Once Adam sobered up the next day, he cooked a lavish breakfast for Ginnie to apologize to her.

“I looked into the product launch yesterday, Ginnie. The nanny stole your draft and sold it to Snow. I’ve already fired her. Since she’s already so old, let’s not hold her accountable by the law, okay?”

Ginnie could not help it. She scoffed. Adam truly was a company president, alright. He had managed to find a scapegoat in no time.

He continued, “I wasn’t expecting Snow to do something like that either! But plagiarism is a scandalous issue, and if it blows up, it’ll give the company a negative image. Since things have come to this, why don’t we do her a favor and pretend that it was her draft?

“Besides, you already hit her to vent your anger, right? Since she’s not holding you accountable to it, you should forgive her for this.”

Once he started talking about Snow getting hit, Adam’s tone gained a reproachful edge. “Please don’t be so rash next time. Snow has always been frail and has never been in a conflict with anyone else before. She can’t handle being slapped.”

The protectiveness in his voice made Ginnie frown, and she felt uncomfortable.

Before she could say anything, she suddenly received a message. It was from her grandfather’s assistant.

[Miss Ginny, preparations are almost ready. We will pick you up at the assigned time next Friday.]

Adam saw the message too, along with the long string of numbers that clearly belonged to an overseas phone number.

For some reason, something felt off to him.

“Who sent you the message? Why is it an overseas number?”

Ginnie hurriedly turned the screen off and put her phone face down on the table. “It’s nothing. Just a foreign scammer.”

At that, Adam sighed in relief and teased her, “Scammers nowadays sure have a lot of new tricks. They’re even calling you ‘Miss Ginny’ to gain your trust.”

Ginnie did not tell him that she had once thought that she was an orphan and only learned from her grandfather, who found her not too long ago, that she was the heiress of Sullivan Corporation, a company based abroad. He also wanted her to live abroad with him.

At that time, Adam had been busy with work, so Ginnie had wanted to find the right time to tell him.

However, at that moment, she no longer felt the need to tell him.

When Ginnie still looked rather dour, Adam changed the topic of conversation. “It’s Mr. Howard’s birthday tomorrow. He’s your teacher and an elder I respect. Let’s attend his birthday party tomorrow and… also mend your relationship with Snow.”

Heh. It was for Snow again, then.

Ginnie turned her head away. A long time passed, and she finally said, “Sure.”

But it was not to mend her relationship with Snow, as Adam had proposed.

Both she and Snow were Howard’s students. Even though she did not end up marrying William and hurt her arm, Howard still treated her like his granddaughter, so she should indeed go.

On the day of the birthday, all sorts of powerful figures from the business world attended Howard’s party. But the center of attention was Adam, the rising star of the business world.

He calmly entered while holding Ginnie’s hand, but when he saw the affectionate way Snow stood together with William to serve the guests, a dark look appeared in his eyes.

Without even greeting Howard, Adam let go of Ginnie and went to the side to start drinking.

Ginnie glanced at the empty spot beside her before she went to the study to visit her teacher with her gift in hand.

The sight of Ginnie coming over made Howard look at her with pity. As he stared at Ginnie’s limp arm, he sighed. “It’s been three years. Why is your arm still not healed? Is there really no way for you to get it treated?

“You’re the most talented person I’ve seen when it comes to drawing, and your drawings are filled with the most life. If not for the fact that you hurt your arm, your achievements wouldn’t pale to Snow in the slightest.”

Ginnie shook her head with a bitter smile.

If she had not heard Adam’s conversation with his private doctor three days ago, she would not have been able to figure out why her arm still refused to heal either.

After she left Howard’s study, she could not find Adam.

Just as she was about to turn around, she heard a faint moan from the room closest to her.

Ginnie looked into the room through the crack, and what she saw made her freeze.

Snow hugged Adam tightly from behind him and practically begged, “Adam, William is not treating me nicely at all. He has plenty of other lovers, and I feel so wronged.”

Adam scowled and clenched his fists tightly. “You stayed by William and gave him your whole heart. You even gave him the best years of your life, but he’s doing this to you?! Snow, don’t worry. I’ll settle scores with him for you right now and ask him whether he even has a speck of a guilty conscience!”

“No! You can’t!” Snow shook her head and placed her delicate hands on Adam’s. Her voice was hesitant but hopeful. “Adam, you’ve sacrificed your marriage for me, and I trust you. But if we bring this to the table, William will definitely be angry at me and divorce me. If that happens, what then? It’s not as if you can marry me.”

Snow bit her lip. “Of course, if you’re willing to leave Ginnie and marry me, I won’t have to tolerate William anymore.”

Adam said nothing. After a moment, he turned around and hugged Snow as he started patting her back gently. “Snow, I’m willing to do whatever you want. I’ll teach William a lesson from the shadows once I find the chance to do so, and he’ll definitely stop cheating on you.”

Snow hugged Adam’s waist even tighter and buried her face in his arms as she cried.

Ginnie had to grip the door frame tightly to prevent her legs from giving out on her.

She never thought that the usually level-headed Adam would become so wild and aggressive for someone else.

Her vision blurred, and Ginnie gagged before she stumbled away.

She ended up running to the manmade lake in the backyard as she gasped for air.

Her head seemed to be stuffed with cotton. Her arm ached as well, but none of it could compare to the hurt in her heart.

