The Apple of My Eye

Autumn did not show any sign of happiness instead she looked a little worried. She grabbed Charles by his arm and took him aside to a quiet corner. She then whispered to Charles in hushed tone, "I can't possibly take this company."

"Why?" asked Charles in confusion. Charles couldn't understand what was happening. 'This company is my gift to her. If it were Rachel, she would embrace me and thank me. But here I am, and Autumn is refusing to take it.'

"Charles, you don't understand. I..." Autumn didn't know how to explain what she felt to Charles. 'If I accepted this company, I would be ill at ease with Charles, ' she thought to herself.

Isla walked up to Autumn with determination and said, "Dear, just take it." Charles couldn't comprehend Autumn's thoughts, but Isla could. A few days back they had a conversation about this. When she saw Autumn and Charles walk to a corner, she followed them as she knew that Autumn would refuse Charles's proposal.

With a little frown, Autumn responded, "Isla, you know me very well."

Isla nodded with approval, "Of course I do." "But this is not the time to consider your pride. Mr. Lu is your husband. It is not a big deal for him to let you take over Cloud Advertising Company. Don't overthink this and accept his generous and considerate proposal."

"You know that I don't want..."

"I know and understand your concern well. In the past, I would have supported you and your decision. But now things have changed."

Perhaps as Isla was a bystander, so was able to think through this situation rather rationally when compared to Autumn. She proceeded, "Have you forgotten all that has happened? Now, not a single company will employ you owing to those negative rumors about you. I also offered to open a company together if you couldn't find a job. Now, your husband is presenting you with such a good opportunity. Why don't you just take it?"

"But..."

money and it is all for his

comforting and calm look, "Shining Company's public relations business has been outsourced to several other companies in the past few years. Although we have our own PR department, it has no practical function in reality. Cloud Advertising Company isn't a big company yet but it does receive excellent feedback. I have my reasons to acquire it. I already have a lot of

you take over this company and handle its functions, you will be doing your husband a favor. If you still feel uncomfortable, then you can try your best to manage Cloud Advertising Company

conviction were shaken slightly, but

if I ruin the functioning of Cloud Advertising Company and lead it to suffer a

possibly can." He then turned to Isla and said, "Isla, I heard that you lost your job because of Autumn. Are you interested in working in the Cloud Advertising Company to help her run this

reminded her, in that moment, she would have forgotten that Isla lost her job because of her. 'Now, I

look in her eyes. She said to Autumn, "If you want to hire me, you need to pay

responded with a warm smile,

said with an appreciate little nod, "Okay,

she heard her flattering words. She replied,

frame Ye, but I had given her my permission to

discussion, Autumn walked towards Ryan. While standing right across from him, she said to him, "Mr.

call me Ryan." With an anxious stance Ryan stared at Autumn. He proceeded,

that it won't happen again." Then she walked forward and turned to Ryan in one swift movement, and said, "Mr. Zhou,

office..." continued Autumn, as she caught a glimpse of her former cabin. After she left the company, Ryan had given her cubicle to Paula. Everything inside had changed. Paula even had changed the position of the furniture including the desk. After glancing at her former office, she said, "Please tidy up my office. By the tomorrow morning I hope that everything inside will