Chapter 204 Why Didn't I Meet Her Earlier?

"My childhood was nothing but endless studying and competing."

His voice was calm.

But Anastasia could feel it—beneath that calm surface lay such profound loneliness and pain.

A child starved of love, upon finding the only light in his life, would instinctively want to hold on, to possess.

Beca...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 One More Chance

2. Chapter 2 Playing Along

3. Chapter 3 Conscienceless

4. Chapter 4 Fifteen Years Down the Drain

5. Chapter 5 Phoenix Rising

6. Chapter 6 A Different Person

7. Chapter 7 Incorrect Account Password

8. Chapter 8 She Is So Heartless

9. Chapter 9 Ferocious Visage

10. Chapter 10 Nerves of Steel

11. Chapter 11 Renee Comes First

12. Chapter 12 Can't Understand What I'm Saying?

13. Chapter 13 Won the First Step

14. Chapter 14 Why Her?

15. Chapter 15 Why Would He Help You?

16. Chapter 16 She Changed

17. Chapter 17 No One Dares to Question It

18. Chapter 18 Have You No Shame?

19. Chapter 19 Talk Tough

20. Chapter 20 Public Live-Stream Competition

21. Chapter 21 I Won't Regret It

22. Chapter 22 She Wasn't Done

23. Chapter 23 Well Deserved

24. Chapter 24 Plan B

25. Chapter 25 Renee Is Too Kind

26. Chapter 26 Reversal

27. Chapter 27 Dead Silence

28. Chapter 28 True Colors

29. Chapter 29 Welcome to the Roosevelt Group

30. Chapter 30 More Dangerous Than She Thought

31. Chapter 31 No Ifs

32. Chapter 32 Shameless

33. Chapter 33 Pressure Creates Motivation

34. Chapter 34 Test Her

35. Chapter 35 Sophistry

36. Chapter 36 Who Do You Think You Are?

37. Chapter 37 The Blade Needs Sharpening

38. Chapter 38 Believe in Its Value

39. Chapter 39 Something Feels Off

40. Chapter 40 What Is There to Be Afraid Of?

41. Chapter 41 Who Is He Really?

42. Chapter 42 Her Illusion

43. Chapter 43 Strategizing Behind the Scenes

44. Chapter 44 She Is Just a Tool

45. Chapter 45 Caring for Subordinates

46. Chapter 46 Miracle

47. Chapter 47 You Have Disappointed Us

48. Chapter 48 Counterattack

49. Chapter 49 A Good Show

50. Chapter 50 We Owe You

51. Chapter 51 Don't Come Bother Me Again

52. Chapter 52 Of Course I'll Protect Her

53. Chapter 53 Give Her a Chance

54. Chapter 54

55. Chapter 55

56. Chapter 56 A Secret Pervert

57. Chapter 57

58. Chapter 58

59. Chapter 59 They Are Each Other's Tools

60. Chapter 60 Change Strategies

61. Chapter 61 I Will Definitely Save You

62. Chapter 62 Temptation

63. Chapter 63 She Wasn't Good Enough

64. Chapter 64 Dare Me?

65. Chapter 65 She Is Very Smart

66. Chapter 66 At Great Pains

67. Chapter 67 No One Has Your Back

68. Chapter 68 The One He Chose

69. Chapter 69 How Dare They?

70. Chapter 70 No More Games

71. Chapter 71 Another Debt

72. Chapter 72 Find Someone Else

73. Chapter 73 Staking His Claim

74. Chapter 74 He Is Protecting Her

75. Chapter 75 Pure Transaction

76. Chapter 76 Something to Show

77. Chapter 77 She Refuses to Accept It

78. Chapter 78 Forced by Him

79. Chapter 79 This Isn't Right

80. Chapter 80 Only Family

81. Chapter 81 You Deserve the Best

82. Chapter 82 No Right to Refuse

83. Chapter 83 Show Me What You Got

84. Chapter 84 I Am Your Backup

85. Chapter 85 I Like Your Spirit

86. Chapter 86 What a Catch

87. Chapter 87 She Depends on Him

88. Chapter 88 Who Dares Look Down on You?

89. Chapter 89 I Don't Want to Be Your Woman

90. Chapter 90 Can't You Tell?

91. Chapter 91 I Want to Rely on Myself

92. Chapter 92 Trouble Again

93. Chapter 93 Stardust

94. Chapter 94 The True Soul

95. Chapter 95 Am I That Unbearable?

96. Chapter 96 Unable to Escape Control

97. Chapter 97 Destroy What You Love

