Mr. Conrad Proposes to His Ex-wife Again novel Chapter 161

As she spoke, she smiled disdainfully, “I wondered why he wastes his time on this kind of person.”

“Excuse me, Ms. Steward. Where are we going now?”

“Go home.”

Half an hour later, the black car was driven into the Stewards.

When Phoebe arrived home, Charles was reading a newspaper in the garden. Hearing the sound, he looked up at her and asked, “Phoebe, where have you been?”

Phoebe answered, “I... I went shopping with my friends. What’s up, Dad?”

Charles put down the newspaper and took a sip of the tea, “Nothing. Since your engagement with the Conrad family has been called off, we don’t have any relationship with them any longer. You’d better not go to the Conrads’ Mansion in the future.”

Upon hearing it, Phoebe paused a bit, “Dad...”

“I know it was Clarence Conrad’s personal decision to call off the marriage and it almost had nothing to do with the Conrad family, but people will talk. I don’t want you to be gossiped in private.”

“Dad, I understand what you meant. I won’t go to the Conrad family anymore in the future.”

Charles nodded, “Okay. You may leave now.”

Phoebe slightly pressed her lips. She wanted to say something but she didn’t utter any word eventually. After a hum, she went upstairs.

Charles picked up the newspaper again, continuing to read the financial news today.

Since more than two months ago the Conrad family announced to call off the marriage with the Steward family, Steward Group started to suppress a few cooperated companies, which more or less made trouble for their cooperated projects with Conrad Group.

Those companies didn’t have the guts to be against Conrad Group. Now, they had Steward Group as their backer, so they worked together and made some bold movements.

They had thought that they would give Clarence a heavy blow more or less and cause a certain negative impact on Conrad Group. However, Clarence didn’t take them seriously at all - he directly changed the companies to cooperate in the projects decisively and quickly, causing some loss for those companies off-guard as if he had planned it long ago.

No one would want to compete against such a person.

Charles returned to his senses and folded the newspaper in half. When he was about to stand up, he saw a notice in a missing-persons column.

When he saw the photo of the notice, his expressionless face had a crack, his eyes full of disbelief.

...

“What did you do? Did you post the photo in a newspaper? But, nowadays, fewer and fewer people will read the newspaper. Are you sure it works?”

Looking at Sherry’s shocked face, Channing said flatly, “Just have a try.”

“Then...” Sherry lowered her voice, “Have you told Stella about it?”

“Yes, I have. She didn’t object.”

Sherry exhaled, “That’s good then. I was afraid that she wasn’t willing to.”

Stella looked quite easy-going, but she was extremely stubborn.

If she didn’t agree to do it, nobody could convince her.

After thinking about it, Sherry noticed that Channing kept bending down his head. She said, “Chan, don’t overthink. It’ll be good if she can find him. If not, it doesn’t matter either. Anyway, Stella is always your elder sister.”

Channing said, “I still have something to do in college. I’m taking off.”

Sherry pulled him to stop, “Aren’t you on vacation now? What are you busy with? Besides, will you feel easy to dump such beautiful women like us? What if we encountered someone with evil intentions when having dinner?”

...

Meanwhile, the Conrads’ Mansion.

As soon as Annie heard about calling off the engagement, Annie hopped up immediately. She said excitedly, “Impossible! I don’t agree!”

Justin said, “Annie, I’ve told you before. The marriage should be based on the affection of the couple. You’ve engaged to Mr. Jason for such a long time but there was no development in your relationship at all. It doesn’t make any sense if you hang on like this.”

“It’s all because of that shameless bitch Stella. If it weren’t for him, Horace would already...”

“Annie, ask yourself - even if Stella didn’t exist, would Mr. Jason like your character?” Justin said in a solemn voice, “You should know when to keep a low key. Reflect yourself. Don’t just blame others for your own mistakes.”

It was the very first time that Justin blamed Annie so harshly. Instantly, her eyes were reddened in anger. She turned around and looked at Joanna as if she was asking Joanna for help, “Aunt Joanna...”

Joanna didn’t speak anything, looking as expressionless as usual.

Dempsey, however, echoed, “I agree with Justin. Horace Jason doesn’t like you. Even if you managed to marry into the Jason family, you’ll suffer.”

“Uncle Dempsey, but you said differently earlier...”

“In the past, I thought that you are young and you might be changed after getting married. Now, I realize you wouldn’t change at all. It’s better to stop loss in time rather than letting you marry Horace Jason and cause trouble every day.”

Of course, Dempsey didn’t suddenly become so reasonable. As the matter of fact, he had successfully cooperated with Charles already and received powerful financial support from him. Now, the Jason family meant nothing to Dempsey.