The surprise on her coworkers'' faces was so intense, theypletely forgot that Gwh was in the middle of dealing with Patti Yale''s secret photos of the exhibition artifacts. Instead, everyone crowded around her.


    Her secret had dropped so suddenly, no one had time to process it.


    Up until now, the wildest rumors were that Gwh might be Mr. Everhart''s secret lover-or maybe just a hopeless admirer chasing after him.


    No one had imagined she was actually his wife.


    Seeing everyone''s shocked expressions, Gwh herself started to feel a little embarrassed.


    She''d nned on letting everyone know about her true identity little by little, but clearly, things had taken a very different turn.


    "Gwyn, yourst name is Langford and you''re from Starfall City... Are you really the Langford family''s heiress?" someone finally blurted out in disbelief.


    Patti Yale, standing nearby, grew visibly impatient. Even after Gwh revealed her identity, Patti only seemed to get more arrogant.


    "So you''re really Mrs. Everhart? Maybe you don''t know about my rtionship with Hawthorne," Patti sneered. "I already told you: we grew up together. You''re just a na?ve little girl who barged into someone else''s rtionship. Having a marriage certificate doesn''t mean a thing."


    Gwh looked at her coolly. "If a marriage certificate doesn''t mean anything, then what does that make you? The other woman-knowingly ying that part. Don''t you have any shame?"


    Patti''s face flushed bright red. No matter how modern society imed to be, women who knowingly became "the other woman" were still looked down upon. "Who says I''m the third wheel? I went abroad, and you took advantage of the situation. You''re the one who came between us-stealing what wasn''t yours. Don''t think you can just use your youth or good looks to win him over. Hawthorne has always loved me. And I''m taking this hairpin," Patti snapped, snatching the jade pin without a second thought.


    Gwh''s eyes hardened.


    "Put it back. Now."


    The exhibition staff grew frantic-this was a priceless artifact. If it was lost or damaged, they''d be held responsible, maybe even face jail time.


    "If I can''t have it, no one can," Patti spat. "You keep saying it belongs to you-so what if I take it? In fact, I think I''ll destroy it."


    With a furious re, Patti raised the hairpin high and smashed it down on the floor.


    Gwh gasped in horror. By the time she reacted, the delicate jade pin had shattered broken into more, pieces than when it had first been brought to her for repair.  s


    The staff looked like they might faint. The entire incident had been caught on security cameras; there was no way they could im innocence now.


    "Now that I''ve smashed it, what are you going to do about it?" Patti tossed her hair, defiant.


    Gwh slowly crouched down, asking the staff for a pair of gloves, then carefully began gathering the broken fragments, piecing them together one by one.


    Her heart ached. Two years of painstaking work, destroyed in an instant.


    She would never forget the endless nights she spent restoring that, hairpin The pride she''d felt when it was finally whole ?gam-no one else could understand that.  s


    Just then, Patti''s phone rang-Hawthorne''s name lit up on the screen.


    Facing the furious staff, Patti didn''t show the slightest sign of fear. Instead, she answered the call and put it on speaker.


    "Hawthorne, I''m at your exhibition,"


    she said in a pitiful voice, so different from her earlier arrogance "I identally broke some ss and damaged a jade hairpin. Now the staff here are giving me a hard time, even though I already told them I''d pay for the damages..."  s


    She sounded so soft and fragile, as if she were the victim-when in truth, she was


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