Chapter 674 Prelude To Meeting

"Okay." Ashley agreed without hesitation.

The meeting had been set up at eight o'clock in the evening, which meant she had time to prepare for it. What's more, she also wanted to hang out in the afternoon and relive the past. At the same time, she wanted to walk around to see what changes had happened to J City in the last five years.

"Yeah! That's great, Ashley!"

"Alright, let's go."

Alice followed Ashley. Roaming around in the market, she saw various kind of delicacies and several toys she'd never seen before. She was so curious about them that she bought some to take back home. As Ashley's assistant, she had quite a bit of a monthly income.

Ashley merely looked around.

Although she had said that she was out here to take Alice for a walk, the truth was that she wanted to experience the charm of J City as a visitor. Anyway, J City was a place full of fond memories.

They turned a corner and arrived at the building where she had run a cake shop with Ellie during her time here. However, she didn't see the cake shop any more. Some other shop had taken its place.

Noticing that Ashley was looking to the direction of that building, Alice suggested, "Ashley, how about we go inside and have a look?"

Ashley looked away and refused, "No. Let's go."

They roamed outside until about three o'clock in the afternoon as they got a bit lost.

What Duncan said was true. J City had changed a lot over the past few years.

Ashley hadn't even stepped inside her room when she received Zen's call.

"Hello, Dad."

"Ashley, I suppose you have arrived in J City. Have you adjusted to the life there?"

Ashley stood in front of the French windows and looked out at the neon signs, glowing on the top of a building on the other side of the street. She smiled, "Yes. We have arrived in J City and everything is going well. Today, we went out for a walk."

"That's good. You need to relax yourself. You have spent too much time on your work. So tell me, how are you feeling now after your walk? Feeling good?"

"Yes, it was perfect."

They continued chatting for a while until Ashley needed to prepare for the meeting.

Her meeting with the potential partner had been set up at eight o'clock that evening. Ashley an

Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.

To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.

"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."

She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.

Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.

belong to one company.

It was puzzling for them.

Lick gave them a short explanation, "She is his adopted daughter. Zen likes her very much. I heard that she wanted to set up a jewelry company and she managed to set it up all by herself. Although Zen has accepted Ashley as his adopted daughter, he hadn't offered her any help.

She's been working alone till this date and has developed that company all by herself. The documents in your hands describe her struggle and achievements over the past four years."

"So that's how it is."

Ashley gave Lick a thankful look for saving her a long explanation.

Lick just smiled without saying anything.

Before he had come here, Zen had called him more than once, saying that his precious daughter was in J City and he had to take care of her. Zen had especially told him to not let anyone bully her. And it included the bullying within the business world too.

Whether Ashley's plans worked or not, he would not allow anyone to intimidate her.

Zen and Lick had known each other for more than twenty years. They were best friends now and this was the first time Lick had heard his friend saying something like that. So he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to see what kind of person Ashley was.

After a while, they had finished the business part of their conversation and decided to have dinner.

After years of experience, Ashley could drink a lot more now.

But suddenly, she felt a little stuffy without knowing why.