No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric)

When Noelle saw the 99-million-dollar wedding gift, she sneered. Xenia was truly skilled at manipulating her devoted admirers.

Wyatt was the only one speaking in the group chat, while Xenia's eyes lit up at the mention of the 99-million-dollar hefty gift. She hadn't expected a cripple like Wyatt to be so generous.

Xenia quickly typed and said, "I really don't want our family to be divided. This is all my fault."

As a devoted admirer, Wyatt continued soothing her.

Lucas, who had enough of their act, bluntly retorted, "If we're splitting the assets, everyone needs to be included in tomorrow's discussion. We can't leave out Noelle's share."

Noelle glanced at the texts and closed the chat. She was curious to see how Donovan would decide tomorrow.

...

That night, she once again dreamed of the car accident from her childhood. Chaos surrounded her, and her parents' voices lingered in her ear. They seemed to be saying, "Save her first."

Then, she saw a pair of hands reaching for her and pulling her out of the wreckage.

When Noelle woke up, she stared at the ceiling and tried to recall the details of her dream, but she couldn't remember anything.

She had doubts about whether the driver was the one who'd saved her. But if it hadn't been him, did that mean there'd been someone else at the scene?

Donovan had mentioned that someone had indeed been in the backseat of the car that caused the accident. To uncover the truth, she either had to find Sean or approach the Merlocks.noveldrama

If the matter was linked to the Merlocks, the person who fled the scene must know what'd truly happened. Noelle got out of bed and splashed her face with cold water. At least she now had a clue.

In her past life, she'd known nothing before she died. This was a much better

start.

Noelle washed up and went straight to class. In front of the classroom building, she ran into students from the business school, including Samantha and Justin.

Samatha sneered. "Noelle, I heard your foundation takes kickbacks.f you can't afford a charity sales event, don't bother putting oma

show to make it look like you can."

Noelle snapped back, "The supplier scandal affected multiple foundations, not just

ours. Isn't the Merlock family the most involved?"

Samantha's face twisted in anger as her hands itched to slap Noelle. But she knew the latter wasn't easy to deal with, so she had to swallow her rage. She'd deal with Noelle the bitch-sooner or later.

Justin came up to Noelle and asked in a lowered voice, "Xenia hasn't been coming to school. I heard she's sick?"

Xenia was on sick leave? Noelle eyed him and asked, "Why do you care? Didn't you two break up?"

"We only pretended to break up, but we're still together in secret. You know my mom doesn't approve of her. She hasn't been responding to me lately."

Justin was worried that Brittany's actions might upset Xenia.

Upon hearing that, Noelle shot him a meaningful look, and her lips curled slightly

in amusement. So they were still together, huh?

"Xenia isn't sick. She's busy getting engaged," she replied.

"Engaged? Impossible. Who is she getting engaged to?" Justin was shocked.

"Wyatt. They've been close since childhood, and they're practically childhood sweethearts."

"That's not possible! Xenia said she only loves me, and there's no way she'd get engaged to someone else!"

Despite Justin's denial, his expression betrayed his thoughts,

"You should ask Xenia yourself." With that, Noelle walked away and left Justin standing there in disbelief.

She hadn't expected Xenia to be

two-timing. Initially, she'd planned to exposezXenia's embezzlement to track down Sean, but the expired

sanitary pad scandal disrupted her plans.

Now, there was no way she'd allow Xenia to stay at the foundation. It would be too obvious and would likely arouse Sean's suspicion, so she needed another approach.

But if Justin learned that Xenia was two-timing, there was a high chance he'd turn against her. When that happened, Xenia would have fewer people to rely on.