My Genius Business Ethics (GL)

Irene caressed her eyes as she rose from the bed. As she opened her eyes all she saw were white coloured curtains hanging down all over the room.

She was wearing a very ordinary white gown which did not match the gorgeous flowers on the floor. A large diamond hung on the ring of her finger.

Irene sighed, she was married.

Irene laid down again and began to think of how she ended up in such a state..

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Her name is Irene Shu and she is only twenty-one this year, and...

She was married to Eric Laurent, one of the three richest men in the world.

Her now-husband was of distinguished birth and held a high position in both politics and the stock market. It stands to reason, that as his wife she should have a splendid life, but unfortunately, she is merely a second wife brought back to be a puppet.

Eric Laurent and his original wife, Yillian Laurent, grew up as childhood sweethearts, they were engaged since childhood and after reaching their eighteen birthday, got married, and they naturally loved each other very deeply.

Yillian was a beautiful woman who would socialize less and stay at home caring for her children, a typical woman every man wants. They had a daughter and a son, Yvonna Laurent and Ethan Laurent.

Eric had a prosperous career and a loving family, what else could he want?

It's a pity that Eric's life was dazzling causing Yillian to die when she was merely 26 leaving Eric at a loss, he's perfect life was shattered.

In the end, Eric put all his energy into his business making him the richest and most influential man at the age of thirty-six. Yes, Irene married a man who was fifteen years older than her.

Perhaps because the relationship between Andrew and Yillian was too good, Eric never remarried for the past fifteen years, and no matter how much his board members convinced him, Eric refused to get married.

So how did Irene get so lucky to be his second wife?

This is because of the largest Mafia organization. The Meganov's leader wanted to leave the underworld and this needed connection with one who had no business in the underworld.

Eric Laurent who had no connection with the underworld had to be targeted, the leader wanted his daughter to marry Eric and use his influence to white-wash themselves.

Eric as a businessman didn't want to get into such a mess, it was impossible to just deny the Mafia's Lord's request while he threatened to bury his children.

For the safety of his children, after all, they were his only weakness, he needed to marry a wife...hastily.

So Irene who was born as the daughter of the soon to be bankrupt Shu family was married to a man of the same age as her father.

Irene was only an illegitimate daughter of the Shu family. She lost her biological mother at the time of birth.

She grew up under the so-called care of her stepmother since she was a child so she developed an adaptive personality..she was a weak and timid girl.

Eric who just wanted a puppet wife, chose her looking at her behaviour. Naturally, he didn't care to check how Irene was treated, since she was after all just a twenty-one-year-old girl.

On the day of the marriage, they just had a simple wedding ceremony and drove to the Laurent Mansion.

As soon as she entered the Laurent Mansion, Eric drew a line between them.

"I will divorce you in three years with 10 million dollars as compensation."

Eric's ruthless words didn't make Irene feel even a little pain, she merely showed sadness and grief to make Eric believe she was the harmless lamb he needed.

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And presently this was the second day of her wedding, and her room was the isolated villa in this large estate, in this villa, she and her two maids sent by the Shu Family would stay, but, of course, they weren't faithful to her, they were the greedy spies for her stepmother.

Heh, you might feel it's ridiculous to call your stepmother's maids spies but she who had been behaving timidly since childhood got maids who rather smoothen their nails than attend to her.

Are these maids still her attendants? Heh.

Her stepmother is very shrewd, would she married her into such a wealthy family for no reason?

Of course not, she hopes that her daughter, Victoria Shu can wed the youthful son of Laurent Industries, Ethan Laurent, who was just seventeen this year.

Irene stood up from her bed, glancing towards the clock it was already ten o'clock, nobody had even knocked to wake her up as if she didn't exist, she hasn't had a bite of food from yesterday afternoon.

Irene glanced at the vase beside her, she calmly picked it up and threw it down.

"BANG..."