"Freya?"

The haze on Chris's face disappeared. He got up and walked to Freya. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to see you fight." Freya glanced at Chris and then at Brian, and said disappointedly, "But it seems that... You're not going to fight."

Brian,"..."

Chris's eyes were slowly filled with doubts.

The gossip between Brian and Miley was in full swing. The most agitated person should be Freya.

What was the biggest thing they shared in common? They could not bear to see Joanne feel upset.

But it seemed that Freya didn't pay attention to this matter at all.

"Freya," Chris asked, "do you know that it is a misunderstanding?"

"Uh..." Freya forced a smile and said guiltily in a low voice, "I knew it all along..."

"..." Chris narrowed his eyes, and a chilling sense of danger came out from the bottom of his eyes.

Freya took a deep breath and showed an expression of surrender. She hurriedly explained, "I was the first one to find that Brian had contact with that woman whose name sounded like "Shrimp". Later, I told Joanne about that! But Joanne was very calm, saying that she knew about that 'Shrimp'!"

Freya probably was the only one who could come up with such a ridiculous nickname as "Shrimp".

Chris held back his laughter and gestured Freya to continue her words.

"After that, Joanne told me about the photos and pointed out her doubts. In the end, she said that Brian had told her that those photos deliberately took advantage of the time difference to make us misunderstand. There is nothing wrong between Brian and Miley."

Then, Freya threw up her hands dully, as if she was disgusted with the fact that it was not exciting at all.

Chris finally understood. Freya did not react to the morning news because she had already known the truth.

He stared at Freya and asked, "Why didn't you tell me at the beginning?"

"Because you're busy." Freya said sincerely, "It's just a misunderstanding. I think you have no time to care about that, so I didn't tell you."

Finally, Chris could not be angry with Freya. He just said with a serious look, "Don't make your own decision next time if you encounter something. Tell me first."

Freya was never an obedient person. She thought for a moment and said, "Oh." "It depends on the situation!"

She smiled mischievously and pretended to be innocent and harmless even though she had just made trouble. Her appearance had inadvertently dispelled Chris's anger, and the latter could only look at her helplessly.

Hearing all that Freya had said, Brian suddenly felt grateful that the misunderstanding had been solved.

Otherwise, Freya would definitely be the one who made the biggest trouble. She would rush to the company and find answers for Joanne without hesitation.

He could calm Chris down, but he didn't have the confidence in dealing with Freya.

Chris took Freya's hand, and said to Brian, "If there's nothing else, we'll go first."

Brian nodded and saw them off.

On the way, Freya kept talking about Miley and calling her "Shrimp".

Daisy happened to pass by and hear Miley's new nickname. She tried to hold back her laughter but failed. She burst into laughter and greeted Freya while quivering.

Freya was also smiling. "Daisy, what do you think of the nickname I gave to Miss Xia?"

Daisy nodded in agreement and said, "It's suitable and creative!"

Freya looked at Brian and said. "Remember to add a drumstick for Daisy at lunch!"

Brian just smiled and watched Chris and Freya enter the elevator. Then he turned back to the office and heard the phone ringing.

He picked up his phone and saw an intimate name on the screen.

He unconsciously raised the corner of his mouth and answered the phone. "Joanne?"

"Why did it take you so long to answer the phone?" Joanne's voice was burning with anxiety. "Did my brother come to the company?"

"Yes, he came here."

Before Brian could finish his words, Joanne anxiously interrupted him. "Are you alright?"

Brian did not answer her, but unhurriedly asked, "Are you more worried about me or your brother?"

Joanne was helpless. "Is it interesting to fuss about this now?"

Brian raised his eyebrows. "Yeah."

"..." Joanne was completely speechless and had to surrender. "Stop it. What happened between you and my brother?"

If he continued to tease her again, she might become angry.

Brian finally replied, "I explained it to him clearly."

Joanne didn't seem to believe it. "Didn't... You fight?"

"Hmm?" With his attractive voice, Brian slightly raised his tone towards the end. "Do you expect us to fight?"

"Of course not," Joanne said, "But Jack said that my brother seemed to... Be going to fight with you."

Long after calling Freya, Jack realized that he should call Joanne as well.

If Freya could not stop Chris and Brian, it would be useful only if Joanne got involved.

Brian held his forehead. "Your senior brother can consider changing his assistant."

Joanne thought about it and still couldn't understand, so she had to ask, "What do you mean?"

Brian said, "An assistant who doesn't know his boss, no matter how outstanding he is at work, can't be regarded as a qualified assistant."

Joanne finally understood. "So, you didn't raise a hand against my brother, did you?"

