enemy!"
Michael snorted coldly. "Emily, I know you're jealous of Ms. Lang, but she's definitely more capable than you. You can't argue with that."
Emily's face flushed red; she couldn't swallow this insult!
"Since my family won't help me, I'll go to Horizon Group myself and confront them!"