"Adele is already 22 years old; it is time she faced some challenges," Gian Horne said as he picked up a newspaper and started to read.

"Dad!" Adele immediately protested in annoyance, complaining, "Dad, you don't care about me at all." He only remembers James Horne, that illegitimate son! And I'm well aware Dad once considered funding James Horne's start-up. Why didn't he offer to set up a separate company just for me? It's so unfair! Favoritism!

"This is how I show I care. If I let you idle away your time, you would achieve nothing, and that would be harming you," Gian Horne said helplessly, detecting the lack of understanding in his daughter's tone.

"I don't want to go to work anyway," Adele glared fiercely at Julia Bluen before standing up and stomping out of the room.

"It doesn't matter. What I said will take effect after 9 a.m. tomorrow," Glades Horne's deep and unquestionable voice reached her ears as she was about to reach the doorway.

"Brother!"

Adele stopped abruptly, turning to glare hatefully at Glades Horne.

The others were now intrigued by what Glades had said, wondering what exactly the siblings had been discussing.

"I'm going out." Adele's pleading eyes swept over her parents, but getting no satisfying response, she angrily turned and stormed out of the house.

She knew her parents couldn't make her older brother change his mind.

A minute later, the BMW sped out of the Horne family's villa, leaving Golden Kirin Garden behind.

「Serendipity Cafe.」

Orlando Evans drove her Chevrolet, paid for by her parents but registered in her uncle's name, to Serendipity Cafe. As soon as the car stopped, she hurried out and rushed inside as if facing an urgent emergency.

Adele Horne was already sitting inside the cafe, her face flushed with anger, not touching the coffee in front of her. Seeing Orlando arrive, she immediately stood up and waved, calling out, "Orlando, I'm over here."

Orlando, who was looking around trying to spot Adele, hurried to her table as she heard her name being called.

Orlando had just finished dinner and was enjoying a chat with her mother when Adele called, saying she needed to talk and asked her to come to Serendipity Cafe. She immediately left her mother and rushed out the door.

In Adele's presence, she felt like a servant ready to accompany and entertain on demand.

Perhaps Adele really considered her a friend, and it was her own insecurity about Adele's status that made her feel as though she was treated like a servant, called upon at any time.

"What's wrong, Adele? Why the rush to call me out? Are you angry? Who has provoked our young lady? Who is courting death?" Orlando sat down and joked while noticing that Adele was fuming, asking with a smile.

While asking, she also flagged down a waiter to order a cup of coffee with milk.

"Ruby Bluen is back!" Adele Horne said angrily.

Ruby Bluen is back? Orlando Evans frowned slightly. What did it matter if she was back? Now the position of the Horne family's eldest young mistress had been given to Julia Bluen. She smiled and tossed her hair, saying, "Isn't her return just perfect? Now that your brother has married Julia Bluen, let the two sisters fight it out." It'd be best if they both ended up losing.

Orlando Evans thought resentfully.

"I don't even know how she came back, and it seems she even went to apologize to my brother. You know that my brother and Julia returned from their honeymoon today. I was so furious when I saw Ruby Bluen that I slapped her without thinking! Then my brother said I was being too nosy and that I had too much free time. Starting tomorrow, he wants me to work at the company, just serving tea, and he'll only pay me 3,000 yuan a month! I don't want to go to work, but my brother said if he doesn't see me at the company tomorrow, he'll freeze my bank card. Orlando, what should I do? I really don't want to go to work. If I absolutely have to, they should at least give me a position like Vice President! A tea-serving girl! How can I, a Miss Horne, serve tea? How will I face anyone if this gets out?"

Her only good friend was Orlando Evans, but the ones she usually spent her days partying with were all daughters of the upper-class society, women who envied her birth into the Horne family. If those women knew she could only be a tea-serving girl, they would surely laugh her to death.

"No way?"

Upon hearing this, Orlando Evans also became anxious. If Adele Horne started working, then she couldn't spend every day with her any longer, nor could she take advantage of Adele. With Glades Horne showing her no mercy, she couldn't even think of going to the Valence Group to find Adele. It was a huge disadvantage for her.

"My brother's word is final. Please, help me think of a solution!" Adele Horne got a headache just thinking about having to go to work at the company every day and losing her freedom.

This was all caused by the Bluen sisters.

They were the ones who stole her brother's love from her, making him so strict with her.

She would never allow Julia Bluen to comfortably be the young mistress.

"Can't you ask your parents to beg for mercy on your behalf?" Orlando Evans couldn't think of a better solution right away.

Adele Horne immediately shook her head, dismissing Orlando's suggestion. "If my parents could persuade my brother, he wouldn't have married Julia Bluen."

"Then... let me think about it," Orlando reluctantly agreed.

Adele Horne looked at her anxiously, hoping she could come up with a good solution.

Unfortunately, she was disappointed; Orlando racked her brains but still couldn't think of a way to make Glades Horne change his mind. Glades was a man beyond her grasp anyway.

"If I can't think of a solution, I'll have to go to work tomorrow. I'm going back," said Adele Horne, her heart sinking into the abyss as she stood up dejectedly and started walking out.

Orlando also followed her out.

Once they left Serendipity Cafe, the late autumn evening breeze rushed towards them, carrying a hint of coldness, which made Orlando, still wearing a camisole dress, feel very cold. She couldn't help but shiver and commented, "The weather has changed; it's getting a bit cold."

Cold?

A plan suddenly formed in Orlando's mind, and she quickly called out to Adele Horne. She whispered a few words into Adele's ear, causing her to beam with joy, and she nodded incessantly.