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Richard's Wedding

Theo and Amelie awkwardly smiled in response and hastily changed the topic.

Jenna only stayed for a few minutes before leaving.

Not long after that, Richard approached me with a glass of wine in hand.

"I've underestimated you, Hank. You managed to latch onto someone like Jenna so quickly."

I had no intention of getting into a squabble with him. "Happy birthday, Richard. It's getting late, and I should head home."

He darted forward and grabbed my arm.

"None of that matters, you hear me? You've seen it yourself, haven't you? It doesn't matter what you do because I will always be our parents' beloved son! You'll forever be the useless loser in their eyes!"

His grip around my arm tightened, and I could feel my bones creaking in protest. I became annoyed with him and shrugged him off with a scowl.

I didn't expect him to use the momentum and fall backward.

Amelie immediately noticed the commotion and frantically ran over.

"What's going on?" she exclaimed.

Richard placed his hand on his ankle as he looked up to her, his face pale. "Mom, Hank pushed me. He even said that he'd make me pay now that he's curried favor with a great benefactor like Ms. Close! Mom, I'm scared..."

Amelie's eyes widened with anger. She was so incensed that she blindly reached for something nearby to throw at me.

I instinctively held my arm up to defend my face, which resulted in my arm being sliced open. The item she threw was a knife from the restaurant.

The blood dripped onto the floor.

She pointed at me as she shouted with a trembling voice, "You scoundrel! Do you think you can do whatever you want because you have connections with someone rich and powerful now? You have no right to throw a fit in this home! Get out now!

"You are never to show yourself at home until I say so!"

After I was kicked out of the hall, I checked the date with my phone.

It seemed Richard would soon meet Flora.

All I had to do was bide my time and wait.

I soon received a job offer from Jenna and joined the Close Group.

During that time, I worked hard to learn and improve my skills, hoping to catch up to my seniors as soon as possible.

I was working on the quarterly report when my phone buzzed with a notification from the newspapers. "Breaking news! The long-lost heiress of Wayne Group has been found!"

I put my phone down after reading that. It seemed that Richard would be married to Flora soon.

Sure enough, Richard made a post two weeks later. "Ms. Wayne, I look forward to the rest of our lives."

There was even a photo of them holding up their marriage certificate in that post. Both of them looked like a match made in heaven with wide smiles on their faces.

Shortly after, Wayne Group announced Flora's upcoming wedding.

As soon as it was posted, every media outlet began speculating on the marriage.

Everyone was wondering just who the new husband could be. Someone who knew the couple exposed that Richard had dated Flora before she was found by her family. Soon, stories of their romance spread everywhere.

Flora announced their wedding to take place in Adoraland as a show of their love, expressing that she would forever be with her husband.

I received a message from Richard on the day of the wedding.

'Hank, you miserable worm, I was going to invite you to my wedding since I know you've never left the country before. Unfortunately for you, Mom and Dad refused to let me do it. They said you'd definitely humiliate us if you're there. Hahahaha! Suck it, Hank!

'Now, I'm part of the Wayne Group. Who cares if you can do a job well? Who cares if you have a great job? In the end, you'll never amount to anything! You'll forever be trampled under my foot!

'Once I return, I'll have Mom and Dad officially disown you so you'll be nothing but an unloved beggar of an orphan!'

I could not resist letting out a snort of laughter upon reading that.

I truly hope that his smugness would still burn strong after his wedding night.