She Is A CEO

Sophie played the victim to arouse Lucia's sympathy. And it worked.

Lucia finally raised her head. Her expression was so sad that Arthur's heart ached and his eyes were flooded with tears. When his tears were about to slide down, Arthur could no longer hold back. He violently freed himself from Sophie's shackles and reached out to pull Lucia closer to him, before saying to Sophie,

"Don't push her!"

Just when Sophie thought her strategy was failing, Lucia suddenly spoke up. With a weakness in her voice that no longer needed to be hidden, she said to Arthur,

"Arthur, I'm sorry ... I didn't want to."

Lucia's statement meant she was willing to talk about it.

"Lucia, sit down and talk to us slowly." Sophie sighed with relief and sat down in the chair, then asked Lucia to sit down by the bed as well. Together with her son, they listened to Lucia's explanation. Knowing that she could no longer repress her love, Lucia raised her hand to wipe her tears and began to recount everything that had happened in Chicago, one by one.

On December 20th of the previous year, Lucia, who had arrived in Chicago on an international flight, made a video call with Arthur as soon as she got off the plane, bringing her son with her.

Esmae's husband, Chris Brown, was the owner one of the largest shipping companies in Chicago. As the largest lake port in the Great Lakes region of USA, Chicago handled 75 million tons of cargo a year, nearly half of which was owned by the Brown family.

The Brown family had been around for hundreds of years and had its own family culture and logo, so as soon as she saw the car with the family logo on it, Lucia knew it was Esmae coming to pick her up. That day, it was Esmae personally to pick up Lucia and Theodore. Being different from the previous enthusiasm and joy, Esmae's expression was very serious, ans she said nothing in the car hardly. After they arrived at Browns Manor, Esmae let a servant to accompany Theodore while took Lucia into her husband's study.

"Esmae, what's wrong?" Lucia felt a little depressed and asked Esmae as soon as she entered the study.

Esmae said, "Close the door. I have something to say to you."

Lucia closed the door behind her. A vague sense of foreboding surfaced in her heart, and after sitting down, Esmae spoke up, "Lucia, I want you to break off contact with Arthur immediately and just break up!" "What?!" Lucia was directly shocked at the request made by Esmae.

"You're right to listen to me!" Esmae affirmed.

"But what about the reasons?" Lucia did not want to directly disobey Esmae. She had caused the tragedy by disobeying her father before, and when faced with Esmae who was like her parent, she was shocked and chose to learn of the reasons first.

"Arthur's father's name is Edwin and his mother's name is Sophie, right?" Esmae sounded odd as she pronounced Arthur's name.

Lucia nodded and asked suspiciously, "Esmae, you know them?"

Esmae's face clearly showed a touch of sadness, interspersed with a stronger hatred. Then she was almost gritting her teeth and saying, "More than know each other!"

Afterwards, Esmae took out a yellowed photo from a locked safe to show Lucia, who was amazed to see that although the photo was old, the smiles of the three young people on it were still bright as light. In the photo, young Esmae was standing in the middle of a man and a woman who were smiling. She was slightly sideways against the man beside her, looking happy. Lucia did not know the man, but will never be mistaken about the other woman. This was Sophie when she was young! Without much guessing, she was almost certain that the man was Edwin.

Holding the photo, Lucia looked up at Esmae with a puzzled look.

Why would Esmae allow her to break up with Arthur when she and Arthur's parents knew each other and had shown an extraordinary relationship in the photo? Faced with Lucia's doubts, Esmae sneered and said directly, "Edwin and I were once a couple."

Lucia was shocked.

Next, after Esmae told Lucia about what happened to her when she was young.

Esmae, Sophie, and Edwin met in high school. Esmae came from a literary family. Sophie's family was in business, and Edwin came from the Davies family, a financial family. And the three were in the same class in high school and soon became friends.

Esmae and Sophie are naturally BFFs. At the young age, she fell in love with the sunny and handsome Edwin, and of course, she told her BFF Sophie about this carefully hidden secret in her heart at the first time. Sophie was happy for her.

When the three people were together, they will always have an excuse to leave, creating time for them to be alone.

Edwin invariably talked about Sophie on such days. Esmae initially assumed that Edwin was used to it when three people were together and did not pay any attention to you. Instead, she approached Edwin carefully, hoping that the bud in her heart would blossom and bear fruit.

The more time passed, the more she liked Edwin, but she did not confess her feelings out of shyness.Belongs © to NôvelDrama.Org.

In her senior year of high school, Edwin said he wanted to go to USA for further study together, but Esmae thought it difficult. Although she came from a scholarly family with a great reputation, her family was not rich enough to support her to go abroad for further study.

But this was different for Sophie. Her parents were both businessmen and her family was already rich. After hearing Edwin's suggestion, she readily agreed to go to USA together.

Esmae went home and had a big fight with her parents. Although she knew that her family was not well-off, she insisted on asking her parents to send her abroad and promised to study hard and pay back her parents' kindness twice as much.

On the contrary, Sophie and Edwin excelled in the entrance exams and both got into USA universities with high scores, but Esmae was lost.

During the summer vacation, Sophie went to Esmae's house countless times to comfort her and encourage her. Esmae finally had the courage to repeat her studies, and the three people left that wonderful photo during the summer vacation. Esmae asked her two friends to promise to wait for her for a year, and Sophie and Edwin gladly agreed and promised to wait for her in USA.

At the end of the vacation, Esmae reluctantly sent off Sophie and Edwin who flew to USA by plane, and started to study alone. Esmae was depressed because of her father's serious illness, but her father still insisted on working for her future and encouraged her to study hard. Her father said she could come back to save him after studying medicine.

Inspired by her desire for friendship and love, Esmae studied hard with the belief of studying medicine to save her father, and a year later, she scored high on the entrance exam and enrolled in USA's prestigious medical school.

With that, Esmae left for USA with the expectation of her parents.

But Esmae never expected that the day she saw Sophie and Edwin again would be the day her heart was broken.

Sophie and Edwin were together!