The manager and the salesperson came over with a few security guards. "What are you doing? How dare you to hit our client here? Take them to the security room!"

They were frightened and didn't dare to say a word for a while.

Looking at their cowardly appearance, I sighed secretly. Alas, they only dared to bully me!

The manager said to me again, "Ms. Quill, do you want to call the police?"

As soon as they heard calling the police, they quickly ran away.

3

The manager took out a business card and handed it to me. "Ms. Quill, I'm sorry that we didn't protect you well enough and made you feel wronged. This is my business card. If you need anything in the future, you can come to me."

I touched my slightly red cheeks and said, "Manager, I'm sorry for you to see this."

I Looked at the business card in my hand again, Larry Turner.

I quickly thanked him. "Mr. Turner, thank you!"

I moved into my new house at night. I took a milk bath with a facial mask and listened to music. I felt very happy and relaxed.

However, I had almost spent all my savings in the past few days, so the most urgent thing was to make money.

I thought of Larry.

The next morning, I called him and he answered immediately.

I asked him to go to the Cafe at the entrance of their sales office. He said straightforwardly, "Ms. Quill, there is no need to be so troublesome. I can be there right away because I live next door to you."

I was stunned for a moment, and he laughed again. "After all, I have to enjoy a nice house myself."

Interesting.

I changed my clothes and tidied myself up a little when the doorbell rang.

He was wearing a simple suit. He was tall and fit, and had a pair of bright eyes.

He was also quite handsome.

I poured him a cup of coffee and got straight to the point without any further ado.

I wanted to organize an event with their sales department, where all homeowners could come to my beauty salon for a free treatment.

He was naturally eager to seek benefits for the distinguished owners, so we hit it off and agreed to implement it immediately.

I breathed a sigh of relief. "Mr. Turner, if your girlfriend or wife comes to our salon, I will serve her for free for half a year, no limit of times."

He said, "Why? Ms. Quill wants to introduce a girlfriend to me? I'm still single right now."

I asked in surprise, "Ah? You are such an outstanding man. How can you still be single?"

He said, "Isn't an outstanding person like you also single?"

My eyes widened. "How do you know?"

He replied, "If you had a boyfriend, you wouldn't be bullied by them yesterday. If you had a man to protect you, they wouldn't dare to be so arrogant."

A man to protect me? My heart was slightly moved.

I also wanted a man to protect me, but in my previous life, I foolishly believed what my parents said, which was that there was no true love in the world, and those men just wanted to deceive me.

I didn't know whether men would lie to me or not, but my parents and brother had been plotting against me all my life.

Seeing me keeping my head down and saying nothing, Larry felt a little embarrassed. He sat for a while and then left.

The activity started the next day. The sales department promoted it in the community, and my beauty salon was flooded with customers.

People lived in this community were wealthy. After receiving the free care and if they felt that it was good, most of them applied for memberships. I also gave them more discounts, and everyone was happy.

In just two months, my salon's sales reached last year's total.

Seeing that our beauty care had a good reputation, Larry teamed up with me again to launch another activity, where customers could get a gold membership card for free when they bought a house.

As a result, my beauty salon business was booming.

In the past few months, Larry and I had been in frequent contact. My parents and Jack hadn't bothered me, and I had lived a peaceful life for a while.

Larry's gaze at me became increasingly hot, and I missed him terribly when I didn't see him for a day.

I wondered, "Is this love?"

In this new life, could I find my own happiness? However, I was already forty years old and Larry was only thirty-five years old. Would he accept me?

This weekend, I cooked a few dishes, opened a bottle of wine, and invited Larry to celebrate the success of our cooperation.

We only had one drink and a hint of ambiguity slowly filled the air. Larry quietly held my hands, and when he was about to confess his love, there was suddenly a knock on the door.

I wondered, "Is it the property management?"

I just opened the door a crack, someone pushed it open with force, then my parents and Jack rushed in.

Jack shouted excitedly, "We finally found you! Dad, Mom, look, this house is very beautiful."

My parents were each carrying several luggage bags, and they piled the bags in the living room once they entered the house.

I asked, "Dad, Mom, what are you doing?"

My father snorted coldly. "You still remember that you have parents?"

My mother sat down on the sofa and said, "Yasmin, we will live here from now on."

I knew what they were planning. It didn't matter whether the house was registered under my name or Jack's name. What mattered for them was that they could occupy it first and kick me out at any time later.

In my previous life, I bought another house for Jack as they requested, and they lived in the previous house with me. When they died, they left the house to their grandson. I had no choice but to live with my cousin and his wife. I endured them for a while until I was forced to rent a apartment.

