Chapter 7

Daisy Lee POV

The plane landed at San Francisco International Airport.

I had not closed my eyes the entire way, and my tears dried, then wet my face again, then dried again.

Olivia gently put her arm around me. “Pull yourself together. Mr. Black has already arranged everything, and you can handle onboarding this afternoon.”

I took a deep breath and decided to use work to temporarily fill the hole in my heart.

But when we arrived at the company, the receptionist glanced at me, and her expression looked a little strange.

“Ms. Lee, please wait.”

Mr. Carter walked over from not far away with a serious expression and held his phone right in front of my face.

On the screen, Nathan Reed was sitting on a couch, brows furrowed and eyes red, doing a livestream.

“My wife’s postpartum depression is very severe. Her emotions have been unstable since she got pregnant, and I’ve been trying hard to take care of her and comfort her, but after our child’s accident, she completely broke down.”

He lowered his head and pressed the corner of his eye with his thumb.

“She set fire to our home and then disappeared. I don’t blame her. I know she’s in more pain than I am. I only want to say one thing to her: Daisy, come back. I’ll always wait for you, and no matter what happens, I won’t give up on you.”

The comment section scrolled like crazy.

“Professor Reed is seriously so devoted. Where do you even find a man like this?”

“Daisy Lee is just a crazy woman! She killed her own child and burned down the house?”

“I feel so bad for Professor Reed, getting stuck with a wife like that.”

“Hurry up and call the police to find her and force her into treatment. Don’t let her hurt anyone else.”

I clenched my fists, and my voice tightened. “Mr. Carter, what he’s saying is false.”

Mr. Carter had no expression. “The company is preparing the PR campaign for a new project, and every move we make is being watched by the media. Forgive me for being direct, but your current public image is not very suitable for onboarding.”

“He’s slandering me. I am mentally normal!”

“Public opinion online doesn’t care whether it’s slander or not. We can talk about reinstatement after you’ve cleaned up your personal affairs—”

“Gregory Carter.”

A faint voice came over, making Mr. Carter freeze in place.

I turned my head.

Adrian Black was wearing a dark gray shirt, the cuffs rolled up to his forearms, and his gaze was sharp as a blade.

Mr. Carter immediately became respectful. “I was only thinking of the company…”

Adrian’s face was cold. “Ms. Lee is someone I personally recruited back. No one but her can lead the North American project. If you can do it, then you take over.”

After hearing that, Mr. Carter could only retreat awkwardly to the side.

I did not stand on ceremony with Adrian either and spoke directly. “I need a livestream room, right now.”

Adrian did not ask a single extra word. “The east-side conference room on the nineteenth floor is empty. Anyone who dares go up and disturb you can come answer to me.”

After he said that, Olivia pulled me toward the elevator.

After I entered the conference room, I opened the computer, and my fingers flew across the keyboard.

When I hacked into Nathan Reed’s livestream, he was still broadcasting.

Nathan wiped his tears. “I know many people are cursing my wife, but please be merciful with your words. She is a victim too…”

With a livid face, I hit Enter and forcibly connected to Nathan’s livestream.

The livestream comments froze for one second, then exploded.

“Holy shit??? Is that Daisy Lee???”

“What the hell is going on???”

Nathan’s face went deathly pale, and before he could speak, I had already opened my mouth.

“Nathan Reed, weren’t you looking for me? I’m right here.”

“Do you want to tell everyone what you did one more time?”

Nathan’s Adam’s apple bobbed. “Daisy, don’t be impulsive…”

I cut him off directly. “You installed a camera in the bedroom to film me breastfeeding and changing clothes, then posted those videos on a paid forum for every man to watch.”

The comments went crazy again.

“A camera? A paid forum?”

“That account was called Married Woman Watcher. Even though you already deleted the post history, you took monthly revenue shares from that forum, so do you want me to show your bank statements?” I said.

Nathan’s face lost every trace of color.

He forced the corners of his mouth apart, trying to argue, but I spoke faster and faster.

“And then there’s Wisteria Apartments, where you and your mistress lived together for nearly half a year. That day, our child had alcohol poisoning and liver failure, and I held her in the rain trying to stop cars on the road, but you went to see your mistress because a mouse got into her apartment.”

The livestream completely collapsed.

The comments changed from cursing me to flooding the screen with insults toward Nathan.

“Nathan Reed, are you even fucking human?”

“Your daughter was dying, and you went to see your side chick?”

“Holy shit, camera footage? That’s already illegal, right?!”

Nathan suddenly stood up. “Daisy Lee, stop talking nonsense!”

I tilted my head, and a faint curve rose at the corner of my mouth.I turned on screen sharing, and the transfer records, location history, forum backend data, and camera footage were neatly lined up in front of everyone.

Nathan froze on-screen, and the expression on his face changed from anger to fear.

The livestream’s viewer count jumped from twenty thousand to one hundred thousand, then to five hundred thousand.

Trending tags shot up the rankings almost at the same second.

#NathanReedCheated#

#NathanReedFilmedHisWifeInSecret#

Nathan roared and yanked out the power cord, and the screen went black.

I slowly released the mouse, only then realizing my hands were shaking badly.

When tears slowly fell, I thought of my daughter in a daze.

I wanted so badly to hold her one more time, but I still had things left to do.

This was only the beginning.