"I don't like to raise a hand if the matter can be put in words." After a pause for half a second, Brian came to the topic. "You don't have to worry about the news and the photos that were exposed today. Leave them to me."

He might not care about rumors like that.

This was an era of the Internet, and soon there would be new and explosive news. Before long, everything would be washed away by the flood of time, and no one would mention the romance between him and Miley again.

However, when these photos that would lead to the public's misunderstanding were exposed, the rumors which spread like wild-fire seemed to be true, and things had completely gone beyond his tolerance.

Dozens of kilometers away, Joanne could still feel Brian's murderous intent from the other side of the phone. She asked uneasily, "What are you going to do?"

Brian said in a relaxed tone, "You will know in a few days."

"Okay." Joanne knew Brian too well, so she replied without any curiosity, "I'll wait!"

"How are Aiden and Romy?" Who Brian cared about most were still the two little babies.

Joanne's voice became gentle. "They both fell asleep after drinking the milk. By the way, the milk powder has run out. I'll ask someone to bring some here later. Go and earn money for milk powder!"

Brian couldn't help curling up the corner of his mouth. "OK."

He hung up the phone, dialed the internal telephone, and asked Gavin to come to his office.

Gavin knew why Brian had called him in. He put the documents on the table and said,

"The photos were posted online. We tracked the IP address and found that it belonged to a rental house in the suburbs. I contacted the landlord and got the information about the tenants. All the information is fake. There are monitors nearby, but recently, all of them have been destroyed unrecoverably. No suspect can be found."

Brian tapped twice on the light blue folder with his slender fingers. "It is exactly because we can't find the suspect that we can confirm who it is."

Only his enemy would spare so much effort to expose this group of photos at the risk of offending him.

At present, in the whole Arlington, Rowdy was the only one who was his enemy and could definitely be able to do it.

"I think so too. If we can't find any suspects, we can basically be sure of the suspect." Gavin paused and asked, "How about Miley...?"

Compared to finding the suspect, the most important thing at the moment was to make sure whether Miley had any contact with Rowdy.

"I'm not sure yet," Brian said, "In front of me, she looked very normal."

Gavin asked worriedly, "Shall we investigate it thoroughly? If Miley indeed has contact with Rowdy, we can take precautions in advance."

"No." Brian said, "I want to see how she will react to this."

Gavin nodded and looked at Brian's schedule. He asked with a smile. "Will Miley come today?"

That's right. Miley would come to Lambert Group to discuss some business today. They had agreed to meet at 10:30 p.m.

Now, there were less than five minutes left.

Gavin smiled meaningfully. "I'll leave first!"

He didn't expect that as soon as he walked out of the office, he would see Miley walking out of the elevator and heading to Brian's office.

Even in the current circumstances, Miley acted as if nothing had happened. She was in an expensive and elegant custom-made suit, as well as a pair of spotless black heels with red soles, and wore perfect and impeccable makeup.

Not only Gavin, but also all the secretaries in the office were surprised.

Daisy entered the chat group of the secretaries and the assistants and sent a string of "despise" emoji along with a sentence, "Shrimp did it on purpose, didn't she?"

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There was a burst of laughter in the office, and everyone asked Daisy, "How did you think of this nickname?"

Daisy sent an "It's not me" emoji and clarified. "How can I be so smart? I heard Miss Freya call her that!"

As was known to all, Freya was Joanne's best friend. In theory, Brian should call Freya sister-in-law.

Freya called Miley "Shrimp", which meant that the latter's nickname was officially approved. As long as they wanted to, they could call Miley "Shrimp" from now on.

Although calling the nickname was not well-intentioned, it was very cool!

Everyone agreed that they would call Miley like that in private in the future.

Gavin glanced at the crowd who were getting excited. "Aren't you afraid of being discovered and offending Miley?"

"Before outsiders, we would certainly call her Miss Xia politely," Daisy said, "but in private, it is entirely up to our mood! Since we dare to call her like this, we are sure that we will not be discovered! After all, we are Mr. Brian's secretaries. It's too easy for us to hide it from her!"

Gavin gave a thumbs-up to his female colleagues and turned to Miley. He greeted her with a smile. "You're early."

Miley smiled and seemed to be very helpless. "I have no choice. Apart from business, I have other things to deal with. I am afraid that Brian... Mr. Brian doesn't have enough time, so I came earlier."

Gavin nodded and gestured for her to get in". "I'll lead you in."

Miley nodded. "Okay, sorry to trouble you."

"My pleasure."

After the greeting, Gavin led Miley into Brian's office...