“Well, well, if it isn’t the former genius artist, Ginnie Sullivan. Why are you hiding here like a coward?”

Ginnie looked up and saw Snow standing haughtily in front of her.

But since it was Howard’s birthday today, Ginnie did not want to cause trouble with her, so she got up and wanted to leave, but Snow grabbed her arm and pinched the part that was the most heavily injured.

“Ah!” Ginnie cradled her arm and gnashed her teeth together as she glared at Snow. “Snow, I don’t want to ruin Mr. Howard’s birthday party! Don’t cross the line!”

Yet Snow just acted as if she heard the greatest joke in the world. She snickered and sized up Ginnie’s arm with a mocking look.

“You must feel horrible since your arm still hasn’t recovered, even after three years have passed. Do you know why you got injured in the first place? I’ll tell you out of the kindness of my heart. I asked Adam to do it for me!”

Ginnie’s heart squeezed in pain at Snow’s words.

She knew that Adam had refused to let her get her arm treated for Snow’s sake, but what did Snow mean by that?

Feeling pleased with Ginnie’s reaction, Snow smiled and said, “I cried to Adam and said that you were better in me in every way, then I asked him to help me break your hand. He agreed to it and pretended to owe money to loan sharks so that he could make you work nonstop!

“You didn’t break your arm by accident either. Adam got someone to do it.

“Even though I only asked him to break your hand, Adam pitied me and broke your arm. He does whatever I want. If I had asked him to take your life, would it have worked?

“Heh. I’ll let you live for now because I want you to see that the two men you liked in the past are now dancing in the palm of my hand. Even if you’re a genius artist, it doesn’t matter. In the end, you can’t even compare to me!”

Ginnie felt her blood drain. She tried her best to remain calm as she hissed, “Is that all you’ve got? You can’t compare to my drawing skills, so you relied on men to pull these underhanded tricks. Even if you had an extra three years, you still had to steal my artwork to gain some recognition! You’re forever so despicable!”

Snow’s expression sank, and she slapped Ginnie hard in the face. “You witch! Even now, you’re still going up against me!”

Before Ginnie could react to the situation, Snow’s expression morphed into a dark sneer.

“Ginnie, if I told Adam that you wanted to kill me out of anger, what would Adam do?”

With that said, she grabbed Ginnie’s injured arm and dragged her into the lake with her.

“Snow!”

With a shout, Adam jumped into the lake and swam with all his might toward Snow.

Ginnie reached out to him in pain, but he simply swam past her. He only cared about Snow.

Ginnie lost the remainder of her strength and could only watch as her husband saved Snow before performing CPR on her.

Blood oozed out of her injury, and it gradually turned the water red.

Right before her consciousness faded away entirely, her hearing sharpened.

“Don’t be scared, Snow. You’re okay now. I’m right here. Are you hurt anywhere else?”

“Sob… Adam, I didn’t know that Ginnie was still mad about last time. She said that she wanted to drag me to hell with her and pulled me into the lake without another word…”

Adam trembled. He finally noticed that Ginnie was also in the lake.

She smiled bitterly and allowed herself to sink to the bottom.

…

When she opened her eyes again, Ginnie found herself changed into a hospital gown and lying in a ward.

She was parched and pushed herself up to walk to the door, only to hear Adam’s voice outside.

“What on earth are these doctors doing? Why have they only just realized that Ginnie has been four months pregnant?”

Ginnie’s breath stilled, and she subconsciously put her hand over her stomach.

“Calm down, Mr. Grant. If Miss Warma learns that Mrs. Grant is pregnant, you won’t be able to be with her. Why don’t we put abortion pills into Mrs. Grant’s food or stage an accident—”

“No.” Adam rejected the idea swiftly. After some thinking, he said grimly, “The baby might have come at an inopportune moment, but no matter what, the baby’s mine. Once Ginnie gives birth, I can divorce Ginnie and marry Snow.

“Have the private doctor stay at my place and make sure he takes good care of Ginnie’s baby.”

“Understood, Mr. Grant.”

Ginnie stumbled back in shock. When she felt the door handle turn, she hurried back to the bed and lay in it.

When Adam held her hand, she feigned confusion and opened her eyes.

“Are you awake, Ginnie? You’ve been unconscious for a full day. You scared me!”

Adam nuzzled against her hand and looked at her gently. “You silly girl, let me tell you something good. You’ve been pregnant for four months. In half a year, our baby will be born. She’ll grow up and call us Daddy and Mommy. Ginnie, thank you…”

Ginnie teared up. She was finding it harder to understand Adam.

Even though he loved another woman, he still put on a loving act in front of her.

Perhaps he had been putting up that act for too long, and he had become really immersed with this character.

Ginnie opened her mouth and said hoarsely, “How was Mr. Howard’s birthday party? Snow—”

Adam put a finger before her lips, and the gentle look faded somewhat from his eyes.

“You’re the one who pushed Snow and caused her to nearly die. Even if you’re jealous of her, I can’t agree to it! Just stay home and rest for the baby’s sake. Stop talking about the past. I’ll go and apologize to Snow for your sake.

“But I can’t guarantee whether she’ll forgive you. No matter what, you’ll have to suffer the consequences.”

Ginnie looked down, and the last remaining longing she had for Adam vanished entirely.

Indeed. No matter what Snow did, Adam would side with her without hesitation. Why even defend herself, then?

Besides, she was about to leave soon, so there was no future for her with Adam anymore.