The top priority for Ashley at the moment was how to move the headquarters of her company to J City.
Fortunately, Ashley had made up her mind to transfer her company to J City, so she could do everything together with Andrew and take care of business too. Besides, it was only a matter of time before she relocated her company to J City.
But Andrew showed no explicit response whether he permitted or refused Ashley to go back to N Country after she told him her plan.
But no matter what his decision was, Ashley decided to stay there for two more days, then definitely leave.
Besides, the board members of her company in N Country had also been urging her to go back.
Just as Ashley was considering the way to persuade Andrew to let her go back, Andrew informed her of some news that wasn't too surprising for her.
It was all due to Lesley's web of manipulation that Ashley was forced to move out of J City five years ago.
In fact, Ashley wasn't too surprised by the news because she had already suspected and guessed that it was Lesley who had plotted against her. However, she had gradually put it all behind her since she didn't have any evidence that directly linked Lesley to her plot.
"Are you really sure that Lesley is the culprit behind that plot? Have you confirmed your sources?"
"Yes," Andrew patiently replied.
Ashley's response was contradictory to what Andrew had expected when he gave her the news. She seemed quite calm and even uninterested.
After all, she had already guessed that Lesley was the mastermind behind the whole plot. However, although she was misled by Lesley at that time, she still blamed herself for being too gullible and weak-minded.
If she had confided in Andrew about her issues and then gone to the hospital to have a thorough examination with him, perhaps things would have been quite different from how it turned out.
But if Ashley could get a chance to go back in time and make a different choice, she probably still wouldn't tell Andrew because she didn't want him to worry about her.
Maybe that was her greatest weakness and why Lesley succeeded in framing her up so easily.
So, if she ever got the opportunity to talk to Lesley, what more could she say to her? May be try and figure out what her motives were? Try to understand why she did all this to her? Ashley's mind was spinning with all these hypothetical questions.
However, deep down in her heart, she knew the answer. It was apparent that Lesley did all that for her love of Andrew.
In Lesley's mind, Andrew would be with her if Ashley left him.
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.
d you and ruined your life five years ago. I went to the hospital with my mother for an examination one day and saw you at the same hospital quite by accident. I instantly came up with the genius idea right on the spot.
I didn't know if the ingenious plan would work out or if you were really stupid enough to fall into my trap, but it seemed to have worked out splendidly. I actively monitored all your movements during those days and threatened all the hospitals to fabricate lies to you before you went for further examination. For the rest of the issues, I think you are well aware of them right now."
Andrew's eyes were reduced to small slits. He gritted his teeth in an effort to remain silent while his knuckles were white from clenching them too tight.
He looked as if, in the next second, he would strangle her with his bare hands.
Lesley also felt Andrew's blazing gaze on her.
She smiled bitterly and wondered why she had been in denial and dreaming for so long. The man whom she had loved and admired for more than twenty years looked at her with such deep hatred as if he wished to kill her. What would she expect now?
Lesley looked at Ashley and said, "Ashley, I would like to have a private talk with you."
"No way! You either talk to her in my presence or leave."
Ashley was about to say something, but Andrew interrupted her.
He looked at Lesley as if he was looking at an unsavory heap of garbage.
"I just want to have a few words with you. We can talk outside, just nearby," Lesley insisted. Lesley ignored Andrew and kept gazing at Ashley.
She understood that sometimes Andrew would want to listen to Ashley despite his doubts.
It just indicated how much Andrew loved Ashley.