“You, liar, I’ve placed the charger here. Take it yourself,” Serena remarked coldly. After leaving the charger on the coffee table, she headed upstairs with her phone.
“Seren…” Zack called her name with a deep voice.
When he trailed his voice, it carried a trace of pity.
Serena turned a deaf ear to it and went upstairs straight away.
Zack hurriedly tagged along.
Of course, Serena would not stay in their room. She entered the guest room instead and locked the door from inside. As a result, Zack was unable to unlock the door even with a spare key.
Zack was left outside the room. He knocked on the door and said in a soft tone,” Seren, are you still angry? Tell me what I should do so you’ll cool down and talk to me.”
He could not stand the indifference and the sense of alienation from her. He could not stand how she kept calling him a liar.
Even so, he could not stand it when she fought back in agitation either.
Zack really had no idea what he should do.
He asked Josh for help. Josh told him to calm down and would let him know how to solve it.
Why should Zack calm down?
Serena ignored him.
After planting herself on the couch in the room, she switched on her phone and checked the missed calls. Not only were the calls from Jasmine but also from the
Yorks.
She then looked at the WhatsApp messages. Some were sent by her sister and some by Jasmine.
There were many other messages as well. She knew those messages were from Zack’s family who tried to speak up for him.
Serena thought in frustration, ‘What else could they say?‘
His family deceived her.
Serena was not just mad at Zack but also the Yorks.
Serena replied to her sister’s message first before calling Jasmine.
“Serena.”
Jasmine answered her call shortly. “Serena, how are you now? Your phone had been turned off during the day. I called you numerous times when your phone was off. When I could finally get through at night, you didn’t pick up my call.”
Serena pretended to be fine in front of her good friend and said, “My phone ran out of battery, so it automatically turned off. That’s why you couldn’t get through. Later, I borrowed the liar’s charger to have my phone fully charged.”
Liar…
Jasmine could sense the fury in her words. She knew Serena was still mad.
It was hard for Serena to cool down, considering that she was deceived by the person whom she shared her bed with.
“So it turned out that your phone ran out of battery. You gave me a fright. Are you okay?”
Serena fell quiet for some time before she forced a laugh and said, “It’d be a lie to say that I’m okay. I’m not. I’m not okay at all. Jasmine, I’ve lost my freedom. That b* stard forbids me to step out of the villa. When my sister came to visit me, he didn’t allow her to bring me back.”
Jasmine said, “His tactic is a bit too much. He called Josh, and Josh said he hit you and knocked you unconscious.”
At the mention of this matter, Serena was boiling with anger. Feeling aggrieved, she said, “It was his fault. I’m angry. Why can’t I be angry? When I wanted to cool down, he hit me and made me faint. He almost broke the back of my neck.
“It was Grandma May’s fault that I ended up marrying such a man. Grandma May lied to me from the very beginning. If she had disclosed her identity back then, I’d rather hire someone to put on an act with me to deceive my sister than marry Zack.
“Everyone in his family is a liar. They lied to me.
“I won’t forgive him. I won’t forgive him anytime soon! There’s a huge gap in… our marriage. I want to get a divorce. I’ve even gotten the divorce agreement ready. He wouldn’t be taken advantage of at all. He rejected it and even tore the divorce agreement I’d prepared.”
Serena drafted the divorce agreement because she was furious at being deceived. Another reason was that she subconsciously thought she was not qualified to be with Zack.
Regardless of whether it was Jasmine or Elisa, both of them always said that married couples should be well–matched. It would be easier to mingle around if two people were of the same status and from the same industry.
When two people were of different statuses, they would have different perspectives and lifestyles.
The story of Cinderella and Prince Charming was merely a fairytale. What was more, Cinderella’s family was not badly off. She came from a noble background, but the only unfortunate thing was that her stepmother abused her.
“Serena, can you try to communicate with him properly? Isn’t forbidding you to step out of the house equivalent to placing you under house arrest?
“I guess Mr. Zack…”
“Call him the liar!”
Jasmine said, “Okay. He’s the liar. The liar who loves you so much and is afraid of losing you, which explains his extreme behavior. Have a talk with him and see if you can persuade him to set you free.”
Indeed, the liar had an extremely low EQ.
When Serena flew into a rage, Zack added fuel to the fire by forcefully keeping her by his side. This would only make her even more upset and mad at him.
However, at the thought that Zack could go as far as hitting Serena and she fainted, Jasmine felt that it was normal for him to imprison Serena in the villa.
Even Josh was put out by Zack’s horrible behavior and refused to pick up his calls. “He’s very domineering and stubborn. At this moment, I don’t want to talk to him, much less communicate with him. No one can communicate with him. He’ll regret forbidding me to go out. Jasmine, buy me a truck of chickens and ducks and send them over tomorrow. Also, send me a few huskies and two litters of kittens. It’s better to get mini kittens so they’ll meow noisily.
“Since he forbids me to leave, I’ll cause a commotion in his villa. He’s quite a clean freak. Let’s see if he can tolerate the chicken poop all over his house when he gets home every day.”
Jasmine was at a loss for words.
Serena’s mindset was really different.
Jasmine said readily, “Okay. I’ll go to a rural chicken farm tomorrow and get you a truck of chickens and ducks. Send me your location. Do you want cows and pigs as well? As for the chickens, do you want big or small ones?”
“To buy cows and pigs, you need to go all the way to the countryside, right? That’s too far. You don’t need to. I want big-sized chickens and ducks. Buy more roosters that can already crow. With the roosters crowing at dawn every day, I’m sure it’ll annoy him.”
Jasmine replied, “Alright. Leave it to me. I’ll handle it well.”
It was not known whether Zack would compromise after Serena turned his villa into a zoo.
“But Seren, will Mr. Zack, I mean, the liar compromise? What’s more, he must have other villas too. Will he bring you to another villa?”
Serena paused for a moment before she responded, “I have no idea how he’ll react either. Anyhow, since he’s making things difficult for me, I’ll cause him trouble as well.”
“It appears that the two of you are now enemies.”
Glum, Serena did not say anything.
“I’ve told Josh to advise Mr. Zack, yet Josh told me to advise you. He said Mr. Zack had his reasons for deceiving you. Given that he’s the eldest grandson of the wealthy Yorks, he’s worried that people eye his money. That’s why he concealed his identity to assess your character.”
Jasmine continued, “I rejected him. Considering that he’s Mr. Zack’s best friend, he’ll certainly take his side and speak up for him. I’m your best friend, so I must side with you. Seren, I’m with you regardless of your decision.”
Serena kept quiet for a moment before she said, “It’s understandable that he concealed his identity at first, but our relationship as a married couple developed later on. We’re married, yet he continued to lie to me. This was what made my blood boil. I even doubt his feelings for me. Who knows if he’s actually in love with me?
“None of his words have been sincere. He’s always lying. Besides, regarding his situation with Elisa, how will Elisa perceive me after she finds out that I’m married to Zack?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.