This time, I wouldn't let them have their way.

I said coldly, "I want to live in this house alone."

My father disagreed. "We are your parents. Whether you agree or not, we will live here."

Larry walked out of the restaurant. "This house belongs to Yasmin, no one else has the right to move in by force."

My parents were surprised to see that there was another person in the room. Jack shouted, "Hey, Yasmin, we only haven't seen you for a few months, and you've hooked up with this manager?"

Larry frowned and said, "You should be more respectful when you speak. We both are unmarried, choose your words carefully."

He pulled me into his arms and said, "I'm her fiance, and we're getting married soon."

I wondered, "What is he doing?" My heart warmed up and I couldn't help but smile.

My mom screamed, "Fiance? We don't agree!"

Jack was also very surprised. "Yasmin, he must be trying to cheat you out of your money! What fiance, bah!"

My father put on the dignity of the head of the family and yelled at me, "Who agreed to this? Make him leave now. We don't agree."

I also took the risk. "We plan to get married next month."

When these words came out, they were all dumbfounded.

My mom said, "Yasmin, don't be stupid. He must be attracted by your house and money. You are already forty years old. He can't be sincere to you."

Jack also chimed in. "Yasmin, if you want to have some fun, fine. Don't treat marriage as a joke."

My dad was furious. "How could I have such a stupid daughter like you!"

Larry ignored them. "Please take your things away, otherwise I will call security."

My mother simply started to act like a spoiled brat. "Call the security guards as you want. I'm her mother, why can't I live here?"

Larry sneered. "You are her mother. But we only protect the safety of the owners. If Yasmin doesn't agree with you living here, then the security has the right to throw you out!"

As he said that, he took out his phone and said, "What? You don't believe me?"

My parents were frightened and didn't dare to say anything. They packed their luggage and left.

As soon as the door closed, Larry hugged me and said, "Yasmin, let me protect you. Will you marry me?"

I was so happy, how could I refuse?

But I knew that my parents would not let it go. They were used to squeezing money from me, so how could they let me go easily?

4

They came to my store.

My mother told me that I had to break up with Larry, otherwise she would never acknowledge me as her daughter.

This trick worked every time in my previous life. But now, I really wished they wouldn't acknowledge me as her daughter.

Seeing that I didn't care, Jack pretended to be a peacemaker. "Yasmin, don't make Mom and Dad angry, we are all doing this for your own good."

I said, "Yes, you are all doing this for my own good. For letting me die alone and spending all my money. Thank you so much. I beg you not to do anything for my own good anymore in the future."

My mother roared in anger. "Yasmin, why are you so easily deceived by men?"

I said, "I want a home of my own, what's wrong with that?"

My father, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up, "Okay, you've grown strong now, we can't control you anymore. You can get married, but we'll need eight hundred thousand dollars as a engagement gift, not a penny less!"

I said, "What, you want to sell me out?"

Jack said, "Yasmin, don't say such harsh words. Isn't it normal to ask for engagement gift when getting married?"

I replied, "In this small town, the engagement gift is only about one hundred thousand dollars, but you want eight hundred thousand. You must be crazy for money."

Just as they were arguing, Larry arrived.

My mother shouted at him, "Did you hear me? If you want to marry my daughter, give us eight hundred thousand dollars!"

Larry walked up to me and looked at me.

I said, "Larry, don't listen to them. I will decide my own marriage, and I don't need any engagement gift."

My father was so furious that he picked up a vase nearby and was about to throw it at me.

Larry quickly protected me behind him. "Whoever dares to touch Yasmin, I won't let him get away with it."

My dad was stunned for a moment, and my mom stopped him. He put the vase down and said, "We don't agree if you don't give us the money."

I said, "I'm sorry, but we don't need your consent, we will get married tomorrow."

Back when I opened the beauty salon a few years ago, I had already moved myself from our family's household registration, so they couldn't stop us from registering.

Jack suddenly sneered at Larry and said, "Hey, don't blame me for not telling you. My sister had several abortions before, and no one wants her anymore. If you want to be a sucker, that's up to you."

I was so angry that my eyes turned dark and I almost fainted.

This was my good brother. In order to prevent me from getting married, he did not hesitate to fabricate facts and ruin my reputation.

Larry was unmoved and hugged me tightly. "I believe Yasmin, don't slander her!"

My parents and brother walked away, and I snuggled in Larry's arms with tears in my eyes. With him, I felt safe and no longer lonely.

Larry asked, "Yasmin, is what you just said true?"

I asked, "What?"

Larry said, "Get married tomorrow."