The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife
Chapter 160 Remuneration

Jojen Reed grunted coldly once. "The girl Susan Shelby has the most potential so I have to deliver a more crushing blow to her naturally." The young assistant could not help feeling speechless.

Mr. Reed almost stopped providing guidance to anyone during these recent years. As a result, very few people were aware of Mr. Reed's teaching style. The more potential he saw in a designer, the more ruthless he would criticize the designer's work.

In his words, he did it because a jade that was not polished could not be made into anything!

As the top designer of Summery, Great Master Strange was also savagely criticized by Mr. Reed when he was accepted as an apprentice in the past.

"Mr. Reed, the young designers aren't aware of your teaching style. Aren't you afraid that Susan Shelby will never recover from your criticism?" said the assistant.

"If she doesn't have the ability to endure this and push forward, then there's no future for her either," said Mr. Reed nonchalantly.

It was apparent that Mr. Reed did not plan to change his temper.

The young assistant could only pay a silent tribute to

Susan in his heart.

Susan was still battered out of her senses when she left Universal Tower. Chance Hamilton could not help consoling her upon noticing her situation, "Susie, don't be too bothered. Perhaps Mr. Reed's criticism may not necessarily be right either."

"I'm fine." Susan forced a smile. "It's true that I still have so much room for improvement."

"All the best!" Chance could not help encouraging her.

Susan nodded heavily.

Then, she inhaled a deep breath.

Mr. Reed was albeit overbearing but his criticism was very correct too.

However, his criticism could never take her down. On the contrary, it made her put in even more effort to strive.

There would come one day that she would receive Mr. Reed's compliment.

Susan regained her fighting spirit.

Chance admired Susan as he looked at her.

If it was his work that was criticized severely by Mr. Reed before the witness of everybody else, perhaps he would never be able to recover so quickly.

It was not even four o'clock when Susan walked out of Universal Tower. However, since the company had already approved her leave, Susan headed home straight away.

She made up her mind that she would certainly produce a submission that would change Mr. Reed's perception of her so she could vent her dissatisfaction!

She had one week's time. She still needed to go to work during the day so she basically only had her lunch hours and nights to prepare for the competition. Time was pressing. As soon as Susan began engaging in the task fully, she worked all day regardless of time once again.

Julian Shaw pitied Susan but he knew that Susan could not be persuaded at this time. He could only order Mama Jean to prepare more nourishing food for her on usual days. While Susan was busy, he had to attend his matters too.

He needed to take swift and effective measures to end the matter with Isabelle Shelby.

Julian pondered about it and decided to make an appointment so he could talk to Isabelle in person.

Isabelle was overjoyed for a long time after receiving the call from Julian. She dressed up painstakingly then she went to the cafe way ahead of time and waited.

Julian arrived at the cafe about ten minutes before the appointed time and entered through the door.

Isabelle's face blushed involuntarily upon seeing him.

She called out to him softly, "Mr. Shaw, there you are."

She could feel her little heart beating hard.

She did not have the courage to contact Julian for the past few days but she had only contacted Susan in an attempt to ask her out.

She wanted to give it a try and see if she could seize the opportunity to get close to Julian.

Unexpectedly, Susan used the excuse of being busy with work to reject her over and over again.

Heh.

She thought about how she used to help Susan in the past at the very least, and yet she did not expect that Susan would be so inhuman.

Yet, so what if Susan tried so hard to avoid her? Julian still took the initiative to ask her out, right?

The more Isabelle thought about it, the prouder she was. The smile in her eyes grew so wide that it could not be concealed anymore.

"Take a look at this contract." Julian took a seat and passed a contract to Isabelle straightforwardly.

"Contract?" Isabelle was stunned for a moment. Then, she picked the document up and proceeded to read it.

The joy in her eyes grew stronger after reading the contract.

According to the contract, the Shelby family would be receiving one project from Lanyard Construction.

Even though it was not considered a big project for Lanyard Construction, it was already considered money falling from the sky for the Shelby family.

The Shelby family would be able to make five million worth of profit from completing the project at the very least.

"Then, there's this." Julian pushed over a cheque to her.

Isabelle took a glance to replace the value of five million on the cheque.

Julian assumed a calm gaze. "The contract and the cheque, you can choose one."

Isabelle's eyes lit up.

The value of these two items was about five million or so. One was for the Shelby family and the other one was for her.

Julian gave her the option to choose by herself now.

She would be the biggest beneficiary regardless of whichever her choice was!

Julian gave her such a huge advantage so suddenly. Was he- was he trying to take her...

Isabelle felt her heart beat harder even.

She raised her eyes to look at Julian coquettishly. "Mr. Shaw, you're doing this...for the purpose of? If Susie replaces out, is it going to cause any trouble?"

The shyness in Isabelle's gaze was too obvious yet

Julian's icy cold voice was heard soon afterward.

"Isabelle, I'm very thankful for your company when we were young."

"Why are you mentioning this..." Isabelle blushed scarlet.

Julian stared at her with complicated emotions radiating in his eyes.

At the time, his father had just passed away recently and Lanyard Construction was in an unstable state with a group of people casting covetous looks on the company from the side. In an effort to be fully committed to running the company, his mother sent him to Lin County so he could stay away from the chaos in Ningcheng City.

He understood that his mother's decision at the time was to protect him.

Yet, he had just lost his family recently at the time. Soon afterward, he was sent back to Lin County all by himself which was equal to being away from his mother.

It was supposed to be a whole, happy family yet he was left all alone in the blink of an eye.

He was scared, anxious, and he even hated the world a little.

Before Little Flower, he had already begun to withdraw from the outside world. He did not enjoy socializing with others and he would rather stay in the icy cold solitude. He could feel that an abyss was waiting for him if the situation were to continue.

Yet, his mother was busy with handling Lanyard Construction while the servants cared about his daily life. No one knew about his hardship and Julian had even abandoned himself to despair and allowed himself to sink into the abyss.

It was until one day when Little Flower came into his life.

"Hey, would you like to play with us?" She smiled at him across the fence like a little angel.

At that very moment, Julian felt like he had received some kind of salvation.

"Mr. Shaw, Mr. Shaw?" called out Isabelle softly.

Julian was suddenly pulled back to reality. He could not help frowning as he looked at Isabelle's pretentious face.

He realized something from Isabelle. A person who was pure could still be destroyed one day.

She was Little Flower but she was no longer the Little Flower in his mind.

Julian said calmly, "You were very helpful to me when we were young so I'm now giving you the remuneration that I think is appropriate. The contract or the cheque, you may choose one. Then... from now on, I don't want you to bring up past events anymore."