Chapter 1375 - 1315: Parting Ways in the Rivers and Lakes

Such gentle tone, yet he uttered words of threat. Adrian picked up the chicken soup, took a deep breath, and planned to down it in one go.

After taking a sip, he realized that not only was this medicinal chicken soup not bitter, it was especially delicious.

"Huh? Didn’t you say it was medicinal? Why isn’t it bitter at all?"

"Some herbs aren’t bitter. Drink up quickly, it’ll taste bad once it cools down." Sienna urged.

Adrian finished the remaining soup, and Sienna poured all of the remaining chicken soup for Adrian to drink.

"Luckily I work out every morning, otherwise, this way of eating, I’d turn into a pig." Adrian took it, looked at the golden soup, which was really delicious.

Sienna is a very good cook, but she’s usually too busy and rarely gets a chance to cook. Recently, Adrian has been benefiting from his sister, always eating what Sienna cooks.

"If you turn into a pig, you’ll turn into a pig, I won’t despise you."

Adrian replied, "Then wouldn’t you be Mrs. Pig?"

Sienna glared at him, displeased he was speaking carelessly in front of Paige. Adrian smiled ingratiatingly at her, finished the chicken soup in the bowl, and handed the bowl to Sienna.

"I’ll go check on the kids, you stay with Paige and chat, ease her mind." Sienna said to Adrian as she tidied up the thermal lunch box.

"Alright."

Taking advantage of Paige’s lack of attention, Adrian gave Sienna a playful smack on the butt, earning a fierce glare from Sienna. Adrian grinned achieving his aim, prompting Sienna to mouth the words: Shameless!

Even being scolded made Adrian feel happy.

Sienna left, and Adrian moved a chair to sit by his sister’s bedside. Looking at the noticeably better-looking Paige Desmond, he realized bringing her back was the right choice.

"Is your health improving?"

Paige smiled, "With Sis-in-law as the doctor, how could I not be well?"

Adrian smiled too, "Traditional medicine is a bit bitter, but it has no side effects and the results are pretty good. If your sis-in-law tells you to drink the medicine, just drink it."

"Bro, I’ve always been cooperating, unlike you who’s unwilling to drink and poured the medicine into Auntie Agatha’s pot of tulips...That pot of tulips was a birthday gift from sis-in-law’s father to Auntie Agatha, lovingly tended for many years, and you poisoned it with a bowl of medicine. I felt bad for Auntie Agatha."

Adrian felt slightly embarrassed, instinctively rubbed his nose, and said, "Why does she tell you everything?"

"We are besties!"

The bond between Paige and Sienna is growing stronger. Sienna’s temperament is stable, while Paige is more lively, and they get along well.

"You two gang up and badmouth me."

"Yes, indeed."

"Don’t forget whose sister you are."

Paige looked at Adrian, laughing nonstop, her smile bright, as if there wasn’t a shadow lingering in her heart.

Watching Paige, Adrian hesitated whether to tell her about Abyanabad.

Paige glanced at Adrian, seeing he seemed to have something to say, then said, "Just speak whatever you want."

"Do you want to hear about Kiya?"

Paige’s smile vanished, she already knew it was Queen Mother who hired someone to kill her. She was lucky to survive.

Remembering the danger from then, even now Paige can’t help but feel scared. If not for the driver facing the van head-on in the emergency, when the truck hit the rear seat, she estimated she would have died instantly.

"He’s been out of touch with me lately... I don’t know what his attitude is, but as you’ve seen, I’m living happily here, I don’t want to return to Abyanabad, don’t want to go back to the Imperial Palace." Paige shared her thoughts.

"As long as you don’t want to go back, I won’t let Kiya take you back to Abyanabad!" Adrian promised Paige, he truly hadn’t expected the Queen Mother to want Paige dead.

"I don’t want to go back, you and sis-in-law are here, Dylan likes Curly and George too, I also plan to stay here. Once I’m fully recovered, I’ll go work at sis-in-law’s company, raising two kids is a bit tough, but I feel happy..."

Knowing the truth from Adrian, Paige has decided never to go back.

She’s afraid!

Lucky this time it was herself the Queen Mother targeted. If it were Dylan and Ella she targeted, they are so small, so fragile, if anything happened, Paige couldn’t handle it.

"Then stay in Sileria City, with me here, no one would dare to bully you."

"Hmm." Paige’s face brightened, smiling brilliantly again.

...

Paige really spent a period being anxious, fearing Kiya would insist on her returning.

She would never go back, but the two kids are her weak points, if Kiya used them to threaten her, she truly wouldn’t know what to do.

Fortunately, the thing she feared most hasn’t happened all this time.

Perhaps Kiya lacks the face to confront her, at any rate, Kiya has never called Paige, not even sent a text...

Only then did Paige relax.

After all the happenings, their outcome is more suited to forgetting each other and moving on.

Paige thinks this way, but doesn’t know whether Kiya shares her thoughts.

Kiya not contacting her, Paige cannot possibly initiate contact with Kiya, fearing they’d connect and Kiya would insist she go back.

Paige would rather play ostrich, burying her head in the sand, taking things day by day.

...

Sienna initially planned to go back to work at the company, but then Paige got severely injured.

Vivian became pregnant later, Brett was unwilling to let his wife labor so much, personally came to ask Sienna to return to work.

Seeing Paige recover fairly well, Sienna formally returned to work.

From frugal to indulgent is easy, but from indulgent to frugal is hard.

Sienna had been enjoying lazy days for a while, yet suddenly facing such high-intensity work is indeed a bit hard to bear.

During lunch, Lucy came to request leave, saying it was her boyfriend’s birthday, and they wanted to spend quality time together.

In a blink, everyone seems to have found their home.

"President Johnson, I know these days are incredibly busy, really busy, even busier than a cowboy, but finding a boyfriend at my so-called ’high age’ is truly very difficult. You aren’t going to make me choose between work and romance, are you?" Tessa saw Kiya holding onto the leave request, hesitant to sign, tried to plead coaxedly.

"What if you have to choose one? Which would you pick, romance or work?" Sienna teased.

"Of course, romance!" Tessa replied outright.

Sienna looked up at her, "Tessa, men are important, but women still need to be independent and strong, can’t just discard everything for a man..."

Tessa waved her hands, replying, "President Johnson, do you know why men now prefer independent, economically self-sufficient women?"

"Why?"

"Because they’re stingy!"