98. Chapter 98 Illegitimate Child

99. Chapter 99 Draw a Clear Line

100. Chapter 100 When Will He See?

101. Chapter 101 Don't Make Me Get Rough

102. Chapter 102 His Stomach Again?

103. Chapter 103 Rules Are Set by Rights

104. Chapter 104 The Most Eye-Catching

105. Chapter 105 What Right Do You Have?

106. Chapter 106 Where Is She?

107. Chapter 107 Please Take Me Away

108. Chapter 108 No Other Choice

109. Chapter 109 He Is Afraid

110. Chapter 110 Out of Sight, Out of Mind

111. Chapter 111 What Kind of Person Am I in Your Eyes?

112. Chapter 112 Stubborn and Blind

113. Chapter 113 Please Don't Hate Me

114. Chapter 114 Seize This Opportunity

115. Chapter 115 His Woman

116. Chapter 116 How to Win

117. Chapter 117 Addictive

118. Chapter 118 The Only Hope

119. Chapter 119 It May Not Be the Truth

120. Chapter 120 With Me Here

121. Chapter 121 Offensive

122. Chapter 122 Soar Alone

123. Chapter 123 Home

124. Chapter 124 Racing Heart

125. Chapter 125 Birthday Banquet

126. Chapter 126 Is He Helping Her?

127. Chapter 127 Ruined

128. Chapter 128 Enough

129. Chapter 129 Stay Away from Her

130. Chapter 130 Don't Be Afraid

131. Chapter 131 I Will Consider It

132. Chapter 132 Since When Are You Naive?

133. Chapter 133 Sincerity

134. Chapter 134 Too Smoothly

135. Chapter 135 Seize the Opportunity

136. Chapter 136 Advice

137. Chapter 137 Framing

138. Chapter 138 Driven into a Corner

139. Chapter 139 When Did You Come Back?

140. Chapter 140 Strictly Professional

141. Chapter 141 Restraint

142. Chapter 142 What's She Got?

143. Chapter 143 Scandal

144. Chapter 144 He's Backing Her Up!

145. Chapter 145 There Is No Choice

146. Chapter 146 Let Her Resolve It Herself

147. Chapter 147 Everyone Piles On

148. Chapter 148 Help You Achieve Everything

149. Chapter 149 Can't Agree to You

150. Chapter 150 The Next One Is Him

151. Chapter 151 Lover

152. Chapter 152 There Is No Turning Back Now

153. Chapter 153 Not Fighting Alone

154. Chapter 154 Cannot Act Recklessly

155. Chapter 155 Not Now

156. Chapter 156 Unwilling to Back Down

157. Chapter 157 Who Says I'm Not?

158. Chapter 158 Deliberately Trying to Ruin Us

159. Chapter 159 You Only Love Yourself

160. Chapter 160 Vanish into Nothingness

161. Chapter 161 Bitter Clarity

162. Chapter 162 Omnipresent

163. Chapter 163 Ridiculous

164. Chapter 164 Should Have Met Sooner

165. Chapter 165 Unexpected Delight

166. Chapter 166 Still Connected

167. Chapter 167 Comprehensive

168. Chapter 168 We Are Partners

169. Chapter 169 What Right Do You Have

170. Chapter 170 Evidence Will Be Found

171. Chapter 171 Bound to Win

172. Chapter 172 Coldheartedness

173. Chapter 173 Name Your Price

174. Chapter 174 Respect Her

175. Chapter 175 He Just Couldn't Do It

176. Chapter 176 Getting the Justice

177. Chapter 177 Do Not Try to Resist Me

178. Chapter 178 An Opportunity to Make Amends

179. Chapter 179 Men Are All the Same

180. Chapter 180 Livestreaming

181. Chapter 181 Ignition

182. Chapter 182 She Won't Admit Defeat

183. Chapter 183 Nowhere to Turn

184. Chapter 184 A Good Show

185. Chapter 185 A Timely Help in Times of Need

186. Chapter 186 Quality Inspection Turmoil

187. Chapter 187 Silent Guardianship

188. Chapter 188 Tit for Tat

189. Chapter 189 The Storm Is Brewing

190. Chapter 190 Transaction

191. Chapter 191 Chance Encounter

192. Chapter 192 Apology

193. Chapter 193 Ingratitude

194. Chapter 194 We Believe You

195. Chapter 195 The Truth

196. Chapter 196 Miscalculated

197. Chapter 197 Why Treat Her Like This?

198. Chapter 198 Stayed Guard for a Day and a Night

199. Chapter 199 I Like You