My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 369

Rachel was alert the entire time, but she didn't answer. She opened the envelope in her hand and read it word by word, without missing a single dot.

Finally, she couldn't help swearing.

Although Marcus ran a small foreign trade company, his family's influence could never be underestimated.

His father, Larry Ji, was the current mayor of Ninwell City, while his mother, Connie Chen, was the chairman of Ninwell City Association. His family had originally planned for Marcus to inherit his parents' legacy and enter the political field in the future. However, that plan fell by the wayside when he established his own company during his university years.

On his own, he managed to gather a few laurels in the last few years.

Although his parents had no choice at the moment, they were still hoping for their original plan to materialize. Thus, they were strongly encouraging Marcus to marry a daughter of a political family.

Now, a certain Celia Xu suddenly appeared in their son's life, and she had single-handedly destroyed their plans.

Marriage connections were not only popular in business circles, but were also outright welcomed by political families such as theirs.

The letter in Rachel's hand was written by Larry Ji, who demanded for the Fu family to stay out of the affair between Marcus and Celia and refrain from doing anything for the Xu family.

After reading the letter, Rachel got the gist of the situation. She folded the letter and placed it back into the envelope as she waited for Jonathan to speak.

After a moment of silence, Jonathan coughed and cleared his throat. "Rachel, Celia is your friend. I know that it's a little heartless to tell you to stay away from her at this point, but our hands are tied. The Fu family has to bow out of this."

Since the ancient times, business families had always been considered to be inferior to political clans.

Rachel pursed her lips and said, "Dad, I know. I'll keep my distance."

Jonathan certainly knew that she gave the expected response without meaning to abide by it, but she already gave her word. He could not continue to badger her any further. The expression in his eyes changed, as did their topic. "I heard that Jack has recruited her father. Is that correct?" Although he was asking Rachel, she knew that Jonathan had already investigated on the matter beforehand.

She was being completely forthcoming when she said, "Yes, I heard him mention it the other day."

Jonathan sighed. "Jack has always been close to that Ji boy. I'm afraid it was him who asked Jack to do such a thing."

Rachel simply looked at him and didn't say anything.

Jonathan continued, "If I told him to fire Dylan Xu, he wouldn't agree. On the other hand, your influence on him is different. He will surely listen to you. Our family cannot afford to offend the Ji family."

He looked straight at Rachel, who couldn't pretend to be silent anymore. She pursed her lips and said lightly, "Dad, Jack has always been a man who unabashedly does his own thing. How could he listen to me? But please, rest assured that I will tell him anyway."

Jonathan didn't say anything more.

It never occurred to Rachel that this matter might be much more complicated than she had originally surmised.

As the night fell, the sky gradually started weeping.

Celia hesitated at the gates of the community for a long time. After taking two steps forward, she turned around and left. She really didn't want to go back to that house.

But where else could she go?

"Celia? Why don't you come in?" It was an old nanny who live under the Xu family's apartment. In that neighborhood, she was the only one who would greet Celia.

Celia rubbed her frozen hands together and said with a smile, "I was just about to go back after finishing up a phone call."

The nanny raised her eyes and said kindly, "Then hurry back in, dear. It's a little cold at night. I went outside to the supermarket to buy a bottle of soy sauce. I was halfway done with cooking when I found out that I didn't have any in my pantry."

"Be careful on your way."

Celia sighed and walked towards her home. As soon as she opened the door, even before she could take off her shoes, she saw two hands outstretched in front of her. Her stepmother, Bertha, shouted at her in a sharp voice, "Hurry up. Pay for the living expenses today!"

Celia ignored her and put on her slippers. She glanced at her coldly and was about to go to her bedroom when her stepmother grabbed her arm.

Celia pursed her lips and said, "I forgot to withdraw money from the bank today, so I'll give it to you tomorrow. Will you die if I'm late for one day?"

"If you can only give me money tomorrow, then you won't eat with us today. Your father has raised you. You are so ungrateful as you're so reluctant to pay your living expenses even though you have a job now. Didn't you eat your meals here at home? Do you think those come for free?"

Bertha's words were full of sarcasm and ridicule, but she also brought up Dylan's position in this family intentionally. She glanced at him sitting in the living room, his face evidently showing dissatisfaction and his lips slightly curled unpleasantly.

Celia had grown used to listening to the diatribes from Bertha's mouth that she felt relatively calm. She sneered and shook off Bertha's hand. "I won't starve to death if I don't eat for a day."